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

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
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
My sweet tooth has made a comeback. I've decided to indulge myself for a while, as I'm nursing and need extra calories anyway. So I've been making and baking sweet things, buns and bars and pies. A
I managed to bake again, for the first time since Storm was born. I've missed it! Unfortunately, my sourdough starter succumbed to the extreme neglect it had been subjected to, hidden there in the
At the end of my last pregnancy post, I commented that since we were now at term with the pregnancy (this was at the end of week 37), there was now only the waiting left to do. As it turned out, we
I haven't been very good in writing about food and cooking during most of this pregnancy. I guess I got out of the habit a bit during the first trimester
Now that I've started feeling comfortable with the basics of sourdough bread baking (and to think it was only a few short months back when I thought I would never be able to express this sentiment!),
I made breadsticks for the first time! I didn't think I would actually be successful in this endeavor, because I've struggled before with finding the balance between not yet crisp and
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
I may or may not have rediscovered my sweet tooth recently. I blame the British Baking Show and Netflix. They have conspired to make this happen. And once you begin feeding your body that sweet