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dark chocolate cherry pocket bread - i am IN LOVE with you by joseybakerbread

holy crap dogs - the dark chocolate cherry pocket bread FLEW off the shelves last week. i had no idea folks were gonna be so jazzed on it. truth be told, i sold out in about 20 minutes.
you wanna see it don't you?
well, i'm not gonna show it to you... but i WILL show you a picture of a tattoo i got this weekend from the totally radical mr. jesse tuesday of tuesday tattoo out in the outer sunset:
(in case you can't tell - the tattoo covers my thigh) i was practically crying cuz the friggin thing hurt so god damn much. but then my sweet sweet lady came along and held my hand and made me smile.

anyway...
i'm gonna make more dark chocolate cherry pocket bread.
and i got some more ideas... cinnamon date pocket bread! i've only done this bread once, in my standard oblong boule (no that is not a "standard" bread loaf shape, but i ain't no "standard" bread baker sucka), but now ya'll can give it a shot in my new pocket bread loaf.
what in the heck is a pocket bread?
it's a loaf of bread that can fit in your pocket if you really want it to, that's what.
very cute.
so what the hey - this week @ Mission Pie on Wed & Thurs (5-9pm), in addition to the regular weekly loaves:
  • dark chocolate cherry pocket bread - $2
  • cinnamon date pocket bread - $2
  • wonderbread - $3.50
i practically be givin this stuff away dudes, so come on out and gimme some lovin.
<3 josey

have you seen this bread? by joseybakerbread

these loaves went missing the other day, but i followed a trail of bread crumbs to find them loitering on this fence across town...


they smelled of four loco and weed, and they snickered when i tried to tell them how worried i was.

please keep your eyes peeled for renegade loaves, cuz these breads ain't old enough to be wandering about by themselves.

<3 josey

p.s. in case you were wondering... from left to right: cinnamon date; black pepper parmesan (the drunkest of the bunch); seed feast; olive levain

awesome market; goodbye thursday; JBB wonderbread?!? by joseybakerbread

what up sweetie pies

awesome market




first of all - HOLY CRAP THE MARKET ON SATURDAY WAS AWESOME. i sold over 100 loaves in just over 4 hours. ya'll made me feel like a total rock star. hopefully i'll see some of you dudes that i met there at Mission Pie.

just to remind ya - i'm @ Mission Pie every Wednesday & Thursday, bread ready @ 5pm. check the bread schedule to see what i'm whippin up.

goodbye thursday
i am happy and sad to tell you that i won't be working the bar on thursday nights any more. happy cuz this means i can do other things, sad because it probably means i won't see some of you much. (you drunkards)



i'm still there on tuesday nights from 6pm-2am, so if you have a hankering for some fermented grains, you know where to find me.


JBB wonderbread?!?
"josey, what in the ef?? i'm all about your fancy bread that is so super yummy, and has all sorts of awesome $hit in it, but what about a loaf for the people, a nice sandwich loaf like wonder bread, that i can use for sandwiches and is just some good ol fashioned sandwich bread... how about that you big jerk??"


the rumors are true. and these babies are only $3.50 apiece. i ain't effin around here dogs - this one is for the people. first run of the jbbwonderbread - this Wednesday @ Mission Pie.
ta ta ta

<3 josey

sandwich porn - issue 3, volume 7 by joseybakerbread



what we got???
  • some dank ass walnut levain i pulled outta the oven @ Mission Pie yesterday
  • fuji apple sliced all sexy and slivery
  • camembert cheese cuz i like my $hit stinky
  • patience is a virtue, which is why i spread on the overripe avocado
  • homemade brown mustard by my boyz eric & neil
  • adorable little stool i found on the street

i constructed and consumed this sexy beast while i was mixin up crazy quantities of dough - THE MOST EVER!

check this - it's like a HUMONGOUS dough mountain, upon the top of which i am perched and ready to party:

btw - tomorrow i'm poppin outta bed at 3:30am and zoomin to pizzaiolo to bake up 120 loaves for the night market. i'm there from 11am-4pm. come on out and say yo and eat some bread, partner.
check ya

<3 josey

safe and sound and ready for action by joseybakerbread

i'm back. did you miss me?

