Monday - bread baking...

"The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight...

[Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread."
? M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

My Kenwood chef died a few months ago, so I have gone back to making bread by hand, using a 1kg mix of wholemeal, malthouse and white flour and fresh yeast, a little olive oil, water and a smidge of salt and sugar. Once it had cooled, I ate a slice with a bit of butter....heaven