Have you ever been thinking what are the benefits of eating sourdough? Have you ever thought why is it so good to make it or buy artisan sourdough bread? In the following post, I'll try to answer these questions to the best of my knowledge through research and reading. What's the main difference with other commercial non-sourdough bread? Sourdough was the customary form of bread that was used until a few centuries ago; until baker's yeast replaced it in a big wave. A loaf of leavened bread is a baked product whose dough rises during the bread-making process, most likely due to gas created by t ..read more

Hi there. Many of you have searched and looked everywhere for the right recipe because all that you are doing is not giving you what you want, what you always dreamed of making when you decided to start baking. Is it right??? Nothing works. THE TRUTH IS IN THE FOLLOWING LINES. Pick a recipe, any recipe, STICK to it. The secret of sourdough is in the concept. Every recipe actually works. The concept of patience and letting go of fear and stress. Sourdough baking requires time, and with time you will be able to bake. You need to give yourself time to make plenty of mistakes. Said that, I am det ..read more

In this post, I would like to share my top sourdough master recipes. By master recipe, I mean a recipe that can produce different products by following the same method. Before I start writing about that I would like to reiterate the point that sourdough baking is more a method than it is a flavour. Keep this in mind next time. These are the basic recipes we will talk about: Bread (classic bread) Rich bread (focaccia, pizza) Sweet bread (brioche, doughnut, panettone, Pandoro, Colomba, and more) Laminated (croissant, danishes, etc) The best thing about this post is that you can actually look a ..read more

This post is a big announcement. I've finally made great progress with making a sourdough calculator to help professionals and home bakers, find out percentages, weights and multiply quantities. I've been working on this project for a while and I wanted to give it to you for free. To show you my gratitude for following this blog, my youtube channel or my social media accounts. The last 6 years, since I started my first website, have been a huge roller-coaster and not only that in the meant time I relocated from Mornington Peninsula to Adelaide, but I also divorced and went through a tough ment ..read more

Ting, ting, ting... Can you hear the bells jingle yet? Well, Christmas is approaching fast and people this year are getting organised better than before. I see them every day shopping more and more, presents, food and so on. In this period of time also food comes to mind, isn't it? And in most Anglosaxxons influenced countries, there are two typical foods presented for Christmas: one the Ham or one classic Turkey. Which one is your favourite? My favourite is the Ham, even though my Italian tradition is based on different foods mostly served for Christmas' eve and seafood-based. Today I would ..read more

I've written something similar to this a few years back when I finally decided to share the knowledge I had acquired while baking bread since the age of 19. The 5 reasons, why, I think someone should bake or buy sourdough bread. I've started sharing many things on this journey. I had the great opportunity to create a podcast, and the pleasure to interview some great bakers around the world from Nevada to the Chez Republic, to Canada and to Australia. One of the interviews that, personally, gave me the most amount of information was the interview with Vanessa Kimbell, author of multiple sourdo ..read more

In my years of baking Sourdough goods, I have always had a dream, a dream called PANETTONE. This amazing baked sweet bread has an ancient history that starts around 1500 when it was used to be given as a gift at ceremonies and weddings. Today I am not here trying to tell you a story, but to give you the top important tips to nail the Panettone and all the other goods that follow the same principles. To begin with, I wanted to share the recipe with you, at the end this is why you came here all along, isn't it? Panettone recipe: Finally, the #panettone made with #lievitomadre #madeathome To hav ..read more

Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog, today's post is all about sourdough art baking. I want to introduce you to a form of art that you might not be accustomed to. But in case you have, please feel free to write it in the comment section below. I find that many people have been fascinated by these amazing pictures, other than wanting to learn how to bake sourdough for the sole reason of eating well-made homemade bread. They could be looking as simple as this from @cooktherapy where you can see an amazing "ëar" and a marvellous pattern of leafy drawings on the side. Even if this pattern ..read more

Sourdough baking vessels are one of the most important items you need to make a sourdough loaf worth its name. As you may know recently I have quit my job as a chef, to dedicate my time more and more to the creation and writing of this blog; and more on sharing the knowledge that I have acquired while learning sourdough baking by myself. Sourdough baking vessels are one of the most important items you need to make a sourdough loaf worth its name. If this is the first time you read my blog please hold on tight and keep reading because I might have the answers to help you in your beginner's so ..read more

I have been away for a very long time; not writing for this blog, for this long, never happened, but unfortunately, I was chasing, most likely the wrong thing. At this time I was trying to experience cooking professionally again, a big mistake, but has been beneficial for one thing: making me understand that it's not for me anymore, I don't enjoy cooking for a living and it has become a burden to wake up and go to work, really struggling to get out of bed. On the other side, I always wanted to bake, and this has been driving me to study and research at home and in all the places I've been wor ..read more