What are you been cooking today

[Katj]

Great work everyone.
Kim your cake looks amazing!
I need to make soup, DH takes it for lunch every day. Today it is Quirky J's Tomato Bean soup without the meat balls.
A lovely soup indeed, made it many times. I made Kale/basil pesto yesterday, so it will be Salmon on a bed of zucchini noodles tossed with the pesto. A few extra veg in the side.

[cookie1]

That sounds very nice Katj. We had zoodles with our dinner last night. Roasted sweet potato cubes, haloumi and zoodles with a light dressing. Very tasty.

[JulieO]

This morning I made this lovely 'Swedish cardamom cinnamon bread' from the blog below.  I did it a little different. 

After processing the cardamom and flour I removed that and made the cinnamon butter, scraped as much of that as I could from the bowl, then proceeded on with the recipe.  I wanted any of the cinnamon butter left in the bowl to combine with the dough 

I found not warming the milk made it take around 90 mins before the dough had risen enough to continue, even after putting into a turned off oven.  I've made a note to warm the milk, butter and yeast next time first in the bowl to see if that makes a difference.

Lovely dough to work with and the end result was just perfect in flavour and sweetness for us, though I did reduce the sugar to 20g in the dough.  Also next time I'm going to make into 2 smaller logs and freeze one unbaked.  As it was I cut this one in half and have frozen one half as there's only the 2 of us.
It would look very impressive serving to visitors with a cuppa.  We both loved this. 

http://www.katelovescooking.co.uk/#!If-I-had-to-marry-a-food-it-would-be-this/c1o6o/563cf8240cf2c322b4977a01

[cookie1]

Julie I think yours looks better than the original. I wasn't aware of that blog, I will have to keep an eye on it. Thanks.

[judydawn]

What a lovely looking bread Julie.  I wish I was your neighbour!

[Cornish Cream]

What a sensational bread Julie.It looks wonderful.

  I wish I was your neighbour!

So do I Judy.Just think of all the lovely things that would come our way LOL

[achookwoman]

Wow Julie, beautiful. Photo certainly better than original.
Today I cooked 24 SD crumpets, 8 bread rolls and a loaf of grain bread.
I cooked the SD crumpets on the flat iron plate I bought for the Miele grill. Looks like this will be great. As the grill was cooling I placed a wire rack over the plate and put the tray of rolls on this to prove. Good.

[JulieO]

Gee Chookie, I can't keep up with you, puts me to shame 

Thank you regarding the bread.  I recommend trying it, it's really lovely. 

If we were all neighbours, I doubt we'd get much done with all the gass bagging (talking). 

[meganjane]

Kim and Julie, both look fantastic!

[Kimmyh]

Wow Julie that looks amazing. I love cardamom and trying new things. This looks perfect to try. Thanks for sharing.

[cookie1]

I made some Chocolate Chip Biscuits today. Something fairly ordinary for a change. I added about 25g of cacao nibs with the chocolate chips.

[Cornish Cream]

Nice biscuits Cookie.Chocolate chip is one of our favourites here

[JulieO]

I don't think there would be too many that would not like choc chip biccies, yours look nice Cookie.  I like cacao nibs in biscuits too, especially Tenina's shortbread ones, really nice. 

Thanks Megan and Kimmy. 

[cookie1]

We love Tenina's Shortbread ones too. I'm waiting, not so patiently, for her new book.

[astarra]

So far only quince paste today - setting in the fridge now.
never made it before so am hoping it works!