Well , hello everyone , hello , hello . Welcome back to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas . It's the last episode of the month , already Lord help .
Speaker 2We were just in for the beginning of the month . It's already the end of March .
Yeah , okay , okay .
Speaker 1Well , today , we're talking about a delicious topic . We have a delicious topic for y'all . If you don't already know , the Cajun Mamas are obsessed with sourdough bread . And we're going to have a whole podcast episode dedicated to this topic and why and why ? Why the big to-do about sourdough ?
Speaker 2What's it all about ? All right , but first we're going to talk about Behold Catholic Ministries . What's it all about ? All right , but first we're going to talk about Behold Catholic Ministries . Miss Melissa VanSol started Behold Catholic Ministries , and their mission is to help women foster a relationship with our Blessed Mother Mary .
As we know , we are beloved daughters of Christ and we need to grow closer to Him , and this is a way that she is give me the words , fostering that .
Speaker 1Fostering that Through studying the word of God , through Holy Scripture , consecrating our lives to Mary and cultivating holy friendships with like-minded women , inspiring others to be who God truly called them to be in the world . That's her goal in this ministry . They offer offer . She does mother's day retreats , uh , once a year , which I know I'm sure it's full by now for this mother's day . But that is something that they're passionate about and really they just they pamper the women for a couple of days and just and pampering looks different in all situations .
Speaker 2So what is this ?
Speaker 1a spiritual yes , maybe I shouldn't have said that , but I'm glad you clarified . It's not a spa type of situation , the best type of pampering though , yeah , it's a getting a getting quiet um reflecting reflection . Yeah , it's a spiritual pampering . Okay , if you want more information on behold catholic ministries , you can find them on facebook , on instagram , um email . Any questions that you have at behold catholic ministries , go look them up .
Speaker 2Dot com maybe you'll feel like that's something worth giving to though you know , yeah , maybe you will feel that , maybe you want to be a part of that and you just are looking for something to pour some financial resources into or prayers into . Yeah , you might want to give , you know , give , and then that gives to so many others and bring so many others to Christ , and what a good way to do that . Yes , I agree , all right . So , and she didn't ask us to say it , I said that .
Speaker 1You said that that comes from . It has no notes on here about financials .
Speaker 2It doesn't , it doesn't say , oh , please ask them . No , I mean , you know , some people are just going to feel cold and they're going to be like you know what . That sounds great and I want to be a part of that . So , anyway , behold Catholic Ministries . I just feel so . I don't know there's some type of way about Miss Melissa . Yeah , all right , today we're talking about sourdough .
Speaker 1Yes , we are .
Speaker 2And you're going to start out by
telling us why and what got us started on this , because I have different feelings than you do .
Speaker 1Okay , so during COVID apparently . I didn't know this until much later , but apparently during COVID , everyone was trying to make sourdough , like people had all this extra time and all these videos were going viral on TikTok of people making sourdough and this and that I didn't see this until much later . What are we in 2025 ? So in 2023 , I think , is whenever I stumbled upon sourdough and I'm looking at these feels like yesterday you're aggravating me with this been aggravating you for over two years .
Speaker 1Yeah , okay , um , I'm just watching these reels and stuff of these people making bread and first of all , I mean I love bread , love bread , but had like a love hate relationship with bread Cause I'm like I really know I'm not supposed to be eating bread . It's bad for you to make you gain weight , this and that . But I'm looking at these people making these beautiful loaves and it's so satisfying . It's like all this gooey stuff and they put it in there and they make a pretty dough with it and they rolling it out and scoring it and I'm like I want to do that , I want to try that . Why can't I try that ?
Speaker 1Right about the same time that happened and it was , I mean , that had to be Jesus , had to be . Right around that same time , my mother-in-law got a starter like random . She had never made sourdough before . She was like I bought a sourdough starter , you want to try some ? And I'm like , yes , I do as a matter of fact . Yeah , so now she gave me some of her starter . She had already activated it . She bought it dehydrated , like we do now with our Virgie . Okay . So she bought it dehydrated , got it active , whatever , and gave me some like live already . My first loaf was a gooey goopy and I made a video on this , sarah . Like I made a video , like I'm trying to tell somebody how to make sourdough .
Speaker 1And I go . I like I'm gonna have to go back and find this video .
Speaker 2I want to go watch it now .
