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MAY 2020

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RESCUE OUR RESTAURANTS

THE COMMUNITY BEHIND CHERRY CREEK LIFESTYLE

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Help Your Neighbors. Help yourself. Support the Community.

GET IT TO GO.

PAY IT FORWARD.

Order from your local restaurants and bars via delivery service, to-go, or curbside pickup.

Purchase gift cards or book services from local business to use at a future date.

FOLLOW ALONG.

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Stay informed while staying home. Our properties are open to you online in a myriad of ways.

Websites havenâ€™t closed and itâ€™s important to leave positive reviews for local vendors and businesses.

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.

SAY THANK YOU.

Keep your mind and body healthy. A blend of stretching for the body and meditation for the mind can boost your mental and physical fitness.

Those serving on the front lines in essential services are risking their lives to provide the food, supplies and medical care that we need. Be thankful.

The Behr Team does and will continue to suppor t our community and front line workers during these unprecedented times. T h e c u r re n t p a n d e m i c g i ve s u s a n o p p o r t u n i t y to b e eve n m o re awa re o f t h e i m p a c t o f o u r a c t i o n s a s a c o m m u n i t y.

As we take a pause to ensure our collective health, there are many ways to support and strengthen those that are making a huge difference in the Denver community. No matter how big or how small, any support you can offer is positive and impactful during these challenging times. If you are looking for ideas on how you can get involved and do your part, give us a call! JOSH BEHR 303.903.9535

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MAY 2020 PUBLISHER

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Shelter from the Storm A FACEBOOK “MEMORY” FROM EIGHT YEARS AGO RECENTLY POPPED UP ON MY FEED. The photo was taken of the driveway of our previous home in Kansas City. On one side of the driveway was a U-Haul truck, and right next to the truck was a roll-off dumpster. Essentially, all our belongings were either going in the truck, or headed to the dump, as we had made the decision to move our family to Colorado. We had both spent a lot of time in Colorado during our childhood, college, and post-college years. The idea of actually putting down roots here was something we had dreamed about, from the very start of our relationship. At this time, our oldest son, August, was three, and our daughter, Farrah, had just turned two. We had recently discovered that we had baby number three on the way, due the following January. How does this happen? After selling both of our small businesses in Kansas City, we discovered that we had about six months of savings to live on. The plan (hope) was that Boulder Lifestyle would be launched just before Katie was due with child number three.

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In the fall of 2012, I began reaching out to local businesses, letting them know that we were starting a new, community-focused publication, which would be mailed free to the residents, each month. With the help of our founding advertising partners, who took a big risk with us, we were able make our first deadline, January 1st, 2013. Our middle son, Crosby, was born twenty-three days later. Things remained very tight in year one, but we kept grinding - as there was no “plan b”. At one point I had to sell my beloved mandolin on Craigslist, to get our family through

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place), it is a humble reminder to keep pressing onward.

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For all the small business owners reading this, I would imagine you have similar high and low water marks as well. The same grit and determination that most of us used to lift our businesses off the ground, will once again be called upon to achieve our next high water mark. This issue spotlights some of the amazing organizations and leaders in the business community, who are working tirelessly to serve, even as their own businesses might be falling apart before their eyes. We take great pride in bringing you the GOOD NEWS

every month, and we will continue to do so. As life starts to shift to a new normal, we

kindly ask that you will consider supporting these nonprofits and advertising partners, who we are so grateful for.

Wishing you and your family health and happiness, ON THE COVER Bobby Stuckey, CO-FOUNDER FRASCA FOOD &

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INSIDE THE ISSUE MAY 2020

FEATURES 20 Rescue our Restaurants How your favorite local restaurants are navigating COVID-19 - and what you can do to help

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Good Times

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28 Locals Only 38 Open House 44 Culinary Creations 48 Parting Thoughts

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GIVING BACK

ARTICLE BRIANNA BLAIR

While the world may look a little different right now, Conscious Alliance’s mission remains the same, and soon we’ll be eating meals together again. To learn more about Conscious Alliance and its mission and how you can volunteer, please visit ConsciousAlliance.org.

