made my first sourdough country bread ( https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/pain-de-campagne-country-bread-recipe, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL6ogX38NcY) yesterday after following instructions from King Arthur to make my own starter ( https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/sourdough-starter-recipe), after @skinnylatte mentioned how good PJ Hamel’s recipes are ( https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/113105640187688460)

plenty of room for improvement, but very much not bad!

photograph, top down, of a round loaf of sourdough bread sitting on a medium oxo plastic cutting board which is itself on a white kitchen towel w/ a blue stripe on it. the loaf has three vertical slashes and two horizontal slashes and is a dark brown to black in places, just how it should be afaik

photograph, looking down at a round loaf of sourdough bread that has been cut in half, one half propped up so that the open crumb faces the camera, sitting on a medium oxo plastic cutting board which is itself on a white kitchen towel w/ a blue stripe on it. A long serrated bread knife is next to the loaf on the right.the crumb consists of bubbles large and small, scattered throughout, surrounded by with a very thin but hard crust