Everyday Sourdough
Simple sourdough for real life.
You don’t need a perfect starter, a fancy scoring pattern or 47 sourdough rules.
You just need to learn how to make bread.
Around here, sourdough is about feeding your family, using good ingredients and learning a skill you can carry with you for the rest of your life.
Welcome to everyday sourdough.
Sourdough Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated
Flour. Water. Time.
That’s where this whole thing starts.
If you’ve never made sourdough before, I’ll walk you through creating a starter, understanding what the heck it’s doing on your counter and eventually turning that jar of bubbly flour into actual food.
And we’re going to break a few sourdough rules along the way.
No, your starter doesn’t have to double.
From Starter to Artisan
Sourdough for Everyday Life
I wrote the sourdough book I wish I’d had when I started.
Not a book about making one picture-perfect artisan loaf.
A book about actually using sourdough in everyday life.
Learn how to create and maintain your starter and then put it to work with 45+ recipes for breads, rolls, bagels, pizza, breakfast, desserts and more — all without commercial yeast.
Because the goal isn’t to babysit a jar of flour.
The goal is to make food.
What Do You Want to Make?
This is where sourdough gets really fun.
Sourdough is a whole lot more than an artisan loaf.
Once you have an established starter, you can turn it into the everyday foods your family is already eating.
Bread. Rolls. Pizza. Pasta. Bagels. Biscuits. Crackers. Waffles. Cinnamon rolls.
Don’t Throw Away the Discard!
Especially while you’re establishing a starter, you’re going to have discard.
Use the stuff.
Crackers, muffins, waffles, biscuits, pie crust and more can turn what looks like waste into another homemade food coming out of your kitchen.
One more thing you know how to make.
One less thing you need to buy.
Money in the bank.
BUTTON: GET MY FREE SOURDOUGH DISCARD RECIPES
LINK: https://foodprood.com/sourdough-discard-recipes/
TEXT LINK: More skills that are Money in the Bank →
LINK: https://foodprood.com/money-in-the-bank/
IMAGE: Crackers, waffles, muffins or another obvious discard recipe. NO LOAF HERE.
Sourdough Doesn’t Need to Take Over Your Life
Once your starter is established, you don’t need to spend your life feeding it and staring at it.
Learn what a healthy starter looks like. Feed it based on how much you actually bake. Keep a backup.
Then make food.
Your starter is a tool — not another child you have to keep alive.
BUTTON: SOURDOUGH TIPS + RESOURCES
LINK: https://foodprood.com/sourdough-bread-independence/
IMAGE: Starter sitting casually on your kitchen counter rather than a styled bread photo.
My Favorite Sourdough Tools
You absolutely do not need a kitchen full of special equipment to make sourdough.
A jar, flour and water will get you pretty darn far.
But after making sourdough week after week, there are some tools I use constantly and wouldn’t want to be without.
I’ve put my favorites in one place.
Bread Independence
There’s something pretty powerful about knowing flour, water and salt can become bread for your family.
No commercial yeast required.
No running to the store because you’re out of bread.
And no need to make it perfect.
Learn the skill.
Practice it.
Screw up a loaf or two.
Turn the ugly ones into breadcrumbs and keep going.
Eventually it’s no longer something you’re trying to learn.
It’s simply something you know how to do.
That’s Bread Independence.
