Bethesdabakin'

[Teck Poh]

Pix! Pix! Pix! We want PIX! and details, if possible.

TP

p/s 6 hours later and no sign from any of you. This can only mean that you are all having a marvellous time baking and talking bread together. Cheers!

[Jeremy]

Fabulous time!
Jeremy

[jlangt]

A few pics from Saturday



Nina, Dan, Dom


no-one packed a rolling pin


Chef Jeremy cooks lunch


Oven finished, Rick takes a break


Pizzaiola Dan


First pizza out of Rick's wood-fired oven


Sunset behind Bethesda Rugby club

James

[Teck Poh]

Lovely! Thanks, James! Your pix speak volumes about the incredible time you had at Bethesdabakin'. LOL, love the wine bottle rolling pin. Is that method going into Dan's next book? 2 unidentified persons there. Is that Alex and Dom's little boy together with Dom and Dan's cheeky pizza? No group pix? Where's [s]Hagrith[/s] Mick? OK OK, I'll give you a bit of time to rest. Can't blame me...you know I've got a zillion questions!

TP

[martin_prior]

Hi Mick ,

Happy to hear you are all having a good time. Here in Malaysia we are working with the local Organic Farmers. I try to create Organic Vegan Products using their produce.

So far I am making Kaya, a form of very rich jam made from Pumpkin, Vegan Quiche from Organic Spinach & Tau Fu, Oil from coconuts (not organic), Coconut Bun filling (from Coconuts ).

We also take the surplus Organic apples from the importers and make apple sauce which we use to fill a sweet bun, topped with delicious Organic Kasturi cream(vegan). Kasturi is a type of small lemon, but without the bitterness, slightly sweet.

We also take from the importers all of their wooden pallets which we break up and use for our brick oven.

We find it a two way partnership working with these suppliers.

Regards

Martin Prior

[Teck Poh]

Jeremy...you didn't bring your whites?? What was cooking?

TP

[adam]

oops, submitted this twice by mistake. I'm very tired after camping out for three nights...

[adam]

Just arrived back in London -- a seven-hour drive, via Bacheldre Mill to drop off the portable mill that Matt lent us (as if we didn't have enough flour as it was. Mick -- you ever heard of portion control??)

Anyway, just wanted to say phew, hi, and a HUGE thank you to Mick and Sue for the phenomenal amount of work they put in to make it all possible, and to Dan, of course, without whom, none of this would ever have happened, and another HUGE thank you to Rick for the truly superhuman feat of a) designing the brick oven b) making/finding/scrounging all the necessary bits c) loading it up and driving through the night to Bethesda d) reassembling it and firing it up and loading it with our various attempts at pizza and bread. Truly, sir, you are a hero. And also a HUGE thank you to Jeremy for feeding us all so well. Better, really, than we deserved.

To those who couldn't make it, TP, Fran, Liz, Gavin, Pete, Matt, Feline (and anyone else who hoped to get there but couldn't in the end): we really missed you! But, obviously, not too much. No! I'm still on a high from the extraordinary energy and excitement that everyone put into not only their baking, but in coming together in a (apologies Mick) slightly off-the-beaten-track kind of place and getting to know a bit more about the people behind the screen names. Rest assured, though, that plans are already afoot for next year's event...

Sorry TP, I can't assuage your thirst for pix. I sort of thought that yet another person taking photos would be pretty much unnecessary, but I've no doubt that the pictorial evidence will soon be appearing. (BTW, the other person -- aside from Dom's son -- behind Dan is Jack (Sideburns), who definitely merits a round of applause for all his ferrying of participants round and about.

Wow. A great time, and a great bunch of people. (I'm very glad Otto came too.)

Adam

[stig]

Huge thanks from me too, esp on a personal note to Jack and John and Adam for ferrying me around, and more generally to Mick, James, Rick and others who put great thought and effort into getting the whole thing on the road. Organised and generously enthusiastic anarchy is how best to describe the weekend, and we should certainly do it again. The spirit of the forum translated beautifully into real life/real time.

Oh, and in case anyone was still in any doubt, Jeremy IS irrepressible and should be bottled and sold in the interests of the greater wellbeing of humankind.

Stig (who didn't take pix either and eagerly awaits further postings from those who did)

[Teck Poh]

Otto was there? Wild! I'm sure he feasted like a king on artisan breads. Alex...I think I see a bit of you with a D70. Pix, please!

This thread is developing such a glow...you should come and read it again during winter...for warmth.

TP, greedily lapping up any info.