MakeBread

Birthdays in isolation are not much fun... and like a lot of people in isolation I have tried to make sourdough.I have killed a starter... bought a starter and killed it and also become thoroughly confused reading a number of bread making blogs. I am a good cook and was frustrated by not being able to master sourdough.And then I found Vesna!!!!Vesna came to our house, fully prepared, and did an in-home cooking course as my birthday treat to myself :) I had asked my kids to listen but Vesna was so patient with them they took part every step of the way.There is so much to take in that it is great to be taught by someone as confident and professional as Vesna. She also tailored the day, and my recipe book to our likes, so there wasn't a part of the day that we didn't enjoy what we were learning and eating. From fruit bread to pizza, white to olive we can now do it all.Fabulous way to spend the day; learning, eating and watching the kids enjoy being in the kitchen.

Vesna is extremely knowledgeable, passionate about sourdough and a great teacher. The day was very enjoyable and even as a novice positioned me well for my sourdough journey. Highly recommend to anyone wanting to master home baking sourdough, especially as Vesna teaches using your own oven.

We really enjoyed and learned a lot from Vesna's sourdough breadmaking class. There were three of us in her class, conducted in one of our homes, and we had a range of breadmaking skills. Despite this range, we all learned a lot from Vesna and she is a clear and knowledgeable teacher. Perhaps biggest lesson for us was how relaxed Vesna was about sourdough rules" and that any homebaker can regularly make delicious and varied sourdough at home."

Our family had a wonderful time enjoying this workshop - it's a great activity to do together. Vesna is so knowledgeable and clearly passionate about bread making. She is warm and friendly - so it was just like a friend teaching you. The kids loved learning all the different things you can make from one batch of dough - the english muffins were an absolute winner. Having Vesna come to us made it so much better - being able to do it in your own home with your own equipment and oven made it easier to learn. I recommend Vesna to anyone interested in learning to make sourdough.

I have been making bread for many years, but have never been completely happy with my efforts. I’ve attended numerous classes but have long wished for someone to come to my house to teach me – in my kitchen and with my oven. Enter Vesna and I am so pleased that I had a lesson with her. Vesna shared her knowledge and tips and did not stop for 4 hours. She demonstrated each step first and then I copied. By the time Vesna left, my mind was whirring with everything we had covered, and I had a huge number and variety of baked goodies - and renewed eagerness to bake more.

We booked in a weekend class with Vesna at our home and did the yeast based breads. We were total newbies and just wanted to learn the basics first. Vesna was such a great teacher, she called ahead to ask what type of breads we like then came with everything we needed to do the class. It's a long session...over 5 hrs but time just flies by. We ended up making so much bread, its amazing how a few batches of dough can create so many different and interesting breads. The process is surprisingly easy, you're not spending the whole day kneading, but having Vesna's knowledge and experience giving us tips on what to look for and assess when the dough is ready was what i found the most valuable. Also being at home, using our own oven and whatever kitchen utensils and pantry items we had, made me feel I could take away a lot more from the class to replicate at home. Thoroughly enjoyed the class, and hopefully this is the start to a lifelong skill of bread baking.

What a fun day! Vesna came to our house and bought everything we needed to bake so many different breads in our home. It was completely tailored to what we wanted to make and she even came up with a few added surprises such as english muffins and flatbreads. The class was a great intro as neither of us had ever made bread before. We have been baking delicious breads and impressing our friends and family ever since. Vesna was great fun and an excellent teacher, it was a pleasure spending the morning with her in our home learning about bread and baking. She really went the extra mile, can't recomend her class enough!!

My partner and I have recently fallen in love with sourdough bread. We love eating it, the unique sweetness and sourness that it has, and how good it tastes (particularly with cheese). At around $7 a loaf, however it can be a costly and time consuming habit - there are so few places that make their own, fresh sourdough bread near us that its always a hassle to get. That's why we thought it would be a good idea for us to learn how to make our own.We could not have asked for a better experience than what Make Bread provided. Vesna was an excellent teacher who worked hard the day before to prepare 3 different kinds of loaves for us to learn how to shape and bake. We also learned how to start these doughs from scratch with her to bake on our own the next day.Over the course of the day, we learnt:- how to care for and use sourdough starter- how to shape and prepare pizza dough, ciabatta, round loaves and baguettes- different techniques for working dough (stretch and fold, slap and fold, basic mixing techniques)- how to best utilise our oven for sourdough breadVesna was professional and organised. She called us after we booked to find out what types of bread we wanted to make, came prepared with all the necessary ingredients and materials, and followed up afterwards to see how we went with the next day's baking.We had an absolute blast on Saturday, we learnt an incredible amount about sourdough bread making, and the bread we made was delicious! Thank you so much Vesna for your clear guidance, support and warmth.

Myself and my partner booked a lesson with Vesna on a trip to Melbourne. We were restricted on time but she did everything she could to accommodate us. She has a wealth of knowledge and tailored her guidance to our level of experience, as well as having checked prior to arrival what in particular we wanted to get for the time with her. She introduced us to many more ways of putting dough to use than simply making gorgeous loaves. We would highly recommend her to anyone no matter whether amateur or experienced baker.

Vesna was great! I'm already an enthusiastic baker but it was so great to have her come around and help me build my confidence in areas I wanted to work on. She really tailored the lesson to my needs. We made a range of different breads and put some of the bread dough to uses I would have never thought of! Highly recommend.