This is the bread that started everything for me. I baked this loaf every week for farmers markets, sometimes plain, sometimes loaded with herbs, cheese, or olives. It's the recipe that taught me how one dough can become a dozen different loaves. If you're just getting started or you want a reliable base to build on, this is it. Recipe: https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/henrys-market-day-white?utm_source=skool&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=recipe-share

Today I got to attend a bay shower celebrating a beautiful blessing about to arrive soon! I made a garlic butter focaccia and it was quite challenging. The theme was vintage Winnie the Pooh. It was so fun to make and so cool to try out this design. I’ve made focaccia bread before, but allowing myself to be creative made it such a fun experience. Aside from Pooh Bear missing an eyebrow after baking (seriously where’d it go? 😜), I am proud of my art work 😅 it tasted amazing! I brushed it with garlic butter before and after baking and drizzled honey on it! Delicious! Have you ever created art on your focaccia?

@Jill Hart here is the Sourdough Granola recipe that I used. @Tracy Havlik gave it to me. Happy Baking!,, Sourdough Granola Yields approximately 1 1/4 pounds Ingredients 350 g (3 cups) old-fashioned oats 250-350 g (1 1/2-2 cups) chopped nuts (I use 100 g each of almonds and pecans, and 150 g of walnuts) 100 g (1/2 cup) neutral oil (I use avocado) 80 g (1/4 cup) pure maple syrup 55 g (1/4 cup) brown sugar 120 g (1/2 cups) sourdough discard 60 g (1/4 cup) water 1 g (1/2 tsp) ground cinnamon (I measure with my heart, so I use 3 g) 3 g (1/2 tsp) salt 150 g (1 cup) dried cranberries Instructions Preheat oven to 300 F Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper (I use a 15”x21” sheet) Mix together oil, maple syrup, brown sugar, discard, water, cinnamon and salt. Whisk until smooth. Add oats, chopped nuts and/or seeds. Mix together with a rubber spatula until fully coated. Mix in the dried cranberries. Pour the granola on the prepared baking sheet. If you prefer larger clusters, press the granola down with the rubber spatula just before it goes into the oven. Place in preheated oven and bake for a total of 1 hour or until golden in color. Note, if you prefer larger clusters, flip the granola after the first 30 minutes, patting it back down. Otherwise, stir it every 15 minutes. Allow the granola to cool before breaking it into clumps.

As I worked on cooking dinner today I had sourdough bells ringing in my ear. 😅😅 So I turned a thought into reality and baked the fluffiest, softest, most delicious dinner rolls. The recipe is what I call a hybrid because it uses both sourdough and yeast. But the wonderful thing about these rolls are they only need 2 hours of rise time. Yep! 1 hr 20m on the first rise & 40m on the second rise and they're puffed up beautifully and ready for the oven. I brushed milk mixed with honey over the tops BEFORE they baked and then gave them a very nice honey butter bath as soon as they came out of the oven. It only took 22m in my oven to get an internal temperature of 195*F in the center of the pan. The recipe makes 9 - 90g rolls. As you see, I doubled the recipe. Here's the link if you're feeling like rolls tomorrow or any time when you're in a time crunch. Btw, I used active starter... because I wanted to 😜 Sourdough Discard Pull-Apart Dinner Rolls – Milk and Pop https://share.google/HlQJESLpauR9DQQAr

The ones who see the Saturday bake-along threads blowing up with 400 comments and think, "I'm not there yet." You belong here just as much as anyone. You don't need to understand baker's percentages to bake great bread. You don't need to know what autolyse means before your first loaf. You don't need to participate in every bake-along. Some of the best bakers I know started by just following a recipe exactly as written, not understanding why anything worked, and doing it again the next week. Understanding comes from repetition, not from studying. If you're quietly lurking and learning, that counts. If you tried something and it flopped and you didn't post it, that's fine too. Progress isn't always visible. What I'd love to hear from you: What's one thing you've been wanting to try but haven't yet? Drop it below. No judgment. Just conversation.