Sourdough Bread Baking For Beginners with Roya Platsis

Dear Food

Raise your hand if you hopped aboard the sourdough bread train? With all this time at home, a lot of us have taken on lofty kitchen projects like baking sourdough bread from scratch. In this episode, we’re joined by the fabulously sassy, bread-making wizard, Roya Platsis. By day, Roya is a big wig in the HR world, but at home, she’s mastered the art of sourdough bread and has taken to social media to show us the easy, no-frills technique that guarantees successful bread. We talk about bread making, the pressures of producing content, and being true to yourself - even when that means embracing your potty mouth!

What’s in this episode:

• Roya and Ashley rehash their time working together at Lucasfilm
• How Roya’s cooking videos went viral on Facebook
• Roya’s first food memory at the San Francisco zoo
• How eating out threatened her relationship early-on
• Though she’s a self-taught cook, who Roya credits for her cooking skills
• How to make sourdough bread starter
• What a levain is
• The step-by-step process for making sourdough bread
• Roya shares her lemon rosemary bread recipe
• What is was like to bake bread, live, in front of a huge audience
• Why it was so important to fail in front of viewers
• The non-intimidating approach Roya takes to bread making
• How bread has become a great teacher for both Roya and Ashley
• Roya describes her family life and how they are doing during the pandemic
• The best type of bread for a beginner to make
• Similarities between brewing beer and making sourdough
• What “hooch” is in relation to starter
• What to do if your sourdough starter isn’t active
• Roya’s dream dinner

About Roya:

In Roya’s own words, she is the dirt-loving mother of two, wife to one, who swears too much and is great at cooking. She is currently the Director of Human Resources at CamelBak, and lives with her darling family in Petaluma, California.

Connect with Roya:

Find Roya on YouTube by searching “Fancy as Fork”

Or on Instagram and Twitter @DirtDontHurtMom

The cookbook Roya mentions is called ‘Della Fattoria Bread’

Quotes:

• “You fold it for what feels like an entire day. And then you bake the sh*t out of it” - Roya
• “There’s a beautiful, fancy, loaf of bread at the end of the process.” - Roya
• “It’s just flour and water. And that was what I was trying to get across.” - Roya
• “I don’t need pasta, I need bread. Good bread especially. The $8 kind.” - Roya

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