Blue Cheese and Walnuts Bread

Since I came to New Zealand, I have been trying cheese.  In Japan, there is not much kind of cheese and quite expensive. I eat cheese and bread everyday now!!
I was surprised there are so many kinds of cheese here!! Blue, Brie, Gouda, Edam, Feta, Cottage....made from cow milk, goat milk.....lots, lots, lots of cheese to choose!!





This bread, you dont need to knead the dough. Use a spatula to make it like this.

You can see the holes in the crumb. To make holes in the crumb, you dont knead too much!!

This Bread is savory type. It match as an appetizerwith wine. It also can be gairlic bread.

Blue Cheese & Walnuts Bread

Sourdough starter 100g
(50g White flour, 50cc Water, Pinch of Yeast)
Day before, make Sourdough starter. Combine all the ingredients, then leave it for 12hours in the room temperature.

260g High  grade flour
40g Wholemeal flour
2,5g Instant Yeast
5g Salt
3g Malt powder
180g Water (warm)

80g Blue Cheese (cut into small pieces)
100g Walnuts (chopped)

1. In a bowl, dessolve yeast in lukewarm water.

2, In another large bowl, combine flours, salt, malt powdere, sourdough starter, mixture of yeast and warter. Mix with a supatula roughly combine the ingredients till water and flour combined well.
3. Put the bowl with cover into the warm place (35℃) till it becomes double size (about 1.5 - 2 hours ).

Then put flour on your hands and counter, deflat the dough to air out.
4. Transfer back the dough into the bowl, place it with cover into warm place till it become double size (about 1-1.5hour)
5.  Pour the dough onto floured counter, then deflate it, knead briefly. Shape it a big rough ball.. Set the dough with cover for 20 minutes
6. Spread the dough with a roll pin, sprincle blue cheese and walnuts on the dough. Fold it up  with 3 layers.
Push the edge of the dough with your finger tightly.

Roll it on the counter roughly to make it nice shape.
7. Place it into warm place with spray water, rise it for 40 minutes. Preheat the oven at 230℃

8. Score lines on the dough with sharp knife. Spray water.
9. Put the dough into the oven with steam for 10 minutes at 220℃. Then bake it at 180℃ for 20 minutes

Avocado Cheese Cake

Avocado...that s amazing a fruit!!! 
So, it is a kind of fruit. Why not we cant make cake with Avocado!!

Avocado and Cream cheese, what a nice combination!
Green filling and Black bottom. Color is nice, too.
 To make beautiful green cake, you need to choose a really nice Green avocado. Otherwise, it becomes yellow cake like my cake!!

Avocado Cheese Cake (18cm round cake)

Bottom
150g Oreo cookies
 (Leave 2 or 3 pieces for decoretion)
40g Butter (Melted)

Filling
250g Cream cheese(Softend)
70g Sugar
50g Sour cream
1 Egg(Beaten)
1 Table spoon of Plain flour
1 Ripe Avocado
1 Table spoon of Lemon juice

Icing sugar for decoretion

Bottom
 1. Crush the oreo cookies(leave 2 or 3 pieces for decoretion) with a rolling pin. Combine cookies and melted butter. Press it into an oiled 18cm round cake tin. (I pressed with a glass) Place into fredge while preparing filling.

Filling
2. Preheat the oven at 180c.
Cream cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Add Sour cream, mix until well combined.
3. Gradually add and mix egg into cream cheese mixture. mix until well combined.
4. Add plan flour as sifting, mix untill well combined.

5. Combine lemon juice with avocado and stir until smooth. Put this into cream cheese mixture and mix until well combined.
6. Pour the filling into Oreo crust bottom.
7.Bake it at 170c for 40-50 minutes.
8. Cool it down.

Decoretion
9. Frost icing sugar. Break oreo cookies raughly, decorete onto the cake.

Raisin & Walnuts Rye Loaf

I got a lame knife, finally!! I tryed to find  one in New Zealand. But I cant find it at the shops.
I decided to make it by myself. 

What do you think?? It is made from a double edged razor blade and a disposal chopstick.

Now,  I made a Raisin & Walnuts Rye Loaf with my new lame knife!!


This bread suits with red wine!! I recommend it!!


Raisin & Walnuts Rye Loaf

Sourdough starter 100g
(50g White flour, 50cc Water, Pinch of Yeast)
Day before, make Sourdough starter. Combine all the ingredients, then leave it for 12hours in the room temperature.

