Panos with a home made pano bracket

Stitched with PTgui!!

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Flickr embed on WordPress

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Thunder Cats spirited High School Fans Embed Flickr on WordPress.com

To embed your Flickr slide shows simply click the slide show button on your set and copy the url as you see below.  Now just paste that into the body of your post in the VISUAL mode.  Make sure your address includes the word show to work properly.

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/jerrycentral/sets/72157623833718058/show/)

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Kansas City Senior Portrait – Tom Schmidt Photography

Here is a great set of images from my son Tom Schmidt Photography.

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Jason’s Quick Coccodrillo Ciabatta Bread

I made a couple loaves for a food shoot and students were asking for the recipe.  Right now I only have the recipe by weight because bakers deal in weight for repeatability.

I found this recipe on the Fresh Loaf and elsewhere. It make a great fast very light ciabatta.

“Jason’s Quick Coccodrillo Ciabatta Bread
This is a formula originally posted on usenet in the great alt.bread.recipes group by Jason Molina all credit to him and the ‘King of Glop’, I’m reposting it here for those that missed it there. I’ve made this quite a few times and it’s always a huge hit. Giant bubbles and a golden crust. Best part is you can do the whole thing in about 4-5 hours. It does not use the traditional stretch/fold method for a ciabatta because it’s so damn wet, the only stretch is the final shaping.
THIS WILL NOT HURT YOUR PRECIOUS KITCHEN AIDS
Variaton 1
500g bread flour
475g (~2 cups) water
2 tsp. yeast
15g salt
Varation 2 (Semolina)
350g bread flour
150g semolina flour
475-485g (~2cups) water
2tsp. yeast
15g salt

1. In Kitchen Aid style mixer: Mix all ingredients roughly till combined with paddle, let it rest for 10 minutes.
2. With the paddle (I prefer the hook to prevent the dough from crawling into the guts of the mixer), beat the living hell out of the batter, it will start out like pancake batter but in anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes it will set up and work like a very sticky dough. if it starts climbing too soon, then switch to the hook. You’ll know it’s done when it separates from the side of the bowl and starts to climb up your hook/paddle and just coming off the bottom of the bowl. I mean this literally about the climbing, i once didn’t pay attention and it climbed up my paddle into the greasy inner workings of the mixer. It was not pretty! Anyway, it will definately pass the windowpane test.
3. Place into a well oiled container and let it triple! it must triple! For me this takes about 2.5 hours
4. Empty on to a floured counter (scrape if you must, however you gotta get the gloop out), cut into 3 or 4 peices. Spray with oil and dust with lots o’ flour. Let them proof for about 45 minutes, which gives you enough time to crank that oven up to 500F.
5. After 45 minutes or so the loaves should be puffy and wobbly, now it’s iron fist, velvet glove time. Pick up and stretch into your final ciabatta shape (~10″ oblong rectangle) and flip them upside down (this redistributes the bubbles, so you get even bubbles throughout), and onto parchment or a heavily floured peel. Try to do it in one motion and be gentle, it might look like you’ve ruined them completely, but the oven spring is immense on these things.
6. Bake at 500F until they are 205F in the cnter (about 15-20 minutes), rotating 180 degrees half way through. Some people like to turn the oven down to 450F after 10 minutes, but whatever floats your boat. I usually bake in 2 batches”.

Here is a pic by the poster in The Fresh Loaf

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