Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Bread Baking Day # 17: ROUND UP - Part I

Wow it seems that lots of you like bread and potatoes, just like me. I´ve received 53 54 entries from 11 different countries. It's been so much fun seeing the entries come in with all those wonderful loaves, rolls, buns, ecc. Thanks Zorra for this wonderful event and for giving me the opportunity to host it.

Here´s this months ROUND UP. (if you see a mistake or you´re missing... please email me and I´ll fix it).

Thanks all for participating and making this month another wonderful Bread Baking Day event. Next month will be hosted by Mansi of "Fun and Food Blog", she will be announcing the new theme on march 6. So don't forget to take a look then!

Now let´s get inspired by these wonderful entries:

This first part of the round up includes all the larger breads and part II can be found here and is all about smaller breads: rolls, buns and pizza.

Large Breads:


Jamie from "
Life's a feast" send in two entries (take a look at PART II for the second one) and really made a fantastic bread with potatoes: "Real Italian Potato focaccia with olives". With a crispy crust and a moist and tender interior.
Location: Nantes, France



Judy from "
Judy's Gross eats" really dove into this challenge and also made two breads to try out different flavours. She choose chives for her first bread : "Potato Chive Bread". A great choice with potatoes!
Location: Ventura, California, USA


Judy's ("Judy's Gross eats") second bread has a classic combination of potatoes, rye and caraway. This bread looks equaly good: "Potato Rye Caraway Bread"
Location: Ventura, California, USA



Vanesuky ("Vanesuky entre Fogones") baked a wonderful "Potato bread with muesli" using her mother's recipe with added muesli. Beautiful rustic loaf!
Location: Tarragona, Spain


Another Spanish entry came from IDania ("El aroma de IDania"). A wonderful "Pan de Patata", a beautiful high white bread that really makes you want a slice (or two).
Location: Madrid, Spain



And another amazing entry from Spain, Zorra ("1x umrühren aka Kohtopf"), who initiated this event over 1 1/2 year ago, baked us a wonderful fluffy "Potato-walnut bread with crème fraîche". You can see how soft the crumb is inside on the picture very well, my kind of crumb.
Location: Andalucia, Spain



Priyasuresh ("Priya's Easy N Tasty Recipes") sometimes has trouble with the outcome of her breadbaking, not this time though her "Potato Bread" turned out wonderful. Flavored with oats, onions, parsley and pepper is was a treat with soup.
Location: Paris, France


Natashy ("Living in the kitchen with puppies") baked us a wonderful "Potato Rye Bread". A very healthy choice with all whole wheat and whole rye. Thanks to the humble potato it still has a lovely crumb.
Location: Ontario, Canada



Poornima ("Tasty Treats") bake her first bread and she did a great job. A wonderful airy "Potato bread", we're honored that Poorima's first bread was for BBD! Keep baking!
Location: California, USA


Nancy ("The dog eat the crumbs") baked a "potato bread with three wheat flours". She used three kinds of wheat to give some more taste and bite (and healthy too!), and it turned out to be great toastbread too!
Location: USA



Chuck ("
The knead for bread") took this wonderful picture of "this equally wonderful "Potato sour cream and chive bread". Again we see that sour cream and chives make a fantastic bread!
Location: Vancouver, Canada





Chuck sent in another entry that uses roasted
potatoes instead of mashed : "Roasted Potato and onion bread". Maybe a choice most wouldn't think about straight away, but it adds loads of flavor to the bread.
Location: Vancouver, Canada


Astrid ("
Paulchens Foodblog?!") made a wonderful loaf with beer! "Guinness potato bread", I just wish I could taste that. Anyone who likes beer and crisps must love this bread I think. Thanks Astrid!
Location: Vienna, Austria



Asha ("
Aroma!") also used sour cream in her bread: a "Sour Cream Potato Loaf", she also spiced it up with different spices. Wow that must have not only smelled good in your kitchen, but tasted great with that wonderful soup she made.
Location: North Carolina, USA



A wonderful "Potato Rye Vienna Twist" came our way, send by the amazing Tanna ("My kitchen in half cups.. second helping"). She baked four breads, but only this beautiful two-colored loaf met her standard to be a BBD entry. And it sure is a stunning loaf!
Location: Texas, USA



Susan ("Wild Yeast") did an outstanding job baking with potatoes.
Two versions of "Roasted potato sourdough" bread she made. And all of them are pretty as a picture both on the outside as the inside! Wonderful!
Location: California, USA




Andreas ("Delta Kitchen") wasn't all satisfied with the way the crumb of his "Rustic potato bread" looked, but I say he´s done a great job. And a real rustic look to it, which I really love.
Location: Germany



Karen ("Bake my day!") went straight ahead and baked two breads both using a poolish. "Potato bread no.1" with potato flakes and different wheat flours, a wonderful airy bread.
Location: Netherlands



The second loaf Karen ("Bake my Day!") baked was... you've guessed: "Potato bread no.2". Also using potato flakes, but now also with corn flour and sprouted wheat berries all the way from Sweden as well.
Location: Netherlands



Tartasacher ("Mil postres") made a loaf and rolls with this recipe of "Pan de patatas". Lovely toppings with various seeds and flakes. (use the google translater to -sort of- find out what it says in english)
Location: Spain


Petra ("Chili und Ciabatta") always makes the best loaves of bread. No exception this time with "Crusty potato bread with rye sourdough" that uses potato flakes in the soaker made one day before baking. This crust is just amazing!!
Location: Giersthal, Germany




Aranka ("
Koken in de buurt") is the first that made bread with sweet potatoes, that were left over! "Sweet potato bread", it gives a great color and a silky and soft crumb. Unfortunately no recipe, but a picture to inspire us.
Location: Netherlands



