Today I made a milk bread plait. It was a very simple bread to make as it didn’t require a lot of rising time. Ingredients: 450g of flour 15g of butter 5g of sugar 12g of yeast 290ml of milk 1tsp of salt To finish off I used milk to brush the bread and then […]
Cooking
Stir Fry 24/3/18
Today I made a chicken stir-fry. Ingredients: Chicken Carrots Red pepper Beans Snap peas Onion Garlic Soya sauce and some cornflour
11/3/18 Beetroot Salad and Green Salad
Today I made 2 different types of salads. Sliced Beetroot with a honey, vinegar, olive oil dressing. To make this first I roasted a beetroot for 45 minutes before peeling it and slicing it using a mandoline slicer. Then I seasoned it with salt and pepper before putting the dressing on. The dressing was 1 […]
Quinoa Salad 6/3/18
Today I made a healthy salad with a base of Quinoa and Chickpeas with feta cheese, cranberries, broccoli dressed with lemon and olive oil. I didn’t follow a recipe apart from cooking the Quinoa.
Humus Dip 25/11/17
On the 25 of November 2017, I made a hummus dip. I used a recipe off the internet however, I changed it up and made it too my taste.
French Toast
Today I made French toast, I didn’t have a recipe but here is what I did: For the mixture I used 1 egg splash of milk 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence I beat this to incorporate air before soaking some bread in the mixture. I then pan fried this with some butter, for about 3 […]
Ham and Cheese Quiche 5th November
Today I made shortcrust pastry for a ham and cheese quiche. I used a recipe from the good housekeeping cookbook. Below are some photos. You have to use a fork to prick the bottom of the pastry so that it doesn’t rise and have any air bubbles in it.
Ciabatta Bread 28th October
Yesterday I made Ciabatta bread using this recipe. I had never really made bread before so this was new for me. I learnt that you cannot put the yeast close to the salt since salt slows down how the yeast works. I also learnt that if you wet your hands before handling the dough it […]
Chocolate Chip Cookies 6th October
I made Chocolate Chip Cookies using this recipe. If you refrigerate the cook dough before you put them into the oven, the cookies spread less and so they will be thicker and more chewy! This was a simple recipe and the cookies turned out really good.