278. Don’t Overcomplicate Sourdough: Simple, Attainable Strategies for Delicious Bread Every Day | Anja of Our Gabled Home

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

If you are intimidated by sourdough, you might be believing some common myths! I’m thrilled to have Anja joining me again on the podcast to talk about the very simple processes we use to make sourdough products an everyday staple in our homes. Anja grew up eating and baking sourdough with her mother, so it is a process she has spent decades becoming comfortable with. We hope to encourage you not to overcomplicate the sourdough process. Keep things simple, and find a rhythm that works for you. Sourdough is an adaptable and forgiving process that offers incredible nutritional benefits, so it is definitely worth learning! In this episode, we cover: A step-by-step look at Anja’s German sourdough process that makes sourdough simple for anyone Addressing the ways that people overcomplicate sourdough Walk through Anja’s simple same-day freshly-milled sourdough loaf Incorporating different types of freshly-milled whole grains into your baking Debunking the myth that experimenting with sourdough wastes ingredients and time You can leave behind these fears when it comes to starting sourdough Why sourdough baking is more of an intuitive process than an exact one You can shorten the sourdough process by skipping THIS unnecessary step This mindset shift around baking with freshly-milled whole grains makes all the difference Sourcing and storing multiple varieties of ancient and modern grains in your home Choosing the right grain mill and accounting for the cost of the investment View full show notes on the blog + watch this episode on YouTube. Thank you for supporting the sponsors that make this show possible! ABOUT ANJA Growing up in Germany, Anja, wife and mother of two adult sons, has always been interested and engaged in all things cooking, baking, sourdough, and homemaking. With her blog and Youtube channel Our Gabled Home (simple heritage homemaking) she is inspiring people how to take the “complicated” out of everything. RESOURCES Listen to my first chat with Anja on the podcast Check out Anja’s book Sourdough Simplified Enroll in her Super Simple Sourdough course Join my FREE masterclass to learn my 4-step framework for making money on YouTube Sit in my FREE masterclass to learn the secrets to becoming a full-time blogger Master the rhythm of sourdough with confidence in my Simple Sourdough course Gain the sewing knowledge and skills every homemaker needs in my Simple Sewing series Learn how you can earn a full-time income from home with my Create Your Blog Dream course Turn your content creation dreams into a profitable business with my YouTube Success Academy Keep all my favorite sourdough recipes at your fingertips in my Daily Sourdough cookbook CONNECT Anja Eckert of Our Gabled Home | Website | Instagram | Pinterest | Facebook | X | YouTube | TikTok Lisa Bass of Farmhouse on Boone | Blog | YouTube | Instagram | TikTok | Facebook | Pinterest Do you have a question you’d like me to answer on the podcast? A guest you’d like me to interview? Submit your questions and ideas here: bit.ly/SFLquestions.

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0:00.0	Unless you actually get out there and do it and experiment, you don't get that feel for it.
0:05.2	And you have to have a certain amount of failures so that you understand what it's supposed to feel like.
0:09.4	And if you're starting from zero, you've never baked the sourdough before.
0:12.5	You don't know what you're looking for.
0:14.0	The more often you do it, the more comfortable you get with it and you read your sourdough, you read the air,
0:19.2	and you know, you become you're comfortable and you read your sourdough, you read the air, and you know, you become more comfortable
0:20.9	and you take some liberties. My name is Lisa, mother of eight and creator of the blog and YouTube
0:26.1	channel Farmhouse on Boob. On this podcast, I like to talk about simplifying your life so you can
0:30.9	live out your priorities. I help you learn how to cook from scratch and decorate on a budget
0:35.0	through this podcast and my courses simple sourdough
0:38.0	in the simple sewing series. I also help people reach their goals from home through my business
0:42.8	courses, create your blog dream, and YouTube Success Academy. I will leave links to these resources
0:47.3	in the show notes and description box below. Now let's get into the show.
0:59.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. Today, we're going to be chatting sourdough again with Anya from our gabled home. It's been a while since she's been on
1:04.3	the show, but I love her unique, very laid-back approach to sourdough. And then she also has
1:10.0	quite a bit of experience with
1:11.7	whole grains and many different varieties of whole grains, which a lot of you seem to be really
1:16.2	interested in learning how to incorporate that, tips and tricks for that, and what your expectations
1:21.3	should be when switching to whole grains. So I think this conversation, whether you've started
1:26.4	sourdough, you're well in the middle of it or you're an expert, I think will be interesting to you. both try to make sourdough a bit more approachable for people and toss out a lot of the rules
1:45.1	and a lot of the uncertainty and like, oh, yeah, things might say this, but you don't necessarily
1:49.9	have to do that. So yeah, welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your website, your YouTube
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