The Kitchen Playground

Artisan Bread in Five Minutes is a wonder. I know I’ve said that before. Combined with the thermomix, it is a marriage made in heaven. To combine to the two to best effect, I begin with supplies. The grains I always have on hand are milled bread four, barley grain, rye grain, spelt grain and [...]

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Before I get to the bread, a brief glimpse of the bundle of cute that is my mini me. In full mini me mode.

Now that I have that short outburst of parental pride out of the way, I’ll get back to the bread. I had decided that I would manage bread production within my busier [...]

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Happy Australia Day people!
Whilst tradition dictates that I should have spent the day having a barbecue, drinking beer and watching the cricket, practicality reared her ugly head. Which is not to say I didn’t watch the cricket. What I did do however, was to take advantage of the 28 degree weather to bake for the [...]

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If you’ve always wanted to make your own croissants, but have been put off by rumours of difficulty, do it. They’re not difficult, they’re time consuming. If you have a day at home and 5 minutes to devote every 20 minutes or so for a couple of hours, that is your croissant making window. If [...]

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Not for the first time, when shown my latest creation, the Bread Winner wondered aloud what possesses me to do these things. How does one take that? Is it mere bemusement? Derision? Disgust? I justified this creation with the notion of children and festivities and keeping the Ankle Biters amused in the lead up to [...]

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I spent some delicious kitchen playground time today but as it was gift making, I’m not sharing yet. Just in case an intended recipient checks in. So instead, I’ll show you a couple of recent forays into bread baking.

bagels

olive bread
Both were tres successful!

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For no particular reason, I have decided to forgo wheat for one week. I decided this yesterdy shortly after eating a chocolate croissant from the Convent bakery in Abbotsford. Thus, I have been a wheat free person for almost 36 hours now. When I say no particular reason, I am not being strictly accurate. One [...]

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It was apt that I started my cook book challenge with Women’s Weekly Dinner Party Cook Book No. 3 as we had dinner guests last night. As it was a mid-week affair, I forwent the full degustation catastrophe and settled for appetisers, sorbet, main meal and dessert. The main meal was the featured cook book [...]

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The Jaywalker over at Belgian Waffling has issue a challenge. The challenge is to write a post on a topic assigned to me by gmail. How to sculpt babies. See the relevance? Neither did Jaywalker and I must admit I’m struggling with it myself. But it did occur to me that responding to the challenge [...]

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Today is a day of absolutely no originality at Chez KP. It has however, been a day of delicious food. Sunday is my sleep in day which leaves the Bread Winner on morning duty. So the less said about breakfast the better. Or in my case, I could simply say ‘what breakfast?’.
By lunchtime, things have [...]

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