PANCAKES!

Ok, these aren't sourdough, but they are delicious!  Make them and eat!

3TBSP white vinegar
6oz greek yogurt
8oz milk

Mix these together and let them sour (at least 10 minutes) while you mix everything else.

1c flour
1tsp salt
1tsp baking soda
1tsp sugar

Whisk dry ingredients and then add the following:

1 egg
2TBSP melted butter
and the soured yogurt & milk mixture.

Whisk just until mixed.  Cook on a hot skillet!

Confession time

My starter died.  The weather got a little warm here and I didn't keep up with it.  My starter went from good sour to questionable sour and then I abandoned it for a week and it turned into a mold farm.  Oops.

But because I have become accustomed to home-baked bread and cannot wrap my mind around paying for bread, I caved and made bread with jarred yeast!  I've made several loaves now and it is delicious.

I felt like such a cheater, but I guess I am still making bread.

they can't all be winners

I baked a really gross loaf today.  I couldn't even take a picture of it.  It was dense, drippy, and disgusting.  I'm going to throw it outside and see how long it takes to disappear.

Grilled cheese on cheese bread

Grilled cheese on cheese bread.  Of course.

Sourdough cheese bread

Sourdough loaf with cheddar cheese:  always a winner!

Bad Bread

This loaf did not turn out well.  I had to soak the pan for a few days to release the bread, which then got tossed in the dumpster.  Also an example of why it is good to ALWAYS take notes as well; if I knew what I'd done, perhaps I wouldn't repeat it.

Rye rounds

Rye bread!  40 of these little rounds for a friend's Baba Yaga show.  I used a recipe from The Book of Bread by Judith and Evan Jones, though I substituted dark beer for the coffee.  When I was doing test batches, I successfully made bread with the ingredients from the recipe using my starter instead of the yeast, but for the show we used jar yeast because of time constraints.  There will be more rye bread in my future!  And not just because I bought a 25 pound bag of rye flour!