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MEALS BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER DURING A TIME WHERE WE HAVE TO REMAIN APART. In these unprecedented times, for many the uncertainty of meals has increased, leaving food banks and non-profits gearing up to do what the do best, but even better.

Justin Levy's determination to help started before his involvement with Conscious Alliance. In high school, he went on a field trip to Crow Creek Reservation, an experience that changed his life forever. “After this experience, I wanted to be an advocate,” he

“This is what we’re built for,” says Justin Levy, exec-

says. “The kids at Crow Creek didn’t have an advocate.

utive director of Conscious Alliance. “This is what we

No matter their age, it’s never their fault that they don’t

do every day.”

have access to healthy food.”

Founded in 2002, Conscious Alliance began as a food

After years of volunteering his time Levy joined

drive during a String Cheese Incident concert at the

Conscious Alliance full-time in 2008. He hopes to see the

Fillmore. Dubbed the “Art That Feeds” food drive, con-

non-profit continue to grow so that Conscious Alliance

cert-goers would bring a non-perishable food donation

can continue to meet the need of kiddos and their families.

and in return receive a limited-edition poster by nation-

“I want to grow the meal count,” Levy says. “I want

ally acclaimed artists. After collecting 4,000 meals at

us to continue to strengthen the relationships between

just one concert, the non-profit took off.

community, art and food. The community makes

Many meals are taken to the Pine Ridge Reservation

Conscious Alliance so special, and it’s not just one

in South Dakota, a vulnerable community where food

person, it’s thousands putting in their time energy and

insecurity is at an extreme high. This reservation

talents for the greater good.”

is just six hours from Boulder and the heart of the non-profits founding story. “We’re able to make a connection with a younger generation through an event that they were already going to attend,” Levy says. “Our community of heroes is what makes this all possible.” Today, these food drives happen at more than 100 concerts a year and help bring nourishment to those facing food insecurity nationwide. “We work with more than 40 leading food brands to get food into the hands of people who need it most,” Levy says. “We just had a record year where we were able to collect and donate more than 1.1 million meals to kiddos in Colorado, Pine Ridge Reservation and beyond.” With the changing times and the evolution of an unseen enemy, COVID-19, Conscious Alliance has expanded its efforts even further to support our communities. “Our team is meeting these challenges by finding new collaborations and opportunities with our fans, artists, musicians, food makers and community partners. In the last few weeks, our typical approach has been transformed and expanded to reach more families in need together. Because of our long-standing relationships with food brands, we are able to procure large amounts of food. We are moving truckloads of critically needed meals and snacks to school districts and food pantries, right in the heart of each community to make food most accessible,” Levy says.

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Rescue Our RESTAURANTS HOW YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL RESTAURANTS ARE NAVIGATING COVID-19 - AND WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP

BY THE TIME YOU’RE READING THIS, DINE-IN RESTAURANTS WILL HAVE BEEN CLOSED FOR AT LEAST A MONTH AND A HALF — A HUGE BLOW TO AN INDUSTRY OPERATING ON ALREADY SLIM MARGINS. It’s a terrible situation on so many fronts, but there are things we the eaters can do to help save our restaurants, ensuring we still have good things to eat — and talented, skilled workers still have their jobs — when we return to our non-quarantined lives. We asked leading restaurant owners and chefs how they responded to the COVID-19-induced closures and what diners can do to support the most delicious of industries during and coming out of the coronavirus crisis. Because our local restaurants need our help, and we need our local restaurants. CONTINUED >

