You got to love your levain!

Still baking because two more weeks and I won't have a decent loaf on my vacation in Ecuador! So, while it's steaming hot here and I can get away with sneaking a loaf or two into my oven with the whirring of my air conditioner and my wife off doing her...

3 Stage Levain

Looking at all the years I've been baking, I still haven't baked half the breads of which I dream. But this weekend, I was able to produce a loaf that made me very happy. Of great quality, still it was so simple in basic profile. The pain au levain below is...