This is why my clothes are getting tight!
Zacks Friends Bread Recipe
- 1000 grams flour,
- 720 grams water (at 90F )
- 21 grams salt,
- 4 grams yeast.
Autolyse the dough. (Add the water and the flour and let sit for half an hour.)
Sprinkle on salt and yeast and fold or pinch together.
In a large bowl fold dough twice in the first 80 minutes. Then let the dough ferment covered for 5 hours. Gently turn out onto board. Divide, shape into two loaves set each loaf into its own bowl and allow to rise again for an hour and a half.
Heat two cast iron dutch ovens with lids for 45 minutes at 450F (500F in my oven). Transfer loaves to Dutch ovens and cook with lid on for 30 minutes then the lid off for 2o minutes.
Isn’t that a gorgeous loaf of bread.
Zacks other friends Pasta recipe (we ate this pasta last night with a butternut sauce and a salad of freshly picked tomatoes and green herbs.)
- 300 grams egg yolks (that is 18 egg yolks)
- 360g flour
- 2 pinches of salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil
On your board. Make a well in the flour, pour in egg yolks and oil mix gently together with hands.
Note: This is a very dry dough so spritz with water until it comes together – this way you won’t add too much water. Stop when you have formed a smooth firm dough. Wrap and refrigerate.
Then make the pasta of your choice. Last night Zack made tagliatelle.
If you have any questions please ask in the comments and I will ask Zack for you.
This is Marmalade protesting that someone has put pig food on her favourite chair and she cannot fit. Whine, whine, whine.
The milking cows have been taken to milking every 18 hours on their way down to once a day milking. Lady Astor is finally dropping her production which I am grateful for. Both will probably milk all the way to Christmas at least and early morning milking in the winter is not a happy experience for anyone especially as we have to drag the pump in and out. Once a day is quite doable.
I could have milked Aunty Del once a day right from the beginning, her production is so small, but the cows follow each other so it is either both or none. We were just waiting for Lady to catch up or down as the case may be. I milked Lady once a day all last summer.
The guineas love the new truck, they love shiny things. And Boo always loves a vehicle with shade.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
38 responses to “Bread and Pasta”
Everything sounds fine and dandy… I hope that means your troubles have lessened. You are still in my thoughts
That pasta looks wonderful, but I don’t think I’d be able to make gluten free flour work, it will never form an elastic dough because of no gluten. Ah well… And I like the sneak preview of the truck, which I hope is a precursor of a series of lovely brag photos…
I think it is safe to say that those are all you will see of the truck unless it is accidentally in the distance – it is just a truck after all.. c
Cats don’t need words 😾
I have a pasta machine on my list but 18 egg yolks… might need chooks too.
Beautiful egg yolks, I really have been feeling the need to make pasta lately, maybe I will cut that recipe in half.
or make the whole recipe and put half in the freezer?
Miss C you are such a tease! Marmalade really wanted to sit on that chair, love the egg yolks and you haven’t fed them chillies yet either. Planted strawberries here today. I am going to try veges in pots on the veranda here this year. Trouble each pot had to be filled three times because two ginger kitties were using them as a toilet as soon as I had them filled ready to plant, grrr. How long does the pasta dough rest in the fridge? Laura
Evidently it does not HAVE to sit in the fridge – you can work with it straight away.. c
Help, Celia 😉 what can I make this bread without a Dutch oven? Can’t buy one either here in S.India. Thanks.
We are thinking you might be able to make it in a clay pot. A tandoori pot. As long as you have a lid? That should work – and do let us know how that goes?
Fantastic bread!
The 18 egg yolks and flour is so very pleasing to the eye. Don’t know why – but it is! and I bet the pasta is divine! Thank you for sharing such great recipes.
The Guinea’s make me so happy 🙂
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I see a meringue of some sort in the works today! I am positively green with envy right now…. fresh bread and fresh pasta with a refrigerator full of egg whites to follow up with. Perhaps a pavlova with fresh cream whipped to top it off with? O. M. G. !!! (I have been on a diet for about a month here — does it show? haha)
You’re teasing us with photos of the tires only from The Boat. I guess that is the angle that Ton sees, but a full view is requested… Heavens! 22 feet! Phew, that is one big boat… a cruise liner! heh heh Have a great day! ~ Mame 🙂
Oh yum! The pictures of the yummy food is making my pot belly rumble. I would love to have some please and thank you 🙂 ❤ XOXO – Bacon
That pasta must have tasted amazing with all those delicious yolks! Waiting now for the meringue recipes 😀 the light in your photos today is very different…all warm and autumnal.
or a pav? https://thekitchensgarden.com/2012/04/29/mamas-pavlova-the-secrets/
The bread and pasta look amazing! Now I want to make pasta this weekend – yum!
Bread… 🙂
All that food looks amazing. The colour of those yolks – wow!