After your dough has proved in the fridge overnight, remove it. It should have risen. Turn it out of the banneton onto the counter. I use a silicone bread sling (available on Amazon here) under my dough. This helps keep the bottom from burning and […]
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Once your starter is bubbly and active, and has doubled in size, now you can mix up your dough. I feed my starter in the evening, to rise overnight, and mix the dough in the morning. My starter is in two half gallon jars here,
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Tuesdays are sourdough days in our bakery. I take preorders over the weekend weekend and customers pick up their bread on Tuesdays when it’s ready. Today I am prepping dough for 7 loaves. Let me start by saying I’m not a fussy sourdough baker. Some
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Does anyone else use dish gloves and absolutely just love them? For the longest time, I thought dish gloves were worthless. Why would anybody bother with them? Every winter, my hands get extremely dry and chapped. They get so dry at times that just making
I mentioned yesterday that I was considering getting a bobbin winder since the one on my machine decided to quit working. Last night I was able to pick one up at Hobby Lobby. The 40% off coupon they had was a nice help! The bobbin
I’m going to interrupt my coupon series here to blog a little about a price book. It’s not absolutely vital to couponing, but it is such a HUGE help that I wanted to include it at this point. A price book is valuable whether or
I learned something about making brownies today. It helps if you have eggs in the house. Except we ate the last of the eggs for breakfast this morning. Oops. But thankfully, we have chickens. S and I headed outside to see if there were at
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There’s a huge pot of apples on the stove right now, and they smell SO good! We’re going to borrow my mother-in-law’s apple peeler, but some of the apple were so small they wouldn’t have been worth the work. So. . .we washed and quartered
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The beans finally started producing last week. I had been kind of frustrated about getting them in so late, but the timing ended up being fantastic. The beans started right after the squash died off. In the end, we canned 30 quarts of squash. We
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We got a little creative with dinner tonight. We had octopus, seaweed, and drank seawater. Obviously my mustard-drawing skills leave something to be desired. . . Just a couple drops of food coloring made everything so much more fun. I’m not a big fan of
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