Spelt bread recipe and other harvest inspirations...

Yesterday I promised a photo of the bread... It's not going to happen, it was too delicious and disappeared before I got the chance to take a picture.

This was not the sourdough bread yet, it was an improvisation, to have some home made bread while we're waiting for the sourdough to ferment.

Here's the recipe if anyone would like to try it:

Ingredients:

500g wholemeal spelt flour
400ml warm water
1tsp salt
1 tsp soda bicarbonate
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp olive oil
A sprinkle of sunflower seeds to go on top

Mix the flour, salt and bicarbonate of soda together. Dissolve the honey in the warm water, mix in with flour, then add olive oil and keep working the dough thinking of happy things and what you're grateful for, perhaps singing :)

Let the mixture rest for a while, I left it a few hours then poured it onto a greased, floured tray. It doesn't make a perfect loaf, more like a cross between a pizza and a loaf :)

Brush with a bit of olive oil, sprinkle sunflower seeds and score with a knife, then bake in a preheated oven for 30-45 minutes checking depending on your oven.

Enjoy with a lovely bowl of seasonal vegetable stew with lovely grains and pulses cooked in a slow cooker, or on its own, I couldn't even wait for it to cool down and had to have a nibble soon after it made it out of the oven :)


I am so grateful for the inspiration to start practising yoga again. Today after a bit of a grumpy start to the day I managed to find some beautiful peace and stillness just by doing ten minutes of mindful breathing and some gentle stretching

Another blessing today was the very simple but tummy soothing dinner I enjoyed in the form of cooked organic millets from a Polish shop, sprinkled with a bit of cinnamon and a chopped up pear. My tummy feels really light and soothed at the same time. Oh and second day without meat, still working on the sugar and dairy especially as our sweet granddad showed up today with a fruitcake he had baked for us, it would have been so rude to not have any! ;)

I so cannot wait to start uploading photos to go with these entries, thank you for your patience with my technophobe and clumsy self when it comes to sorting things like that! ;)

Wishing everyone a peaceful Sunday night, may we drift off to sleep grateful for harvest, for all the wonderful things mother nature provides us with like beautiful grains, nurturing fruits and vegetables, not to forget the gorgeous autumn sunshine we were blessed with on this early October day :)

Night night xxx