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Pizza

Sourdough Sicilian Pizza Recipe

This sourdough Sicilian pizza recipe is sure to become a family favorite! One of the best parts about Sicilian pizza is that it is so easy to feed a larger group with it. Instead of having to crank out a bunch of pies, you can make one big sheet and be done with it. All […]

Pizza

New York-Style Pizza Recipe

For starters, I won’t bother you with any stories about my love of pizza. If you want to read that, you can check out my Neapolitan Pizza for Home Ovens post. Instead, for my New York-Style Pizza recipe, I’ll just tell you about a little test I did, which highlights why this recipe (and sourdough […]

Bread

Simple Sourdough Bagel Recipe

It’s a sad fact, but there are a lot of bad bagels out there. I’ve been to places that claim to specialize in bagels — they put “bagel” in the store name, so they have to be legit — when really they’re just selling bad bread. Fortunately, like everything else, making bagels at home is […]

Bread

Simple Sourdough Baguette Recipe

For the first year that I was making bread, I pretty much stuck with boules. It wasn’t that I was too intimidated by trying something different, like a sourdough baguette, I was just loving the results and didn’t feel the need to switch it up. Really, the only beef I ever had with boules was […]

Bread

Simple Sourdough Bread Recipe

The Easiest Sourdough Bread You’ll Ever Make and Possibly the Best… This simple sourdough bread recipe is my go-to recipe. It’s the recipe I use when I’m making boules, baguettes, demi baguettes, and more. For the purposes of this post, I’m going to focus on using the recipe for making a boule, or ball loaf. […]

Starter

How to Make a Levain

Making a levain is one of the key steps for most sourdough recipes. One of the things that makes my recipes so simple is that I use the same levain for every single one. Sometimes, I’ll scale it up and double it based on the total flour I’m working with. However, for the most part, […]

Starter

How to Maintain a Starter

As easy as it was to make your simple sourdough starter, it’s exponentially easier to maintain it. Once you have a strong starter, it’s pretty damn hard to kill. I like to feed my starter at least every week; but, sometimes, I end up using enough of it up before then and have to build […]

Starter

Simple Sourdough Starter

What better to have as a first post than to show you how to make a simple sourdough starter? This might sound crazy, but in as little as five days from reading this, you could be eating your own homemade sourdough bread. The best part? All you have to do after reading this is mix […]