Quiche Bread

Meeeeery Christmas, everyone!!!

I made Quiche with bread today.
I had Christmas BBQ at my friend' s place.

Usually, Quiche is made with pastry. But I got planty of bread left over befor my holiday!!
It is easy to make. Just mix all the ingredients, and bake it!!
Ingredients quantity depends on how big is bread.
 Just make sure, Egg liquid have to be 1 : 1 = Eggs : cream and milk.
That is ideal for sunday brunch, lunch, appetizer.
Use seasonal or favorite vegetable!!

Quiche Bread

1 Loaf of Bread (Any kinds, your favorite)

Filling
Onion (finely chopped)
Spanich(chopped, boiled, drained)
Beacon(chopped)
1 table of oil

Salt
Pepper
1 Cube of Chicken soup stock

2 Eggs (beaten)
50g Fresh Cream
50g Milk

30g Cheese (grated)

Preheat oven at 180C.
1. Stire bacon, onion and spinach with oil.  Flavor with salt and pepper. Cool it down.
2. Meanwhile, cut off the top of the bread. Big out bread crumb.

3. In a large bowl, combine eggs, cream and milk. Add cooled down veges and chicken soup stock in the bowl, and mix well.
4. Pour it into bread. Sprinkle grated cheese.  Bake it at 180C for 30- 40 minutes till egg cooked.

5. Cool it down on a wire rack. Cut into slices. Enjoy it!!

Stained Glass Cookies

Are you ready for Christmas??
I m having second summer Christmas in my life in New Zealand.

That Cookies are very attractive for Christmas ornaments. Looks beautiful and pretty!!
It is easy to make. You need cookie dough and candies. That's it.


Stained Glass Cookies

Cookies;
220g Plain Flour
1/4 tea spoon of Baking Powder 
125g unsalted Butter (room temperature)
80g Sugar
1 Egg yolk
1 tea spoon of Vanila extract

Candy (your favorite coler)

1. Crash the candy with rolling pin
2. Shift flour and baking powder in a bowl together.
3. In the bowl with a hand mixer, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  

4. Beat in the egg yolk and vanila extract.
5. Gradually add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and beat just until incorporated. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
6. Divide the dough in half, and wrap each half in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least two hours or overnight.
7. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of about 5mm. Use your favorite shape cutter to cut out the cookies. With an offset spatula lift the cut out cookies onto the baking sheet.  If you are hanging the cookies or using as gift tags, make a hole at the top of the cookies with a straw or end of a wooden skewer.

8.Preheat oven 180C.  Cut out middle of the dough with smaller cutters.

9. Bake cookies about 8  minutes. Take the baking tray out, put the crashed candies into the hole of cookies.
10. Put it back to the oven, bake it at 170C for 3-4 minutes till candies melt.
11. cookies cool completely. Loosen them carefully and peel them off the baking sheets.
Dont remove cookies before cool down!!!

Honey Bagel

Hi, everyone.

I like making Bagels. But I haven't write Bagel recipe yet.
There are so many kinds of Bagels all over the world!! I wonder what kind of Bagel shall I make every time!
Babels keeps longer than other type of bread, because they contains less water. 
When you knead the dough, it is really stiff!! You can add extra water if you cant knead.

This is Sweet Bagel - Honey Bagel

Honey, it is popular product of New Zealand. If you came to New Zealand, you should buy honey as a souvenir.

Honey Bagel (make 5) 
200g High grade flour
20g Wholemeal flour
2g  Salt
50g Sour dough
3g Instant yeast
30g Honey (If you like sweeter, put some more)
120g Water (lukewarm)

1-2 Table spoon of Sugar

1.  In a bowl, dissolve sourdough, yeast, honey in lukewarm water.

2. In another large bowl, combine flours, salt, mixture of yeast and water. Mix with your finger combine the ingredients till water and flour combined well.

3. Place the dough onto the floured counter, then knead it for 10minutes till it becomes smooth and uniform.

4. Put the bowl with cover into the warm place (35℃) till it becomes double size (about 1-1.5 hours )

5.  Pour the dough onto floured counter, then deflate it, knead briefly. Divide into 5 (80g), make them balls roughly.
Rest them for 15 minutes. 
Meanwhile, prepare boiling water with 1 - 2 table spoon of sugar in a large sauce pan.
Sugar makes them brown and golden surface.

6. Shaping.
A) Make 20cm sticks. 
B) Press an edge of the dough with a rolling pin.
C) Make  a round shape. Put some water on the pressed edge, joint the edges each other.
D) Overturn the dough. Cover the edge with the pressed one, seal it tightly.
 

7. Boiling - put them into boiling water with low heat, upside and backside  for 30 seconds each. Place them onto a wire lack to dry up roughly for 1minutes.

 
8.Preheat oven at 210C. 

10. Bake them immediately at 200C for 15 - 20 minutes or till color becomes golden brown.

I had it with cream cheese, strawberry jam, blue cheese and honey!!!

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.

Halloween Pumpkin Cookies

Here we go, one more Halloween treat!!

Looks Jack-o'-lantern???

Pumpkin Cookies are a soft and spongy textured cookie with the earthy flavor of pumpkin.

Pumpkin Cookies(about 30pieces)
100g Pumpkin (peel and cut into dice)
100g Butter (softened)
80g Brown sugar
2 Egg yolks
250g Rising flour
Half teaspoon of Baking powder
1 teaspoon of Vanilla Extract
Pumpkin seeds

50g Dark chocolate (chopped)
1 teaspoon of oil

1.In a bowl, sift flour and baking powder together.
 Heat pumpkin with microwave for 5 minutes. Mash them, and make it paste.

2. In a bowl, beat the butter and sugar with your electric mixer (or a hand mixer) until light and fluffy.

3. Add egg yolks one at a time, mix well after each addition.

4. Add pumpkin paste (1) and vanilla extract, and beat until incorporated.

5. Add half of flour mixture, mix with spatula with care, then add left flour in it. mix it until hard
to mix with spatula. Wrap the dough with plastic wrap, and place it into the fridge for 1 hour.

6. Preheat oven at 180c.
Divide the dough into 30 or you like. Make them oval shape, and press with your palms(about 5mm thick).
Put a pumpkin seed the top as calyx. Scar pattern with a dough scraper or a knife.

7. Place them onto a baking sheeted tray.  Bake them at 180c for 15-18minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cookie comes out clean. Remove from oven and transfer to wire lack to cool  down.

8. Melt dark chocolate, and mix with oil. Place some of the filling in a piping bag fitted with a small plain tip and pipe faces on the tops of each cookie.
Cool them down.

Have a fun!!