Sourdough Kick

Today Katharine and I went over to my parents house and did a little cleaning. K didn't play as much this time, but she was still good. After like 2 hours we left and went by Macey's on the way home. 

The guy today gave us a huge cup of ice cream. K did a lot better sharing it than she did last month. We also enjoyed a sample of sushi.

Abi texted this photo to Wride Nation to let us all pay our respects to the last of the OG Skyline as the gym demolition began.

FHE tonight was simple. We started watching season 5 of the Chosen and got through the first episode. Everyone was asleep half way through the second, so we called it good. Didn't get a treat tonight, Corey decided to now spend the $ cause things are a bit too tight. I had wanted to watch The Chosen yesterday, but we were too busy with company and making dinner. Yesterday I did not take a nap, which is a first this year. We had two lovely couples come by after church. Lovely couple #1 was our own Mel and Christian. They stayed for a visit before going to dinner at the Bennett's at 5. They brought along Wesley and his girlfriend Lauren who were both in Provo this weekend. We all had fun visiting in the front room for two hours and then the little kids made Wes and Lauren go play outside until their ride back to Rexburg came to pick them up. 

Wesley came down this weekend for an FSY interview and Lauren came down to do some mission prep stuff. She is leaving for a mission in April, going to Guam! Wesley ended up staying in Provo the whole weekend, slept over at Ethan and Bella's house, so we didn't even see him until today. I came back early from the girls trip to see him. I knew we weren't going skiing, but thought I'd atleast get to see him, but I guess he had other priorities now! After they left, we got dinner ready. Wayne came over at 4 and we had dinner with Mel and Christian, er, I guess it was a pre-dinner snack for them. Mashed potatoes, pork, broccoli, and sourdough of course!

I made this one - should have taken a pic before it got cut up, but I'm liking how it looks with the scoring lately. Mel brought a maracuja pie that was very tasty. Corey made his gallon+ of tapioca for dessert. Lots of food and lots of clean up. We loaded the dishwasher, but didn't get any of the big pots and pans washed yesterday, so I feel like I've been doing dishes all day today to catch up. Thus tonight's dinner was simple: sourdough with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, and an olive garden-ish salad. 

I made two loaves yesterday and three today. This dinner loaf above was started this morning and I was planning to cook the two others tomorrow morning, but Lily cooked them tonight. One was immediately scarfed down by everyone, and Lily hid the other so she could have some for breakfast. Abi said she likes the sourdough kick I'm on. Yeah, this one is a little more useful/helpful to everyone than when I was on a lego princess kick last fall. I've mostly been following Lily's recipe, but I started looking up sourdough stuff on youtube this past weekend and now I'm not sure we've been doing it right. Most people I saw feed their starter like 6 hours before they start baking but Lily always feeds it after she uses it. But we've been using it almost everyday, so maybe that's turns out close to the same? I don't know, I'm researching. And I'm learning there are 100 different possible ways to make it, so maybe it's whatever. This is the recipe Lily used for the sourdough for Mel's wedding that I have on my phone cause I've texted it to a few friends who requested the recipe: 

Get a food scale

MIX 520g of bread flour and 12g of salt in a big bowl

In a smaller bowl MIX 385g of water and 90g of the starter. POUR it into the flour mixture immediately after mixing and MIX the two until you think its well mixed

Cover with a wet towel for like 15 minutes then FOLD it again before putting it back in the bowl and covering with a lid

Let sit overnight / 6 hours 

Fold again and shape top into a smooth loaf, put on parchment paper in a bowl, cover, and let rise in fridge for 4-10 hours or on counter 2-4 hours. 

When you're ready to cook your sourdough, First place the empty dutch oven IN the oven, and preheat to 500°

After about 30-45 of the pan getting all the way hot, place a cookie sheet on the rack below the Dutch oven so the bottom of the bread doesn’t burn and take your sourdough out of the fridge and score it with the scoring tool. 

Immediately after scoring, set the sourdough inside the dutch oven with the lid on for 25 minutes. 

Then 10 minutes without the lid on. After that take the sourdough out and let it cool for a few minutes. Stick a knife through the bottom to ensure it's cooked all the way.

I did some math and got Lily's loaf up to a 750 grams of flour loaf, but the loafs yesterday I used this one, and I like it cause it makes a big loaf (1000 grams!). The recipe she uses is the first comment there. I don't love how much that one needs stretch and folds. Lil's is just two times. Also, compared to videos I saw, I don't know why my dough is aways so much stickier than theirs look, I can hardly roll it at all. I did like her scoring on this. I made mine look pretty like her today!

Ooh, just found this version by Ballerina Farm, I think I'll try hers next.