Adventures in Sourdough

  When we gathered together to celebrate my FIL's 85th birthday, our Oklahoma tribe arrived at the ranch a few days early:

                                    

And I have to show off this beautiful, handmade rolling pin our girl gifted me - it's a piece of art, but rest assured, I'm using it!

Our girl has access to an endless supply of sand cherries, grapes, and blackberries and she has jumped on the jam train with both feet. I can't even tell you how many pints she canned, but she ended up posting some for sale. The CEO of her company wanted some and they bartered his sourdough starter for jam.

Well that created a sourdough monster! She started making beautiful bread

She brought us yummy jam - muscadine, blackberry, and sand plum! 

                       

 As well as some sourdough discard crackers that are amazing:

She also gifted us some of the starter 

                       

and that awakened the sourdough beast in DH. He used to make sourdough biscuits every morning - yes, we were spoiled. So one morning our girl was up bright and early 

                                     

and tried her hand at biscuits 

                                   

and the next morning it was DH's turn. 

                                            

We all stood in the kitchen every morning and slathered her homemade jam on warm sourdough biscuits until we almost foundered

                                

And sourdough stories were shared

                       

I often tease our girl because growing up, she preferred to shadow DH and spent all of her time horseback yet now, she's cooking amazing food, making jam, and conquering sourdough while juggling a job as a livestock consultant with a non-profit corporation. I recently sent her this photo and told her I owed her an apology - I was wrong and she actually DID spend time in the kitchen - I love this shot!

You've come a long way Sprout and we couldn't be more proud!