The Sourdough Deep Dive: My Favorites a Year In

Sharing my go-to recipes, tools and routine so you don’t have to learn the hard way

This is possibly one of my most requested posts of the year and I felt like with clothing exhaustion from all the Cyber Week sales and no Meal Plan necessary for Thanksgiving week, this was the perfect Sunday to get it in your hands.

A few things here at the top: I’m extremely passionate about health. Three of four of my kids have a gluten aversion due to gut sensitivity or eczema so I’ve been buying gluten-free bread for them for years. The thing about most gluten-free products is that they’re marketed as healthy while really being an extremely processed blend of yucky grains, sugars, modified corn sugars and seed oils. After hearing that many gluten intolerant people are able to tolerate sourdough because of the fermentation process, I set a goal to learn to make it and bake a loaf or two every week. Every year, I failed. Too busy, too exhausted, too intimidated, and before I knew it, we were at New Years Eve again and I was out to buy the thousandth loaf of gluten-free bread without an end in sight. This year, I was committed. And it was phenomenal.

I spent January researching and learning how to make my own starter and began the process the first week of February. I kept detailed notes in my Day One app journal since it takes about a week for the starter to become a starter and about two weeks to be something you can bake with forever. I almost gave up on day six when there was just no growth, but like clockwork on day seven (and using the warmth of the oven light to raise the temperature), my starter was born.

I had to experiment, so I tried a few different things to see which was most successful. clearly, we had a winner.