Week three is Paul Hollywood's ciabatta (recipe here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/ciabatta_05418). I like ciabatta, but I don't often make it as it requires me to remember to start it off the night before as I need to leave the dough starter in the machine for 12 hours.
This recipe was straight forward enough, but takes time. I can see why Paul told the contestants to "be patient". Also I was excited to be able to use my Kitchen Aid food mixer, whoop!
I started the recipe on Monday morning and the bread was baked by about 7:30 Monday evening...yeah, I told you it takes time.
All seemed to be going well until we cut one this morning. Not very holey...hmmmmm. Oh well, I had some for lunch and it still tasted nice. Not sure what went wrong as the dough was very stringy all along, even though I didn't use a plastic tub to prove it in.
In conclusion, I won't be making ciabatta by hand again...back to the good old bread machine for this one. Roll on week four - desserts.
Voila! 
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