Bread and Walnuts

Today, Oliver thought he would try his hand at making bread. He also thought he would forgo the recipe nonesense. So off he went to create a one of a kind dough. This involved throwing a large amount of water and yeast into the mixer, followed by an even larger amount of flour. And some honey. Why not.

Here he is, proud of his stretchy creation

Pretty rising loaves

By the time he got the dough molded into the pans, (including one heart-shaped loaf for me, aww) I was pretty jealous. If you remember, my own bread making was lacking half the water, and thus was lumpy and not so pretty.

The finished (gigantic) loaf

However, things were not exactly as they seemed. The loaves grew enormously in the oven, and when they emerged, althought they looked lovely to behold, their insides were quite raw. Also, because of the extra flour, they had very little taste. The honey seems to have had no effect either way. So, between the two of us, we could have had very nice bread. However, we ended up with mine being ulgy but ok to eat, and his being gorgeous, but not the yummiest thing you could imagine.

While all this bread experimentation went on, I decided to go with a proven winner: Candied walnuts!

The spread

Oh delicious goodness!

`Danielle