D e l i s i o u c i t y

Before you think I make my own bread or have a stone or brick oven (like our friend here), let me just stop you by saying one thing: Online  grocery shopping. I simply love the fact that over on this side of the world, all you have to do pertaining to grocery shopping is go online, pick your orders, choose your date and time of delivery, and voila! Groceries will miraculously be delivered in a box right at your doorstep. Can life get any easier? The only possible flaw about this system is that sometimes, you can’t put the image of the item you want in your head: dimensions-wise, weight-wise, volume-wise… especially if you can’t be bothered. I suppose it’s different if the stuff is right there in your hands and you can feel or touch it. As a result, my order of a loaf of stonebaked bread very much surprised me when it came, as it was massive! As in 800 grams massive. Now how could one person possibly finish this loaf of bread before it goes stale and only good as a decorative element on the window of a bakery? I started with sawing the loaf, into 5 reasonably chunky portions and froze 2 of them. The other 3? Well, various things really, including simply toasting slices of them in olive oil. Here are three ways I enjoyed the bread the past weeks, and trust me, there’s still one chunk left in the freezer!

Bruschetta
This is inspired by that bruschetta scene on the movie Julie & Julia!

Ingredients
Bread slices
Olive oil for frying the bread
Tomatoes, diced
Fresh Basil leaves
Fresh Garlic, chopped
Mozzarella cheese, grated

How to
Fry the bread slices until crispy on the outside but still soft inside. That means don’t overdo it. Place on the side and make the topping. Mix all the ingredients together and lay an appropriate amount on the bread. I didn’t bother mixing them, so I placed the mozzarella first on the bread, the layered on everything else. Enjoy!

Have you ever tried poaching an egg? Not as easy as I thought, but it might help if you have a slotted spoon and remember to use fresh eggs. This one isn’t perfect, but ooooh it’s so lovely to eat that I forgot to take a picture of the oozing egg yolk (which I normally detest). Changed my mind thanks to this!

Poached Egg on a bed of Spinach & Yellow Peppers, and Toast
Really good for breakfast!

Ingredients (for 1 serving)
One Egg
A handful of Baby Spinach, washed
A quarter of Yellow Pepper, diced
Small Onion, diced
1 clove of Garlic, pulverized
1 piece of toast
Some butter
Salt & pepper to taste

How to
Melt the butter in a pan and add the onions and garlic. Sautee until the onions have caramelized. Add the peppers, followed with spinach. Don’t overcook, and add salt and pepper to taste. For the poached egg, boil some water, and break the egg into the water. Immediately spoon the egg whites onto the centre so that it covers the yolk part. This involves constantly spooning the egg so it comes together nicely. Take it out of the water and place on top of the vegetables and toast. Enjoy!

Finally, everyone’s favourite, French toast. It’s so simple I am sure you won’t need the recipe ^_^ I grew up eating the sweet version of the French toast, but I have come to know from lots of people that the savoury version is more familiar. Whatever your take, this is definitely a comfort food I can never live without.

Powdered French Toast

If you’re a big fan of bread, you probably have some favourite recipes of your own, so please do drop us a message! Except of course if it’s just toast ^_^