Showing posts with label Cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cooking. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Bread making

This is something that I've harboured fantasies about for a long time, the smell of fresh bread in the morning etc.

I got inspired last Friday, I just had ordinary plain flour and yeast and it worked quite well. I followed another Jamie Oliver recipe which I halved as Iwas a bit sceptical and didn't want to waste 1kg of flour. The texture was perfect, colour a bit pale. I was so happy to see in the last proofing that the dough puffed up really well.

Taste, Brett didn't notice anything odd when I toasted some to go with his poached eggs the following morning.

All I need is a cow or goat, big vegetable garden and solor panels to generate my own electricity then I'll be happy.

My messy workbench

It's huge, my plan was to make a sensible sized Nicholson style bench but didn't want to shorten the panels I used for the top, s...