I'm really going to get a reputation on here for this sourdough thing. I swear it hasn't been as all consuming as it seems. But my undergrad mentor gave me some of her sourdough starter when I wanted to get into it (which was so nice) and then I made sourdough focaccia for a year or so because I didn't have time and energy to learn the real thing.
So now, post-grad, I'm sending her photos of the loaf she helped create, and she excitedly was like that looks beautiful, mine haven't been going so well, send your recipe.
But I got the recipe from my cousin after also giving her some starter, so the whole thing has created this fun little chain of interactions. So I asked my cousin to send the recipe but started writing up what I remembered doing anyways as well. And then I got the idea to format it like the protocols my mentor and I had used and I'm going to send it to her like that (probably also with the link because I have made one loaf really).
tldr: My research mentor gave me sourdough starter a year ago and now I'm giving her a formatted protocol of a sourdough recipe because I'm a nerd and I like it.
