I was minding my own business in the grocery store a couple days ago and I thought about getting a loaf of sourdough bread. There was a special display in the bakery section of what I would call smallish loafs of bread for $8.99. I get it, inflation blah blah blah... but there is no way I’m spending $9 for bread. Especially since I can’t even remember the last time I bought bread.

I recently read an article about sourdough bread being somewhat less bad for you than regular bread. I don’t have sourdough starter, nor any handy Amish friends (or wherever bread starter comes from) so I opted to try a simpler approach. Only two ingredients: 4 cups of self-rising full-protein flour and 2 cups of plain Kefir. I mixed the 2 ingredients together, put Saran Wrap on the bowl and let it rest in the fridge for 5 hours.

Later in the day I preheated the oven to 450 with the covered Dutch oven pot in the oven. After working and folding the dough for a few minutes as the oven warmed up, I plopped the dough onto parchment paper and baked it for 30 minutes covered, and 15 minutes uncovered.

The results: crispy on the outside, fairly dense on the inside. Tasty.

Ironically, I spent almost exactly $9 on flour and Kefir. However, I think I could make 2 more loaves. So $3 each. I win.

Next time, I will let the dough rest for a few more hours, just to see if I can let the Kefir enzymes and yeast make more air gaps. Pretty easy to make. Here is the link to the recipe.

I haven’t given up on Carnivore - but did feel like have some bread with dinner.