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JUAN PADRÓ CULINARY CREATIVE RESTAURANT GROUP, WHICH INCLUDES BAR DOUGH, SEÑOR BEAR AND HIGHLAND TAP & BURGER Even during this dire time for his industry, Juan Padró sees good things coming out of the COVID-19-induced closures. “In times of struggle, you’ve got to band together,” Padró says. “A lot of times in the restaurant business we’re so busy and focused on our own thing, but right now we have to rely on one another and each other’s innovation and skills. Everybody’s kind of stepping up, and that’s an awesome thing.” He hopes that that camaraderie sticks, as independent restaurant owners are only made stronger by working together. He envisions a Denver restaurant scene where local owners collaborate to gain increased buying power and raise funds to aid workers when things like, say, global pandemics shut down business. As these restaurants (hopefully) emerge from their months-long forced hibernation later this month, Padró likens their re-opening to starting a new business. Which means that we eaters need to be patient and supportive as they get things running again. “The general public is really seeing how important restaurants are to the community. Beyond just cooking food, we’re feeding frontline workers, feeding the homeless, helping kids who rely on school lunches for food, working with shelters, working with nonprofits. I think those things are often taken for granted. I think restaurants can come out of this with a really defined role in society.”

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BOBBY STUCKEY CO-FOUNDER FRASCA FOOD & WINE, TAVERNETTA, PIZZERIA LOCALE, SUNDAY VINYL Bobby Stuckey didn’t want to unnecessarily expose his workers to COVID-19, so he closed all of the restaurants in the interest of employee health and safety. So what did he do with his newfound downtime? Oh, he just got to work saving the restaurant industry, that’s all. No big deal. Worried that restaurants wouldn’t survive the extensive dine-in closures, Stuckey helped form a huge coalition of independent restaurants across the country and got their interests heard by congress for the first time. All in the hopes of making sure that after all of this is over, our favorite restaurants will still exist. “We (independent restaurants) have been around for so long, we’re so much a part of the American ecosystem, but we just never had a voice,” Stuckey says. “It’s ironic that an industry that makes up so much of the private sector had literally zero voice in DC. And had we not gotten involved, there would have been zero voice involved in the stimulus plan. There wouldn’t have been anything for small businesses.” The group is called the Independent Restaurant Coalition (IRC), and its mission is to save our local restaurants. Stuckey and a few other founding members formed the group — which as of early April, counts nearly 11,000 members, including award-winning chefs and restaurant owners — on the fly in response to the closures. They started a website, saverestaurants.com, to make people aware of these small restaurants’ huge impact on our economy. Accounting for up to four percent of total GDP and employing 11 million nationwide, it’s about time that restaurants, the lifeblood of our communities, had a voice to affect policy change. And when restaurants can once again re-open, what can we diners do to help them survive? “Give up all those newfound home cooking skills that you’ve practiced for the last six weeks, put a padlock on the refrigerator and just eat out for all your meals,” Stuckey jokes. “Really, the best thing the diner can do is go out to your favorite restaurant and have a good time. The independent restaurant industry is such a fragile industry. Hopefully, this brings that to light and we can do better moving forward.”

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KEVIN DALY MOUNTAIN SUN, SOUTHERN SUN, VINE STREET, LONGS PEAK PUB, AND UNDER THE SUN Kevin Daly voluntarily closed his Mountain Sun pubs for dine-in service just before the statewide closures hit. After a week and a half of successful curbside takeout business, he realized that the stress and worry was taking a toll on employees’ health and well-being, and so he shut that down as well. His new focus? Get people back into the local, independent restaurants once this is all over. “Just prior to the COVID crisis, many local restaurants were experiencing tough times due to increased competition from chains and large out-of-state restaurant groups. Hopefully, Coloradans will support the small local restaurants that are more authentic and meaningful to them after the crisis is over,” Daly says. The best things diners can do to help their meaningful restaurants survive and re-open, he says, is to buy gift cards, contribute to fundraising campaigns to get employees paid, and give their dining dollars to those smaller spots that are entwined in the community. “It has been amazing to see how helpful and close the Colorado restaurant community has been to each other,” Daly says. “There has been so much collaboration, communication, support and sharing. I’ve been blown away by the generosity of the local restaurant owners and employees.”

