I <3 my Bosch
Or our Bosch, I guess, as it was a Christmas present for us both. I commented when I opened the present that it was a new toy for me, whereupon my mil, who gave it to us, questioned whether the husband hadn’t had it on his list for his birthday this summer, too? Well, yes, he did. Because I wanted one and he couldn’t think of anything else to ask for. Anyway, I’ve used it twice for baking already and he’s certainly eating the results with gusto, so I guess he’s reaping the benefits too.
And I love it. I like baking, but in a very lazy and somewhat haphazard way. I don’t find satisfaction in kneading for hours (or even minutes). So a machine that really works well at doing the job for me is a dream.
So there it is. A MUM6N22 Universal Plus. With blender and meat mincer. Swoon.
And I couldn't even get it in focus...
And for my birthday I want the sausage thingymabob, then we can really go crazy in the kitchen. And the pasta maker. In fact, all the extra equipment, of which there is a lot.
Oooh. Lookie. All shiny.
Anyway. For some reason I had not anticipated such a bulky and expensive gift and had therefore not stocked up on baking ingredients before the Christmas holidays (we had no eggs, very little milk and hardly any flour other than some of the plain stuff). So the first thing we made (we… well, the lass helped, sort of) were sausage rolls, as we happened to have everything we needed. We tried this recipe, and used some of the odd sausages we picked up in Riga before Christmas. In addition to the sausages I stuck some sticks of cheese in there as well. The sausage rolls turned out really tasty, the sausages, luckily, were just right for this sort of thing. I’ve thrown some in the freezer and gobbled up most of the rest… We will be making them again, though with different sausages, I suspect. Going to Riga regularly in order to shop would not be very economical.
So, what are these?
After some stocking up, though as it turned out I needen’t have, really, I searched my Delicious bookmarks tagged recipes for some more ideas and found A Spoonful of Sugars Pan de Ramirino recipe. Not having stocked up on fresh rosemary, I used the dried, which worked surprisingly well. I also used the Bosch for the whole shebang, except the shaping of the buns. To persuade it to work in the olive oil rather than just swirl the oily dough round and round I had to cheat and add a little more flour. Next time I think I’ll just leave some out at the beginning for this purpose. My buns turned out rather more ragged than Angelas, but they tasted juuuuust fine. Another recipe that will quite definitely be repeated, and possibly in larger batches, as I supect these will freeze well enough, too.
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