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Focaccia Made with Sourdough Discard and Scrappy Toppings
Reduce wasted food! This focaccia uses a full cup of sourdough discard plus bits of vegetables and herbs you have on hand if you decorate it.
How to Manage Your Jar of Sourdough Discard
What is sourdough discard? How long does it keep? What can I do with it? How can I tell if it’s bad? These sourdough discard FAQs reveal all.
5 Ways to Love Wheat Berries and How to Cook Them
Versatile wheat berries deserve a spot in your pantry. Cooked, they have a nutty flavor and chewy bite. Ground up, they make superb flour.
Zero Waste Sourdough Discard Banana Quick Bread
Bake—and eat—this banana bread to ensure that both overly ripe bananas and sourdough discard fill tummies, not trash cans!
Pumpkin and Spice Sourdough Discard Quick Bread
This pumpkin sourdough quick bread is like pumpkin pie in bread form and, if I slapped a label on it, it could honestly claim “Now BPA-Free!”
Sourdough-Potato Focaccia Made With Simple Ingredients and Tools
Do you love sourdough bread? Do you love potatoes? This sourdough-potato focaccia is for you. It requires humble ingredients and simple tools.
How to Store and Keep Bread Fresh Without Single-Use Plastic
Readers often ask how to store bread without plastic, while keeping it fresh. It can be done! And if your bread does dry out, revive it.
How to Make a Gluten-Free Sourdough Starter
I ground up teff grains in my grain mills to make a gluten-free sourdough starter but store-bought flour also works as do various grains.
15 Simple Sourdough Discard Recipes That Empty Your Jar
Even if you never bake the bread, you may want to keep a sourdough starter alive to make these sourdough discard recipes.
Make-a-Dent-in-Your-Discard Sourdough Pita Bread
The sourdough discard in this pita bread recipe adds a slight tang. Enjoy better tasting pitas and eliminate the plastic bags of store-bought.
Sourdough Bread Zoom Classes (and a Recorded Starter Class)
By popular demand! Live online sourdough bread classes. Learn to make this 3-ingredient bread from the comfort of your kitchen.
Sourdough Discard Vegan Pumpkin (or Squash) Ginger Cake
If you started baking sourdough bread, bake this sourdough pumpkin ginger cake to use up discard left over from feeding your pet starter.
Free Sourdough Starter Zoom Class!
Mark your calendars! Free sourdough starter Zoom class on December 3rd. Bring a jar, flour and water and we’ll make our starters together.
How to Help Fire-Ravaged California (and Oregon and Washington)
Want to help victims of the California wildfires? Here’s a list of organizations to support and actions to take. Plus enter a raffle to win a bread saw for your sourdough bread.