I was sick this week, with a head cold that made me sound like one of Marge Simpson’s chain-smoking sisters.
Stuck in the house, I decided to make some bread. Luckily, I had some help from Montreal Canadiens‘ forward Max Pacioretty. He was sick too: sick with shame from the way Montreal lost to the last-place in the NHL Eastern Conference Carolina Hurricanes at the Bell Centre in Montreal on Monday night.
We used the basic bread recipe from the Tassajara Bread Book. I love that cookbook. It takes 13 pages to explain in extreme detail how to bake the bread. Max read it quickly so he understood what to do.
While he explained how it was possible for Montreal to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-0 on Saturday night, yet be humiliated by the Hurricanes two days later, I mixed and kneaded the dough.
Max was very impressed by how high the dough rose.
He was so anxious to eat the bread that he wanted to start before it had even been baked!
Max couldn’t believe that it still had to bake for another 30 minutes.
Finally, the bread is done. Max is 6 feet, 2 inches tall, yet this bread towers over him.
Nutella on homemade bread is just the thing a hockey player wants to eat on his day off. Max said he wants to bring a whole loaf of bread and a jar of Nutella to the locker room on Wednesday night to give the Habs the power to beat the Boston Bruins. I know you boys can do it Max!
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