Give us this day, our daily bread...

The bread from yesterday wasn't fabulous. It's dense and rich but not what I like. On scouring the Forum Thermomix I found lots of hints and tips though and a good basic recipe to try. A few things that I suspected at the time I needed to change:

• More kneading - towards the 2 or 3 minute mark even
• I can leave it in the bowl to rise! Rather than taking it out and phaffing around.
• I was right to add more flour to get the ball to come together.

Not a problem though - just need to fiddle around! Lunch rolls might work better than a loaf as well.

I plan on making yoghurt this afternoon after work too. I'll be interested to see how it goes.

Steel cut oats, and a salad

TheHusband made steel cut oats into porridge this morning. He starts work early, and it just got earlier as he changes to 6:30am starts next week, and has quite a physical job so needs a wholesome breakfast and steel cut oats are the best.

He used the EDC recipe for porridge but cooked for 20 minutes. This cooked them perfectly. He started following the porridge recipe but steel cut oats take much longer to cook so it's not surprising that it needed much longer!

I made a salad today but it was a flop - the piece of Ginger I had was too large so hthe salad was hot and unpleasant. Shame as it was all veges.