Charley - I passed your sourdough starter suggestions on to DS

[colleenmomof2]

and poked him to do his own research so we can start enjoying sourdough bread! He'll have a bit of extra time to think about it over the next 2 weeks. You can lead a son to the stand mixer but you can't make him bake smileys/wink.gif Thank you for your wonderful advice! Colleen

 

[charley]

It is a really really easy bread to make and has wonderful flavor==a potato

based dough like Martin's potato rolls.
I have even made Moravian sugar cake from it--another potato based dough. And it can make a wheat bread with subbing some whole wheat flour for the white.
You are right to let him "mess" with it--but he has expressed interest so maybe this will rub off as a start.