When it comes to eating, Thanksgiving has always been a two-day affair: first, the sit-down feast itself on Thursday, and second, the bounty of residuals waiting for you come Friday. Leftover turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, ham, mashed potatoes and gravy waiting patiently in the fridge for you to construct the perfect sandwich. But what about the bread? While out and about this week preparing for the year’s most important culinary day, pick up some of the best loaves of bread Orange County has to offer, from batards and challahs to dinner rolls and milk breads.
85°C Bakery (multiple locations): Here you will find Japanese shokupan (milk bread), a pillowy white bread with a hint of milky flavor, which achieves its plushness care of tangzhong, a warm flour-and-milk paste used in the dough before kneading. The result is a uniformly soft, squishy and flavorful bread. 18637 Brookhurst St., Fountain Valley; 9892 Westminster Ave., suite 312, Garden Grove; 915 Spectrum Center Drive, Irvine; 3533 E Chapman Ave, Orange; 1100 Irvine Blvd., Tustin.
Blackmarket Bakery (Costa Mesa): Although much of this bakery focuses on sandwiches and custom cakes, it’s also a choice spot to pick up a loaf of housemade sandwich bread. Highlights at this Costa Mesa bakery include classic sourdough, lemon-rosemary, sesame-seed, brioche or Dutch crunch. Located inside the Camp, 2937 Bristol St., Costa Mesa
The Blessed Braid (Irvine): Kosher bakery prepares challah — which comes in traditional, sesame or poppy seed — which, when toasted, makes an ideal bread for leftover sandwiches. 16277 Laguna Canyon Road, suite G, Irvine
Bread Artisan Bakery (Santa Ana): Visit the brick-and-mortar bakery or order online to get your hands on sweet potato pumpkin thyme pull-apart bread or brioche pull-apart bread (ideal for sliders!), organic whole loaf, seeded grain, sourdough batard, multigrain pan loaf and more. 1920 E. Edinger Ave, Santa Ana
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