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Today I am excited to share my sourdough story!

Initially I was going to write about something else today but I’m so excited about my sourdough starter that I wanted to share my success with you.

I first started thinking about sourdough at the beginning of the year. I’m pretty well versed at making cookies and muffins from scratch but I wanted to get back to making bread from scratch. I listen to a podcast and decided to try my hand at making a sourdough starter. It was great!  My baby starter was bubbling a little more every day, I was managing to remember to feed it every morning, and I was enjoying trying to create sourdough discard recipes.

At some point Between work, tending to my one-year-old, and life doing what life tends to do, I looked around and I hadn’t fed my sourdough in over a week. Honestly it may have been longer I really can’t remember. There was so much going on, it could have been two weeks. My sourdough starter which was almost ready was now foul smelling and had black stuff in it. I was so upset with myself. I felt like I wasted two weeks’ worth of work and effort. I threw my started away and decided to give it some times before I tried again. I told myself I would just use yeast. I did not feel like putting in that much effort just to throw it away again.

Fast forward two months and I am currently five days into a new baby starter! This one is doing even better than the last one! I changed my technique. I started with whole wheat flour instead of all purpose. This was mainly do to having a small amount of whole wheat flour left and wanting to use it up. I am doing two small feeding of all purpose flour a day instead of one big feeding a day and so far it’s working for me. It’s bubbling so nicely I think it may be ready by the end of the weekend! I’m also looking forward to creating some sourdough discard cookies today and maybe some sourdough discard waffles this weekend.  

All this to say, I am crushing this sourdough thing the second time around (hopefully it stays that way haha) and sometimes especially when we are trying something new it is ok to step away and regroup.  However, do not let your failures defeat you. As the saying goes you only truly fail once you stop trying. Success is created by consistency and mistakes. I encourage any of you that is trying something new or thinking of taking a different path to start your mistakes so you can build your success. Hopely your success is as yummy and as fulfilling mine.

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