Confessions of a Clumsy Scot

So as you can probably tell from my blog, I love baking.
However I normally bake the same things every time. Usually a variation of vanilla cake (like a victoria sponge or cupcakes), flapjacks, lemon drizzle or occasionally brownies. I love baking, but when it comes to actually eating sweet treats, I’m such a plain Jane. And normally it’s just Dean and I that eat whatever I make so I’ve never ventured out of my comfort zone.

You’ll see on my last post, I attempted making a sourdough starter (actually I tried five times) but with it failing I gave up. But I bought some yeast and I actually make a loaf of bread from scratch today and it couldn’t have gone any better for my first attempt!
I literally made a coffee and sat watching it rise for an hour…
The smell while it was baking was amazing too, thats something that I’ll start baking it more often for alone!
As with most people on their own homesteading journey, you want to know whats in your food and if you read the label on most things you buy there is an excessive ammount of extra ingredients.
Knowing whats gone into my makes make me feel a lot better too. Admittedly you’re still buying ingredients from supermarkets with some of these extra ingredients but baby steps here. Up here on Skye we’re very limited to what we can buy without using our supermarket but I’m really making the effort to buy locally what I can, even if it’s just buying eggs from an honesty box.

I also decided to make some butter to go along with my bread. It was a day for trying new things. I really couldn’t get over how easy both of these were! I mean my presentation skills definitely need some work but that will come in time!

I did also make some good old flap jacks! I love these and they never last very long in my house! They’re very easy to adapt to different nutritional needs to so for Dean and I they make a great snack to have. They’re a good source of energy if Deans away playing Rugby or if I’m heading to the gym, but actually quite filling too if you need a little something to keep you going before dinner. I’ve also tried the 0 calorie syrup from MyProtein in them too and they taste amazing, I just haven’t bought anymore of this to keep using it!