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DAVE QUERY BIG RED F RESTAURANT GROUP, WHICH INCLUDES THE POST BREWING CO., THE WEST END TAVERN, JAX FISH HOUSE, LOLA COASTAL MEXICAN AND ZOLO “Everyone open and serving food right now along the Front Range is doing their very best to pivot and continue to be of service to our communities,” Dave Query

Over 30 years I’ve worked hand in hand with our local restaurants, watching cooks and servers turn into chefs and owners. Now seeing our restaurant industry come together to rally around hospital workers, feed the furloughed and so much more. I launched True Story Wine from my home in Boulder 8 years ago and I’ve never been more proud to be part of our Colorado Community.

says, and he knows. Both Zolo and The Post Rosedale turned their porches into pop-up farm stands to distribute Boulder County Farmers Markets goods on Saturdays; Zolo’s kitchen has been dedicated to making meals for Big Red F’s 670 furloughed employees as well as healthcare workers via the Feed the Frontlines Boulder program; and The West End Tavern and all Post locations have been open for ramped-up carryout and delivery. That’s a lot of change in a short period of time.

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How we can help while dine-in restaurants are closed, Query says, is to buy gift cards. Restaurants need the cash now to get through this difficult period, and — bonus! — diners get more bang for their buck because many merchants are giving additional amounts and perks on purchases. It’s been impressive and inspiring to watch how quickly restaurants have switched gears during all of this — some acting as social distancing-friendly markets; others as ground-zero prep kitchens to aid those in need — but what we really miss is the formerly normal experience of going out to eat. “You can’t recreate that experience in Zoom or at home,” Query says. “That sense of being in an electric environment, eating good food, and having that experience with family and friends — just awesome. We will be back. And restaurants will again serve the communities we are in in all the various ways we do. We are a scrappy bunch, us restaurant folk — we will survive — and with our incredible guests who support us so well, we will live to fight another day.”

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ARTICLE ANDY MANZ Each month, we have the privilege of packaging the “Good News” of the community, and delivering our publication to 13,000 local homes. These features range from non-profit organizations, to small and medium sized businesses. We take great pride in partnering with some of Denver’s most respected and recognizable brands. While you may be used to seeing these business names via their ads, we want to take this opportunity to put a face with a name, and recognize our loyal advertising partners.

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you feel best staying at home, we are happy to drop off packages to your front door in the Boulder area. If you are at a distance, our online store is exploding with new arrivals and we are here to answer any questions you have on fit or form. Give us a call, an email, a DM, or a shout! We are listening to our bodies, our employees and our customers every step of this journey. We are immensely thankful for our community’s continued support of small business, especially in times such as these. Public safety and good health is always in style. Poss and Christie

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As part of this, we are updating the name of our boutique to Element 79 Contemporary Jewelry, the atomic number for gold. To better serve you, we will be adding new collections and designers, as well as adding an alternative bridal boutique in the back of the store. We have faith in you, our loyal community, that we all will come out of this to create a stronger and more resilient economy. We feel that there will be a surge in supporting small businesses and an opportunity to connect more genuinely with the local communities we live and work in. Stay safe out there and we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been up to! - Carol and Kiersa

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GINA LORENZEN | KENTWOOD REAL ESTATE GinaLorenzen.DenverRealEstate.com

As the world confronts the coronavirus, my thoughts are with everyone. This is a global humanitarian challenge and all of us are doing our best to navigate these uncharted waters. Amid the uncertainty, we all remain social distanced through virtual engagements. No better time to realize the importance and meaning of “home.” Wishing safety to all of those in our community! - Gina Lorenzen

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tirelessly transport the goods we so desperately need. The companies in all industries, who use their ingenuity to create life-saving products. The volunteers who drop everything to help those in need. Americans who unite in the face of adversity – and who stand tall as Americans. WE SALUTE YOU! - Jeff Hendley, Compass Founding Agent

future residents and staff safe and healthy at the same time. We are proud to be a part of the Denver community and look forward to working together to provide you with a clean, comfortable and enjoyable space in which to live. CONTINUED >

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The real estate community continues to focus its energy on ways to collaborate to help local communities, clients and industry peers. Above all, the most important service we can offer is keeping each other healthy, safe and supported. Kentwood remains operational through a remote work plan designed to ensure our team and clients are supported. Traditional real estate practices have shifted to be remote, too. Open Houses, for example, are being shown virtually by way of Kentwood’s 3D Tours, Facebook Live and IGTV. Buyers and sellers can now expect that nearly all steps in the transaction can be achieved remotely.

