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Local Flours Sours: Duchess Bread (Part One)
You know your family thinks you are slightly obsessed about something when supporting your hobby winds up under the Christmas tree in holiday gift form. After baking some hundreds of loaves of sourdough the last couple years, I guess my family has noticed my obsession. This year I received a 5kg bag of bread flour
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Sourdough But Not Bread
It’s been a long twenty-one months of pandemic craziness, but I’ve kept myself a little more sane by baking a lot of sourdough bread. A few loaves per week. A regular diet of sourdough toast for breakfast. A healthy source of bread for the family. But in all that time I haven’t explored much further
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I Heart Sourdough
Describe your 2021 in food. I had a lengthy post planned about all the different ways in which this blog has forced me to think about how I cook and what I eat and the enjoyment I get out of both those things… …then this morning I sliced open a freshly baked loaf of sourdough
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Sourdough Science Saturday
My starter is a little over two and a half years old and as I alluded to in my previous post I’ve baked about two hundred and fifty-ish loaves of bread with it, pre- and during pandemic. You would almost think I would understand it better. About an hour ago I pulled my Thanksgiving loaf
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Short: Long Weekend & Floury Friday
In Canada, we celebrate our Thanksgiving in October. The right way. And as we prepare a large meal for Sunday evening, my wife is out shopping for a fresh turkey and I’ve spent Friday evening getting my sourdough started. While making sourdough has become fairly routine around our house, I find myself usually making sandwich