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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Baguette and eggs

I had another restless night last night. 

What to do when sleep seems to be an unreachable goal? 

Make bread, of course!

My French baguette.
I find making baguettes a bit of an intimidating task. And while my baguette ended up looking more like a loaf of bread rather than a baguette - the bread did have decent texture.




And I do have to say, it would be hard to pick a more delicious way to start the day than a slice of warm bread straight out of the oven.

I poached two eggs and made a simple hollandaise sauce by mixing Vegenaise, yellow mustard, lemon juice and almond milk.


The baguette came out crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.




The yolk and sauce soaked into the warm bread and made each bite better tasting than the next. Yum!

Oranges on the side.
If you want to try making a baguette you can find the recipe I modified here. Basically, I halved the recipe and only let the dough rise once (I did fall asleep for about 3 hours - hence only one rise:-).

Now I am going to try and get some sleep. Happy Thursday all!!

2 comments:

  1. That bread looks tasty, I could eat a slice by itself-yum! However, the plating you have here is probably the better of the two. That egg yolk is so golden, it looks like it came direct from the farm. Delicious, hope you catch up on you sleep!

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  2. The recipe looks very promishing! The eggs are so yummy! cheers

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