So, seeing as a couple of friends and I are heading to the farm this weekend, the budget which my parents have bestowed upon me (I know that is not grammatically correct, but it sounds so much more fancy) this week needs to be planned almost down to the 50 cent coin. I took a refreshing walk to the green grocer a couple blocks from my house (although, looking at it now, I walk everywhere, all the time...so it wasn't that refreshing...I did however get sprayed by an unavoidable sprinkler on the way there). On the walk, I wondered about what would be most beneficial to my health-and my purse. Today, for late lunch/ early dinner I've decided to bake another easy bread and top it off with some wholesome (yet creamy) spinach and baby tomatoes. I sometimes find that it's a little bit better for the body/ metabolism not to combine starchy foods with protein, therefore you digest the food a bit quicker and more efficiently, hence the spinach and tomatoes instead of maybe bacon or chicken. Sometimes feeling a bit sluggish after a meal is the result of your body having to work twice as hard to break down two or three different types of food. So here, take a look :) Here's le pain..before it was sliced... Here are some of the ingredients:
Basic bread dough: 2-3 cups of flour (as mentioned in earlier post), a packet of instant yeast, salt, luke warm water. For this bread I also added whole mustard seeds (a teaspoon or so), lemon and rosemary seasoning and a tiiiny bit of sugar to enhance the saltiness. Oven on approximately 180 degrees Celcius (preheat, to get the job done a bit quicker). And most importantly, don't forget to let your dough-baby incubate in the sun for about 30 minutes before-hand. Spinach--cut up and wilted in frying pan, a couple drops of oil, sliced up baby tomatoes and Garlic and Herb cottage cheese (low fat...ladies!). And then of course, good ol' S & P. I let the spinach and tomatoes cook on a low heat for about 40 minutes; to be really soft and flavorsome! Next recipe will be a bit more daring... Moving away from the bread, gonna have buns of steel one of these days (pun intended...sort of). Next installation...Something with mmmeatballs! Have a lovely lundi! Until the next one*
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AuthorHi there, my name is Judete Fourie. I am a twenty-something-year-old writer living in Stellenbosch in SA's Western Cape. Follow my day to day adventures that involve wine, wit and braaibroodjies. Archives
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