Speaker 1I need to take it off so nobody sees it now and be like try to do that , but oh , it was . I'm like is it supposed to be this sticky ? I don't know , like I couldn't even form it , but I was like a big glob . I baked it and I'm like , oh my God , this is awesome .
Speaker 2I made this delicious bread bread or whatever .
Speaker 1It took a few times but I finally I found a recipe that works , the simplest recipe I could find , because you could go down that rabbit hole .
Speaker 2Oh , I'm still working with the same one we started with , except I just don't . I don't stretch and pull it so much so , um , yes , we'll get it .
Speaker 1I can't wait to hear your side of all this . So I was like man . First of all . This is great . Apparently , it's better for you , Like you can eat it without feeling guilty which I want to touch a little bit on that but mostly just like you feel . So I was so proud of myself .
Speaker 2I felt like a woman , I'm making bread . You were just getting so loud and so excited about this . It's making me giggle Y'all . She's such a geek for some sourdough .
Speaker 1I am , y'all know . She knows every time we sell a Virgie on our website .
Speaker 2I'm like Virgie she loves it Because she knows , okay , I'm looking , I'm just making sure that my lip gloss is not everywhere .
Speaker 1Oh no , you're good .
Speaker 2I'm sorry , I didn't want to be rude .
Speaker 1I would tell you I hope so . I would tell you . I just feel like it's all over I don't know , I feel like I got some snack in my teeth , because we just had a little snack . You don't have no snack in your teeth . Okay , I was talking about . I felt like such a woman , yeah , like making this bread the sense of accomplishment .
Speaker 1You know there's a process of like you got to keep the starter alive and I'm like it's actually like living Like this is the adult equivalent of a Tamagotchi or a gigapit . You got to keep this thing alive . But I did some research , not a ton , I'm not going to lie to you , because you could really just go down the rabbit hole . I found like the simplest way that I could see the least amount of stretch and fold . You know you're not gonna stretch and fold every 30 minutes for four hours and let it rise overnight , then put it in the fridge and let that rot . That that's it . Another day , same day , sourdough is what I did and I mean I found a great recipe . It works 97 , 98 percent of the time , because sometimes she always has some pretty fluffy loaves .
Speaker 2I got it what you talking about same day ?
Speaker 1sourdough . Yeah , like they call it same day because it's not within 24 hours . You can bake it , you know because some recipes you have to . You proof it on the counter for eight ish hours . Then you put it in the fridge to oh , like and it's days before you don't tell me nothing . No , yeah , that's what I'm saying , like I knew if I was gonna do this longer processes than what we ?
Speaker 2yes , oh , like you don't understand .
Speaker 1What we do is simple compared to what what's the difference then ?
Speaker 2why would I do it that way ?
Speaker 1me , I don't know , I haven't done it okay , we're not gonna go .
Speaker 2No , we're not even gonna go there . It's working now if you watch if you listen , y'all comment and tell us what , what's better . Why would we , why would we take days to do it when we can do it in one day ?
Speaker 1I really just feel like what's the advantage ? Feel like the inside's probably a little different , maybe Maybe better , I don't know .
Speaker 2It's not going to taste any better . I mean it's flour water salt .
Speaker 1Yeah , but it will be different because of the fermentation , like of how long you let it ferment . Oh , okay yeah it will be different , but like you know how all those pretty scoring videos you'll see people score in their bread and it looks so stiff kind of that's free , that's refrigerated that's why my scores always look okay not , I mean not always , but sometimes , but mostly my
Speaker 1bread tastes good , but my scores are always and know at some point you have to be like , as long as it tastes good and it's not like dense or like a frisbee you're good .
Speaker 2Here's something that I never thought about , that I'm thinking about right now . But you know how we love to see before and afters . I love to watch people score and see what it looks like after it's baked Me too , a good old before and after sourdough .
Speaker 1Yeah , and they I mean some of them get in there , make designs and little tiny cuts and excuse me , my score .
Speaker 2I challenge you .
Speaker 1No , no , no , no no .
Speaker 2There will be none of that .
Speaker 1To make us a before and after series , there will be none of that I do .
Speaker 1I do a cross or a side one . That is all you're getting with me . If you want prettier ones , you got to
put that in the fridge and I ain't going through all that , all right . So it just started as like a hobby or like just I wanted to see if I could do it . And once I got it and I made , I'll never forget the first pretty loaf I made , when I cut into it and I cracked it open like this and it was all the little holes and like oh , I was so excited Like I could have just did a happy dance . I bet you did .
