Artisan Bread
I recently got the book: Artisan Breads at Home. The first bread I made was the peasant bread recipe. It was wonderful! The recipe calls for a pre-ferment, which is a cousin to sourdough. This particular pre-ferment is a biga (pronounced bee-ga). As you can see from the picture, it was dry, unlike a sourdough [...]
Carnival of Food Blogs
It’s Carnival time at Sourdough Recipe! I thought these colorful peppers would set a festive mood. Lord knows I need some bright colors with all this drab January rain. Here are a few of my favorite food sites…… Is there a better comfort food than homemade beef stew? And winter weather demands comfort food. Check [...]
Sourdough Recipe: Sourdough French
Sourdough French bread is one of my staples. As I’ve admitted elsewhere, I’m pretty much baking bread every Saturday morning. To mix it up a bit, I like to make French bread sometimes. Man (and woman) cannot live by sourdough bread alone!) I make more French bread in the winter — we can demolish a [...]
Basic Sourdough Bread
I’m here to tell you: making bread is easy. I know that some of my friends just shake their heads and say “I could never do that!” But then I see them make an amazing pie crust and I think “I could never do that!” We all have mental blocks. So here’s a simple sourdough [...]