My mill is broken. Well, strickly speaking, that is not my mill but my husband's. He had it for years (maybe decades) but for the last few years, I have been the one using it. Hubbie is sort of semi-retired from the kitchen. We buy organic grains (wheat, spelt and rye) from an organic grain grower in Germany and mill our own wholemeal flour whenever we make bread. I normally bake about two loaves a week. The bread goes wonderfully with cheese, sausages, salad and Italian style anti-pasti.
I am waiting for the mill to be repaired by the hubbie. Ideally it can be brought back to life again. Should the mill have passed its best before date, I have already set my eye on a KoMo Magic grain mill. It looks gorgeous and should do a good job too.
Meanwhile I have been using commercial flour making white bread. Today I have made a rosemary bread (in the middle of the photo above). It tastes fantastic. Besides baking a bread, I managed to bake some biscotti and cookies. A colleague of mine accidentally bought some muessli with dried fruit in it, which she did not like. Instead of throwing them away, I suggested collect them and said I would find a way to use up those unwanted raisins, dried dates, apricots etc. They have been soaked in amaretto for weeks now and I finally got the time to make something out of it today. When I opened the lid the almondy aroma rushing out the container. I could not help but tasting a fewof the raisins. OMG they tasted unbelivable. I used half to make some walnuts cookies and the remainders were turned into almond biscotti. Both taste delicous. I am really really pleased that something would otherwise have ended into the bin have been given a chance to shine. I have packed them (see photo above with the cookies lying neatly in the round storage box and biscotti packed in the freeze bag) a will bring them to work. I am sure my colleagues would love them.
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