Speaker 2I probably did do a happy dance . I thought you had a little butter on there and enjoyed a big piece of bread .
Speaker 1I had roasted some garlic for that one , because I remember putting that garlic spread on that .
Speaker 2Oh , I forgot , we did that a bit .
Speaker 1Yeah , now garlic for that one , because I remember .
Speaker 2Oh , I forgot we did that . Yes , yeah . Now I just toast it with butter pretty much . It's how I like to eat it , but I kind of want some garlic oil .
Speaker 1Now you could do that , the possibilities the possibilities , yeah , but that's how it got started and I just felt so satisfied knowing I had made that and plus it's , and I feel like it's better for us than eating packaged bread with all kind of preservatives and stuff in it . You know , it's so simple Flour , water , that's it , and salt .
Speaker 2Flour , water and salt so good . Very simple .
Speaker 1Okay , let's take a second before we get you know even further into this delicious topic and mention sound prevention screeningsings . Sound prevention screenings specializes in early detection ultrasound screenings for men and women . It's not just women , you know , she is really a breast uh , breast cancer awareness advocate , but this is for men too .
Speaker 2And she's found things you know as far as men's health goes , there there's , you know , it's just like women . We have different bodies and different things you can find To look for exactly and she knows where to look and what to look for .
Speaker 1This is really about early detection . Y'all these ultrasound scans can detect things that other scans , like mammograms and stuff , cannot . So it's just a way to be proactive about your health . And really , Ms Dionneoit , we went and had scans done . She wanted us to experience it to be able to talk about it , and it was a great experience . Don't let the fear stop you from going get it done Because we were a little nervous . I'm not going to lie , it's like ooh , what is she going to find ?
Speaker 2You never know what kind of open can of worms are we going to come across .
Speaker 1We were scared a little bit .
Speaker 2But you know , it's better to know , it's better to know , it's better to know early y'all .
Speaker 1You will have so many more treatment options if you find things early . I mean , that's just the way . That's just . It is what it is . So , you know , think of this as investing in your health . You know we spend all this money on ourselves , our hair , our nails or whatever to look good on the outside . How about what are you doing for your inside ? So think about that and head to sound-preventioncom and you can have all the info there and even book your appointment . So check that out , go to to sound-preventioncom or email soundprevention at gmailcom for more information . Thank you .
Speaker 2Ms Dionne .
Speaker 1Thank you .
Speaker 2All right .
Speaker 1So that's how it got started . And then I got you hooked into it , roped into it . You roped me the word hooked .
Speaker 2you're gonna try this would say that I was a hundred percent in to start . I was hooked the first time but honestly , I haven't given up on it , and it's been two years that is true .
Speaker 1Okay , even after some failed attempts of killing your starter , I just give several I give more of Hergy and you just keep her going .
Speaker 2Yes , Because you're so good about it . But then you know like I'm going to tell you just a couple of excuses . A baby , Just minor life changes . My house is so cold . I got so many of them . Which one do you want ? Water from the town of Church Point . Water from the town of church point . Water from the town of church point ? Like sourdough is a fickle thing okay , it can be fickle now but the nobody has tried this more than me can't be .
Speaker 2No , maybe there is , but I I keep trying and I keep going back for more . But why ? Because the bread is so good .
Speaker 1See , there's nothing better than a piece of sourdough toast with your eggs in the morning . That's my favorite meal . Me too . I look forward to that breakfast .
Speaker 2Sometimes I make me a ham sandwich and some shredded cheese and put that in my air fryer with the butters , with the bobs , the butter on both sides butters with the bobs the butter , butter both sides , the butter on both sides , okay , and then take that and fry it up , take it out a little little blue paint mayonnaise oh , lord help , I'm so hungry , right now too all right , so that's why it's so good okay , it's so good .
Speaker 2And then with the discord , which is a whole different thing , the stuff that you have to kind of put off to the side , so you start , you can make the sort of thrive and you discord it .
Speaker 2We call it the lanyap yes , because I don't like the word discord and lanyap is such a cajun word yeah , it's a little extra , it's the extra we , we make , I make waffles with my discord and I wanted to say , if you have a whole bunch of discord , I could use them right now , because I can hook you up . Uh , ros loves sourdough waffles , and so we make waffles with the discord and it's . You can make so much , so many different things . We've made pop t-Tarts with the Discord . Brownies . We've made brownies . Granola , oh granola . I love that . I forgot about that .
