Baking Update

I've been taking photos for the last few months for this blog, but never got round to putting them up.  So, here they all are. 

Last year, Duane gave me a Student Vegetarian Cookbook.  I found fun and delicious recipes inside.  One of our favourites is for Oatmeal Cookies.  These cookies are white chocolate chip and always go down a treat! 

During the summer, Margie and I found ourselves in This is Knit in Blackrock.  We picked up some wool and a lovely book called Weekend Knitting.  Among the pages of patterns added treasures - for example, there's a recipe for chocolate chip cookies.  These cookies were delicious!

On the same day as baking the cookies, I also made a rhubarb crumble, one of my favourite desserts to bake.  The top browned up nicely and the bowl was empty by nightfall.

In August, when the weather was good, Margie and I started baking scones.  We followed a recipe from the September issue of Country Homes & Interiors.  I saw the picture of the scones and, with my mouth watering, couldn't resist the lure of a warm scone with melting butter and raspberry jam. Of course, the jam had to be Bonne Maman. This jam always reminds me of my childhood holidays spent in Belgium, where we'd go to the supermarket and slice the bread with those bread-slicing machines and then go back to the apartment and spread the slices with butter and Bonne Maman jam. 

In early september, I moved into an apartment in Dublin with my friends.  I needed to be close to college and also needed more independence than we had in Digs. The first weekend I spent there, I watched Saturday morning tv and was inspired by Delia Smith to start baking bread from scratch. 

 

Here, I'm punching the air out of the dough after it rose for an hour. 

I soon expanded to other recipes that called for yeast.  Here is my first attempt at Cinnamon Buns.

Unfortunately, I left them in the oven too long so they were a bit too chewy! They still tasted great though. 

I really enjoy baking my own bread now but I'm still hunting for a 1 pound loaf tin. 

I made a delicious pizza, also from a Delia Smith recipe. 

Margie and I enjoyed the pizza with Margie's home-made Chutney while watching a girlie film.