Sour Dough Starter

At the beginning of this year I kept talking about making a sourdough starter. I looked at several recipes and I just couldnt find one that had really good instructions. For Valentines Day Mr Ladybug ordered me a San Francisco Sourdough starter from Cultures of Health. It was a great surprise. It came with great instructions and their website is very helpful and they have lots of Youtube tutorials as well. One f the things I was a little worried about was what to do with the discarded starter if I didnt want to bake after I had fed the starter. That has not been a problem.

Your starter comes as a powder in a little envelope and you add spring water and flour. You do this for about 10 days adding more amounts as you go until you end up with about 1 1/2 cups of starter. Then you feed your starter every day or every other day depending on the warmth of your kitchen. Trust me you know when its growing. So then every two days you have around a cup of starter that you dont need. You can stick it in the fridge and use it later.

If you have been on the fence about starting your own sourdough and just dont want to make bread with it here are a few of my favorite recipes I found online, Just click on the name and the link should appear for you.

https://www.tastesoflizzyt.com/sourdough-pancakes/

I honestly am not a huge fan of pancakes but my hubby and son love these.

https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/sourdough-pizza-crust-recipe

This pizza dough is really good and if you roll it out thin its pretty crispy



https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/basic-sourdough-bread-recipe

The bread machine bread is one of our absolute favorite for sandwiches. The outside is crusty and the inside is like fluffy clouds.

https://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/grandmas-sourdough-biscuits-18995

These biscuits were really good and rose nicely.

Here are a few recipes I intend to try in the future.

https://www.piesandtacos.com/sourdough-tortillas/

https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/sourdough-english-muffins-recipe

I think its safe to assume that if I keep on using my starter for these things I will not have to worry about throwing any of it away.  Mr Ladybug and I do intend on making a nice rounded loaf of sourdough it just seems that whenever we think about doing it we dont have the time to start it and let it rise twice and bake it without being up past our bedtime. We do finally get around to doing I will post a picture and that recipe as well.

I had to get a closeup of all those bubbles.