Speaker 1I haven't made that in a while . I think it's time . Yeah , I just smell it already .
Speaker 2What else have we made so many different things ?
Speaker 1Yeah , you can make biscuits , you can make crackers .
Speaker 2Oh , you made a king cake , made a king cake with sourdough . Focaccia Cinnamon rolls and cinnamon roll focaccia or savory focaccia bread .
Speaker 1Yeah , and there's so many resources online too , like I don't come up with the . I get asked a lot like I need sourdough recipes and I'm like Google , you know , like , honestly , there are so many good resources out there . Just go find one and try it . That's what I do . Yeah , and I've tried some stuff that's failed too . Yeah , did not I made . Oh , I want , I wanted to make scones . I love a scone and bricks . When it came , I'm like that ain't making the cut , could ?
Speaker 2have throw that at the wall .
Speaker 1Could have threw it through a window , broke the window . Yeah , so it's not all you know . It ain't all always a win .
Speaker 2But yeah , well , she got me started and I was like she said miss Connie has a starter and I said , oh ,
share some with me . All right , she brings it to my house and I'm calling her . I have to face on her . I'm having a heart attack over this stuff because I'm just like okay what do I do ?
Speaker 1what do I do now ?
Speaker 2is this right ? Is this right ? Is this what it's supposed to look like ? And she's like okay , and then at that time we didn't know too much about it . Now we know more about the ratios of how it's supposed to do , and everybody's always cutting up about why do you use the metric system ?
Speaker 1why are you measuring in grams ? This is america . I'm like calm down , calm down , sir , I'm a patriot too . Okay , this is america . Yes , no , literally . That was one of the comments . Yeah , yeah , this is america .
Speaker 2Use american measurements I'm like what kind of cajun , mama , what kind of cajun , what ?
Speaker 1kind of cajun measures in grams .
Speaker 1I'm like I am so sorry , miss Betty , but no , I just pulled that name out , but on , you will see , 90 percent of your sourdough recipes are gonna have metric measures , because it's precise . Okay , there are some people who get by eyeballing it . I'm like like , go ahead , girl , that's great , but for me I have to measure in grams and it will come out right every time if I do it that way . Don't eyeball when you feed it . Don't eyeball it . Get your little kitchen scale . That's the best little purchase you're ever going to make .
Speaker 2I use mine often .
Speaker 1I use it all the time , and then there's no more guessing . If you follow the recipe it's going to come out .
Speaker 2Yes , it will .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2But , if you're like me and you're like oh , I just know what the consistency looks like , so I'm not going to measure .
Speaker 1See some people get to that point where they just know how it feels and all that I'm like .
Speaker 2I tried to be that person and what ended up happening was that it did not work that way and throwed it out . You threw it and then try again , and I like so , after several times of trying .
Speaker 1So that's why we do metric measures .
Speaker 2Yeah , it's just precise and please , for the love of God , do yourself a favor , go get you some distilled water . Okay .
Speaker 1It's all the stuff they put in our tap water , like the chlorine will kill the starter .
Speaker 2It will kill it because I tried to use the Brita filter . Will kill the starter . It will kill it because I tried to use the Brita filter and until I started using the stuff that's already like in the gallon Distilled . Yeah , that , what do you use ?
Speaker 1I actually use water from my refrigerator . I knew you were going to say that .
Speaker 2It's run through a filter . Yeah , that's what mine was too , and it was not . That's the church point water versus mere branch water . See , just go buy the stuff . I've been using the baby's water that we use for the formula . Yeah , you can just use bottled water Thriving , thriving .
Speaker 1Virgie don't like that tap stuff , yeah , she said give me that bottled water . We'll talk about vergy too and where that comes from . I want to say uh , but let's take a second and mention parish rice . Y'all this is a love of ours . We love us some parish rice . They are locally owned louisiana company , a wonderful family . We had the privilege of meeting uh by accident one day yeah , and they just so welcoming and so nice .
Speaker 1Um , they developed this rice . This is their creation . It's a higher protein , lower glycemic index rice . So if you have you know health concerns you're diabetic . You can't have rice typically . You need to look into this rice because it doesn't spike your blood sugar . Leave it up to a cajun , absolutely how can we have rice ?
Speaker 2you know how can we have rice ?
