The bread. It's taking over my life.
See this evidence? Examine it carefully. No makeup. Why? Because it was more important shape and score baguettes. Short nails. Why? Because who wants a sourdough starter from under their nails? Okay, that was really gross but seriously, dough stuck under the nails is not nice looking or feeling. You'll also notice the lack of any nail polish. No silvery blues or greens as are my preferred colors. Why? Because no one wants metallic paint flecks in their bread.
See this bread? I call it Oopsie Ciabatta. An oopsie it may have been but what a fine mini cheese panini (alright--you got me--George Foreman grillini--please may I have one of these?) it makes! Look at the cheese oozing out of the supposed-to-be-there-on-purpose holes. =D
Anyhow, later that evening, as I straightened up the house I relaxed and realized that I had made an error in putting some bread ingredients together. Immediately, I went back and re-did the batch. (Yesterday's lunch was from the relaxed re-do) I was reluctant to toss out my first mistake, however, because of the sheer volume of it. Upon touching the dough, the texture seemed awfully similar to the ciabatta dough that I made last week. I decided to try to use a portion of it to make ciabatta bread using the techniques in the test recipes but shaping it and such as traditional ciabatta bread.
It worked as the above picture illustrates. AND...the desirable irregular open hole structure was better than the traditional cibatta I made last week. Of course, squishing it with the panini Mr. Foreman distorts that view some.
