Savoury Muffins

The baking is just flowing this week.... Here is a recipe I used to create my muffins.. You can replace the cheeses and olives with whatever you like...

Ingredients
2 cups self raising flour
125g melted butter
1 egg lightly beaten
1 cup of milk (I added a fractions bit more)
Half a cup of shredded cheese
Half a cup of feta
3 tbsp of diced olives

Directions
1. Pre-heat oven to 180 deg cel.
2. Add self raising flower to bowl. Make a well in the centre and add wet ingredients. Mix all ingredients together until smooth (you may need to add a smidge more milk).
3. Once smooth add cheese, feta and olive and stir in with a wooden spoon but do not over mix.
4. Bake in oven for 15 - 20 mins or until cooked and golden brown.

Bread Making

I forgot how great fresh bread and rolls are, this week I have been testing out making bread rolls. I have really worked out my bread machine which unfortunately is slowly dying after 6 years of use. I would love to be able to say I stood there for 10 minutes and kneaded the dough but with time lacking I use the dough setting on the machine.

Bread Rolls

1 1/4 cups of water
1 tbsp skimmed milk powder
2 tbsp melted butter
2 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
3 1/4 cups bread flour
1 1/2 tsp strong dry yeast
Extra melted butter to brush rolls

If you use your bread machine put the ingrediants listed above in order then use your dough setting.

Hands on instructions

1. Activate the yeast by adding the yeast, sugar and some of the water (should take about 10mins)
2. Add all your dry ingredients.
3. Once all dry ingredients are in add the activated yeast and the remaining water
4. With all the ingredients together mix together with a spoon until it you need to hand mix it, then start bringing the ingredients together with your hands. If your dough doesn't come together enough and flour is still remaining in the bowl keep hand mixing.
5. You want to hand mix the ingredients until they form a ball
6. Lightly flour a board or your bench and put dough on and start needing for atleast 10 mins
7. Once kneeded form dough into a ball and place in a lightly greesed bowl and cover with cling wrap or a moistened tea towel.
8. Once dough is doubled in size it is ready for the next part
9. You will now need to deflate the dough by punching it in the middle
10. Sprinkly some flour on your board or bench and start kneeding the dough again for about 2 minutes

Now follow instructions below

1. Divide into 12 equal portions (I made bigger rolls so only made 8)
2. Shape all into a ball
3. Place onto a well greased baking tray
4. Brush lightly with melted butter
5. Let stand covered for 20 - 25 minutes or until doubled in size
6. Bake in oven at 190 deg cel 15 - 20 minutes

What happened After the Calm After the Storm

Unfortunately the vegie garden hasn't come back after the storms. All the zucchini's were pulled out over the week, the tomatoes are still left in the pots in hope that they may revive themselves and start producing...

We pulled out one of our potato plants this week and this is the crop we got from one potato not sure how we managed to get 2 varieties from one spud but I'm not complaining.

Our first cucumbers are starting to grow... Am getting rather excited... It's the first year we have tried to grow them..


Have had a rather busy weekend.... I've put together a list of things that need sorting out before Christmas or should I say before everyone comes to stay at our place!!! One thing on my list that I have put off since we moved in here 18 months ago was to clear out my clothes and sort out the WIR... Well today I finally did it!!!!

This week I've got my bread maker out of the cupboard and have been making bread, so far 3 loaves have turned out rather icky we couldn't work out what it was so today I bought a new bag of bakers flour and a different brand and today's bread is perfect just like how it should be.... Not sure what is up with the other brand of flour but it just didn't make a good loaf of bread...

During the week I also made my first home made fitted nappy... I have quite a number of friends currently pregnant and due in the first half of next year so I thought I would turn my hand to making cloth nappies for them. I used nappy flannel and have asked my neighbour if I made a couple a bigger size if they could try them out on there 9 month old... So crossing fingers they are going to work...