MY STORY
2020 was a very challenging year for all of us without a doubt. For me, it was a year when I was introduced to sourdough & baking, and everything else really came from there. One morning I just woke up and decided to bake sourdough for the first time... and I have not stopped since.
Working in hospitality my entire life, I have never had a chance to stop and try something different or even have the time to develop a hobby or a passion.
Don't get me wrong, a life within the hospitality industry had been my lifelong ambition so I never thought that I needed nor would have the opportunity to do anything else, until the entire world stopped because of Covid-19 and my furlough life began!
That was the moment when I started to create and bake my most favourite memories.
After my first couple of bakes, I was introduced to the art of scoring and creating different flavours, and my world just started to spin around sourdough every single day! I went from baking a couple of loaves a day for myself, then a few loaves a day for all my friends and family, to selling them from a local grocery shop and baking over 100 loaves a week all on my own!
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Some would say that waking up at 3/4am in the morning to bake bread must be so exhausting. For me that was the best part of the process as I would get to spend it with my Momma Terenia & my best friend Aggie in Poland! Not being able to travel and see my closest family due to the pandemic was really tough. Therefore, having these three hours each morning where they would watch me score & bake each loaf, share some laughter and drink our morning coffee together (all via FaceTime!) was definitely the biggest highlight.
The love for it would just grow each day more and more, motivating me to explore different techniques, flavours and to be constantly on the lookout for new ways to express ideas.
Today I am ready to share my experiences. I really hope you will enjoy my recipes, tips, tutorials & I get to enjoy carrying on with my sourdough journey with all of you.
Lots of love
Natalia xxx