Speaker 1we're gonna , we're gonna make it healthy and they did , and it tastes the same , like you can't tell no difference . It's white , fluffy , good rice . Go to parishricecom and you can look at all the stores around here that offer it . Or , if you're not around here , you can order it online and have it shipped to your house , parishricecom . We love y'all and we thank y'all for being a sponsor of the podcast .
Speaker 2Thank y'all so much all right , so let's talk a little bit about Virgie , you know we .
Speaker 1How did Virgie come about ?
Speaker 2how did Virgie come about ?
Speaker 1okay . So I don't know if it was your idea or mine , I don't remember , but we both got into the sourdough thing and we were both loving it so much . And I'm like you know , miss Connie got her starter online . Like people sell their starter , they take it , they dehydrate it so that was like your brain child .
Speaker 2That was not okay maybe it was me .
Speaker 1It looks like crumbs , you know , when you you pulse
it up or whatever , and then you you can ship it out because it's dried and it came with instructions on how to like , hydrate it and get it back active and able to bake with it , and I was like I love this . So I want everybody to feel this happiness that this is bringing me . So Cajun Mamas are going to offer a sourdough starter .
Speaker 2That was our very first product we ever ever had on the website , and it is our bestseller .
Speaker 1Before we had shirts , before we had mugs , any of that , we had a Virgie . And so , if you don't know , but in the sourdough community you name your starter , like everyone names whatever We've had . Dolene , we've had . Oh , we've had , lazarus We've had . Because it comes back to life , because it rises to life , yes , oh man , what's some other ones ? Oh man , what's some other ?
Speaker 2ones . Oh man , I'm drawn to blank . There's like some Sex and the City themed ones . What was there ? Carrie Bredshaw ? Carrie Bredshaw yes , I've heard that one before .
Speaker 1They have the most creative sourdough names . I chose Virgie after my husband's grandma , who passed away um a few years ago , but like I liked how people were naming their starters like old , old lady names or like old classic names and I was like virgie , it's , it's virgie . It was a no , no question for me . So that's one way like I feel like virgie's miss virgie's living on and she didn't bake sourdough that I know of . She was a baker , though like baked , cooked , everything awesome . But um , I'm like this is , this is virgie . So we offer , I started dehydrating , packaging it up in little little dime bag like little plastic jewelry bags but yeah I was like people's gonna think we're selling drugs in here .
Speaker 1Like we had the powder , like it looks like white kind of powder stuff . Yeah , it was funny . But yeah , we started doing that and I wrote up instructions , like typed up instructions , on how to step by step . It takes you through like a five-day process of how to get it going and get it ready to bake with , and we offered it on our website . Yeah , and it took off . So many people .
Speaker 2So many people .
Speaker 1I would love to know how many we have shared . Like it's got to be over 1,000, . Huh , there's a way we can .
Speaker 2Oh , for sure . Okay , yeah , because I packed about 50 of them this morning . I wish we could probably do that real quick , but anyway , um yeah that that , just in and of itself , and y'all , not just people from around here , all over the united states , are getting virgins shipped to them at CajunMamascom . Yeah , so .
Speaker 1And I just feel like that lets me know like people want to try , but they're . They don't know where to start and I feel like we're giving them a great place to start . And like you can make your own starter . Yeah , you don't have to use a dehydrated one , but it stinks .
Speaker 2I tried it already and I was going to like I had a whole video planned out that I was going to show you how to start a starter from scratch , and let me just tell y'all that failed because we cooked it on accident .
Speaker 1It got turned on in the oven . The oven got turned on and poor little thing was inside and it cooked it death okay , but that's just one of my failures .
Speaker 2But let me just tell y'all the the process of getting that stunk my whole house up the fermentation process takes over , and yeah , but when you get ours , it doesn't do that . It doesn't smell like that because it's already established .
Speaker 1It's already established . Yeah , so like getting a starter , that's . That is , you could absolutely yeah , you can do your own , and I've heard of many people succeed in doing their own . I've also heard of many people failing and giving up because they couldn't get their starter going , and I'm like just start with my like here it's established yes , it's already gonna have some strength to it and then you're gonna keep feeding it .
Speaker 1It's gonna only get stronger . It's a more fool have some strength to it and then you're going to keep feeding it . It's going to only get stronger . It's a more foolproof way of starting . Really is what it comes down to , and so you'll get the instructions , Like I've made YouTube tutorials so you'll have video help . I feel like this turned into a promotion , but I really didn't want it to .
