Sourdough Batard Bread With 20% Greek Botanical Blend

Recipe Introduction

This recipe and specifically my Greek botanical blend took me a while to finish it and to add all the research.
My though is to show you and celebrate with you the Greek heritage and of course follow the core principles of creating a nourishing bread. But also help to nourish my mum and support her gut heath as she has asthma.
This is the main reson why i add amaranth ,oregano and mountain tea in my blend.
The first thing i did, it was to ask my self: What we cultivate in Greece? So i take a walk at our fields and flora,and the first thing i saw everywhere was : common wheat, durum wheat, maize,poppy flowers, wild oregano,olive trees,mountain tea ,mallows and nettles so i thought: Thats it! Thats my blend! But also other ingredients that we have in Greece like carob where it grows in Crete.

In Greece bread is very important and you can find it in every house!We enjoy this bread almost everywhere. From breakfast to lunch to dinner. One of our favourite thing to do as Greeks when we are on the table together, we like to cut a piece of bread with our hands and dip it in the oil of the Greek salad, which contains tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese, oregano and olives.But we basically do this with all of our foods that you can dip the bread and soak up the flavours. This is our tradition!

My dad is a farmer. I know how hard is that work. I know that weather conditions are often not on the farmer's side. I have learned from very young to appreciate his job.One of my favourite things was when me and my sister where younger my dad he used to put us in the cart of the farm car and take us for a drive in his fields. I was always impressed by the power of my dad and the land,their cooperation and union, how much the wheat changed. It always start with a seed, then it became a green plant ( that's how it looked to my eyes) and later it turned yellow and ready for harvesting.

We as people need to appreciate the farmers and land. I learned to approche the flour and bread making diffrently. Whenever i touch the flour all these memories came back.I touch the flour and feel calm and peacfull.

I guess that for me bread and grains are a memory, a childhood memory so as my blend.