If an army travels on its stomach, I can cover a lot of ground ;-)
I'm kinda into the "massive and dense" school of breadmaking (as well as some other things, or so I'm told). Yeah, that's a pretty hefty loaf. Actually, I got two of them out of this batch, both slightly slimmer than I'd hoped for.
I've started the first sourdough batch. Starter's quite active, keeps overflowing the starter jar I have for it after I fed it (silly me thought 3/4 cup milk & flour wasn't quite enough, rounded up to a full cup). It's yeast starter, BTW, want to try a batch w/ yoghurt later.