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Workshop: Start a Sourdough Starter and Keep It Alive!

Posted on June 3, 2025June 3, 2025by Anne-Marie Bonneau
A flip-top jar of bubbly sourdough starter sits on a black table

All you need to start and nurture a lively sourdough starter culture are flour, water, time and a bit of know-how. In this Zoom class, I’ll show you how to start a starter culture—and how to keep it alive. Bring your questions and I’ll answer them after the demo. Class takes place on Tuesday, June […]

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Garlic Paste Recipe from Fermented Vegetables, 10th Anniversary Edition

Posted on March 7, 2024March 7, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau
The book Fermented Vegetables, by Kirsten Shockey and Christopher Shockey, sits on a wooden table. The book is surrounded by large heads of garlic and a few separated cloves.

Make this garlic paste and you’ll conveniently have prepped garlic on hand at all times. Be your own sous chef!

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Easy 5 Ingredient Sourdough Biscuits That Gobble Up Discard

Posted on March 31, 2023November 11, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau
Baked sourdough biscuits cooling on a metal rack

These 5-ingredient, flakey sourdough biscuits are one of the easiest and most delicious recipes you can make with sourdough discard.

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How to Prevent Food From Spoiling During a Power Outage

Posted on March 17, 2023March 17, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau
giant block of ice frozen in a stainless steel bowl

An approaching storm threatens to cause an extended power outage and your refrigerator is full of food. These tips will help you save it.

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Amazing Peanut Butter Cookies With a Sourdough Discard Flax Egg

Posted on January 24, 2023January 24, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau
A dozen peanut butter cookies made with a sourdough discard flax egg cools in a cooling rack. The rack sits on a white and grey marble background.

Bake perfect peanut butter cookies when eggs are scarce and sourdough discard is plentiful. No one will even notice this egg substitution.

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  • Sourdough

I Made a Sourdough Discard Flax Egg Because Why Not?

Posted on January 12, 2023February 15, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau

A sourdough discard flax egg works amazingly in cookies, rescues dough if you run out of eggs and saves money. Vegans and non vegans approve!

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  • Sourdough

Bake for Ukraine: Online Sourdough Bread Workshop Fundraiser

Posted on September 15, 2022September 15, 2022by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Invest a bit of time over a weekend to learn a life-long skill that will bring you nourishment and comfort in a chaotic world—and raise funds for a good cause!

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Raise a Glass of Ginger Beer for Climate Action

Posted on July 25, 2022September 14, 2022by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Do you want climate action? Do you like ginger beer? Learn to make fabulous ginger beer in this pay-what-you-feel fundraiser.

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  • Fermentation

Save Your Fruit Scraps to Make Bubbly Fruit Kvass

Posted on June 20, 2022May 18, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau
Fruit scraps in a jar sitting on a marble top. The background is distressed grey metal.

Give fruit scraps a second life—transform them into this bubbly fruit kvass. Kick plastic soda bottles, not carbonated drinks.

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