• Things to make with your excess sourdough starter

    I've now been maintaining my sourdough starter for nearly three months. It's going well. After the initial failure to produce edible bread with this starter, I have baked a batch of successful breads

  • Return of the Sourdough Bread

    I'm baking again! I'm super excited about it. I started a new sourdough starter shortly after we returned to San Diego, and last week I baked with it for the first time. Unfortunately, it wasn't quite

  • The end of the 2018 journey

    Now that we've been back in San Diego for a couple of weeks, I thought i would share a few reflections on our epic traveling year. It feels like we gone for a year, though it was really only 9 months.

  • Left-Over Sourdough Starter Loaves

    When you're feeding your sourdough starter twice a day (see over here for more details about that), but you don't have time/freezer space/a family of 10 to bake every day, you end up with quite a lot

  • New Sourdough Starter and a Successful Bake

    Finally, there is  a sourdough success to write about! If you don't know why that warrants an exclamation mark, have a look over here. For the past several weeks, I've been nourishing a new starter,

  • Everyday Bread with Sourdough Starter

    I've been taking a break from sourdough baking recently. It's a skill I so want to master, but I have been getting very limited motivational support from my past attempts at doing so. And being a

  • Birthday Brunch

    Last weekend, a friend of mine and I celebrated our birthdays with a birthday brunch. Both of us cooked things, and then a bunch of people came over to eat them and to hang out. It was pretty great.

  • Forays into the Realm of Sourdough Bread Baking

    Following the success of the sourdough bread from the Bread Feast, I was highly motivated to continue experimenting with sourdough breads. And so I began a more-than-month-long process of producing

  • Sourdough Pancakes

    As a result of my recent experimentation with sourdough bread baking, I have found myself with excessive amounts of sourdough starter. When you're building and maintaining your starter, you end up

  • A Saturday Night Bread Feast

    On a Saturday night not long ago, we had a bread feast at our house. Planning a bread feast is always a risky endeavor, at least for me. When I'm experimenting with bread (which is how one ends up