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It's been a while since I last tried to bake bread -- it's mostly because my boyfriend's sister moved out and took the measuring cups and spoons (they were hers) and I haven't replaced them yet. I still haven't, but today I decided to measure the ingredients with what I had. I still used the recipe for the basic loaf provided in TFL's Lesson #1. First, I checked to see what the average weight of flour is (I have a kitchen scale).

Hi all! I've posted my first Sourdough recipe on my blog :) The loaves are far from perfect, but are the first ones I felt were near good enough to go up. Click on over to Ovenmittsblog.com for the full post and recipe!

Thanks for your support,

Raquel @ Ovenmitts Blog

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I almost decided not to bake this past weekend, but I activated some starter, thinking I might make some sourdough pancakes for breakfast Sunday. But, then, there was this starter, and I thought maybe I'd bake something or other. Well, I might as well have some fresh-baked bread for Sunday dinner, and it had been a while since I'd given a loaf to my next door neighbor who really appreciates my breads. I guessed I'd make some San Francisco-style sourdough to share.

Ok, so I am not a blogger, and I am not a joiner.

So you may well ask 'What are you doing here?'

My answer is simple.
1. My husband sent me the link to this site last year in October for the Pierre Nury Light Rye and asked me to make it, so I did, with fabulous results. Ever since then I have been lurking around, and tried about 5 recipes. All of them worked well. I have also shared this site with a few friends, fellow bread enthusiasts, and all comments are great. So why not join the fray and add my appreciation!

I didn't plan to start this year with a bread I'm not very proud of... but a lot of things happened lately (good things!) and I can't write here as often as I would like.

In February I held a workshop here in town, with 30 participants, a introduction to sourdough bread very well received.  You can see pictures here (click for link) and a video (sorry, no English subtitles) here (click for link).

Cat and I spent the week of 3/3 through 3/10 on an expedition on the waters and islands around Southern Baja California.  It was a glorious trip, with great up-close encounters with marine mammals and other local fauna.

My camera was busy trying to capture some sense of the wonderful natural world we experienced.

The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland. UK.

18th March 2012

David Snyder and I were enjoying a conversation in his thread on his lovely baking of last weekend.   See here, there are 3 comments to read:

http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/27810/last-weekends-breads#comment-208809

I'm a beginning baker. I started baking my own bread for a few reasons. One reason is that I like baking. I enjoy being able to produce something home-made. Another is that I hate spending $3-4 on a decent loaf of bread. I knew that I could learn to make good bread myself, given some time and effort. It would be cheaper, and taste better, than anything I could buy.