Speaker 2But you know , like but you know , some people want to know , like they're interested , you know , but they're kind of scared . Yes , but the the instructions are . I've had to . In one of my failures I re rehydrated a vergy , okay , and it was so easy . You know like we had a , we had a ? Um , a customer actually , and he was like , uh , I want this , I want to try this out , and he would get him and his daughter would do it you know , and she would feed it , and it's a family .
Speaker 1It's a family thing . You know , my daughter my daughter I had .
Speaker 2I showed her how to make a loaf and I'm like all right , I , I don't have time for this , so you're gonna you're gonna make this loaf ? Yeah , because we have to have sourdough bread , I have to have it in the house and uh , and everybody really likes it .
Speaker 1Roz ate most of mine this morning you saw that . So , anyway , the whole family . But , yeah , you can all enjoy it . Yeah , so I just out of a love , out of a desire to to share the joy and the love , and we made this Virgie and put it on the website and people have . We had a great , we've had a great response so far and we hope to continue to to share Virgie because it's just yeah , it's a feeling like I don't know . It's a feeling , it's a vibe of it's a feeling of accomplishment .
Speaker 2When I get a good loaf though which is , you know , it's kind of harder for me than it is for you I just feel like all is right in the world . All is right the rest of my world could be on fire around me Okay , like just stuff everywhere , but I made a loaf of bread and you were sending me a picture too .
Speaker 1When you make a pretty loaf , I'm like yes .
Speaker 2You always get in the picture . You know that . Yes , you did it . She probably feels she's like my baby .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , I'm so proud of you .
Speaker 2I'm like yes , when we get pictures from people who have started with Virgie . If you have gotten a Virgie and you have your starter , please send us pictures .
Speaker 1Please , because we always want to share .
Speaker 2We love to share those pictures with other people , but we love to see that it lives on , yeah exactly Like oh yes , this is working , this is great .
Speaker 1So we never get tired of hearing what you made or seeing what you made with your vergy , and also , let us know what you named it , because I never get tired of hearing what people name their starter .
Speaker 2See , and I don't hear the names enough . I don't hear the names enough , so put your sourdough starter names in the comments or wherever you're listening , so that we can check those out , please do . But I also want to say something that I forgot what it was . It was something about sourdough .
Speaker 1Okay , Obviously , Obviously Okay , we'll table that thought . Okay , I'll table it . Okay , we're going to talk about again sound prevention screenings . Sound prevention offers early detection ultrasound screenings for men and women to help you identify potential health issues before there are any symptoms . So early detection awareness , investing in your health this is all the goal of Ms Dionne Benoit , who started Sound Prevention Education and awareness , and her clients love the whole experience and the peace of mind that it can bring . So we know that personally because we went and had scans done with her and the experience was great .
Speaker 2She's very thorough , very knowledgeable .
Speaker 1Yes , knowledgeable , knowledgeable , thorough , explained everything . You get a full report when everything's done . That's reviewed by a doctor . Even so , it's . You know it's legit . You don't have to be worried they know their stuff . She's got it um , you don't need a doctor order for this . Um , and just one thing to mention most uh hsa programs . If you have a health savings account , they will reimburse you for this screening that's good to know yes , it's good to know .
Speaker 1For more information you can go to sound-preventioncom , email soundprevention at gmailcom or call 985-228-5858 and talk to miss d Dion herself . Thank you , sound Prevention , for being a sponsor .
Speaker 2Thank you very much .
Speaker 1Okay , sourdough , why we did it is there . If you're interested in starting your journey , the easiest possible way we found to do it , with instructions and everything go to CajunMamascom . Get you a Virgie , get to baking , get to eating .
Speaker 2Oh , this is what I wanted to say okay , a lot of people don't know , or they have this question , especially if you don't know about sourdough , um that you know . Like you just make one loaf of bread oh , one and done type of thing , yeah yeah
, it's not like that . This . They're like how many loaves does your starter make ?
Speaker 1yes , and that's infinite . It's infinite . Like starters can live on for years and years , and years , and it's up to you . You keep it , you're keeping it alive , but , like , don't feel overwhelmed , like you have to feed it every day . It's not like that . Like you will learn your baking schedule , you'll learn how often you need a feed . Um , when I'm not baking with it , like I bake , I bake one loaf a week .
Speaker 1In the between times , virgie goes in the refrigerator and she just goes to sleep until I need her , and then I take her out and feed her , and then I can bake with it the next day so you're gonna learn all that . Yeah , don't feel like this is gonna take over your life , because it really won't .
