Month: September 2015

Homemade Olive Bread

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Making Bread at home is not that difficult, you just need patience to raise the dough and usually it takes 2 hours at least before baking it! To tell you the truth, I didn’t wait that long because I just wanted to try this recipe during my intensive workshop. As you can see it doesn’t have lots of crisps on top because the dough was baked 40min after it was prepared! However the taste is just GOOD and if you follow the steps nothing can go wrong! Ingredients: 500g Flour 1 tsp. Sugar 1 tsp. Salt 2 tsp. Yeast 300ml Warm water 100g Black olives (I used some remaining olive paste) The dough process: 1. Put the flour in a bowl with the salt and sugar and make a hole in the center. 2. Mix the yeast with warm water and leave for 5-10 min till you see a soft crust on the top. 3. Pour the yeast-water in the center of flour and mix until the dough catches a little consistency. At this stage nothing can go …

Summer Breakfast with quick tips!

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Summer offers a large variety of tasty fruits, ideally you want to have them all in a large bowl for breakfasts and/or snacks! Here is a healthy and satisfying recipe for summer mornings:  bowl full of fresh fruits, yoghurt and cereals to kick off the day (believe me you won’t get hungry before noon). Now the problem is that you can’t clean, peel and cut all those fruits at 8am. Mornings are usually hectic or lazy and sometimes you are not in the mood to hold a knife or step into the kitchen. Plus you know if you don’t have a descent breakfast you would eat anything you see once you are outside the house and that’s what you are avoiding for a healthy diet. So the Tip for a quick & fresh breakfast is to prepare the fruits overnight and add a little bit of fresh orange juice to avoid the ripe fruits. As for the Greek yoghurt part, I didn’t have to drain or do anything since I found 2 good brands in Danube Jeddah, in the imported section: …