Bunmi Laditan

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

Dear lunch monitor, I know I started the year strong with spaghetti and quesadillas, veggie slices and cheese cubes, but it’s December. There are special days, performances, and snowman cookies to buy then put on a plate like I made them.  So, if you see ice cream cones in my son’s lunchbox as his snack, no you didn’t. You saw carrot sticks. That’s what you saw. You saw Swedish ginger cracker gnome hats, a traditional Swiss holiday treat made from buckwheat, molasses, and sno