Thursday, 9 February 2017

Bread rolls for lunch

I have made some bread rolls this week, absolutely great for lunchboxes, family favourite.

600g of bread flour
160ml of milk
200-220ml of water
15g of fresh yeast,
 2 teaspoons of sugar
12g of salt
30g of oil, can be sunflower or olive oil.
Mix yeast with warm water, not too hot, add sugar and leave it for few minutes while you measure other ingredients.
Mix flour with salt in a large bowl and add  yeast mixture and followed by rest of the ingredients. Mix all until it forms dough, transfer everything onto the flat surface and knead for 10-15 minutes, I do 10 min normally, great for uppper arm workout! Dough should be wet but not sticky.
after the work out put few drops of oil into the bowl and put back the dough into the bowl, cover with it with clean tea towel and Rest it for 1hr in warm place.
After 1 hour the dough should be at least 2-3 times the original size, take it out knead for couple of minutes to get the air out, add your favourite seeds, cheese, or olives, shape it into snake like shape about 3inch thick and cut into 3 inch pieces, or larger if you want large rolls.
Form rolls and place on the baking paper about 3 inches apart, cover with tea towel and  let it rest for further 30 minutes.
Meantime heat up the oven, once rolls have doubled in size, place in hot oven and bake for 15 min on gas mark 180C.
Lovely fresh but also great after freezing, I have made few batches,  I store mine in plastic boxes so when I take them out freezer I just have to leave them out and not worry as everything is in sealed container.
Good luck, again very cheap recipe, I have used flour from Lidl 75p for 1.5kg, about 45 rolls,  bargin!




Sunday, 5 February 2017

Busy weekend

After the life's dramas last week, weekend went relatively well, most of the weekend I've spent making all sorts of foods for the week ahead, mostly bread, biscuits and muffins for lunchboxes. I have reviewed my freezer last week and compiled list of items, so I'm determined to clear out everything that I have in there including several meals that I've prepared in anticipation of work emergencies.
I feel much better when I'm organised at home as work can be so unpredictable and consuming that mostly I feel out of control, so it's nice to look at my lovely freezer list and feel content.

Anyway today was major baking day after yesterday trial run of making bread rolls. I figured it out that I can make 36 large rolls out of bag of flour so very economical. Needless to say the rolls were absolutely delicious, so I have left out some for lunches and I have froze 2 batches for later in the week...yes I have added these to my freezer list... the reason I'm also so pleased, I never had a freezer list before usually I dig deep and defrost chilly instead of curry and so on....

I also made some cranberry muffins and butter buiscuits with some chocolate....hmmm... heaven!
Anyway here are some picks...





Ricotta pancakes

Friday, 3 February 2017

It's Friday!!!

I am so pleased it's Friday! Best day of the week, even when I was a child I always loved Fridays, it means the whole weekend ahead.....bliss...
Today I had coffee with my friend, just perfect way to round up the week, I really needed to just talk nonsense; cooking,  knitting and our fascination with recycling plastic zipper bags.  We both had some crap time last week or so worrying about our mothers but It sounds like both are now back complaining so things are slowly getting better, phew...

Terrible wind outside right now and the weather here looks very unsettled... hope not too much damage as my neighbours have scaffolding up over their roof so it will be interesting night ahead...

Cooked review of the week tonight, everything that is left in the fridge from last week with some lovely cheddar cheese, browned under the grill, heaven..




Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Such a good news!

Just a quick note, mum's results came back today and her biopsy is all clear, what a great news!  she told me her legs were like jelly when she went in to see her consultant, but she sounded so much better tonight.
She now needs to have a scan on the 11th Feb, she still can't  eat solid food, no meat or milk but at least that part of her body is ok and it has been given all clear.
I feel so much happier tonight....