awww, you are so sweet. i missed you too. like, i really missed you.
i thought about you every day. and i cried, cuz i missed you so hard. it was beautiful. and pathetic.
i'm just kidding, don't flatter yourself, i'm a strong boy, and while i might have missed you a little, i mostly had a totally awesome time doing things like this...
snowboarding for the first time in 10 frikkin years -

riding around totally totally gorgeous idaho on an ATV (it did flip and land on my leg but i'm fine don't worry about it) -
becoming an "expert sharpener" in SLC -

finding this super spooky cabin in the hills around inverness -

and sighting the most spectacular wild elk in all the land -

now i'm back in sf and ready to party with you dudes. hope to see you soon.
<3 josey

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5 loaves, 3 bakeries by joseybakerbread


i dare you to name them all.

what can i say? i love the $hit out of bread.

<3 josey

p.s. here's the answer key...

center loaf: Outerlands levain
lower left: sesame levain from Brick Maiden in Pt. Reyes
upper left: 100% spelt from Full Circle in Penngrove
upper right: Power Bread from Full Circle
lower right: sourdough from Full Circle

wednesdays AND thursdays at Mission Pie?!? are you effing crazy????? by joseybakerbread

no, i ain't crazy.

i'm pumped. like jump naked-off-a-big-cliff-into-a-river pumped.

and so are you. cuz this means way more delicious bread for you bread eating crazies.
for real, i'm all worked up over this, and i'd love for you to get worked up with me.
...
is it happening yet?
...
what about now???
now?????
good.
also, check this out - you can just walk your pretty little @ss into Mission Pie any Wednesday or Thursday at 5pm and just pick up that bread - without pre-ordering. check the bread sched to know what you're getting yourself into.
just to let you know - the past few weeks i've sold out of bread by 7:30... but you're the type of person that likes to take risks like this, am i right?
yeah, that's right, you're a crazy risk-taking bread-loving back-flipping mama jama:

and ain't nothing gonna stop you from getting that bread, if you so desire.
also, one other thing that is gettin baked up that i'd like to alert your sweet sweet attention to - a collaboration between Josey Baker Bread and Bi-Rite Market as part of Meatpaper's spring event series on the SFMOMA rooftop.
ohhh yes.
anyway, i'll definitely see some of you beautiful folks in the coming wednesday and thursday evenings at Mission Pie, and i can't wait for it.
as always, THANK YOU for believing in me, and for eating my bread. i couldn't do it without you all.

<3josey

p.s. this is what we do to our friends on their birthdays:

a glimpse into the early morning session (plus a halloween bonus) by joseybakerbread

ya give a few boys a sewing machine and a halloween and this is what you get...


anyway -

monday nights and tuesday mornings are some of my favorites. i drive over to oakland monday night with a bunch of tubs full of dough, such as these:


amazingly i always find a parking spot right in front of pizzaiolo, lug the dough tubs in, and get to work shaping the loaves. if i'm good and hungry, the cool kind folks gimme some super delectable grub, usually a badass pizza.

once i've done my work and the little chubby bread loaves are all good and in tip top shape, i stick em in the fridge, and go sleep on a friend's couch. come 5 am my silly little cell phone alarm clock is waking me up, and i'm back at pizzaiolo, cooling down the oven to get it ready for the breadsies.

this last tuesday mr. scott kline came along to snap some photos. he set up lights and everything, and it made me feel kind of like a movie star. here are a few of the shots he snapped:




o yea, we got cinnamon raisin craziness comin outta the oven at Mission Pie at 5 pm tonight. come come come along if you're lookin for a good time.
<3josey

two rumors by joseybakerbread

rumor one: i just want to be sure ya'll know that i'm not going to be around the week of March 14.

where will you be mr josey baker?

very good question!

first i'll be roadtrippin with my homies brendan and lana...


to utah for some snowy spring time adventures. o hell yes.
then i'm gonna wander off into the woods for a little cabin getaway with my sweet sweet sweet lady...
oooooooh baby baby baby.

rumor two: rumor has it that i might start baking at mission pie two days a week... this is just a rumor for now though, so don't you dare go tellin everybody about it.

and those are the two rumors.

rumor three: HA! I SAID TWO RUMORS AND NOW I'M WRITING THREE I AM A SNEAKY LITTLE BAKER! anyway, this is just another rumor... josey baker bread might be experimenting with some new baked goods for you all. again, just a rumor, so don't go tweeting or facebooking about it, cuz i don't want people to get all excited before the hen has laid it's egg, before the ship has sailed the sea, before the bagel has been baked.

oops.

kisses sexy babies.

