Bread From My Husband.

Well, yesterday was our 8 year anniversary.  One of the things I most appreciate about my husband is that he cooks wonderful things for us.

His favourite is to bake bread.  Lately he has been using this book.  

He loves this book and can be found sitting reading it at all times of day.

This morning I came down into the kitchen and found this waiting for me - 

It tastes great.  The kids and I have just had some as part of a ploughman's lunch.  I think I'll toast some later to have with scrambled eggs for tea.  Nice to have simple fare to go with freshly baked home-made bread.

At the weekend he made brioche.  He made the dough on the Saturday night and he baked half of it then.  We both devoured it completely straight out of the oven.  He then baked the rest of it in the morning for our breakfast.

And, as I mentioned in a previous post, he made pain au chocolate the weekend before.

He has been a little disappointed with the dried yeast recently so he ordered some fresh yeast from an online shop.  The bread we had today was the first batch he made with the fresh yeast and I think he's much happier with it.  

It's a shame that he doesn't have as much time as he would like to cook and bake for us.  I only work two days per week and the rest of the time I am the "housewife".  I'm sure if Steve were the "housewife" we would probably eat much better.  Certainly, our house would be tidier!

Pain au chocolate and Chicken.

Steve made pain au chocolate at the weekend which was lovely.  And rather impressive, I think!  

He also made his rather lovely spinach and pork paella from Moro.  He makes this quite a lot because I love it.  Here is a picture of Rufie (2) eating it up.  I don't think he ate an awful lot but he did give it a try.

One night I was really lazy and made salmon fillets with Uncle Ben's Express lemon rice and some frozen peas.  Needless to say, this was the meal that went down best with the kids - they wolfed it down!

And here is a picture of the wee one after some Innocent smoothie.  They like that - gets some goodness into them although I don't usually have much trouble getting them to eat fruit.  I do sometimes make smoothies myself but buying the ready made stuff means I don't have to get out the blender.

Yesterday for lunch I just grilled some chicken and served it with couscous salad from Jamie Oliver's first book, some cucumber and melon.  Adam ate some chicken and some couscous.  Rufus ate loads of melon and cucumber but nothing else.  One day I'll get them both eating a balanced diet - hopefully.  Any tips?