Sourdough. Not just for dinner anymore.
In addition to all the bread recipes in Breads from the La Brea Bakery, there's a bunch of "extras" which use the starter. My favorite is for the dog biscuit, if only for the description, in which she says that since it's made from all human-grade ingredients, they also serve as teething cookies. Not a use I would have thought of (granted I don't have kids), and one wonders how that discovery came about. A teething baby, a jar of homemade dog biscuits, and history was made.
Anyway, she also lists a recipe for sourdough waffles, and I decided to make them. This was partly because they sounded good, and partly because Melissa expressed surprise recently that I had a waffle iron. Clearly I haven't made them too often in the last five years. The batter sits out overnight to ferment, which is great because all you have to do the next morning is add some eggs and baking soda and you're off. It makes delicious waffles, too. The recipe was designed for a regular waffle iron, and I've got a Belgian waffle iron, so they didn't get quite as crisp as she implies. But with some apple compote on top, and some warm honey drizzled over? Yeah, I'd make those again.
I'm also eager to try her pancake recipe. I figure the more use I get out of the starter, the better. I've since reduce the amount I'm keeping each day by half, just to minimize the waste. Cooking more things with it also helps, since then I at least get food out of it.
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