Thursday, August 26, 2010

My New Pets

I can't believe it's been more than a year since i last blogged! A lot has happened over the past year, some good, some bad but mostly it has given me a direction which i am ready to pursue and hopefully will come to fruition in the near future.

In any case, as the title suggests, I am here to introduce a very exciting project which i am embarking on and it has to do with new pets i've been growing, to be exact, millions of them! This project is definitely not for the faint of heart, nor is it for the factory-processed, generic and tasteless white sliced bread munching generation. I am attempting to make the king of all breads... the SOURDOUGH. It is a bread which has started and ended wars and one can clearly understand why with just a taste. But i must warn you, given its reputation, the process of creating it is by no means a simple task. Nurture, care and dedication must be shown and in return, the rewards are great and bountiful!

In the next few days, weeks, months and hopefully years, i will carefully document the process of growing a seed culture into a mother starter. I will also hopefully be able to have a mother starter that will continue to grow and refresh for many many years. This is the pride of all artisan bakers which i strive to become one day.

Ok enough of chatter, here goes a couple of pictures of the seed culture i've been cultivating for the past 2 days. I'm so excited, they are like my babies! I love all 2 million of these yeast-y smelling, bubbling & frothy bacteria. I can't wait for them to all grow up... sniff sniff. I'm proud of them already...