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Greeting from the PNW

Oysterguy's picture
Oysterguy

Greeting from the PNW

Hi folks my name is Andy and I’ve been lurking/reading here.

I’m from the Upper Olympic Peninsula.

I enjoy fishing, aqua-culture, gardening, bee keeping, cooking for people and recently started baking using a starter that I made..

I am doing ok with it so far but there is a lot I want to learn.

On my want to learn list are getting better at infusing items, better baguette’s, soft rolls for pulled pork, a few light items and I’d also like to experiment with dehydrating my starter, thinking I could get maybe one or so cooks out of it far from home before it changes.
Heck I’m not even sure if that would work.

 A few weeks ago I modified my Weber kettle and made a clam pizza and that turned out good.

It  was probably my best pizza work to date.

I was trying to learn baguette’s a week later and thought I’d infuse one of them with clams, garlic and parmigiana.

It didn’t win any prizes for looks but the taste was close to what I was looking for and it quickly disappeared from the table so I’m going to call that one a win even though my crust was sub-par

My favorite food is seafood and I’m blessed that we can harvest it here. 
Give me a good seafood dinner with a nice loaf on the side and I’m in heaven.

 

 

 

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Isand66

The baking express.   Sounds like you’ve already managed some interesting bakes.  I look forward to seeing your posts.

Happy Baking

Ian

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Oysterguy

Thanks for the welcome Isand66.

I have done some interesting cooks and bakes, needless to say some only rate a 6 out of 10 if that.                           I dig the learning part of this hobby the most and nailing a good bake is a nice bonus when I get to share it with family and friends.

Today is bake day and I want to get better at inclusions. My rise and inclusion spacing are giving me issues so I am going to see what I can do about that today.                                                                               
Win or fail I’ll toss up some pics of the bake in a couple days.

 

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Isand66

Feel free to reach out to me and ask for help.  I have over a hundred formulas I've posted here and on my website:  www.mookielovesbread.wordpress.com