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heathershearth

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Sourdough bread and workshops 🍞
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Why learn WHOLEGRAIN sourdough bread baking?Lear

Why learn WHOLEGRAIN sourdough bread baking?Learning to bake your own bread allows you to control what you put into your bread- essentially all you need are three ingredients: flour, water, salt. Sourdough starter is the fourth but it is made of two of those ingredients but included many yeasts and bacteria that are naturally occurring.Wholegrain flour takes it a step further because you are using the literally the whole seed/kernel, as pictured here. Did you know that a kernel of wheat or other type of grain contains a fair number of nutrients that we miss when we use only white flour? Vitamin Bs are some that come to mind because here in Canada they are supplemented back into white flour in a form that is not natural to us.In white flour only, the starchy endosperm remains and the bran and germ (where most of the nutrients reside) are removed. When we bake with wholegrain flours, especially stone milled ones- ALL of the seed remains and we get the full benefit.Sourdough helps even further, because it breaks down parts of the seed that are less digestible for us- like physic acids (think plant chemicals that protect the seed from germinating until the perfect time).This topic is way too long for a post 😅! So if you're still here reading, thank-you! Do you want to hear more about this? I'd love to know- drop a comment below.My upcoming wholegrain sourdough sandwich workshop is halfway full! In it we can talk way more about this topic and you learn how to use wholegrain flours to bake a delicious loaf that your whole family will love!Details are in my l1nk in B1o.#sourdoughbread #wholegrainmagic #wholegrainsourdough #fermentation #learntobakesourdough #sourodughworkshop #ottawavalley #ottawa #ottawafoodie #renfrewcounty #comewander

Creating a workshop that touches on wholegrain flo

Creating a workshop that touches on wholegrain flour really makes me excited! It's been a year now since I started teaching this workshop and I wish I had started earlier.The loaf pan (pictured here is the Pullman pan, high sides, narrow width) allows for more creative license and experimentation when swapping flours in and out and gives you the choice of using all wholegrain really easily or doing blends with white flour.The reason for that is the loaf pan sides hold the bread up- so even if you don't get that gluten development quite to the point you want it to or you use types of flour that have less protein (gluten is a protein) like einkorn or spelt, you can still get a decent loaf out of it!This bread is also great for folks who don't want a super crusty crust! It is much softer which is great for making sandwiches and kids.The next wholegrain sourdough sandwich loaf workshop is Sunday May 25th.Drop a 🍞 below and I'll send you the info- or check the L I N K in my B1o.#soudoughbread #wholegrainsourdough #learntobakesourdough #sandwichloaf #ottawavalley #ottawa #renfrewcounty #comewander #ottawafoodies

It's so fun to gather people together (usually str

It's so fun to gather people together (usually strangers!) and go through all the steps of learning to bake sourdough.I LOVE teaching:small groups
hands on
hands in (the dough 😜)In my hands on sourdough bread workshops you get to participate and watch and see what is going on paired with lots of INFO so that you can go home feeling confident to bake on your own without having to sift through the internet.The booklet I send you home with is all you need to get started, plus when you are ready to branch out you can go on to explore sourdough bread baking books with a knowledge and experience base so that it isn't as intimidating and hopefully not as confusing.Upcoming workshops:Sunday May 25th- Wholegrain sourdough sandwich loaf workshop
Sunday June 22nd- Sourdough Simplified workshop (bake a classic loaf of sourdough)If you think that now might be the time to learn drop a
🍞below and I'll send you the info or find the L I N K in my B10#sourdoughbread #sourdoughstarter #learntobakesourdough #fermentation #sourdoughworkshop #renfrewcounty #ottawa #ottawavalley #ottawafoodie

