Bread and Butter

Dixon woke me up this morning at 7:30 am, on my day off no less, and istead of being able to get back to sleep I decided to make dough, ah the Rock 'n' Roll lifestyle! I hope that I kneaded the dough long enough, cause I don't have a mixer so it was hand kneading all the way but I let it rise for quite a while so tha seems to have worked cause it definately rose in the oven! But the proof is in the taste! And it tastes awesome!

This is the Recipe I used;

500g Wholemeal Flour

(I used 300g Whole Meal and 200g White)

25g Butter

1 1/4 tsp Salt

1 1/2 tsp Yeast

350 ml Warm Water

2 tsp Sugar for more flavour and thicker crust (optional)

1) In a large bowl mix the flour, sugar (if using) and salt, rub in the butter and then stir in the yeast.

(Instead of stiring in the dry yeast I added it to the warm water to wake it up while I was incorperating the other ingredents)

2) Stir in the water and mix into a soft dough by hand

3) Knead dough with a Mixer with paddle attachment for five minutes or hand knead for 10

4)Shape dough and place into a 2lb tin or baking tray and cover with a clean damp tea towel and let rise for 1 1/2 to 2 hours

5) Uncover and bake for 30-35 mins

The baked loaf should sound hollow when tapped underneath!

6)Let Cool out of the tin

Now I wanna make some thing else!

Zesting Time

It is a beautiful day outside today, and even after three solid days of rain , I have decided to stay indoors and bake cupcakes. And delicious cupcakes they will be!

Hayley got me a cookbook from the Hummingbird Bakery so I have been pretty excited to try to make most of the things in there, I started simple with the Vanilla cupcakes you might have heard me talk about before and now I am making Lemon Cupcakes! Mostly the same but now I get to use my nifty lemon zester. Soon I will graduate to something a bit more challenging but for now I think I will play it safe and bake something I think I can do! Though I do think I need to invest in som piping bags. My icing skills are not what they used to be.

Now that all the baking is done and the cleaning is moooostly done, only need to wash the floors now I think I will take a wee break! Maybe I can convince Dixon to go for a walk later, just a wee one.. he has been working though. So.. we will see C:

Just Thinkin

I haven't had a lot of ambition to do too much of anything especially blogging. Its a bit because there hasn't been too much to blog about. My film is still waiting for me to finish another roll or two before I will go get it developed, so that probably means next month, the film from my Grandma's camera hasn't made any progress as far as I am aware. I sent an email but no news yet, they did say August so I can't really complain.

I had to lighten it a bit so you could see it better the lines on the Nautilus are a bit more defined

I have only just today done a bit of sketching, so there went my drawing at least once a day way way way out of the window. But I have done two sketches today and hopefully more later, so if I do more or hopfully a painting that might come tomorrow.