Bunmi Laditan

Hi from Bunmi. I've been traveling with my family in East Asia! One of my teens started a very cool overseas program and we decided to turn in into a trip. I mean, if you're going to be on planes for 21 hours, you might as well see what's around. I would not consider myself a "traveler" type person as I VERY much enjoy being home and in my routine with my familiar bed and foods (and products I'm realizing as my skin isn't too pleased with new lotion), but this has been a lot

That's not pink mold! It's a marker line. Well. If you're trying to figure out why my sourdough starter looks like one of the shepherds that met baby Jesus, I'll tell you. The recipe I'm using says to cover my starter with a cloth and tie it with a string.  The closest things I had were a clean tea towel and a new shoelace. I didn't want to cut my towel to size because I don't want to start chopping up my towels for such a precarious project.  The recipe also said to mark whe

For one reason or another, I've decided to begin my sourdough journey. I love making challah, but have never tried making a bread using natural yeast. It seems as if everyone and their mom makes sourdough....Ballerina Farms makes it look so easy....why not me? I'm following a simple protocol I found online. The first program I found involved doing something called "discarding" which makes no sense to me. You just throw away half the starter every now and again. But why? I fou