<3 josey

p.s. food coloring can do strange things to a man...

josey baker bread goes trans-bay, baby by joseybakerbread

i been hearin it more and more: god damn josey baker, i live in oakland/berkeley and i can't keep haulin my ass over to san fran just to get your bread! when in the heck are you gonna start an east bay pick up spot you buttface?!?

first of all - no need to be so rude.

second of all - now.

that's right emmer effers - you can now pick up josey baker bread at pizzaiolo on tuesday mornings.


it's in oakland, on telegraph at 51st. for the time being you gotta subscribe to get in on this one. once you've done that, come in to pick up your loaf between 8am-12noon on TUESDAY ONLY. i'll be there til about 9:30 am, so come before then if ya wanna say yo.
very hip shit ya'll.
<3josey

we did it! by joseybakerbread

holy freakin cow the freebreadparty was a SMASHING SUCCESS! ya'll are the raddest kids around.

thank you SOOO much for coming out and being so lovely and supportive and downright sexy to look at. for real - it made my frikkin week.

i know people took photos of this thing... e-mail them to me and i will post em!

<3 josey

** FREEBREADPARTY2011 ** by joseybakerbread

this just about says it all:

(who knew i was a wacky ass graphic designer??)

WOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!

please come on out this wednesday eve to Mission Pie for my freebreadparty2011. bread should be ready by 5 pm. i'm gonna bake up 100 loaves, and give them all away to all of you.

i'm asking that you take this yummy free bread and share it with someone because, a) i think it's cool to share bread with people, and b) i can now bake up WAYYY more bread than i could before and i wanna get more people signed up for bread subscriptions.

so come on out, get a free loaf, say hello, spread the bread.

check ya soon homies

<3josey

who needs bread... by joseybakerbread

when you got all this other stuff in the world to take pictures of? (... of which to take pictures??)

soda and cigarettes.

i think i can i think i can i think i can.

and then there was one.

someone lost an orange.

what in the ef is going on here?

okay, maybe just one bread pic.


now be like a chia pet and get outside and soak up that magical sun power.


<3 josey

a very special thank you and a very special announcement by joseybakerbread

4 am saturday morning was when this lil baker boy rolled outta bed to bake a big load of 85 loaves in that totally awesome wood fired oven at pizzaiolo.

here i am pullin hot ass coals out of the oven so that it can cooool down to about 550 F:


and here is just a right sexy shot of the tools of the trade:

after an hour and a half of cooling that sucka down (it was a whopping 800 F when i showed up at 4:15), i baked up three loads of bread, left 16 loaves for the fine diners at the restaurant to enjoy, and headed to SF for the underground farmer's market where i had a booth to sell my goods for the afternoon.

people rolled in about 11:00 AM, and by 2:00 all my bread was gone!

so - THANK YOU to all of you lovely folks who bought bread from this fella. it made me feel very nice.

and now - the moment you've alllll been waiting for - freebreadparty 2011 is going down.

HELL YES.

so, allow me to explain what this thing is all about...


i have a gift for you. or rather, i have a gift for you to give to someone special.

as a THANK YOU for being so amazingly supportive of this littlebakerboy, id love it if you would accept a loaf for free, on me, all expenses paid, bread-4-no-dough (get it?), know what i mean?

and i'd love for you to give this bread as a gift to someone you like. you can like them like them, or maybe just like them. or maybe you just give it to a stranger. or maybe you even give it to your arch enemy, and then you start to like each other, even just a little. cuz bread is awesome like that, ya know? or if you are just an insatiable bread eating maniac, you can just eat it yourself. either way, brighten up somebody's day and come get a free loaf.

but josey baker, how are you baking all this extra bread???

i am sooo glad you asked. cuz this brings me to my second bit of totally awesome news - the incredible people of Mission Pie have agreed to let me bake bread at their bakery on Wednesday afternoons. dudes, i am going to pump out some superduper rad breads from this oven, i can promise you this.

this is very exciting for me - i'm going to open up Wednesdays as a new CSB day! that means that i can take on all of you that i've been turning away since i haven't been able to bake enough out of my little oven at home. how do you get on board? sign up through my blog. i'm hoping that the freebreadparty will get my bread into more people's mouths (don't be perverted), and that maybe some of them will sign up for a bread subscription. can you help? yes!

