![]() ![]() That is how bread should be made, folks.īesides the bread, there were lots of sweet treats in process:ĭid you know Great Harvest offers *free* samples of their daily specials? Just walk on in and try before you buy. No crazy concoctions you can’t pronounce–just flour, honey, yeast, salt, and eggs. The honey whole wheat loaves are another one of Melissa’s top sellers:Ĭheck out the ingredients list on the Honey Whole Wheat and Farmhouse White bread. The smell of the pesto parmesan swirls was intoxicating. Some were stuffed with sweet cinnamon and pecans and some were stuffed with parmesan and pesto: I was also a sucker for these swirl breads. Seeing this massive mound of dough with huge hunks of cheddar poking through may have been my favorite moment of the day. Here are a dozen or so loaves waiting for their turn in the oven: Sounds like I have an excuse to bake some bread this spring!Ĭinnamon chip is one of the most popular items at the North Charlotte location. Melissa says the key to making great bread is PRACTICE, followed by more practice, good ingredients, fresh yeast, and PRACTICE. I had intentions of writing all about the steps involved in kneading the perfect dough ball, but it turns out many of mine weren’t up to par. I’ve kneaded dough before… in the privacy of my own kitchen with no supervision. Once I arrived at Great Harvest, I was given a GH t-shirt and put to work kneading dough with the rest of the team. (Insert wide eyes and belly rubbing here.) Melissa’s store is now baking gluten-free bread and is also introducing a new Strawberry Lemonade muffin this month. ![]() For Charlotte, this means pumpkin chocolate chip muffins and lots of pepperoni bread to please us northern transplants. Melissa, the owner of the North Charlotte Great Harvest, says this business model gives each owner freedom to tailor their store to meet their specific market. ![]() Great Harvest is a national franchise, but each location is independently owned and operated as an individual small business. That is until last month, when I got the opportunity to knead some dough at the Great Harvest Bread Co. I consider myself a free-basket-of-bread connoisseur, but I’ve never been behind the scenes at a cafe (or a bakery for that matter). (I don’t care what people say-it’s ok to use the recipe on the back of the bag.)įresh-baked bread is one of the simple pleasures in life. Granted this fantasy hinges on my baking experience, which consists primarily of baking the cookie recipe on the back of the Nestle chocolate chips bag a thousand times or two. For dessert? Triple chocolate cake, and flourless chocolate cake, and molten chocolate cake topped with chocolate fudge and homemade ice cream… oh, and maybe a chocolate chip cookie or two. There will be homemade bagels slathered in cream cheese, scratch english muffins topped with melting butter and blackberry jam, and piping hot paninis made from homemade focaccia. At Mary’s Cafe we’ll do all the baking in house. One of my many food fantasies is that I’ll someday own a small cafe-just a breakfast and lunch joint where your coffee mug is topped off every three seconds and the food is unpretentious and comforting.
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