Sourdough Bread - Baker Sunil!

I have been baking bread off and on for several years, and the results have been mixed. Some times the bread would taste too yeast, at other times the bread would be fine to taste but pale in color. I could never get it quite right. So, after a while, I just brokedown and bought a breadmaking machine. And for a while, I baked and baked. The breadmaking machine makes baking bread a cinche. I loved waking up to the smell of bread, so bread making continued. But after a while, it stopped.

Recently, when my parents arrived here to spend a few months with us, I decided to pick up bread making. My dad loves freshly baked breads, and sourdough bread is his absolute favorite. So, I thought I would bake sourdough bread for him every few days, so he could really get his fill.

But this time I am doing things differently. I am using the bread making machine more to knead the dough and to let the dough rise. I am now taking the dough out for proofing and am forming the dough in the shapes I want, and baking it in our generic oven.
You can see the results for yourself. Not bad eh? Taste was good too. Just ask my dad!