250g High grade flour
60g Rye flour
10g Molasess
6g Salt
5g Instant Yeast
170cc Water (Warm)


50g Walnut(Chopped)
50g Raisin (Rinse and wipe them with paper towle)


1. In a bowl, dessolve yeast in lukewarm water.

2, In another large bowl, combine flours, salt, molasess,  sourdough starter, mixture of yeast and warter. Mix with your finger to roughly combine the ingredients.
3. Place the dough onto the floured counter, then knead it for 10minutes till it becomes smooth and elastic.

4.Spread the dough, put raisin and walnuts on it, knead it briefly till they are just evenly incorporated into the dough.
5. Put the dough into a bowl with cover, place it warm place (35℃) till it becomes double size (about 1 - 1.5hour ).

6. Pour the dough onto floured counter, then deflate it, knead briefly. Shape it a big rough ball.. Set the dough with cover for 20 minutes.
7.Shape into final loaf, make it oval ball. Sprinkle enough flour onto a basket. Put the dough into the floured basket. (Put it nice side to bottom, ugly side to up )
8. Place it into warm place with spray water, rise it for 40 minutes. Preheat the oven at 230℃
9. Put the dough onto a baking tray with up side down the basket.
10. Score lines on the dough with sharp knife. Spray water.
11. Put the dough into the oven with steam for 10 minutes at 220℃. Then bake it at 180℃ for 20 minutes.

Cheese Rolls

We can't think about bread without Cheese. So many different kinds of cheeses and flavors, the choices seem endless. Cheese can be made from cows, goats, sheep and even from water buffalo milk. Creating different textures and flavors to help enhance any bread recipe.

This recipe, cheese rolls, is simple taste. 
These ones will be my breakfast this week!!

This shape looks scone or muffins.
Yes, I used muffin tin when I baked these rolls.  you can make them round ball, oval shapes whatever you like!!

Cheese Rolls (make 10)
300g High grade flour
40g Wholemeal flour
Half teaspoon of Instant yeast
Half  tea spoon of Salt
1 table spoon of Sugar
1 table spoon of Oil
200g of Water (lukewarm)
60g of Tasty Cheese (grated)

Decoretion
20g Tasty Cheese (grated)

1. In a bowl, dessolve yeast in lukewarm water.
2, In another large bowl, combine flours, salt, sugar and mixture of yeast and warter. Mix with your finger to roughly combine the ingredients.

3. Place the dough onto the floured counter, then knead it for 8 minutes. Then add oil, knead it another 5 minutes till it becomes smooth and elastic. 
4.Spread the dough, put grated cheese on it, knead it briefly till cheese is just evenly incorporated into the dough.
5. Put the dough into a bowl with cover, place it warm place (35℃) till it becomes double size (about 1 hours).
6.Pour the dough onto floured counter, then deflate it, knead briefly. Divide into 10 pieces. Shape them into raugh balls.
7.Set the dough with cover for 15 minutes.

8.Reshape them into final balls.
9. Place it into warm place with spray water, rise them for 30 minutes.
10.Meanwhile preheat the oven at 190℃.
11. Put the decorecion cheese onto the dough.
12. Bake for 15-20 minutes at 180℃ or till color becomes golden.

Zopf - Swiss Sundays Bread

Zopf is a type of rich bread made from white flour, milk, egg, butter, sugar and yeast, comes from Switzerland.
I know the best zopf maker in NZ, she told me about Zopf!!
The dough is brushed with egg yolk before baking, it becomes golden crust. It is baked in the form of a plait and traditionally eaten on Sunday mornings.

Zopf is rich taste like Brioche. It contains lots of butter, so be cereful for over baking. Bake at 180c. It is easy to be golden to over brown!!

Cut into the slices, have some for breakfast or branch!!

Zopf (make 2)

500g High grade flour
230ml Milk (lukewarm)
1 Tea spoon of instant Yeast
50g Sugar
70g Butter (softened)
1&1/2 Eggs
1/2 Tea spoon of Salt

Egg wash
1/2 Egg
1 Table spoon of Milk

1. In a bowl, dissolve yeast in lukewarm milk.
2. In another large bowl, Flour, Sugar, salt, egg and mixture of milk, stir well to combine. When the dough has pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes. Add softened butter into the dough, knead it untill smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes.(Add more flour if it is too sticky.)
3. Put the dough into a bowl with cover, place it warm place (35℃) till it becomes double size, 1-1.5hour.
4. Pour the dough onto the floured counter, then deflate it, knead it briefly, divide it to 6 pieces.Roll each into a 40cm long  Set the dough with cover for 20minutes.
5.  Shape into plait.

Roll back the edge of  the dough . 

6. Set the dough onto warm place for 30minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven at 180c.

7. In a small bowl, mix 1/2 egg and milk together , make the egg wash. Brush it on the dough.
8. Bake it at 180c for 20-25 minutes.