The best white bread you’ll ever have

This bread is the best for two reasons. 1, it tastes heavenly and 2, it’s super duper easy to make (I’ll throw in a 3rd and that’s that it’s one of the prettiest breads I’ve seen, if bread can be pretty…)

Below is the recipe, if you’d like to try and make them…

5 dl lukewarm water (37 degrees C)

1 dl milk

25 g fresh yeast

2 tsp salt + 1 tbs honey

12 1/2 dl flour

Mix water and milk together. Crumble the fresh yeast into a large bowl and add salt, honey and most of the “milk water”. Stirr with a wooden spoon till yeast has dissolved completely and then add the rest of the milk water. Last, add the flour and mix. The dough should be rather lose. Cover the dough and leave it to rise for 1-1 1/2 hours. Preheat the oven to 240-250 degrees C. Grease or line two large baking trays. Sprinkle some flour unto the work surface and tip the dough onto it. Make sure not to kneed the dough! You’ll want all the gorgeous “rise bubbles” to stay.. Sprinkle some more flour over the dough and then carefully pat the whole piece of dough into an irregular rectangle. Then, quickly cut the dough into 6-7 cm wides “strips”. Then divide each strip into 2-3 parts. It doesn’t matter if the pieces aren’t even – it will only add to the prettiness of the bread. Then, move the individual pieces of bread to the tray, and immediately bake in the middle of the oven (they don’t need to rise a second time) for 17-20 minutes. Leave to cool without covering for an extra crusty crust :)

Hope you like them!

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French potato salad

I made this super tasty potato salad the other day. I had been looking around for the perfect recipe for a long time and I finally found it. I don’t like potato salads with mayo in them so the French stuff is yet again the best!

Here’s the recipe (makes about 4 portions):

1kg potatoes (preferably new potatoes)

1 red onion 

1 dl fresh thyme

3 tbs capers

2 tbs vinegar

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp tarragon

2 tsp dijon mustard

3 tbs olive oil

2 tbs water

Boil the potatoes with the peel. Rinse in cold water and chop them into big chunks. Then shred the onion. Mix the onion, thyme and capers with the potatoes in a large serving bowl. Mix the remaining ingredients into a vinaigrette and pour it over the potatoes. Leave for a few minutes. Ready to serve!

I hope you like it, I thought it was delicious (and so did my mum and husband) :)

On eating

I found this brilliant post by Joanna from A cup of Jo on what and how to feed children. It’s a French philosophy, taken from this book French Kids Eat Everything. I think it sounds great and I’ll definitely try and live by it when we have kids.