white bread

Being a sunny long weekend was a good time to make bread.  I weighed out the flour, ground sea salt and yeast and put them in the mixing bowl fitted with a dough hook. I then added the luke warm milk, melted butter and golden syrup and mixed them together slowly.  I love that machine, so wonderful seeing the ingredients of bread combining so effortlessly.  A friend of mine this weekend undertook to be the first woman to sail the Coastal Classic solo.  She was more than 29 hours at the helm, sailing from Waitemata Harbour in Auckland to Russel.  Now that’s something.  Not effortless but a dream come true, and a challenge accomplished, her Dad being one of the founders of the race in 1982.  Fantastic to take your skills and use them to the best of your ability to achieve goals that you set for yourself.  Now that’s living! 🙂 (more…)