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From those of us who help find “home” for our cli-

During these tumultuous times, our highest priority

ents, we are wishing you health and safety there. Most

is the wellbeing of our community. We are especially

of us are feeling vulnerable and frightened, and our

in awe at the role our healthcare workers have played

home is a wonderful place to feel sheltered from the

during the COVID-19 outbreak. We have never been

ongoing storm. Please take this time to enjoy spending

prouder to represent our clients in healthcare and do

time with your loved ones, read a good book, learn

whatever we can to support them. David Naeger (pic-

how to do something new, clean out your closet or

tured above), director of radiology for Denver Health, is

break out your cookbooks to try a new recipe. There

one of our clients fighting COVID-19 on the front lines

is so much joy, even when there is fear. God bless, and

locally. "We're doing all we can to prepare and fight

we will get through this together. - Megan

this disease. This is a tough time, but we are coming together to do everything we can for Denver and its citizens," says Dr. Naeger.

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As the owner of Westward Gallery in Northwest Denver, I am focusing on positive energy and creating new work. At this most difficult time, it is very necessary for our health to try to focus and keep a routine for our mental health. I am looking forward to showing brand new work along with my wonderful family of local COLORADO artists who are hard at work in their studios. Westward is offering 10-20 percent off all original art for the month of April and we hope that the community of Colorado will support its artists as we continue to create beautiful positive energy. - Michelle Courier

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The Behr Team’s top priorities are the health, safety and well-being of our families, clients, friends, and broader community. We are adhering to protective measures to keep everyone as safe and healthy as possible in this environment while still expertly guiding our clients towards a successful real estate transaction. As industry leaders, we will continue to leverage our experience and knowledge combined with new and innovative marketing and technology initiatives for the benefit of our clients and to lead our fellow colleagues in this unprecedented time. While Denver’s residents and its real estate market are an essential part of our lives and well-being, the health and welfare of our community is what is most important. Be strong, stay healthy, and know that we, as a community, will get through this together. - Josh, Linda, & the entire Behr team

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Vail Valley Real Estate | LIV Sotheby’s During these unprecedented times The Stockton Group is taking stock in what matters most – health and family. We realize everyone is adapting to a new normal. We are here for our clients and stand ready to support our community. Many people have many questions about what all this means. We are keeping a watchful eye out on the shift taking place globally and in our local market in the Vail Valley. If you would like real time updates on what is happening or want to learn ways you can help, please give us a shout. We value our lifestyle so much and look forward to a return to normalcy someday soon. Until that time, we will enjoy time with our families and appreciate the slower pace of things.

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For the interior design of the home, the Factor Design Build team put a modern twist on the homeowners’ craftsman style. The home is filled with a series of contrasts that work together to refresh and bring interest to each space. The light walls are contrasted against dark wood floors throughout. The curved openings give a spacious, airy feel, while the modern shaker style doors lend a sophisticated simplicity.

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One example is at the base of the stairs. An exposed brick column contrasts with the white shiplap of the stairway walls and features a unique rug runner on the stairs. Some of Fiesterâ€™s favorite details? The marble tile set in a subway pattern around the downstairs fireplace for its sophisticated look and feel. And, of course, the kids toy storage closet for the chaos it so expertly organizes. This balance of cohesion, contrast and character is a sterling example of the results that can be achieved with a design build team that brings a genuine, humble expertise to all its interactions. And this is where Factor Design Build shines.

