This summer, my wife Jeanne and I, have decided to experiment with growing potatoes in a 5 gallon buckets, the kind you can purchase from Home Depot or Lowes. We were inspired by the multitude of YouTube vidoes, however as you can see in the bellow video, our results are not promising at all. I [...]
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Bellow the video are some notes you might want to read. You might want watch the previous video first to grasp of what I am doing. If you have your making your first sourdough starter with me, after the step shown in the above video your starter’s consistency should be just a bit thinker than [...]
In a post which I wrote days before Easter, I promised to make videos about making sourdough bread. Today we begin with making your own sourdough starter. Bellow the video is the recipe I follow with some notes that did not make it into the video. Enjoy! Following is the recipe that I follow (hat [...]
If you ever baked a loaf of bread before, you can easily get hooked on everything related to sourdough. I got hooked a while back, and tried to document some of my early failed attempts to make sour dough starter. Now I generally bake at least one loaf of bread each week, some times more. [...]
As painful as it is to write this, I need to say that everyone should completely ignore anything I have written about starting from scratch your own sourdough starter. Unless of course it is your goal to fail. As many people before, I saw extreme activity in my culture during the first day, bubbles smell [...]
While I am working on reviving my sourdough starter, I would like to write about some basic equipment you might need on your sourdough bread making journey. Some of the products, like baking stone (or as it some times called pizza stone) may already be in your arsenal. About other equipment, like proofing baskets and [...]
When I began the series of post about my experience in sourdough bread making, I was sure I had it down. Unfortunately the mother nature proved me wrong. Unlike my previous sourdough starters, my current one seemed to have died on me. After initial 48 hours of great activity, my starter barely has any bubbles [...]
