Preferably I would eat porridge for breakfast each day but sometimes there just isn’t time and so a piece of toast is what is needed. I have been making a small loaf a week for the past few months. My requirements in a morning bread is for a dense chewy loaf preferably containing seeds and nuts.
Pulla Cardamom Bread. This was nice and fragrant but a bit too frivolous for our daily needs. I think it would be brilliant in bread and butter pudding. (Recipe here)
Brown loaf with walnuts and sultanas mixed in. I took an ordinary brown loaf recipe and added the nuts and fruits, nice but not the most practical idea as the slices break in half where the layer is. Next time I must mix it in more.
Brown soda bread with walnuts, seeds, and sultanas mixed in. Nice! I will be making this again.
A normal brown loaf.
Another brown loaf.
The bread experiments continue. This week I made a nice Olive Fougasse but that was for our lunch rather than breakfast. I try to avoid buying bread as it is easy enough to make plus it’s nice to be able to make your own choices about flour and avoid the preservatives that are in supermarket bread. To keep homemade bread ‘fresh’ I slice the loaf once it has cooled and store the sliced loaf in the freezer, then I can take out a slice or two as needed.
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Yum yum yum – these breads looks great!! You are inspiring me to try and make my own…I have always avoided it as it sounds quite difficult, but think I will def have to give it a go.
Oh and i LOVE your little cat placemat – so cute!
AND the red/black/white geometric patterned plate, its gorgeous!
Thank you! :) I got the mats in Japan somewhere the pink is mine and the black is Simon’s.
WOW I’m so impressed that you make your own loaves of bread every week! These sound sooo appealing. I love warm, buttered toast : )
It hasn’t been too much trouble to make, I guess I am very much helped by having a mixer with a dough hook :)
Your bread looks lovely. I have been making sourdough for few weeks now and I am addicted, I won’t be going to bakery ever again. Such a satisfying process!
I love sourdough! I haven’t had a sourdough starter in ages, it is time I did that again :)
That’s a really great tip. I’ll be freezing my bread from now on!
It is a really good way to keep it fresh :)
Ahh, looking at these pictures is strangely calming. How do you make your bread? (Trad way, oven and tin, or in a breadmaker?)
I have a Zabar’s mug as well. ;p Such a bargain, they’re like $1!
Total bargain!
I use an oven and a tin. I don’t have a breadmaker, I hear they are good though.
Yeah, a workmate has one and says they are just so easy. Hmm. I may need to start breadmaking, thanks for the inspiration.
We bake bread always – we do the no-knead thing; otherwise we would never get around to it. 5 mins of mixing and 12 hours later (more or less), into the oven. I love homemade bread!
The no-knead method is fantastic :)
Yum! The soda bread looks great. I love your plate collection too.
The first bread looks especially yummy. I’m so impressed that you make your own bread. I couldn’t do that even if I had an oven…
Hi there. Just found your blog via Tea For Joy and love it! Your photos are just stunning and really capture the spirit of the places you photograph. I love the Magdalen photos especially as I studied there many moons ago. I have a question: where is your brown soda bread recipe from? I have a couple – one from Darina Allen’s Forgotten Skills of Cooking and one from a Rachel Allen book – and am not sure which to try first. Just wondered which recipe you use? Thanks!
Hello! I used the one from Forgotten Skills of Cooking. Love that book :)