Speaker 2No , because I've let her just sit there and then took her out , and whenever I'm ready somebody was actually messaging us this morning . Hey , I don't really know too much about this , but I ordered it and I want to get started . If I go on vacation , do I have to bring it and feed it ? No , you can put it in your fridge when you get back now starting vergy .
Speaker 1You know if you're gonna start her first , you need to make sure you have five days to be faithful with it and after that you can feed it only when , when you need and when you want to bake , right , yeah , so , and that's just something to think about .
Speaker 2You can learn all that in our videos . Don't stress yourself out . But if you are interested in , if you just want to dabble , dabble , I mean .
Speaker 1Dabble a bit , dabble a bit . Okay , sourdough . Now I'm a geek about this , I'm not going to , I'm going to try not , and I basically write it off as saying well , it's healthy for me . It's basically healthy for me , I can have as much as I want . It's healthy Because this is the facts . Give us the facts . It's the facts right here . I didn't make this up . It has improved digestibility . That's a big word Good health .
Speaker 1Sourdough fermentation breaks down gluten and other proteins more effectively than standard yeast fermentation . So that is one of the major differences between a yeast bread and a sourdough . Is that people who are gluten intolerant Now I'm not saying if you're like celiac or like you know no gluten , but if you don't handle , like , if you can eat some , some gluten or whatever you may be able to tolerate .
Speaker 1This is what I'm trying to say , because it breaks down the gluten more effectively , it has a lower gluten content . It's not gluten-free . There probably are ways to make it gluten-free not using regular flour and such but just to let you know this may be something you can look into if you are gluten sensitive . The lactic acid bacteria present in sourdough produces , oh , proteolytic . Oh , you want to try that one hmm , something proteolytic .
Speaker 1Leave it to occasion . Try to pronounce this Proteolytic , proteolytic , I don't know Something . Enzymes which help partially digest gluten , making it easier for some individuals to tolerate . Okay , this is another testament to that . Gluten intolerance . Oh , yeah , it can be particularly beneficial for those with mild gluten sensitivities , but not celiac disease . Okay , I'm not saying , do that . Lower glycemic index . It's better blood sugar control . The acids produced during sourdough fermentation lactic , lactic acid and acidic acid slow down starch digestion , resulting in a lower glycemic response . So it doesn't spike your blood sugar like other yeast leavened breads can do . So . Pre-diabetics a lot of time they can have sourdough bread , maybe not the rest , but sourdough . Um , let's see , enhance nutrient absorption because of that some type of acid I can't say okay , helps your body , uh , bind it binds to minerals like iron , zinc , magnesium , making it less available , making them less available for absorption . I don't think I said that right . Whole grains , oh , whole grains contain .
Speaker 2This is scientific this is so scientific .
Speaker 1You love stuff like this I hope y'all didn't turn this podcast off just now .
Speaker 2I mean , but think about , think about it . Think about all them breads that you buy in the store for 99 cents . That doesn't go bad . What's in ?
Speaker 1there Exactly what is in that bread . You can leave it on your countertop for weeks and it don't go bad . I will tell you , this Sourdough bread you have like a day or two on the counter is fine , and then put it in the refrigerator because it will mold .
Speaker 2there's no preservatives in it , which is probably , you know it's better for us I don't put mine in the fridge , I just leave it out forever until I'm finished with the load well , your house is usually four to five days , okay , and I leave it out , and and when it starts molding , then you know , it's probably about day six I wanted to cry when I see mold on my bread , though , so I just started putting it in the face because you keep it hotter than hades in your house well , I was gonna say you keep your house .
Speaker 2It is a refrigerator .
Speaker 1That is why yours don't go bad , okay , uh , anyway , y'all , there's gut , gut health benefits . There's prebiotics , and probiotics in the starter . Um , it's just good for you , it's better for you yeah .
Speaker 2So if you're gonna make the choice to to have some bread , you know why not go with sourdough it's delicious . Give it a whirl . Give it a whirl because jesus said what I am the bread of life . So if jesus says it's okay to have bread , then you probably ought to do it I think he would approve of this you know who else says jesus is the bread of life ?
Speaker 2behold catholic ministries . Oh , all right . So behold catholic ministries . Miss , miss Melissa Vanson kind of got this started . Their mission is to help women foster a relationship with our Blessed Mother and to get closer to Christ . In doing so , they put on a yearly Mother's Day retreat , which is soon , and they do this every year , which is soon and they do this every year . But it's a time for cultivating community , growing , sharing and praising and meeting other like-minded women in the process .
