Pull up a chair — it’s time for your Weekly Crumb!🍞
This week at The Crumb Table was really good! First things first — we hit 76 members. Truly wild🤯 I'd say that for just two members joining too so🤣🤭
Recipes were dropped AND tested😋
Check out what one of our members had to say about the Sourdough Cookie Recipe she tried!⤵️
“Yes!!! I absolutely made the BEST cookies known to man yesterday. I sure did. @Samantha Mayers posted the Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe a few days ago and the picture of the cookie alone had me in a choke hold. 1 HAD to bake them. 1 did and the results are amazing. To top it off the recipe is simple enough for a 3rd grader to understand and bake. You can add as many or as little chocolate chips as your heart desires. You can add toasted pecans, I did. I think you could add the kitchen sink to this recipe and it'd still be good. If you haven't baked these cookies yet, do yourself a favor and get in the kitchen asap with this dough as soon as possible.”We also had some great introductions from new members this week, and I loved seeing faces (and personalities) behind the dough!! This table keeps getting better because of who is sitting at it!🪑 and if you're not a member yet, no pressure! But just know there's always a seat open for you!
One of my favorite parts of the week was experimenting with dough feel as a community. This weeks prompt for the Monthly Baking Challenge was to make two loaves BUT change one factor of the second loaf (hydration, shaping method, folding method, etc...) to really feel the difference in the dough! Sadly, I was out of flour and I haven't gotten to experiment with this yet but I am absolutely catching up!😅 I'm excited about this one!
Behind the scenes, posting categories got a much-needed glow-up, which should make things easier to find and less overwhelming to scroll through! Organization without sucking the joy out of it — my favorite kind.
And finally, we talked about something bread keeps teaching us over and over again: joy in the process. Not just in the finished loaf. Not just when it turns out “right.” But in the showing up, the waiting, the learning, and the doing. Plus how we can find joy in the process of every day life too... That conversation stuck with me😌
Thanks for following along and watching this space grow. The conversations, questions, and real-life baking moments happening inside The Crumb Table are exactly why I started it in the first place. It’s growing in all the right ways — slowly, intentionally, and with a whole lot of heart!
Until next week👋🏼
— Samantha 🍞🤎