Nick ("Imafoodblog") used crispy bacon and little cubes of roasted potato in his "Bacon and Potato Ciabatta". It was a winning combination, great to see all those pieces of potato in the bread too!
Location: USA



The lovely Natalia ("Gatti, Fili e Farina") baked us a wonderful "Potato au gratin bread", with potato ánd cheese, that is a winning combination girl!!!
Location: Italy



Dulmina ("Dulmina tündérkonyhája" -Dulmina's fairy kitchen) baked a wonderful "Bread with cream and potatoes", made with spelt flour and scredded potatoes. She also baked "vegetable pie with potatoes", though that doesn't really qualify as bread, you can take your own look on her blog.
Location: Szeged, Hungary



Stefan ("Der Suppenkasper") made a healthy whole wheat bread: "Vollkorn-Kartoffelbrot mit roggensauerteig", so that's whole wheat with rye sourdough. Looks really good. (post in German)
Location: Germany


Shelley ("Adventures with the Woods") baked a "Sourdough rye bread", with mashed potatoes in it. But that was not all she did with the potatoes, she also made her own potato water starter from scratch, WOW!
Location: Manhattan, Kansas, USA




Claudia ("Claudia's Kitchen Creations") baked two wonderful breads with potato, one of them is this "Sweet potato bread", look at that wonderful color and airy crumb!
Location: "Rozendaal, Netherlands




The second bread Claudia ("Claudia's Kitchen Creations") made is this wonderful "Potato Bread" with flaxseeds, that also looks light and airy.
Location: Rozendaal, Netherlands



Jacqueline ("Toxo Bread") baked this wonderful "Baked Potato Mash" flavored with potatoes of course, but also scallions, garlic and bacon. She also used yogurt... you made it work!!
Location: Burlington, VT, USA


Isis ("
Yambalaya") baked two round loaves "Russian Potato Bread". It was her first time with potato bread and she did a fantastic job!
Location: France




Sus ("Corum Blog") needed some bread to go with a bean stew. Some googling later and she made this simple but wonderful "Flat potato bread". A wonderful complement to a great meal. Love the color too!
Location: Griesheim, Germany




Katja ("Kaffeebohne") made a perfect round "Potatoe Bread", she used small chopped potatoes in her bread, that seem to work very well!
Location: Hessen, Germany



We're almost at the end of all the larger loafs, this one from Chaosqueen ("Chaosqueen's Kitchen") was the final entry and boy doesn't it look great! She got inspired on her trip to Berling and baked this great loaf: "Cynthia's Potato Bread".
Location: north Germany




O almost forgot my own bread....: Potato loaf made with mashed potatoes, whole wheat, flax seeds and a pre-ferment.
Location: Netherlands


Thanks to all the participants that baked and send in their entries, thanks to Zorra for initiating this great Bread Event. It's been a joy to host this month. Don't forget to take a look at the round-up Part II (smaller breads) ! See you next time.

20 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! I am amazed! I am proud to have participated in this challenge - my first - with such a impressive group of bakers. Each bread looks great and there are definitely some I will be baking myself. Thanks Lien and Zorra!

Petra aka Cascabel said...

Thank you Lien - now I don't know where to start baking those wonderful breads....

zorra said...

Thank you Lien for these wonderful roundups and also a big thank you to all the participant!

Anonymous said...

Hey Lien,

what a great job everyone did. Thank you for hosting this fun and creative event. Some real talented people doing some amazing baking!

Vanesuky said...

I am proud to have participated in this challenge with such a impressive group of bakers. Thanks Lien and Zorra, of course!

Anonymous said...

Hi Lien,
What a wonderful round up. Thanks for hosting the event.
I have now a very long list of things I want to bake ;-)

Karen Baking Soda said...

This sure inspired lots of people! Thnks for hosting Lien, it's a pleasure to see so many beautiful breads

tartasacher said...

Hello Lien:
Great Roundup. Is wondefurl. Thank you. You are so lovely

Best regards

Anonymous said...

Hoi Lien ik heb dan wel niet mee gedaan maar volg zulke dingen wel. Wat een mooie en lekkere broden staan er bij zeg. Wat een werk moet jij er ook aan gehad hebben om dat van commentaar te voorzien. Petje af hoor!

Anonymous said...

Hihi was nog niet helemaal klaar, ging even mis.
Groetjes Wil V

Aranka said...

Hoi Lien,
Wat een prachtige verzameling zo, en zo mooi vormgegeven!

Claudia van Veldhoven said...

Hallo Lien, wat een lekkere broodjes allemaal. Het was een leuke uitdaging met geweldig resultaat. Ik ga er zeker een paar uitproberen.

Cindystar said...

great job, Lien!
so many entries, so many lovely breads!
I really like each of them!

NKP said...

Who knew you could make such a variety of wonderful breads, all with potatoes in them!
Great round-up, thanks for all your hard work, Lien.

Poornima Nair said...

Thank you for this wonderful round-up Lien...Great Job and such a huge variety of beautiful breads...

Sara said...

WOW! Look at all those fantastic breads! Great round-up.

FH said...

Beautiful round up Lien. Great to have all these in one place and try them out one by one. Good job, thanks for taking time! :))

Anonymous said...

I knew this was going to be a wonderful roundup as I started seeing so many potato breads around the blogosphere during the month -- and wow! 54 breads, all incredible. Thanks so much Lien for hosting this great theme and for putting together the fantastic roundup.

Lien said...

THANK YOU ALL! it's been my pleasure.
A lot of things to bake again... will my baking list ever get shorter?????

No I don't think so :-)

Dulmina said...

What a wonderful round-up! I'm sure I'll try some of these fabulous breads.
Thank you for mentioning my other recipe as well.