what kind of bread will there be at this freebreadparty???

ha ha i can answer that too! five kinds. here's the plan:

  • black pepper parmesan
  • olive levain
  • seed feast levain
  • cinnamon raisin
  • whole wheat levain

i'm not taking orders for the freebreadparty, just baking up a bunch of bread. so if ya wanna be sure to get your favorite, come as soon as you can.

but josey, when is this freebreadparty 2011 going down???

be patient my sweet ones. freebreadparty 2011 is bringing down the house on Wednesday, February 23. it'll be at Mission Pie - at 25th and Mission, going from 5:00-8:00 PM.

so come one come all and celebrate this very exciting new chapter in the josey baker bread world!

<3josey

p.s. if ya wanna stop by MissionPie some Wednesday before Feb 23, i'll be there getting used to their oven, from 3:00-6:00 or so. don't be shy, come say hi. here's a pic from last Wednesday's first bake:


1, 2, oh my underground farmer's WhAt?!? by joseybakerbread

laaaa laaaa laaaaaaaaaa

duders - saturday (feb 5) i'm slangin mad bread at the underground farmer's market. it's at SomArts, at 934 Brannan St @ 8th. (you gotta sign up here in order to attend - don't worry it doesn't cost and is no obligation, it's just so we don't get arrested.) so if you're headed that a way, then stop on by and say hi. i'll be there in the day time, during the "take-home-ables" portion. but there's rad stuff at night too, so it's all good, i won't feel bad if next time i see you, you're all like, "man that underground farmers market was totally awesome!" and i say, "oh yeah, how come you didn't come and say hi??" and you say, "well, cuz i went at night, and you weren't there." and i say, "oh. right. that's cool. i totally understand." then i start quietly sobbing.

im kidding, i wouldn't do that.

i'd sob real loud so you'd feel bad.

oh stop it.

no, you stop it!

for real tho, hope to see you there.

(if you go at night you should really really really get pizza from the PizzaHacker, aka jeff "studliest pizzaiolo in sf" krupman. it'll be the best pizza you've ever had. i double dog dare you to prove me wrong.)
{now i'm reading your mind...}
and josey - what in the frik is going on with this freebreadparty you keep talking about?!?
yes yes YES, it's going down on Wednesday, February 23, from 5:00-8:00 PM at Mission Pie. scribble that into your iCals or Blackberries or what the heck evers kiddies... and don't you worry, i'll be giving you a proper announcement right soon.
and HEY - just want to say thanks to all ya'll who've been telling me that you like reading this thing. in case you were wondering, that makes me feel real good, and you should keep telling me it. as long as it's true.
which makes me remember something funny - this friday night i was all excited and attending a party up in the headlands. i may have drank a wee bit too much whiskey, just maybe, but my roommate brendan reminded me that there was an awesome wood fired oven (built by radical oven building master alan scott) up there, and that maybe, just maybe there were people baking bread at that very moment! so, in all my excited drunken baker courage, i walked right in to that bakery, and blabbed some gibberish about bread with eduardo of morell's bread. he was very kind to me, even though i'd have to imagine i was not on the top of his "want to see at 11:00 on a friday night while i'm in the middle of a huge bake" list. i bought a loaf of sesame sunflower bread, and it was very delicious, although i do wish i could remember more clearly. i will go back sometime when i have my wits, and perhaps i will be able to give you a more detailed account of his breads. or at the least, i could report on what we discussed. (you only quit your first-job-out-of-college-that-you-have-for-five-years-and-then-quit-to-be-a-baker once, alright, cut me some slack.)
smoochieboochies

p.s. tomorrow is my REAL last day of work and i'm peeing my pants i'm so excited.

the truth about josey baker by joseybakerbread


what in the frik are you doing josey???


oh ya know, just shooting a pellet gun in my mom's basement in vermont with my step dad... what else are ya gonna do in that green mtn state?

anyway.

one of my bread customers asked me the other day what my day job was. i jokingly said that i'd been hunting caribou for the past five years. then i jokingly said that i'd been building windmills. then i said (for real) that i'd been working in berkeley for the past five years designing activities to teach kids science.

but ladies and gentle men, the time has come to tell the truth.

