Cheese Log

This is a fantastic recipe for this time of year when you have to take a plate to Christmas functions or as a starter for your next BBQ, get together.  It’s super easy and uses everyday ingredients to create a show stopper.

aspire

Sickness is a pain, (literally) whether it be a new diagnosis that changes your life or just the dregs of winter catching up. Its important to take plenty of time, just like a good book or a long hot cup of tea, to pamper yourself appropriately sometimes,

 

buy yourself some flowers

so we can sustain ourselves and our loved ones in our busy ever changing lives.  So take time out for a cup of tea, a glass of wine, put your feet up occasionally, and don’t be always running, fire fighting and saving other people.  Look after you.  Now onto the bake which is more of a “combine” than a bake this time. And it involves cheese and crackers, my favourite: The ingredients are:

 

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The 78th Bake: Cinnamon & Raisin Jumble Loaf

I’m about to head off to the gym, but will quickly blog about this amazing bread.  It looked fascinating in the recipe book and just as amazing when it was baked.  It took a while, though not really as long as you’d expect, but it was the interesting and different way that the dough was assembled which gave it its Je ne sais quoi.  Last time I was at the gym I was sitting with the weights resting beside me between sets and a guy came past and said, “Don’t think about it, just do it.”  I liked that.  Sometimes, we do need to just do it.  As one of the teachers said during a prize-giving speech recently, “Feel the fear and do it anyway, let it motivate you to do better.”  Whether it be fear of the unknown, change, a challenge, a new opportunity, it does add spice to our lives and that guy was right, sometimes its best to not think about it, but just do it.  This bread was different and well worth just doing it!!  The bake required (more…)