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CULINARY CREATIONS SAMANTHA BEECH IS RISING TO THE OCCASION. An uncovering of a new passion has led her to bake bread for the Boulder community, delivering fresh sourdough to shelters and taking custom orders of brioche and buckwheat for those craving a crispy, dough-filled indulgence. “Creating meaningful relationships is always my intention, and right now the shape that is taking is through food. This is the only way I know how to show you that I love you,” Beech says. During your own baking process, Beech asks that you pay attention to the transformation that occurs with simple ingredients: flour, water, salt and yeast. Allow yourself this time to be still, to watch the minutes be broken into seconds. By engaging all five senses and moving through the rhythm of kneading, folding

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and waiting, it may reveal to you a gratitude that lives beneath the uncertainty. “For me, baking draws me deeper into my senses. There is no other place but now, where all you can be is here,” she shares. Beech’s own call to the kitchen is teaching her that no act is too small, there is power in sharing and on the journey to recovery, the beginning is where we start. Follow her instructions here to craft your own golden loaf of brioche.

brioche bread ingredients: FOR THE SPONGE: + Half tablespoon instant dry yeast + 12 tablespoons active dry yeast + 2 tablespoons granulated sugar + 1/4 cup water, 100-110 degrees fahrenheit FOR THE DOUGH: + 3 large eggs, room temperature + 1 teaspoon kosher salt

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+ 2 cups + 2 tablespoons AP flour + 1/2 cups unsalted butter, cut into tablespoons EGG WASH: + 1 large egg + pinch of salt

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+ 1 teaspoon of water

directions: STEP 1: In the bowl of your stand mixer, add the

STEP 3: Allow the dough to rest for 15 minutes.

STEP 5:

Beat on medium speed for another 4 min-

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare

utes and look for dough arms to start slap-

egg wash in small bowl and brush over

ping the side of the bowl. Place dough in

top of dough.

a well greased bowl and allow it to rise at

Bake for 35 minutes, rotating half way

Touch: if you don’t have a kitchen ther-

room temperature for 1 hour. Punch down

through. If the top starts to brown more than

mometer, test the water temperature with

dough and fold roughly into thirds like a

desired, cover it with a foil tent.

your finger. It should feel like a hot bath.

business letter. Dough should feel light

Allow bread to cool for 10 minutes in

Gently stir in the sugar and yeast. Set a

and airy to the touch. Cover again with

pan and then transfer to a wire rack, it

timer for 5 minutes and wait for the mixture

plastic wrap and allow the dough to chill

should slide right out. Store cooled bread

to bubble. NOTE: This is the only unforgiv-

in the fridge overnight for at least 6 hours

in air tight container for up to 4 days.

ing step of the process. Too hot and you’ll

and up to 12. The longer it sits, the more

kill the yeast, too cool and it won’t activate.

flavor it will have.

warmed water.

Smell: at this stage you should smell yeast/

Use your home-made bread in a BLT or the

beer. If you don’t then let it sit for a minute or two longer.

most divine french toast or a classic PB+J. STEP 4: Grease a 9 x 5 loaf pan and set aside. Remove dough onto your work surface and

STEP 2:

punch it down. Divide into 5 equal portions.

Attach a dough hook to your stand mixer,

If the kids are involved, ask them to engage

then add in the salt and 2 cups of flour and

with their sense of touch by playing with

then mix on low until the dough starts to

the dough. Using the palms of their hands

come together.

to flatten each piece into a rough 5 x 5

Touch: feels a little grainy and quite dry. Increase the mixer speed to medium and

square. Roll into a log and place into loaf pan, seam side down. Repeat.

add butter, one tablespoon at a time. When

Cover the pan and let the dough rise at

the dough starts to look greasy, stop the

room temperature until it reaches the TOP

mixer and scrape down any butter on the

of the pan. 90 minutes to 2 hours. NOTE:

sides. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons of

This is called proofing and it’s a critical

flour and mix until the dough starts to come

step. Be patient. I love to speed up this step

together enough to clean the sides of the

by placing pan in oven with oven OFF and

bowl, about 3 minutes.

using steam to help the dough rise. Pour

Look: this is one of my favorite parts,

boiling water onto a sheet pan below it.

the dough starts to change; moving from a

Close the oven and do not open until this

shaggy mess to a smooth ball.

process is done.

SHE IS CURRENTLY TAKING BREAD ORDERS VIA INSTAGRAM AND EMAIL. @samanthabeech_ | SamanthaBeech@gmail.com CityLifestyle.com/CherryCreek

PARTING THOUGHTS

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