My Brittany

Kirsten’s life “en Bretagne”

Archive for April, 2009

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When I have enough time I like to bake my own bread. I takes about 3 1/2 hours but don’t worry, the real work in it is only about 15 minutes . For my basic bread I use: 400 g flour type 405 100 g fine semolina 1 package dry yeast 15 g sugar 15 g salt 330 ml tepid water You can simply double the ingredients if you would like to have more dough or use half of it[...]

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This was such a beautiful sunset. I filmed it last year and found it again on my harddisk today. So I quickly opened a new YouTube account and will upload more videos, soon. I hope, you like it .

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Today my clients had a little present for me. I loooove presents but who doesn’t? Last week they went to Japan to see the famous cherry blossom. One day, I have to do this, too. What a great gift. I really love natural room perfums. By the way, I have to write a post about Papier d’Armenie, too. Anyway, these incence sticks are sooo great. They have “the clean, cool scent of a mountain stream”.

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Last week we decided to make some Muffins. Never made them before. I think we opened Pandora’s Biscuit Box now. They are sooo yummy! First we started with some Vanilla Muffins with Chocolate Chips. As you can see they decided to stay in their forms. No Muffin Heads! Well, next time: more backing powder . Ah, better. But they are not so soft and juicy as they should be. Not bad, but could be better. So: Google me an all[...]

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Ok, family is back to Germany. Although it is always nice to have family around one thing is fact: you get nothing done. Therefore let me start with a review of this weekend. First we headed down to Rennes to visit IKEA. Of course we bought something. Will post about it because I think it is really handy. After that we went to our favourite Asia Shop and bought some fresh noodles, coriander, mini pak choi, soy bean sprouts and[...]