Bacon and Goat Cheese Bread Roll

What is the most hot topic around? Recently, people keep talking about how much they ate during X’Mas when I went to work out in the gym or went swimming in the pool. Yes, I believe everyone enjoyed lots of feasts with your families and friends. So do I. It is very important to have exercise after those delicious food. What are you going to do today after work off? Pick up your walking shoes and just walk to the park. Be healthy and enjoy more delicious food.

Oven Temperature Setting: 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6

Baking Time: 20~30 minutes
Recipe: Serve 3~5 people

 

Steps of Bacon and Goat Cheese Bread Roll

(1) Add flour, and salt in the bowl. Mix all ingredients well

(2) Add egg, milk with instant yeast and butter into the bowl. Knead it into the chunk
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: I reserve 1 table spoon of egg for brushing on the surface of bread.)

 

(3) Move the dough into the floured table. Knead the dough until it turns softer and more elastic.
(4) Shape the dough into a ball and put back to the bowl. Leave the dough in a warm place to double its size. It takes around 90 ~ 120 minutes

 

(5) At this moment, prepare a pan. Fry bacon and set aside for later use.

(6) After the first grow-up, move the dough to the working table with light flour. Roll it into around 35X25cm rectangle.

 

(7) Place bacon on the top of bread. Then, add chopped goat cheese and basil leaves on the top of bacon.

 

(8) Roll it up. Slice in the middle of the bread. But, leave one end. Roll it again to shape the bread into a bow.

 

(9) Leave in the warm place to grow up again. It takes around 40~60 minutes. Brush some egg over the top. Then, send it to the pre-heated oven at 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6 for 20~30 minutes until it turns golden on the top.

 

 

It is a very tasty bread roll which can be eaten as the breakfast, light lunch, or your tea time. Try it and let me know your feeling.

Bacon Pesto Pasta

Blogging how to do pesto sauce means I would like to blog how to do pesto pasta. But, pesto pasta is not as popular as another two. It is not only in Taiwan, but also here in the UK. The Italian restaurants I have been in Leicester don’t have pesto pasta. It really makes me wonder. But, I know lots of people liking pesto pasta.

I went to food shopping at Sainsbury’s last week. Saw a big basil pot there. The strong and fresh flavor … OH… I knew I would like to bring it back to home and use it to cook lots of things. So, of course, the first thing is the classic pesto pasta.

Recipe: Serve 1 person

Pesto Sauce Link 
 

Steps of Bacon Pesto Pasta

(1) Prepare all ingredients

(2) Place spaghetti into the pan and add some salt. Pour the boiling water and add 1 tea spoon olive oil the pan. Switch onto the high heat and keep boiling it. It takes around 8~10 minutes. It needs to stir 2 or 3 times when boiling to prevent spaghetti sticking together.
(3) At the same time, add 1 table spoon olive oil into another fried pan. Switch to the medium heat. Add onion into the fried pan. Cook for around 2 minute.

(4) Add bacon into the fried pan. Cook it for around 2 minutes.

(5) Place mushroom and broccoli into the fried pan. Cover with the lid and cook around 4 minutes.
(6) Then, dry spaghetti. And place all spaghetti into the fried pan. Add the pesto sauce and 2 ~ 3 table spoon spaghetti water into the fried pan. Cover with the lid. Cook for another 2~3 minutes. Before placing onto the plate, taste it. If it is not so salty, add  a little salt into it.
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: I always medium cook my pasta. And then, cook my past with the sauce. The flavor of pasta will be more tasty if you cook in this way.)

Pesto Sauce

People know there are three main pasta sauces, tomato sauce, creamy cheese sauce and pesto sauce. These sauces represent three colors of the Italian flag, red, white, and green. Pesto and creamy cheese are my favorite pasta sauce. About pesto, I like the strong basil flavor with garlic flavor. When pesto sauce is covered around the spaghetti and you eat into your mouth, it is the best thing. Pesto sauce is very easy and quick that it only takes around 10 minutes. And then, you can use this pesto sauce to your cooking and baking.

 

 

 

Recipe: Serve 3 ~ 4 people

 

Steps of Pesto 

(1) Prepare all ingredients

(2) Place olive oil, basil leaves, garlic clove, pine nuts into a bowl. Blend them well by a kitchen blender.
(3) Add grated cheese, salt and black pepper. Well-incorporated them
(4) Preserve them in a clean jar in the fridge.

 

Is it easy and simple? Although people say it can last about few weeks in the fridge, I prefer to eat them in fresh. Look for a classic pasta sauce? Here you are.