Real Bread Cheese on Toast

After a weekend of eating good food and stopping by Kingsley Village and partaking of half a Rowe's cheese and onion pasty and half a vegetarian cheesy Scotch egg I didn't feel much like eating dinner. I went for a snack instead, two slices of cheese on toast made with lovely home made granary bread. 

The cheesy scotch egg was made with a mix of mashed potato, spring onion and not a lot of cheese instead of the sausage meat. The breadcrumbs had obviously been deep fried and as a result were light and crispy. The vegetarian scotch egg was an interesting item, definitely worth a try. A cheesy overdose last weekend it seems but it was gooooood!

Granary Bread

The week before last Mr VST and I had fluffy, tasteless, cotton wool granary rolls with our Quorn burgers and as they were so tasteless I agreed that I would make some of my own.  

 Last Sunday we went to Otterton Mill and picked up a bag of their granary flour.

 I followed my usual River Cottage bread recipe and made eight rolls and a 750g loaf.

 The loaf was bigger than the ones I usually make and took quite a bit longer to bake properly. In fact it probably needed even longer than I left it but it still tasted lovely. 

The rolls were great too and I had one for my tea with cheese and sun-dried tomato chutney that my Mum had made last year. Absolute perfection, even if I do say so myself.

The granary flour smelled amazing from the moment I opened the bag, right through the dough stage and course the baking stage too. It is a really warm malty smell and taste too, the crust is especially tasty on these babies.

Quorn Burgers

On Friday Mr VST and I went to the supermarket, while we were there were talking about what to have for dinner and Mr VST said he fancied some burgers and bread rolls. My heart sank but I was very tired and couldn't be bothered to cook so that it what we had. 

As we picked up some granary bread rolls from the shelf I could see a message on the shelf next to it full of while bread rolls. It said that additives and agents may be in bread on that shelf and not listed in the ingredients. We got home and ate the burgers, the bread was tasteless fluff and thankfully Mr VST thought the same though he did request some bread rolls be made. This afternoon we went to Otterton Mill which was lovely, we had a cream tea there and picked up some granary flour to make our own bread rolls with.