CayoKath

Joined: 2010 March 8

Location:

Arvada, Colorado

Occupation:

local tax administrator

Interests:

cooking (sourdough, cheese-making, brewing and mixing, other craft cooking as it crosses my mind), road trips, other travel, knitting, crocheting

Posts: 19

Comments: 61

Points: 93

Musings on a Cranky Starter Jar

Have you ever had one of those days where the simplest baking task seems like an immense hurdle? I'd mixed my dough (my everyday...

1 comment
American Green Chili Stew

You must have some green chili stew with your sourdough bread! This is a hugely popular dish in Colorado, USA, and every cook has their...Read more

3 comments
"Flex" Bread for Every Day

This is our everyday bread at home. It's about as straightforward as a good daily bread can get. I use a stand mixer and dough hook to make...Read more

9 comments
Testing Flour for Water Take-Up

Shao Ping alluded to a way to test a flour for how much water is needed to achieve a good dough consistency. The lovely part is I...

3 comments
Lead Dog's Old Country Bread Changeup

Lead Dog has a GREAT basic bread recipe posted, Old Country Bread, that is all simplicity and flavor. It's a great loaf for every day and I...Read more

4 comments
Oozy Goes It

Well, I've been playing with sourdough for a couple of years now and this morning produced the worst over grown loaf ever. I tend...
I've Found a Local Flour!

I've found a local flour, although I've yet to try it in this heat. It's Bluebird flour, produced in Cortez, Colorado and cutely...
Flour Power

For nearly a year, I roughed it through my sourdough experience with really cheap flour. How much difference could it make, I...

4 comments
Post-Vacation Sourdough Fix: Wheat-Oat Sunflower Honey Loaf

Hubby and I went for a road trip to a Texas beach. The starter didn't go. I'll need a test run at my own altitude with "chuckwagonnin it."...Read more
Paugh! too much oat flour!

I made an oat flour loaf recently that was horrible for many reasons. It was heavy, although not quite a brick. It failed to achieve a nice...Read more

2 comments
Shhhh! Not Sourdough, Yet, Pita

While roasting an eggplant for a nice baba ganouj, I decided to try my hand at homemade pita bread to eat with it. My starter being in the...Read more

5 comments
Negligence Resulting in Mold

An errant mealiemoth got into a batch of starter and probably died a fairly painless death, considering the fermentation. So, I discarded...Read more
Once You Go Sourdough...

Pancakes, that is, you'll never go back. They're so good and don't have that tinny aftertaste you get with the baking powder variety. mmm...Read more

3 comments
Thunk

Brick. Bread. Happens. >sigh< Baking While Distracted. There oughta be a law! I wrecked up a loaf of wheat-white simple last night/...Read more

3 comments
Dom's Sourdough Foccacia American Measures

I love foccacia. Pasquini's Old World Bakery in Denver, now gone, made some so good I actually dreamt about it. I was so excited...

8 comments
Sourdough Overflow

I was thrilled, thrilled, that this starter was so exuberant! Thank goodness I checked it! Look what happens when you don't give it enough...Read more

1 comment
One I Can Show

This little sourdough was a starter sitting on the counter. It looked so bubblicious that I just had to use it although I had plenty of...Read more
How the Sourdough Insanity Took Hold

I've always loved good bread, starting from that first homemade loaf of dry-yeast white bread I remember Mom baking when I was five or so...Read more

2 comments
I Confess: I Killed a Starter

This was the simplest of starters: unbleached white flour, a little wheat flour, cumin and water. I'd used and used it, nurtured...

4 comments