I’ve got an active sourdough starter that’s been around for about two years now, and who has recently been named Louie. (Naming your starter is a tradition, and one I’ve held off on until recently.) Louie spends most of the summer in the fridge, getting fed every couple weeks, because garden season is just a little too overwhelming to be thinking about making bread. But once the snow falls and the garden is done, I inevitably bring the starter out of the fridge, feed it a bit more regularly, and start getting the itch to bake—as evidenced by the recent posts on making sourdough bread and making sourdough focaccia.
Maintaining a sourdough starter means discarding a lot of the starter every time you feed it, which can feel wasteful. Thankfully, there are hundreds of recipes that use up this starter, making good stuff out of the waste. For this post, we’re going to learn how to make sourdough chocolate chip cookies.

What makes these sourdough chocolate chip cookies good?
I love cookies. Like, all kinds. There isn’t such a thing as a bad cookie.
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