Sourdough, Rainbow Eggs, Movies, and a Giveaway: Mid-Week Miscellany

After seeing my instagram feed filled with beautiful loaves of sourdough bread that apparently everyone bakes, I decided to give it a shot - at the very least, trying to make our own starter would be science, right?

My feed has been filled with beautiful pictures of sourdough recently - do you ALL bake it??? Anyway, it's long been one of my goals to make it myself, but the whole "starter" thing intimidates me... However! Science!!! So I enlisted John Paul, because I knew he'd find this fascinating, and he's helping me under the pretense of "science" (and because this way it'll count for this week's AND next week's science experiment, a homeschool component he insists upon). We'll see if it works... But if it does, my sourdough-loving husband will be excited! And if it doesn't, I still love my regular old no-knead recipe 😊

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Well, we've actually been having a lot of fun! We started by using the starter for a few "cheater" recipes that aren't real sourdough - oatmeal muffins (delicious, though we replaced the raisins with cinnamon chips), chocolate cake (also delicious - not too sweet, and not too crumbly either), and sandwich bread (we were not fans...). Then today I finally took the plunge and made "real" sourdough bread - there are about a million recipes out there on the internet, and I don't think I love the one I used (so fussy! So many steps! Does it have to be this way?), so I'll be trying another next time. Any suggestions?