Here we are with Italian Bread, recipe #15 in The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge. (And no, I won’t butcher the Italian language for this one any more than I just did.)
This recipe was pretty much a repeat of the French bread I made two weeks back so the steps along the way are nearly identical. [...]

For anyone who wonders if there’s something better you can do with that extra quarter cup of flour that may go into the compost bin each time you feed your active starter, here’s an AMAZINGLY YUMMY pancake recipe that you can make using your excess starter (when it’s not going to making loaves, obviously). Simply [...]

As you feed your starter, you’ll probably realize that there’s stuff you can do with it but need a bit of help figuring what. In this entry I’ll touch (and link) on a few potential ideas.
Now for anyone who’s in the process of building a starter from scratch, the portions you discard are not actually [...]