As I await the next steps after my mastectomy I am reduced to doing nothing. I got bored connecting dots so I parked it for later. Now, Alia and I will again attempt to bake.
The first time we made bread, I unknowingly killed the yeast! I subjected it to too much heat and so after four hours the dough did not rise. Sucks! But we still chose to put it in the oven and yeah we ended up with such a dense bread that you can maim somebody with it. Learning from the "yeast homicide" experience the second batch we made turned up quite good. Thank God!
We also made pandesal, a local bread favourite which literally means bread of salt in Spanish. But our oven was relatively small for the amount of the dough that we had to do it in batches. It took quite some time for it to get done. We were supposed to eat it as an afternoon snack but we had it for dinner instead. And to tell you frankly, it wasn't as good as what my parents were making when we had a bakery then. Haisst!
Third try which was most successful in our failed career as bakers are the garlic bread sticks. It was easy to do, looked like decent garlic bread sticks. It was so good that it lasted shorter than the amount of time we spent baking it. We were eating the first batch before the second one was done! Hehe.
We have not started episode four of the baking saga though. This time we will create a Sweet Potato Cinnamon Coffee bread inspired by the Paleo diet (non-grain, non-dairy, gluten free). We are still looking for some key ingredients thus the delay. A bold decision from non-pro bakers but hey what have we to lose? My ego has been trampled on the first time I killed the yeast.
