Banana Bread
I'm in one of my "experimental" moods again. There's banana bread in the oven that needs to be checked in half an hour for done-ness, I have the ingredients for apple crumble and bolognese, and this is a big step because it means I'm not just making sweets.
I'm actually making real food with real ingredients, rather than biscuits and truffles and other tiny nibbly things (this said, there's a recipe for chocolate cookies I've been looking at...). Next week I need to buy some sausage meat and make sure I've got a bit of fresh milk so that I can make sausage rolls for the weekend.
I spent over £30 on food and cooking stuff at Asda, though half of that was buying a decent pair of kitchen scales, an actual pyrex dish for the crumble, and a bread tin. Also a little bottle of wine that someone has just left beside the till, which I needed for bolognese anyway but which is so small that I can just pour the whole thing in.
... I'm sort of worried about the bread. Our kitchen is quite cold, so the butter wasn't very soft and I've done the best I can but I'm not sure it was evenly enough distributed in the dough despite all my mixing. Ah well. Find out soon, I guess. If this keeps up, I may actually manage to domesticate myself.
Edited to add- okay, I have the bread. It tastes fine, but it's very dense and doughy in the middle despite having had 55 instead of the recommended 45 min baking time, and the knife I stuck in did come out clean when I tested it after the extra ten minutes. I think my oven maybe heats at less than it says it does, and that the self-raising flour didn't self-raise, and that next time I'll just leave it in for an hour.
I'm actually making real food with real ingredients, rather than biscuits and truffles and other tiny nibbly things (this said, there's a recipe for chocolate cookies I've been looking at...). Next week I need to buy some sausage meat and make sure I've got a bit of fresh milk so that I can make sausage rolls for the weekend.
I spent over £30 on food and cooking stuff at Asda, though half of that was buying a decent pair of kitchen scales, an actual pyrex dish for the crumble, and a bread tin. Also a little bottle of wine that someone has just left beside the till, which I needed for bolognese anyway but which is so small that I can just pour the whole thing in.
... I'm sort of worried about the bread. Our kitchen is quite cold, so the butter wasn't very soft and I've done the best I can but I'm not sure it was evenly enough distributed in the dough despite all my mixing. Ah well. Find out soon, I guess. If this keeps up, I may actually manage to domesticate myself.
Edited to add- okay, I have the bread. It tastes fine, but it's very dense and doughy in the middle despite having had 55 instead of the recommended 45 min baking time, and the knife I stuck in did come out clean when I tested it after the extra ten minutes. I think my oven maybe heats at less than it says it does, and that the self-raising flour didn't self-raise, and that next time I'll just leave it in for an hour.