I haven’t worked with yeast since I made this so called ‘a seedy bread wannabe’. It pretends to be seedy by wearing a coat of various seeds, but when you look inside the loaf, seeds are nowhere to be seen – because I ground them You would probably be asking me why I quite often grind nuts or seeds.

Well, I don’t like seeds getting stuck in my teeth for a start, and the dough with seeds or nuts is hard to kneed – they’d fly all over the place.

The slices look quite nice under the morning sunlight. Nothing would beat eating the freshly baked bread by itself with a dollop of butter.

I used to bake all different kinds of bread back in Windy Welly, either by hand or with a bread maker. Using a machine saved a lot of time and energy going into the kneading, which is the reason why I have such strong hands and fit upper arms. *! !* One thing I miss about Welly is that it was so easy to get all sorts of flour such as rye, millet, soy and about a dozen others.  Coming home with bags and bags full of different types of flour, working out in my head what to bake was a fun part of my life in Welly.

But here in Sydney it’s harder to come across a flour speciality shop, and I haven’t really found a shop that sells a big variety.  Ever since my experience with fennel bread and blue cheese at ‘Taste’, I had been planning to make it myself.

I have made Bavarian Rye Bread with Caraway a few times before, and it used to be everyone’s favourite to have with cheese.

Seeing dough rising is the best part in bread making. Below is the formula I made with Mood, Size of dough and Time.

M=(S/T)²

It explains that whether I would be in good or bad mood depends on how much the dough rises.

So was I in good mood in the end that day? What is your guess?

Yeah, I was in prettty good spirits that day, he he ;-O It could probably have compared with having won a lottery.

Rye Raisin Bread with Fennel

Some people who was lucky enough to get their hand on this gorgeous, aromatic bread would recognise the blue cheese. I hope you liked my instant setting for the photograph. One day I rushed home after work only to have the photo taken during daylight, and on the way home I compulsively bought some flowers, which I wouldn’t get even for my birthday! But only for the sake of a photo! Do you think I’m getting too obsessed?*:-$*

It’s all right, I suppose, because nice looking photos seem to make extra efforts worthwhile. Besides, tt doesn’t happen very often that I go that far, anyway. You can start worrrying when you see a cake display or cupcake  stand on my blog. I spotted them at a kitcheen store and nearly bought them.