Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

bread day.

i heart...

baking.

it's pancake day today, so naturally i made some... bread.

i've started my own personal mission of making food from scratch as much as i can. so i know exactly what goes into my food - no added chemicals, perservatives, general guff. but also to appreciate food more, these days it's all about getting food that's cheap & fast, not healthy & homemade. i want to change that in my life.

the other day i started my baking spree with some very tempting tablet. unfortunately my tablet didn't turn out too tasty. (can you tell i enjoy alliteration?) it didn't set & i was left with an impossibly sticky mess in my dish. i was rather gutted, tablet is one of my favourites.

but today, i was crowned the baking king of the household! i baked my own bread from scratch & it was soooo much easier than i thought it was going to be - just add flour, yeast, butter & water (i also added grated carrot, onions & some cheese in mine, yummy) mix into a dough, knead for about 10 mins - great arm work out! leave for 2 hours, pop it in the oven for 30mins & bam! you have some yourself a scrupmtious loaf.


there really is nothing better than fresh, warm bread with butter - mmmm! if you don't already, you should definitely try & make your own bread. do it!

xox.

Friday, 18 February 2011

dairy-free baking.

i heart...

favourite friday.

recently i've figured out that it's most likely that i am lactose intolerant. which means no more dairy products for me. i've actually tried being vegan before, i've been vegetarian for about 5 years now (bar a couple of drunken macdonalds incidents) so thought i might as well go the whole hog. but my love of cheese & milk chocolate was too strong. i do only use soya milk & soya butter though, which was an easy swap, it's just a shame vegan cheese & chocolate tastes so yucky. so in attempt to solve this, i made some vegan brownies, which were scrumptious!

and today's favourite friday is also baking based...


not only am i a sucker for home-baking, but typography too & Madi's illustration is choca-bloc with both.

xox.

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