Sourdough Starter

The Return of Sour Dough – Night One

The Return of Sour Dough – Night One

For those of you lucky dogs and ducks that inherited a piece of my multi-million dollar sourdough starter, here is the first blog post in the series discussing how to actually bake a sourdough bread that will gain back your spouse’s respect, as your kids and friends would bow in front of you and address you as “Your Royal Majesty”. This series is a remastered version of the original Sourdough Chronicles I wrote a while ago.

Sourdough Chronicles (Day 6) – Grand Finale

Sourdough Chronicles (Day 6) – Grand Finale

This was the Happy Day! The day when everything came together. The fun. The Grand Finale. The day you can hug everyone on the street, then get arrested for being weird.

Happy New 2009 and Sourdough Cam!

Happy New 2009 and Sourdough Cam!

Dear friends, Thought of starting of this first day off 2009 with a live Sourdough Cam showing the growth and live development! How fun this can be? Now, I don’t expect you starring at the sourdough jar for hours, but you can check the progress […]

Sourdough Chronicles (Day 5) – A Doughy Day

Sourdough Chronicles (Day 5) – A Doughy Day

Le Dough – (Bread Day 2) A somewhat more complicated day. I started off by taking the sponge out of the fridge and cutting it into rough pieces to help it warm up faster (about an hour). I covered it so it would not crust […]

Sourdough Chronicles (Day 4) – Now We’re Talking!

Sourdough Chronicles (Day 4) – Now We’re Talking!

I know. My mysterious disappearance left some of you wondering if the sourdough process got out of control or I got into depression following the ‘depression’ of the previous sourdough starter. I could say both. As Christmas approached, things seemed to be getting more busier […]

Sourdough Chronicles (Day 3) – The End

Sourdough Chronicles (Day 3) – The End

Things looked promising! The 3rd day looked like thing were moving in the right direction. The sourdough starter grew about 1 inch over the indicator line (rubber band). Not as aggressive as during the day before, but given the fact that our night temperature is […]

Sourdough Chronicles – Day 2

Sourdough Chronicles – Day 2

Day 2 in the life of a sourdough starter. Things are growing!

Sourdough Chronicles – Day 1

Sourdough Chronicles – Day 1

A fellow foodie – Nicole – the author of the fantastic Pinch My Salt blog full of superb recipes, tips ideas and marvelous pics, who had a great photo chronicle on making her own sourdough starter from scratch inspired me to do the same. Here are the Chronicles of Sourdough Starter.