This week, the Gallery's prompt is 'My Kitchen'. Please follow the link to see how other Gallery members interpreted the theme.
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My friend Cleo came
over one morning for some baking. She and her four children and me
and my two younger ones made plain rolls, olive rolls, and some
wonderful cheesy pull-aparts with a filling loosely based on the
recipe from Greek-Canadian food blogger Peter Minakis – but
incorporating some of my mother-in-law's jewel-like cherry tomatoes.
I love the hands-on
aspect of breadmaking, the texture and feel of kneading, the smell of
rising dough. For kneading technique, we freely adopted our own take
from Martin Bertinet's Dough, which incorporates a lot of banging of
dough onto the table.
It is one of my
favourite kitchen memories, and I'm glad that I had my trusty little
Lumix on hand to record it.
Cleo and her family are leaving to return to the UK on Monday, and we will miss them.
