Hi everyone, welcome to your go-to community for tips, tricks, and recipes that can help make Sourdough baking easily accessible for any day and every day. 🍞Everyone seems to know that baking with sourdough is a labor of love. 🧡 It's time consuming, sometimes frustrating, and requires a lot of commitment. 💡BUT, the secret to every-day sourdough is capitalizing on discard recipes and using granulated yeast to save you time ⏲️ without sacrificing the tasty sourdough flavor. 👊 Quick Q&A - Does using discard and granulated yeast lessen some of the gut-health benefits? Yes. This is a bummer, but because you're able to dramatically speed up the fermentation process using yeast, some of the gut-friendly microbes don't have time to fully develop. Only some! - Can you make homemade sourdough hot dog buns for dinner in under 2 hours? Yes! - Does this method cause a loss in delicious sourdough flavor? No! - Does it make a less desirable looking product? Heck no! If you're interested in learning more about what you can do with your sourdough starter, the discard, and how to incorporate simple recipes into your every day cooking/baking, then this is the place for you! My name is Beth Nicholas. I have spent more than 20 years teaching myself how to bake, with the last 5 years placing a big emphasis on developing my 3+ year sourdough starter and growing that love for baking bread into a business. This place is not about my business however. I'm not asking you to order English Muffins or stop by the farmer's market in Henderson, Nevada (however, you're certainly welcome to!). This place is about me sharing my love for baking with you, and giving an open forum for questions, classes, and a little trial and error. 📌I would love to learn a little about each of you too! Let me know who you are, where you're from, and how baking is incorporated into your every day life. [Remember, some people just like reading cookbooks while others can't wait to test a recipe out in the kitchen. I'm here for everyone!]