Giggling, when I think about it. As a VERY SERIOUS ATTEMPT to cut down on carbs we’re getting friendly with Tom Kerridge ” lose weight” kinda theme, today at lunch and dinner, but in the meantime it was Paul Hollywood’s cholla. 🙂 Another excellent loaf! I made a start on it, when Izzie said she didn’t have brioche in a while, I think brioche from this very book might be next.

This loaf, when made again will either be cut into 2 loaves or the ingredients will be halved, after the second proving I had a monster on my hands! 500 g of strong bread flour, 20 g fresh yeast, 25 g of sugar, 10 g of salt, 30 g unsalted, soft butter. 2 eggs, beaten. 50 ml warm milk, less than 150 ml of water- I stopped adding when I was happy with what I was looking at in the bowl of the kitchen aid. I’ve made a starter with some of that flour, all the yeast, some sugar and milk and then whacked all the ingredients into the bowl and let KA do the work. Proved for over an hour, knocked down, plaited, glazed with some egg and left to prove again. This one took less than 30 minutes and it more than doubled. It baked for about 25 minutes in 200 degrees. Tastes phenomenal with butter and good blueberry jam. I am already looking forward to breakfast and it’s not even 9pm. Those extra 3 kg are going friggin’ nowhere. :-/

We’ve tried our new spiralizer too. Great way to treat courgettes, especially when we have them growing in the garden in a couple of months, but the whole dish today did not make us excited. It tasted …healthy, light, that was the idea, but the mushroom sauce was lacking in just about everything. Hence no photo. But, I’m thinking if those courgettini were sitting in a rich tomato sauce, arrabbiata maybe, chilis, basil sort of thing, this might be a different thing. This weekend, I reckon.