I have made this bread recipe before but I was not patient enough to let it rise completely. After the bake I ended up with a flat and dense bread. With this lesson, this time I have improved 2 things: let it rise for more time and add a bit of gluten powder. Now look at this result... all my 3 breads developed a wonderful ear! The crumb is nicely aerated and the roasted sesame seeds added the cherry of the cake for a durum bread.

I was tempted to bake this cake as I usually do for this type, in cupcakes cases. But as I wanted to have a variation also I chose a classical cake rectangular shape. But it would have turned out for sure as great in round cupcake cases.
This cake is extremely easy to make. It takes you more work to cut the dried fruits more than the preparation of the rest of the cake. And as you can use any fruits you have available, if you chose small dried berries or raisins you exclude the cutting work as well.
The cake is having very little additional sugar. Dried fruits are coming with their own sugars and flavor. It might look like a Christmas cake but you can match it perfectly for any breakfast with a cup of tea.

Sometimes I am not really in the mood of doing anything over the weekend. I want just relax and have a lovely family weekend. It was the case of the last weekend. I can do a lot of compromising for a relaxing weekend, but bread is not one of them :). It does not require a lot of work, just to follow up a good schedule. So this time I made a lazy bread, throwing into the mixing bowl whatever flours or bread ingredients were coming into my view with the least involvement from my side.

I came back to my first (book) love and restarted to bake breads from Hamelman's book. The problem was that I almost finished the sourdough bread recipes and the yeast ones were not really inspired me. With some practice and clear experience of Hamelman recipes I have taken my courage to change his raising ingredient from yeast to sourdough. In this way I have far more recipes to test... but with my own touch. This is a recipe started from his book but continued in my style. The resulting bread was beyond my expectations. In the good sense of course.

These muffins are perfect when you are in need of a quick, simple and delicious dessert or a morning muffin.

Cherry jam or raspberry jam? This is my dilemma for these pancakes. Because the pancakes will be eaten for sure.

In fact, it is the first time I made pancakes and they were gone in one shot. None of them was left for later ...
... and with this I doubt they need more presentation ...

Few days ago, I saw a lemon tart on a friend's post. My appetite went so high that I promised myself that my next cake would be this one. And ... I kept my promise and here I present it ...

It is incredible ... I am crazy about lemon tarts... it is a lovely combination of sour, sweet and crunchy crust. If I have it daily, I could eat this tart every day :)

Usually, from 1 kilo of flour I make 3 oblong loaves of bread. They are enough for my family for one week. Would you believe me to tell you that this bread disappeared in half of the usual time? Well, you can guess the reason... it was too good to remain on the table.

Simple, delicious, natural. This is my definition for a good yogurt. If to this we add a special ingredient, like a dried fruit, then you make a remarkable dessert.