Trying to do our bit

All profits from our next series of classes are going to local charities to support their work with victims of the floods. Any suggestion which charity? St Vincent De Paul seems like the obvious choice. Go to http://bit.ly/6DfiJp to book your place

Bread making in the new year

Our next series of courses have been confirmed with Fionnuisce for the new year.

We'll be running our popular courses in February March and April.

Sunday 21st February 2009: Fundamentals of Yeast Bread This course also includes the use of wild yeast and sourdoughs.

11am till 3pm. Seasonal and locally sourced lunch included.

Sunday 21st March 2009: Italian classics - Pizza & Foccacio.

11am till 3pm. Seasonal and locally sourced lunch included.

Sunday 25th April 2009: Coming back home - Classic Irish sodas with a contemporary twist and scones.

11am till 3pm. Seasonal and locally sourced lunch included.

All of the classes are small and intimate, participants get the opportunity to make their own bread, these are not demonstration classes.

Each participant will receive individual tuition and take home the skills to make bread by hand at home without the use of expensive gadgets!

Website up and running

Hello Bloggers!

Our website is launched and fully operational! Head on down to www.alphaomegabreads.com and have a peep. We are particular excited about the online booking feature for our bread making classes. A big thanks to pressplaydesign.com!

Three day coming soon

We are looking to recuirt more bread evangists! Following the success of our first course we are running another 3 day bread making course, starting on the 18th October, continuing 8th November and finishing the 22nd November.

The courses are designed as stand alone days, so you can attend one or many.

Course content will follow the schedule set out in pervious posts. Briefly this is

Day 1. Fundamentals of yeast bread.

Day 2. The Itialians. Pizza and Foccacia

Day 3. Coming back home. Classic Irish sodas. With some unexpected history!

All courses will include seasonal local lunch and as much craic as we can muster!

We are currently having some technical difficulties with our website, so please phone Zoe 086 3164197 to book your place.

Day 2 Italian favourites for your family

Sunday 27^th July 2009 11am to 3pm

Fionnuisce, Bandon

Group size: 6

On our second day we are going to get stuck straight into a basic pizza dough. Kneading first to a elastic dough. Once we have that a soft and springy ball, it will be set aside to prove.

Immediately after the pizza the focaccio will need to get itself together. It is going to be very similar to our pizza dough with the addition of fresh herbs (sage or rosemary or both). It will again be set aside to prove its worth.

Once the pizza dough has proved we will knock it back, roll it out, covered in a sieved tomato sauce, with fresh mozzarella, Parmigiano Reggiano and you guys will create your own original.

While our pizza is in the oven we will be shaping our focaccio and getting it ready for its second prove.

At this point the pizza will come out and be given a couple of minutes to rest. While we enjoy it for our lunch the focaccio will be in the oven.

Can’t wait!

Mini white loaves Rocket Pesto loaf      Multi-Seed Soda

We are currently working on our website and should have a it up and running in the coming weeks.  when it is up you will be able to find us at www.alphaomegabreads.com