*inspired by Rebecca!
Now that I have the blog I realise how much bread I actually make! There’s a reason for that – once you start making your own home-made bread, its completely addictive – because you know that at any one time you are only an hour and a half away from amazing fresh warm bread! And even though an hour and a half sounds like a decent chunk of your day, the actual time you need to invest to get to bread nirvana is minimal, as is the effort involved. And aren’t the contents of the below picture worth some minimal effort?
Here’s the recipe! I give this for guidance but actually most of the time when I’m making bread I don’t follow a recipe – unless its something new that I’m uncertain about. I find that bread rarely goes wrong as long as you follow the same rough proportions.
- 475g flour – I used a mix of white and wholegrain flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 sachet dried yeast
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon chopped rosemary
- 100g chopped olives
- 100g crumbled feta
I mixed the flour, salt, sugar, yeast, and olive oil with some hand hot water (I never measure – enough so that the mixture comes together into a dough). Knead for around 5 minutes until it comes together into a springy soft ball of dough. I left to rise for an hour and then kneaded again to incorporate the olives, feta and rosemary (really easy as they’ll literally stick themselves into the dough). Then I just cut the dough up into 8 pieces and baked!
Yum – here’s my bread with soup
And here’s Milo helping me write this blog post!
These sound lovely Kerry. I now have a challenge for you if you could help me please xx. My 13 year old son Jordan loves to Make chilli and cheese bread. I usually use a basic bread recipies and add chilli and cheese. It’s become his signature piece which he takes when he goes beating with the local shoots and on any scout things. He has his cookery class at school on Monday and can choosewhT he cooks and he wants to make the bread but only has an hour, so it needs to be all made and cooked in that time. Any ideas as I am unable to persuade him to make something else lol. thanks Kerry x
Lol how did my user name become double with nk in the middle…..whoops, new to this and not sure how that happened xx
Hello! Ooh that is a challenge! I’ve never made that myself but it is difficult if he only has an hour to do it as making a yeasted bread would take longer than that. What about doing something like Chilli Cheese pitta’s and taking precooked homemade pitta breads along with him to use? Hopefully that would be allowed! He could stuff the chilli and cheese inside them so that it’s easy to eat on the move too.
They sound super tasty!