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May Edition Meet Me On Monday

bread

Last weekend I completed my bread baking class. The certificate of course completion was handed out to all the students at the lesson. 4 weeks have really whizzed passed very quickly.  During these four weeks I have learned a lot about bread baking and how it is not really what I am passionate about. It can take anywhere between 6-18 hrs to bake a loaf of bread.  A lot of time is spend waiting for the bread to be proof before it can be scored and placed in the oven to bake. The actual baking time can be from 7-25 mins which is relatively lesser time taken as compared to baking a cake.

I think that I won’t continue doing sourdough bread as it takes way too long to get it up and “active” while making a loaf. I’ll stick to using instant yeast if I am baking bread again. I feel that making cakes is certainly much easier and my next quest will be learning how to make mousse cakes and more fancy cakes.

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This week I am sharing another Korean song. Here is Girl’s generation singing their hit-“The Boys”

 

Questions:

1. I wish _________
I could have more hours in a day so that I am able to get enough time to do all that has to be done PLUS time to have sufficient hours to sleep.

2. If you could witness any event past, present or future, what would it be?
I would like to fast forward and see how if the kids do settle down and get married in the future.

3. Do you like to cook?
 Yes I do. I like trying out new recipes if I do have the time to.

4. What do you like to do to get exercise?
Climbing stairs and walking.

5. How tidy are you?
I try to get things organized and de-clutter regularly but it doesn’t seem to be happening as often as I would like.

 

How has your Monday been?

SOC: Food and People

food

This week has been a lot on food for me. On Monday Tiger girl and I went to the Halia for food tasting. It was the first time I brought her to a fine dining restaurant for dinner and I didn’t know if she could sit through the whole 4 course meal with strangers.  She was relatively well behaved that night and I managed to stay through the whole dinner without her leaving the table once. She did hop a few times from her high chair to my seat and back. Tiger girl occupied herself playing with her food and my phone after eating enough spaghetti.  I really enjoyed myself at that dinner.

During the weekend I went for my last baking bread class. The class lasted the whole day from 8.30am in the morning to 4pm. Most of the time we were waiting for the bread to be proofed and ready for baking. Baking bread is really very tiring.  I easily waited for 10 hrs that day before my tomato rosemary,  black paper bread was ready to be baked. We couldn’t bake it in the class and I had to take it home to bake. The sourdough bread and raisin bread which I made was able to be baked in class at they took shorter time to be ready.

I feel that I a more cake person then a bread person and it really takes a shorter time doing cakes as compared to bread. The kids and R too prefer the cakes to the bread. Next up would be back to baking cakes this week. I’m having my eye on making a double layer  normal cheese  cake and chocolate cheese cake for the kids to eat.

How was your week?

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