(that's me, about to tell you the truth.)

the truth is that i've been working for cirque du soleil, training lions. this has been a highly illegal trade, so i've been sworn to secrecy until my tenure ended. now that i'm so close to moving on, i've gained some courage, lost some fear, and want to let the world know what is REALLY going on behind the scenes.

i will not be silenced any longer, as i transition from taming wild beasts to taming wild yeasts.

i feel so much better now that i've got that off my chest.

in other super good news - chances are very high that we're going to have a freebreadparty at Mission Pie in mid-late February. this is going to be totally awesome. the basic gist: i'm going to give away a whooooole bunch of bread, and make the suggestion that ya'll share the bread with your friends, family, lovers, enemies, strangers, bosses, whoevers. stay tuned for details.

i (half) jokingly told a very dear friend of mine who is rapidly becoming famous that i was going to piggyback his rise to fame by mentioning him in every one of my blogposts from here on out. i'm not going to do that, that was a joke.

but i am going to post this amazing photo i took of him taking a shower, with my two heart brothers rafi and nat keeping him company. he's taking a shower because i gave him a little haircut, and come on, who wants to spend the night with all that itchy hair in your shirt?


just a couple of dudes spending qt together. doesn't get much better than this.

see ya round town buddies

big changes are afoot friends... ! by joseybakerbread

check out these sexy shots of a loaf i baked while home in vermont. oh baby baby baby

some awesome news to share with you sexy peoples -
  • bye bye, day job
  • wednesday? more like breadnesday
  • tdays are wood fired
  • make bread w/ me

what what what are you talking about josey baker???

hold your sweet sweet horses and let me tell you...
i've been working with a totally rad group of folks in berkeley for the past 5 yrs, designing activities to teach kids science. i've learned so much, and i love those people so so hard, but the time has come to move on. alas, january 31 is my last day of work. (get this - the next day my sweet sweet lady Cathy is taking me up in a plane and i'm going to get to FLY THE PLANE! holy crap!!) i'm a little sad and a little scared to be leaving this job, but i am also SO EXCITED to be making moves on to the next big thing. which brings me to my next bit of news...
starting in february i will be opening up a whole bunch of new subscription spots for wednesday evenings. and where, o where will i be baking this bread, you wonder? thank you for asking! the wonderful people at Mission Pie, at 25th & Mission, are generously allowing me to bake in their super awesome oven on Wednesday afternoons. so folks can come in and pick up bread Wednesdays, from 5:00-8:00 pm. this bread is gonna be on a different level, trust me. the oven is going to make a huge difference. if you're curious, just come by some wednesday starting in february and i will let you try some.
(also, this hasn't landed yet, but i'm going to throw a freebreadparty at Mission Pie to celebrate this new chapter in my bread baking life. stay tuned for details.)

and MORE EXCITING NEWS! there's this rad little restaurant in oakland called Pizzaiolo, with this incredible wood fired oven... and i'm going to be baking there tuesday and thursday mornings! all this means is that the tuesday and thursday bread is going to be super kick ass as well, and there will be more of it to go around. so don't be shy kiddies - tell your friends.

and finally - if you wanna come hang out and learn how to make bread the way i do, sign up for my class at 18 Reasons - Taming the Wild Yeast: How to Make Yummy Sourdough Bread at Home. (you can't sign up just yet, but it's gonna be on Monday, Jan 24 in the evening.) i'm real real excited to be doing this, and would love to see some of you there. folks, for real - it's not that hard to make good bread at home. just come and let me show you.
that's it dudes. love you.

snow is good and so is mansfield bread at harvest market by joseybakerbread

man o man the snow be fallin outside these days, and it is so nice and warm and cozy inside.

this morning i skidded my way to stowe to visit the mansfield bread boys over at harvest market.
they're pumping some great breads out of their brick wood-fired oven, and they were kind enough to let me hang out for a couple hours, chatting, munching bread, and snapping a bunch of photos.
quite the remarkable coincidence - gerard rubaud designed their oven. (i visited gerard at his bakery a week ago.)
special thanks to Bill and Ian for keeping their cool while i danced around, dodging their peels and boards full of bread.
check out the scene ya'll...
ian folds the canvas between shaped baguettes:

Ian slashes a loaf before loading it in the oven:
Bill gives a triple slash to one of their soon-to-be crunchy baguettes:
take a peak at some crispy crunchy cheesy goodies:
and the full spread of their breads:
tomorrow i'm off to elmore mountain bread... wish me luck dudes.

<3josey