I know there are some sourdough people here.

[vash]

I've been working from home this week. stuff going on.

took advantage of my time, and got my starter fired up. my 1st ever sourdough is in the proofing basket!!

I'll heat up my oven in a few, with the dutch oven. go time.

[Bugsinrugs]

Love sourdough. Need to eat the loaf quick though. Good sourdough goes stale fast.

[Seahawk]

Craigster hooked my wife up with some SD starter that has paid dividend in my waistline...really great stuff.

[pwd72s]

Makes me sad...Being concerned about my health, Cindy quit her sourdough baking. No more of her bread, and I really, really miss her sourdough blueberry pancakes. "Herman" was the starter name.

F**K Diabetes!

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Bugsinrugs

Love sourdough. Need to eat the loaf quick though. Good sourdough goes stale fast.

That was never a problem for me.

[cantdrv55]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

F**K Diabetes!

I’m right there with you! However, a friend just gave me some starter and I’m tempted to bake this weekend.

[ramonesfreak]

^^^ You could just do what I do and pretend you don’t have diabetes, eat whatever you want and then complain all day that you feel like crap

Wife makes sourdough and I love it. She bakes all types of bread and I will never stop eating bread, or pancakes…don’t care if it kills me

[vash]

I'm fighting to the ragged edge not to creep into Diabetic range. I'm run every single morning at 4:30 am.

but, no rice, noodles and bread for the most part. if I want bread, I'm gonna make it. haha..I'm lazy, so I should barely eat it.

[vash]

Originally Posted by Bugsinrugs

Love sourdough. Need to eat the loaf quick though. Good sourdough goes stale fast.

I feed the neighborhood elderly. I won't have a problem. today, Helen and Carol are getting avocado toast with a smear of garlic confit.

[GH85Carrera]

One of my co-workers spent time in San Frisco and fell in love with sourdough. He said his wife got a start and they were eating lots of of it. After a few years his wife was sick of the work involved, and she said she committed murder, and they ate their last loaf and no more starter. She said it was liberating.

The husband was disappointed, but he understood her plight and they went on a two week vacation and did not have to worry about the starter.

[vash]

I am no expert. but even in my short stint of harboring a sourdough starter, I learned quick that is is nothing to get all anal about. I barely feed mine. once every 10 days with it in the fridge. I went 14 days when I went out of town. heck, I learned I could smear it thin on parchment, let it dry, store it dry, and use it to seed a new batch later. even years later.

I made one before and it took a week and about 2lbs of rye flour. it was stupid easy, and I totally over thought every step.

[Erakad]

I was introduced to making sourdough bread by my daughter...love everything about it! I usually make some kind (many recipes) a couple times a month; I just finished a round of sourdough baguettes. My daughter gave me a book when I began, recipes, pictures, various crust designs, Artisan Sourdough Made Simple, by Emilie Raffa. Beyond that, plenty of info on the net.

Good luck!

[ramonesfreak]

While you are on a dough making journey, I suggest becoming an expert on pizza dough and making wood fired pizza. My wife uses a dough recipe that needs to be made 3 days ahead of time. She makes that and I tend to the fire. Labor intensive for sure but you end up with 4 small pizzas at least and really there few things better than this, in my opinion

[vash]

well, that was easier than I imagined it to be. no alchemy involved.

scadush!

[vash]

Opps

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by ramonesfreak

My wife uses a dough recipe

Ramones, without revealing any family secrets... Loosely speaking what is the recipe?

[TimT]

Nice zaa

I make all sort of thing from sourdough starter and waste..


English muffins



Focaccia with roasted garlic






Cemitas





Weck rolls





Beef on Weck



And a Boule

[craigster59]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Craigster hooked my wife up with some SD starter that has paid dividend in my waistline...really great stuff.

Glad to hear it's working out!

For those interested, this guy (who has since passed) traveled the world gathering cultures from many countries. The Bahrain and Egyptian cultures go back to the era of the Pyramids.

I have the San Francisco culture and the Austrian culture. Having grown up in the Bay Area I'm a sourdough fanatic!

https://sourdo.com/

[ramonesfreak]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Ramones, without revealing any family secrets... Loosely speaking what is the recipe?

here it is. oddly enough 20 years ago i lived next door to the sullivan street bakery and ate their bread all the time. never knew the guy would blow up to be a star

https://www.jamesbeard.org/recipes/jim-laheys-no-knead-pizza-dough

[Bill Douglas]

Thanks, but darn. That's what I do but everyone else's pizza dough is better than mine - particularly yours LOL