They say that good things come to those who wait. And they are not wrong. Friends. FRIENDS. This baguette is the one that I envisioned in January 2022 when I started working on this recipe. It didn't come together like I wanted it to back then, so I put it on the back burner for a bit.
Inspiration to work on it came roaring back this week, and the issue that plagued me all those months ago just...disappeared.
My Friends, she is my absolute favorite baguette and she is finally ready to make her blog debut....
One of my favorite things to do in the kitchen is to make bread. There's something just so satisfying about taking flour, water, salt and yeast and making the most scrumptious artisan bread, or achieving the perfect, tacky-but-not-sticky texture for apple fritter dough.
In my home bakery, I'm most at peace than when my apron's covered in flour and I'm kneading bread by hand. Something about the repetitiveness of the motion, the fresh, yeasty smell, the smooth firmness of a shaped boule before its final rise...just gets to me. I swear that time slows down...
