This year we are celebrating Mr D’s 50th birthday and nephew James is 21. So on Good Friday we took a group of family and friends to River Cottage for a Baking Bread course.
I haven’t made bread before, mainly because I thought it involved lots of kneading – which looked like hard work! But we didn’t have to knead anything for longer than 5 minutes.
James with the foccacia dough – sometimes a bowl just isn’t big enough!
We made pizzas to go in the wood fired oven – this is Hugh’s kitchen on the TV. Mr D looks very proud of his pizza – he says it was just a small snack.
We made Hot Cross buns for Easter. These are mine!
Most of the day we were in this wonderful barn, each with our own cooking station.
It was a fantastic day and Joe, our teacher, was excellent. We were given masses of information, but lots of breaks and snacks too.
We all came home with three breads – foccacia, a basic loaf, soda bread and four Hot Cross Buns. So when those are gone (they’re mostly in the freezer) I feel confident I can make some more!
Ooh fantastic! Looks like you all had a great day!
Looks like a fab day. I treated my OH to a fish preparation course at River Cottage a few years back – I’ve been reaping the rewards of all he learnt ever since, the Salt & Pepper squid is yummy!
That sounds wonderful! There were some people doing the fish course the day we were there.
Hi Denise,
Wow, what a brilliant day – it looked great fun.
Belated Happy Birthday greetings to Andrew.
Hope all well, see you soon
Sue x
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 06:05:10 +0000 To: suewhiffin@hotmail.co.uk
Thanks Sue!
I can almost smell all those delicious breads!!!!
The smell in the car on the way home was incredible!
What an awesome way to spend a day together!! I love baking bread, it’s very therapeutic, and bonus yummies at the end of it all! ^__^
We were discussing which breads should be made in which moods, depending on the kneading required!
Ooooh, those look so good! And bread really isn’t all that hard to make. It’s just time-consuming because of all the rising and such. It looks like it was a really fun class!
What a splendid way to celebrate a birthday (and birthday wishes to both James and Mr D). It looks like you had an amazing day. And the goodies look delicious.