Fermented Food Adventures & Recipes
Although I’ve been at the sourdough game for a while, I only started making challah last year with my son and it has been such a fun journey. (Challah is braided egg bread, popular through much of Eastern Europe and celebrated by Jews who popularized it in the US and […]
This recipe makes use of fermented pickle brine and caraway seeds to give you a classic Eastern European rye bread flavor without the need for sourdough starter. (If you want to make my classic sourdough rye bread recipe, check out my recipe here.) This bread has a wonderful consistency, including […]
There may be nothing better for a sandwich than some hearty rye bread with plenty of caraway flavor. This recipe contains all my regular rye bread must-haves: cocoa powder, molasses, caraway and dill seed, but this recipe amps up the flavor even more with garlic powder and black pepper. The […]
If you’re interested in sourdough baking but don’t have a sourdough starter, you may not have realized there’s lots of ways to come up with a “starter” – which is really just a natural yeast source rather than commercial packaged yeast. These are typically just as easy to make as […]
For several years – including in my first few years of writing this blog – I was an adherent of the Paleo diet, which entailed abstaining from wheat flour, among a number of other things. This is why I never added a sourdough starter recipe section, which otherwise would fit […]
In spite of my years cooking and fermenting, I’ll be honest, breadmaking has always intimidated me a bit. I went outside my comfort zone developing over many months and trials my pickle brine rye bread recipe in my cookbook, but that recipe worked off of instant yeast. Since I’ve eaten […]