Bread

I made fasolakia today. It's a greek dish, consisting of beans, beef and potatoes - cooked in a garlic, tomato and onion mixture. Really delicious. Trust me! You may be wondering why my picture isn't of the so-called Fasolakia. Well that would be because it was so good that it all got eaten before I could snap a shot. However, my good friend April posted a bread recipe on her baking blog this week, and it also looked delicious. So I thought, why not? Let's pair the two deliciousnesses together (I just made up a word, didn't I?) and have Fasolakia and homemade bread.

The bread turned out pretty good, not exactly PERFECT, but very tasty nonetheless. It was a little too dense for my liking. You'll notice that April's bread looks much nicer than mine does - much taller and fluffier. I think part of the problem was that mine didn't rise properly. My house is a little too cold apparantly. I had to warm my oven up and stick the bowl of bread dough in there for it to rise as it should. So instead of rising for an hour, it didn't rise for an hour and then got moved, and rose for 40 mins. The poor dough was probably exhausted by the end of it's ordeal, hence the slightly dense bread it became. Not to worry. We're a family of bread lovers. It was all good in the end. We ate it and enjoyed it. I'll definitely have to try this one again, but I'll make sure my house is suitably warm before I begin :)