Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts

Monday, 12 December 2011

upside down pear cake


after many Friday's of eating cake baked by my babes, i though it was high time i baked them something.
some softening pears which everyone was ignoring gave me the inspiration.
one of the simplest cakes I've ever baked.
not one of the prettiest,
but one of the tastiest.
enjoy with cream or custard (we had it both).

Friday, 18 November 2011

friday :: baking

my daughter has been baking on Fridays, as she said she would! it's just that her mother hasn't been very good at blogging about it.

these are chocolate chip and hazelnut cookies.
(there's really nothing else to say except that they were  gone almost before entering the cookie jar).

Sunday, 6 November 2011

Eid

shopping done, cards made, cakes baked, decorations hung, all thats left is to PARTY!!!

HAPPY EID everyone!!!!





Monday, 24 October 2011

chocolate and marzipan hearts

things have been a little crazy around here lately, my sister has gone for Hajj (pilgrimage) leaving two of her four children with me Masha'Allah, so now i have 1 that goes to high school, two that are home schooled and two toddlers (who can't stand the sight of each other). so between school runs, and home schooling and separating the younger two (from pulling each others hair out) i will pop into this space from time to time, please be patient with me.

my daughter baked these cookies, and decided 'officially' that she loves baking and is going to bake something every Friday, to make our Fridays extra special.

Friday, 16 September 2011

friday.

friday. a blessed day. a day full of remembrance of Allah and going to the mosque. a day of reciting the Qur'an. a day in the week that rounds up the days of the past week and prepares us for the week to come. a day that we call Jumu'ah.

what better way to start this blessed day with freshly made bread, fresh jam and fresh local honey and a hot cup of coffee.








perfect. Alhamdulillah.





Tuesday, 12 April 2011

crazy dayz....

things have so hectic around here, that unfortunately blogging had to take the back seat. but luckily i kept my camera handy most of the time, here's what we've been up to.....









:: sowing seeds

:: baking chocolate chip and hazelnut cookies

:: baking scones for the first time and eating them with jam

:: trying to incorporate rosemary in my cooking because i have a rosemary plant

:: baking bread and eating it with home made soup

:: lots of digging at the allotments

:: planting our first potatoes, carrots and radish

:: planting lavender in the herb garden

:: enjoying spring flowers and blossoms in the house

:: watching our seeds come to life

Sunday, 5 December 2010

bread recipe

the bread recipe (requested by sister aasiya) is as follow's:
ingredients:
500g of strong white bread flour (i use allinson)
1 7g sachet of yeast (allinson easy bake)
1 and half tsp salt
1tsp sugar
15g or 15ml of butter or oil (vegetable or olive is fine)
300mls warm water (1 part boiling, 2 parts cold)
pre heat oven
method:
put the flour and the rest of the ingredients into a bowl and mix together, slowly add the water and mix with your fingers, once the flour and water has mixed together to form a dough, put the dough onto a floured surface and start kneading (10 minutes approx, or until dough has become smooth), place the dough into bread tin or shape onto a baking tray, or to make bread rolls, devide the dough into 10 seperate pieces and roll into ball shapes (to make the plaited loaf that you saw in my picture, you need to seperate the dough into three balls and roll out to make three long strips of dough, like long sausages, get the three pieces and stick them together at the top, them slowly plait the dough, stick the other end together as well, cover with a damp towel and leave in a warm place for the bread to rise for 30 minutes, once the dough has risen place on to the middle shelf of the oven gas mark 7 for 15 minutes, then reduce the heat to gas mark 5 and bake for another 20-25 minutes. tap the loaf on the bottom, a hollow sound means it is ready for you to devour.
serving suggestions:
home made soup and a chunk of your lovely bread
perfect!

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

bread

i never saw the point of baking my own bread, i mean why would i go through all that trouble?, all that stress, when i can pop to my local shop and pick up a perfectly good loaf of bread, do you want to know why, because freshly made bread is one of the best things that you may taste.


i've always had a thing for bread, but now i'm totally in love

Tuesday, 5 October 2010

today we....

:: read stories to each other

:: practiced our timetables

:: the kids wrote letters to their dad who is away at the moment

:: baked bread (as you can see below)


:: played a senses games, the kids were blind folded and i gave them things to touch, smell and taste (this went down very well, especially the tasting part)

:: had cheese sandwiches for lunch

:: played round and round the kaa'ba.....and tickled each other silly

:: made pumpkin soup and ate it with our bread for dinner


:: kissed and hugged each other

:: went to bed feeling happy

thank you Allah for the countless blessings you have bestowed on this family.