One of the most common questions I am asked is how to bake bread with whole wheat flour. I must admit that I am not a fan of whole wheat bread, especially made with those available in India. Yet every once in a while I try to bake with whole wheat. This is mostly a…
Tag: sourdough
Sourdough Bread with tomatoes and thyme
This is a very special and significant post for me. This easy sourdough bread with tomatoes and thyme was my first sourdough bake ever. I had struggled to make a starter and then when I did I immediately baked my first loaf. Today I can see how many mistakes I made with it but at…
Stiff Dough Sourdough Bread
The best part of baking sourdough bread is that it can be adapted to any schedule, weather and time. I love this stiff dough sourdough bread because it is perfect to bake during the Indian summer when the chances of over proofing are so high. What is a stiff dough sourdough bread? A stiff dough…
Sourdough discard Cookies
Since we have a lot of sourdough discard from all the sourdough we fed and developed, it is time to put them to good use by baking some delicious cookies. This is a quick and easy bunch of cookies to bake and we get to finish up all the discard from the refrigerator. Good deal…
Sourdough Sandwich Loaf
Once we have our sourdough starter ready, the next exciting job is to be bake a lovely loaf of bread. I have baked this loaf multiple times with all purpose flour, with part wheat flour and seeded loaf too. All of the loaves turned out amazing and I have loved every version of it. I…
Sourdough Starter – How to create it & keep it alive
How to create and maintain a sourdough starter
Stuffed Sourdough Pizza
It is nice to be back to blogging after a month. I had a lovely vacation to Bhopal and Indore. The husband and I aim to visit all UNESCO World heritage sites across the world starting with India. So this time we visited the Sanchi stupa and Bhimbetka caves near Bhopal and some other historical…
Sourdough bread – Coil Fold
Today we have the second in the series of ‘Bread of a kind’. I have made another sourdough bread, a boule but this time I have used the coil folding method instead of the usual stretch and fold method for strengthening and developing the gluten in the dough. Coil fold seemed easier to me and…
Sourdough Burger Buns
My laptop is acting crazy and making weird sounds. Looks like I have to give up on it and get a new one. The good part is that I had thankfully taken pictures on my phone and I am able to use them here. Else it would be tragic that, for once, I was ready…
Sourdough Banana & Zucchini Bread
Another resolution I have is to improving my sourdough baking. I wanted to bake a sourdough bread loaf but the winter has been particularly cold this time and my starter is taking ages to show any signs of activity. So I ditched that idea and decided to bake a sourdough quick bread with bananas and…
Bread Therapy 