{"id":6010,"date":"2026-10-11T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=6010"},"modified":"2026-10-11T23:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:43:16","slug":"a-gorgeous-bread-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2026\/10\/a-gorgeous-bread-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gorgeous Bread Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A great addition to my table from Forest Decor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As you probably noticed, I do not run a commercial food blog. I don’t run ads, I don’t accept money for back links – or anything else -, and I use this blog mostly as a memory aid for myself and, perhaps one day, my children. I am, of course, very happy when people find some of its content useful, but my goals is far more self-involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once in a while, however, someone asks me to review an item they are selling and they offer to ship me that item for free – if it’s something I’m likely to use in the near future, I might accept – particularly if it’s something that intrigues me. This was the case with the products sold by Forest Decor<\/a><\/strong>. This is company sells made to order and personalized wood products created in their workshop in Utah. They looked beautiful on their website, and thus I was happy to review them.

The company sent me two items, their Olive Wood Bread Bowl<\/strong> <\/a>($55) and their maple cutting board<\/a>. I will review the latter after I use it a few times, but the bread bowl, which comes pre-oiled, is mostly a decorative and not particularly fragile item, so I figure I can review it as is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looks-wise the bread bowl is gorgeous. I’m keeping it in my dining room even when I’m not using it, because it’s decorative in itself. I love its lines, which makes me think of a canoe and the natural decoration of the wood. It’s carved into a single piece of wood and it I imagine it can be used for multiple purposes, including as a catch-all and candy bowl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The bowl is 11.5″ x 3.5″, so too small for a regular size baguette, but perfect to accommodate demi-baguettes<\/a>, which are about half the regular size. I like keeping demi-baguettes in the freezer to bake for breakfast or for when I have a sudden hankering for fresh bread and don’t want to go shopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is a little too small for dinner rolls, though it still works<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But it’s pretty functional to serve small pastries.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Still, I anticipate using it mostly for demi baguettes. Last year I bought a beautiful salami board<\/a> from Argentina, that I am now hanging on my wall for most of the year, and I’m looking forward to using both this bread bowl and the salami board to serve a simple picada<\/a><\/em> for Christmas. Depending on how well the cutting board fares, I might use it to serve some cheeses as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all, I’m in love with this bowl. It feels so rustic yet elegant and also quite unique. It’s the sort of thing that I can see passing on to my kids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A great addition to my table from Forest Decor As you probably noticed, I do not run a commercial food blog. I don’t run ads, I don’t accept money for back links – or anything else -, and I use this blog mostly as a memory aid for myself and, perhaps one day, my children. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[727,728,28,726],"class_list":["post-6010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipment","tag-bowls","tag-forest-decor","tag-reviews","tag-serving-dishes","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}