Oatmeal Bread – In 5 Minutes a day

I recieved Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day as a christmas present this past year and I love it. I heard about it on NPR (Splendid Table) and was instantly interested.

I ordered some of the basic supplies:

• Pizza Peel
• Williams Sanoma Baking Stone
• 6-Quart Square Food Container and Cover
• Oven Thermometer

I’ve made the French Bread, Broiche and Oatmeal Bread. The French bread is my favorite so far – its dead easy to make a baguette at home with this technique.

Last weekend the family got to enjoy a couple loaves of Oatmeal Bread from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. It ends up a little on the small side, but very tasty. I’m not sure yet if I have a mix problem, or if the bread is just small.

First Post… its still Christmas!

Today has been a big day for the new site finished the setup and install of my the Rackspace Cloud Server, WordPress (Blog) Software AND… UPS/FedEX paid a visit!

My brand new Bradley BTIS1 Original Fully Automatic 4-Rack Outdoor Food Smoker arrived, as did my King Kooker 36JR Stainless-Steel 36-Hole Jalapeno Rack with Corer and lastly the critical Bradley 5 Flavor Variety, 60-Pack (to burn to generate smoke in the smoker). I cant wait to get it fired up for the first time. First things first – its needs to be seasoned. Basically burn some of the wood discs to get the ‘new machine/plastic’ smell out.

The Bradley smoker arrived packaged very well (First Photo)

Here are all the parts (Second Photo)

Here is the finished product – an extremely simple and fast (about 1 minute) assembly  (Last Phot0)

It should get setup for its first smoke soon to break it in. First things queued up for real smokes are Pork Shoulder (can’t go wrong) and then probably a Brisket.