No-Knead Sourdough and a Few Words about Finnish Flour

There isn’t much I need to say about this – the result of me waking the starter up (and worrying it’d kicked the bucket), and then thankfully finding out it didn’t.  I will just let these pictures speak for themselves.  There isn’t a crumb photo because the bread is still cooling, so I haven’t cut it yet, but I will happily add that later once I have … Continue reading No-Knead Sourdough and a Few Words about Finnish Flour

Revisiting the Manifesto, and Recalcitrant Sourdough Starter

As my older readers know, not every blog post that I write is about a triumphantly successful recipe where nothing goes wrong.  I am not one of those bloggers whose every post is about something totally perfect, and whose every dish is styled and photographed in seeming bright daylight even if it’s supposedly for dinner (my evening photos are often done with a flash because in these … Continue reading Revisiting the Manifesto, and Recalcitrant Sourdough Starter

Tian Provencal, Revisited (and simplified while at it)

Thanks to the changeable and on-and-off awful weather, I’ve been on some sort of oven-cooking kick.  Or, to skip excuses, I am back to all my favorite colder-weather dishes which I have avoided in the summer, and I want to cook and eat them all, now, as soon as possible – there is only half a year of cold weather left!  So, oven on and … Continue reading Tian Provencal, Revisited (and simplified while at it)

How To Make Your Own Sourdough Starter (and why you should)

Pictured:  Stockholm Sourdough 2.0 I think I will start today’s post with the why before the how.  Now that I think of it, it is how I usually structure my posts anyway, but in today’s case there are actually two ‘why’-s:  they why of why you should make your own sourdough starter, and the why I am writing this post at all.  After all, there … Continue reading How To Make Your Own Sourdough Starter (and why you should)