BBA Slow & Steady #1: Anadama roundup

The bread-baking blogisphere has been all atwitter about the BBA Challenge, organized by Nicole of Pinch My Salt. There are 200 bakers on the Challenge's blogroll, and anyone else is welcome to join Nicole in baking each and every recipe in Peter Reinhart's book, The Bread Baker's Apprentice. The Challenge is loose as far as rules are concerned - if you are baking the book's recipes from beginning to end you are meeting the challenge's requirements. Nicole is baking weekly, as are most of the other bakers.

A couple of my baking acquaintances and I are taking up the Challenge, but at a slower pace. We will be baking and posting our bread every other week, and think of ourselves as the Slow & Steady sub-group. Not that we actually expect to win any races, or even enter any races, but we are enjoying baking the breads in our own good time. We may be a day late and a poolish short (esoteric bread term, there!), but we're having lots of fun comparing notes and supporting each other as we learn Peter Reinhart's yeast-y methods.

Here are the bread posts of the Slow & Steady BBA bakers for the first formula, the Anadama bread:

Jessica of Singleton in the Kitchen

post: Peter Reinhart's Anadama Bread ,

Cathy of The Tortefeasor
post: Bread Baker's Apprentice: Anadama Bread ,

Kayte of Grandma's Kitchen Table
post: BBA Challenge: Anadama Bread ,

Audrey of Food From Books
post: Bread Baker's Apprentice #1: Anadama Bread ,

And lastly,

My post: Anadama Bread {bba}

If you baked this bread too, please feel free to add a link in the comments on this post. If you're baking on the same every-other-week pace, I'd be interested to hear that as well (most of the challenge group is baking weekly).

The next bread in the Bread Baker's Apprentice Challenge is another "A" bread: Artos, the traditional Greek celebration bread. The book details three variations, and we will each bake at least one shape/flavor. The Slow & Steady folk will post by Monday, June 1. Look for another little roundup a few days later.