Take onions, potatoes and rosemary and....

MAKE A PIZZA TOPPING!

Well, I know , these ingredients are not the first to think about when you say PIZZA.
Not even the last because ...potatoes...on a pizza...??Come on !!!
But this month challenge of the Bread Baking Babes made me change my mind.


The recipe for the Sullivan Street Potato Pizza was adapted from Maggie Glezer’s Artisan Baking ,
coming from the Sullivan Street Bakery ,named for its street in the SoHo section of New York City.

And o boy, have I been tackled by that Croc last month ,okay, but who would be knocked down by something simple as a pizza....
I was.
Almost.
Because the dough had a 107 % water . And again it became very very fluid...
Although I had my Kitchen Aid to do the dirty job for half an hour , it just turned out to be...Yakk !!!
But standing strong , I poored it in a baking tin and made my topping. Thin sliced and drained potatoes,chopped onions ( supposed to be white or yellow but I only had red ones in store ), fresh Rosemary leaves and all of this husseled with a good olive oil and sea salt. Spreaded it all over the dough and baked in a pre-heated oven of 220 C. With no hope of any eat-able result.



But guess what.....it turned out great. The dough became a thick Foccacia - like bread and those potatoes tasted like....cheeselike and not like potatoes anymore, great. Only the onions turned into a very dark untasty color.Indeed the recipe said to use yellow or white onions, so I made that mistake already for you.
Anyway , the family liked it and the pizza/Foccacia turned out to be too little. But that was my mistake too , had I read my fellow BBB's comments first ...I'dd knew it would be tasty enough to make a double batch .
Always trust a BBB .


And look at this... the bread was great , airholes as they should be ,but look, only a little tiny bit left to take a picture off......'cause we knocked that Pizza down !


For the complete recipe knock at the door of this month kitchen :where you also can earn your BBB-buddy logo from this month by baking this pizza with us and letting us know. And don't forget to take a look at some of the other BBB's blogs ( on the right) to find out how they celebrated "Pizza-time !!!

For the recipe in Dutch you have to take a look in the kitchen of Lien.

Did it again.....

Yes I did.

And I promissed myselve never ever to buy a breadbook again.

Or any other cookbook.

Really I did. Once.

But I did it again.

In Paris.

I bought books

I couln't resist these two :

"Bread" and "Chocolat".

All there is to know about.

How could I leave them in that shop.

And just walk away..

Felt like leaving a loved one.

So...

No problem this time to try to stuff them in my

chock-full bookshelfs.

Or on my overloaded kitchencountertop.

Or beside my bed.

Or where-ever I need to find a place for all that books.

YES , beiing this size I can buy another million books.

I still have place in my cookie-jar.

Or behind the teapot...

Only one problem....

Did any-one see my reading glasses ?

Can you imagine ?

Remember the picture I showed you one month ago?

With those little Daffodils dancing in the spring ?

Look at that same garden now, only a few days after Eastern....

I'm so confused.

And so is mother Nature...

It's all about the flour...

Well, there was supposed to be the March bread of the Bread Baking Babes here :
CAROL FIELDS' COCCODRILLO


But there is not !

I tryed to fight the crocodillo but it almost killed me.

And why ?

Because that very wet dough drowned my flour.

Again ..why ?

Let me try to explane :

It's all about the flour !

Really , no excuse , but it is.

Our Dutch flour isn't as strong as they use in..lets say the USA . Or France.

It simply does not have the high amount of gluten .

And we have a lack of sorts of flour here.

Flour is flour and thats it.

But it doesn't have enough gluten.

It's simply not strong enough to hold a...crocodile.

And then there is my flour : I mill my own grain, become wholewheat or sift it when I need white flour . Great ! And all without pesticides and so , because I only use organic. No poisons in my bread.

But ,as I found out, also not as many strenght as usual flour.I always put in less water than the recipe askes for.And a little gluten if needed. But I can live with that. And I do bake like that for years now.

And yes, that's where it went wrong . This Croc-bread asked for 107 % water (!!!!)

My beloved flour became a fluid dough, to wet and weak ( and by far not enough gluten ) to hold a croc.


























See how it dripped of my KitchenAid ? Almost horror...

It dripped from my countertop too, right on to the floor .

Adding more flour, (I did , but it needed scoops and scoops) was not an option because it would change the recipe too mutch and my croc would turn in to a Ciabatta or something like that.

So...I stopped.Trying to find other flour was also no option, I want to bake with my own stuff.

And that reached the border : this bread was over the top for me.

But I learned a lot and we had lots of fun at BBB's . I also learned a lot of new curses and bad languages in Englisch : Boy, did we all fight that Crocodile !


So , if you want to see what a real Coccodrillo looks like, how my BBB-sisters managed to do it or if you want the recipe , be a BBB-buddy and bake this monster with us , please see our kitchen - of - the - month at Lien Notitie van Lien (Lien), or the other Bread Baking Babes that have battled this coccodrillo and post about it :Bake My Day (Karen), Cookie Baker Lynn (Lynn), I like to cook (Sara), Lucullian Delights (Ilva), My Kitchen in Half Cups (Tanna), The Sour Dough (Mary aka Breadchick), Thyme of Cooking (Katie)and What Did You Eat (Sher)

I wish you all the luck with this bread, you'll need it !
But they say it's worth it !!

Shopping for breadbakers...at your garden-center !

Looking for cheap baking-molds ?

Visit your local garden-center !

And they have more....!
Go , and look for yourselve .

It is real fun !

COMING SOON !!!!!!!

Look what I found in a corner of the garden,

this cold ,but sunny morning :

Only 15 cm high ,

bringing a very important message:



SPRING IS COMING SOON !!!

I swear.... I could hear the sound of trompets,

making me very happy......

Sorry, no posting

No way of working

Can't even reach my type - pad
My mouse has been hunted...

There is an enormous fur-coated monster

that took over my computer.

Laying there already for hours....

.This can take days...

I have to think about doing something else.