works of wanderlust

Category: sourdough

  • Local Flours Sours: Peace Country Rye (Part One)

    All this experimenting with food is getting expensive. I was at the grocery store again this morning buying some varieties of vegetables to grill over the fire this evening, and a big hunk of meat to slice up for a batch of beef jerky, so of course I stumbled by the baking aisle and found

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  • Local Flours Sours: Stoneground Whole Wheat (Part Two)

    On the weekend I was delighted to have the chance to stretch my shopping muscles and visit the local grocery store, spending some time more carefully peruse the aisles for interesting ingredients. The result was a few small bags of flour that promised to step me out of my sourdough comfort zone and deeper into

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  • Local Flours Sours: Stoneground Whole Wheat (Part One)

    My sourdough starter turned two years old a few weeks ago. I didn’t make much fanfare about it, but it has given me cause to think more about my baking lately. Fine-tuning a recipe and process that works consistently for me has been a sourdough journey that has spanned nearly half a decade now, including

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  • A Gift of Bread

    Since the pandemic began I’ve been baking a lot of sourdough. In fact, on my way home over a year ago from my last day in the office and even as we transitioned into working-from-home mode, I stopped at the grocery store and restocked my flour supply. Then as I checked into my kitchen and

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  • Our Well-Loved Cookbooks: Flour Water Salt Yeast

    So . . . I ordered yet another cookbook yesterday. I’ve recently been watching a cooking channel on YouTube (perhaps one you have heard of, unlikely one you figured I’d watch) and the host released a cookbook last year, so I splurged. Until a make a few recipes from the book itself, I don’t feel

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