My extremely skilled-at-bread friend Katrina posted about this beautiful bread at the start of the month, and I was so awed that I just had to add it to my to-do list.
Apparently, it’s Swiss, and is generally eaten as a part of Sunday brunch. Any Swiss people got anything to add? I know mine doesn’t look as shiny as the ones I found in google images. Kinda like it that way, though …
This is the most beautiful beach in the Auckland area. I’m lucky enough to come from quite near it, so I grew up going to it a lot. Yesterday, my boyfriend and I made a special trip up to visit it, and the swimming was spectacular. Huge waves, warm water, and fish swimming around our feet. It’s a marine and land reserve, and they’re currently repopulating it with all manner of endangered New Zealand species (they’ve just recently moved in kiwis, and they’re in the process of bring in tuatara*).
For dinner tonight, we decided to make some more delicious alfredo sauce, as we had at our dinner party on Sunday night. It’s awesome. To go with it, we made our own fettucine using my lovely red pasta machine.
I’ve been craving sourdough for about a week now, since I first put my starter together. Today, I finally got it.
It’s not as sour as it ought to be yet – my starter smells amazing but isn’t quite as flavourful as I want – but the crumb on it is beautiful and it crusted amazingly well.
My boyfriend got me this for Valentine’s Day last year, and now, three weeks away from Valentine’s Day this year, I’m just getting around to posting it.
