Jason remarked that he had watched that episode and said that would be a good recipe to try. I looked at the ingredient list and checked the cabinets and said,"want me to make this tomorrow?" Of course he said yes!I looked at the directions and noticed that the first part, making a "sponge," needed to rise for 8-24 hours. So I started making that last night:
This morning, after DJP and I woke up (guess who woke who up first?!), I continued with the recipe. I was excited that not only could I use my mixer, but that I could use the dough hook (a first)!
After the mixer kneaded the dough and I got it into a bowl, I let the dough rise. 
And rise. And rise again. Then the dough needed to be shaped into loaves and left to rest and rise once more.
Finally, the loaves went into the oven to bake.
Once they were nice and golden brown, they had to cool for about an hour (someone whose name shall not be mentioned was antsy about the length of time he had to wait...)
The time passed and the bread was sliced and was decided by Jason to be excellent:
(which means that I can make that particular recipe again...and again...and again...)
3 comments:
LOVE my dough hook!! Discovering how to use it has been a highlight of my year. That's a bit sad,isn't it?
I've had the dough hook for YEARS and this was the first time I'd used it!
I didn't even know that you could make ciabata - that is one of those things i always assumed one bought.
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