Soon I won’t have an oven. Well actually, soon I won’t have a kitchen. Anyway, I decided to bake like a maniac for the freezer. I baked several 800g sourdough (white and rye 80:20) loaves and a 800g Danish-style rye bread (a dense, dark and moist loaf of bread that holds its own with marinated herring). Sedrick-the-Starter did himself proud - he’s a lively and buoyant and uplifting little guy who I suspect could rise a Fiat 500 if you set one close enough to him. He is one bouncy sourdough starter!
And then I remembered that Lent starts tomorrow. I’m going to eat a huge chunk of bread with Nutella, and then decide what I should give up for Lent. What are you going to give up for Lent?
When my youngest daughter was born, I didn’t have a kitchen. For about a year. Truly. I learned to bake pizza’s on the outdoor grill and got pretty successful at cooking entire meals with an electric griddle. It took forever. And I had four kids at the time. My sympathies to you, Misk.
As for giving up food for lent. I’ve already given up beef, peanuts, eggs,and dairy due to allergies. I think that’s enough. Ha!
Oh poor you with all those allergies. No fun. As for your kitchen, I call that courage! I’d use the BBQ but it’s below freezing right now so that’s too cold to stand out there poking at meat.
Nicely risen! Never done sourdough but will do soon….
Joanna at Zeb Bakes has one of the best tutorials on sourdough, and she gave my the courage a few years ago to try. Great fun! I also used Dan Lepard’s method of creating a starter. Give us a shout when you try, Phil!
Will do, thanks for the info!
Well, you appear to have this bread thing figured out – congrats!
And I’m giving up Lent for Lent.
I still use your pizza dough recipe. One of the best, imo.
You sourdough bread looks perfect, thanks to Sedrick. I could do with him for my sourdough
Is your starter a bit sleepy?
Yes, but about to try a new one with spelt included. I need to name it like you have to encourage better husbandry!
I’d pay good money for that bread. It looks wonderful. Still never braved a sourdough myself….
Thanks, Claire. I thought the same before Joanna (Zeb Bakes) gave me the courage to try. It’s nothing near as complicated as you might fear. There’s something quite rewarding about creating a starter (you’re actually creating life in a sense), and then using it to fed your family. There’s something very poetic about it.
I was just going to say that sedrico had been busy and then I see my name not once but twice and I am very flattered, thanks Misk, the breads look great and I hope they console you in the Dark Ages of New Kitchen Twilight Zone. I don’t do Lent, not being of that faith but do food bloggers give up blogging for Lent? I wonder…
If not for your generous sharing of experience and gentle, patience, I’d probably still be buying bread at Tesco. You opened a whole world that I thought was beyond my abilities, and I’m grateful for my new(ish) hobby and all the new friends that I’ve made in the process.
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