Speaker 1Exactly , yeah . Their mission really is to help consecrate our lives to Mary and cultivate holy friendships with like-minded women . You know we need each other in this life and maybe you don't have a spiritual sister , Maybe you didn't meet her yet .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1Maybe through an organization like this you will , you know exactly .
Speaker 2You know , when I first talked to miss Melissa and I said this on a uh , the podcast , she was so easy to talk to that and I said this on the podcast , she was so easy to talk to , that I ended up just telling her you know everything .
Speaker 2And she was like listen , I'm just going to pray for you . And it was mostly about Bennett , but she was just like what's his name ? I'm going to pray for him . And it was just one of those things that I knew that I was on the phone with someone close to Jesus and I could feel it through the phone .
Speaker 1Yes , and you want . I mean we need to surround ourselves with people like that we do . Oh my God .
Speaker 2Just knowing that there's people out there that you don't know that are like this . I mean , just maybe you need to get in touch with Behold or some organization near you . Reach out , Find those soul sisters , somebody that you can just talk to . You know and you know y'all can bring each other closer to Christ Exactly so . Reach out to Miss Melissa at Behold Catholic Ministries on Facebook . They're on Instagram at behold cm23 , or you can email them at behold catholic ministries at gmailcom . Miss melissa and everybody within the behold catholic ministries communities , thank you so much for being a sponsor of coffee talk with the cajun mamas yes , we appreciate yall and thank you for these beautiful t-shirts that y'all gave us .
Speaker 1Yes , I love our Mother Mary shirts .
Speaker 2They are beautiful .
Speaker 1What have I not said about our beloved sourdough ? Just get it , just get it , just get it , and thank me later when you're eating your yummy breakfast .
Speaker 2Yes , and if you have any questions , like some , don't go on with your journey and fail correct don't just reach in out .
Speaker 1We're gonna , we're gonna troubleshoot , we're gonna get it . Yes yes , I have helped quite a many get it . Yes , okay , and I'm not an expert but I will tell you what I know and we will will . I'm going to ask you like what temperature is it ? What water are you using ? Are you measuring ? Just simple things , and it's usually something simple , y'all . It's usually nothing crazy , and when they get it , oh , we celebrate .
Speaker 1Oh , yes , I can't wait to see . I'm like text me that first loaf , you're going to get it . So Text me that first loaf , you're going to get it . So anyway , it's just a joyful journey . I love it .
Speaker 2It's so fulfilling for her , it's fulfilling for me too , when I can actually get a good loaf , you know .
Speaker 1I just don't understand why you're having so much trouble .
Speaker 2It's because I just leave it and forget about it .
Speaker 1It's my fault . You have to yeah , well , you know you put it in the fridge though yeah well , I was like my house is so cold .
Speaker 2For a little while I was like my house is so cold , why even bother ?
Speaker 1well , turns out , you should bother because yeah unless you're feeding it on the regular yeah , I wasn't , but nobody wants to do that , because then you end up with all this extra discard and it was too much .
Speaker 2It was too much yeah so just just , yeah , just give it a try . I'm getting it , you do , I do and I and I get good loaves when I take the time to pay attention to it .
Speaker 1That's my thing but , I like to complain about it , but even if you don't feel like a dedicating too much time , energy and effort into it , it's still possible you .
Speaker 2You can put it off aside and come back to it .
Speaker 1To make good loaves , you know if you need to .
Speaker 2Correct , or you can be like Miss Perfect over here and have a loaf all the time . Don't start that . She always has a good loaf and but you know what . You know what's really fun . We didn't even talk about this . Sharing a loaf with somebody else . You baking a what says I love you more than something I spent 24 hours on .
Speaker 1Oh , it's so impressive . And what a love language to give somebody a beautiful loaf of bread .
Speaker 2You tell me one person that you gave , one that wasn't like oh my goodness , I mean everybody . When we bring them a loaf , they're like wow .
Speaker 1Exactly , it's all . Wow , it's the same yeah .
Speaker 2So and it's just nice . You know it's nice to give to others .
Speaker 1Okay , so all right , all right we done . Go to PigeonMamascom and just get you a Virgie . Get started , I mean , and just get
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Speaker 2Oh yeah , right , and tell us about it .
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