FLOUR!Not many flours are created equal. I am 1

FLOUR!Not many flours are created equal. I am 100% a flour snob. I used to mill some of my own flour for my bread business. I imported a stone mill from Austria to do it (story for another day!) But I hated the dust, sound and extra time it took to mill so I sold it and continued to buy stoneground flour from my farmer/miller Chris from @ironwoodorganics as well as a well known mill in Quebec called La Meunerie Milanaise.Unfortunately, these flours are not easily sourced by regular consumers. I am always on the lookout to find places to buy good flour -whether it's organic all purpose or bread flour or various stoneground flours that are wholegrain or sifted.Do you know the difference between roller milled and stoneground flour? Why you would choose one over the other? Do you want to know more about it? Let me know in the comments- ask me a question 🙂Do you want to buy locally milled flour but aren't sure where to find it? By local I mean mostly Ontarian but also Canadian.I have a list! Comment FLOUR below and I will send it to you 🙂#floursource #locallymilledflour #stonegroundflour #organicgrain #organicflour #sourdoughbread #learntobakesourdough #sourdoughworkshops #ottawavalley #renfrewcounty #ottawa #ottawafoodie

Surrounded by sourdough tools! Which one do you li

Surrounded by sourdough tools! Which one do you like better? Colour or black and white?!There are a lot of "things" that you might need to bake sourdough. Clearly shown here in this picture, it is true!But you don't have to have all the things to start. Some of them you already have in your kitchen.When you come to a workshop you will get to see everything before you decide what you need to buy to get baking. Often it is very little or nothing at all. And the booklet you go home with has a list of what you will want to gather eventually and where the best places to get them are!If you are already baking sourdough, what are your most valuable bread tools?#sourdoughbreadtools #kitchentools #bakingtools #learntobakesourdough #sorudoughbread #sourdoughbreadworkshop #ottawavalley #renfrewcounty #ottawa #ottawafoodie #ottawafood #comewander

Bread Photo dump! These photos span from a number

Bread Photo dump! These photos span from a number of years- they all look so unique and different but were made with the same hands- mine!I was baking sourdough bread before it was cool on the internet. Your ancestors going wayyy back baked their own bread to sustain their lives. There is so much more to these pretty pictures of bread when you start to make it yourself.There is the touch, taste and sound of all the steps of baking your own bread and the development of your intuition matched with top notch exact technology (thank-you kitchen scales and thermometers) that helps us bake a loaf to the exact finish that we want.Sure, I can bake a pretty loaf-but I baked plenty that didn't look pretty and still tasted PRETTY damn good for a long time!In my sourdough workshops, I focus on everything you need to get started quicker than I did and I also get right into the science, the life (hello sourdough starter that is the backbone of the ecosystem that is real bread), the practical steps and what you really need to get started.Plus, we gather IN REAL LIFE and learn along side each other touching the dough and seeing it hang before our very eyes 👀🍞Registration is open for two more workshops this spring before I take my summer break!Drop a 🍞 below or in my DMs and I'll send you the info (in real life time because I don't have a bot doing it) OR you know just visit my B I O and find the way there.#sourdoughbread #learntobakesourdough #sourdoughworkshop #fermentation #ottawavalley #renfrewcounty #ottawa #easternontario #ottawafood #ottawatourism #comewander

Every second week I bake bread for @ottawavalleyco

Every second week I bake bread for @ottawavalleycoffee and @ottawavalleycoffee.arnprior ! You can go buy fresh loaves on Friday/Saturday morning and then frozen from the freezer.Plus! All their grilled sandwiches are made with a loaf shaped valley sourdough anyway of the week.If you aren't already supporting your local family run coffee shops, what are you even doing?! You're supporting families, mothers and their children when you do. Get your butt there today for your sourdough bread and coffee fix 😍🍞🥪#sourdough #familyrunbusiness #localbusiness #localeconomy #coffeetime #renfrewcounty #ottawavalley

I've been teaching folks to bake sourdough bread f

I've been teaching folks to bake sourdough bread for just about 7 years now. Every single time I teach, I refine my teaching methods and the booklet I provide! I can figure out an individual's learning style pretty quickly once we settle into the process and I always try me best to cater to you.That's why I keep my class sizes small- so that you get the attention you need and to set you up for success right from the start.These kind words from past students are a testament to that!Winter/spring workshops are ongoing.Visit the L I N K in b1o to explore which one is for you!#sourdoughstarter #sourdough #sourdoughbread #learntobakesourdough #sourdoughteacher #diylife #diybread #fermentation #renfrewcounty #ottawavalley #ottawa

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