real sprouts salad

This is mixed seeds sprouts.
To reduce the use of seasoning,
I use ripe pineapple and juice, 
dried raisins & mixed nuts.

The above was from commercially mass produced.

Real sprouts from seeds
are very good for health,
especially eaten raw.

If interested, there are various organic mixed seeds that
we can sprout at home...
Note: need frequent rinsing if you live in hot humid area.
To make life easier,
there are also specialist sprouting kit & tools on www.

Gluten free quick snack salad wrap

Just use scissors to cut some vegetables.
Salt & pepper, paprika. Ginger.
A tiny dash of soy source.
Sesame oil. E.V. Olive oil.

This interesting wrap is gluten free
and use ancient grains like
Quinoa, Teff, Sorghum, brown rice & maize.
Well, it is a commercial production,
so it still has some chemicals.
Ideally do it yourself is more healthy...

At this stage, it is not too easy or economical
to get hold of those flours. 

Keep looking for even better choices ...
as more and more good food are made available.

The determined have started making their flour from
organic pulses, gluten-free grains & ancient grains. 

another quick walk through of a gallery

From time to time I try to visit galleries to get some stimulation for thoughts / creativity.

Earlier this month, I saw...

A noisy installation. Trees are installed horizontally with belts which are linked to vibrating motors. The leaves kept falling as the trees were shaking.

The aritist wrote something meaningful saying
about Israel, root, trees, etc.  

Then, the same floor, there was a group of figures displayed like this:

The head of the porcelane figures became strange bulbs.

I moved on to next floor.
This's lit up like an ad for property/realty development.
Sacastic expression against modern city/society.

Then, on the wall of a corner, tiny figures cut from photos...
And in the centre, another piece of two clay figures.
One black one white.

This is a two sided projection on the same pane within a box.
Two different faces.

I did not take any more photos ...
though i spend an hour there.

To me, I do not particularlly like modern art.
They are visual philosophy.
Some are even just visual play of people's thoughts.

I think, not every painting is art.
Not every piece in gallery is real art.
Though some curators/galleries will include anything
that can somehow be counted as thought provoking.

Not my cup of tea.

Bread Baking experiment 6

Rye Bread with Hemp milk, mixed seeds, mixed fruits.

Mixed : yeast, sugar, water,
Mixed : the two types of flour & hemp milk





To let the yeast work better with the flour first,
I added other at different time.

Mixed and put in the baking tray/container.
I try to keep my fingers clean.
I use spoons & forks.
No kneading.

I added some little holes with fork in the middle.
and two spoons of water on top.

Pre - heat oven.
Gas mark 6. For 30 - 40 minutes.

Ingredients:

Rye flour... 10 heaped soup spoons.
Bread mix : (Mixed frain, mixed seeds) 5 heaped soup spoons.

Hemp milk 18 level soup spoons

Yeast  1 level soup spoons
Coconut sugar 1 soup spoons
Filtered Water 2 soup spoons

later add :
Salt.............. 0.5 teaspoon.
e.v. olive oil... 1 level soup spoons

mixed seeds ...........3 soup spoons,
mixed dried fruits...  a handful.

waited for 40 minutes

one pound rectangular oven tray for break/cake, ceramics.
 
preheated oven
put the tray on top rack near door.
gas mark 6.

baked 30 minutes.
stay inside oven for 10 minutes.

Good for vegan & vegetarian.
 

Bread baking experiment 5

To help the yeast work,
I placed the bowl of dough over some hot water...
(tower + kettle)

Mixed grain mixed seed bread mix ... 5 heaped table spoons.

Gluten-free flour ...5 heaped table spoons.

Soy milk ...10 table spoons.


quick yeast   ...   1 tea-spoon.
coconut sugar ... 1 table-spoon.

Egg... 0

Salt...0 *

mixed seeds.... 2 table spoons.

mixed dried fruits... 3 round heaped table spoons

warm water ...10 table spoons.

Wait for 30 minutes.

Extra virgin olive oil... 1 teaspoons.

Mix.

Put in oiled baking tray over a tower over a kettle of hot water.

Wait for another 15 minutes.

Fluffy this time.   o(^.^)o 
Reason:
I used better sequence/procedures & temperature

Preheat oven.
Baked with Gas mark 6 for 45 minutes.
Upper rack nearer to the door.
Left it inside oven for 10 more minutes.
I was doing something else.

The crust is a bit too dry and hard.

Next time I shall reduce the baking time.

 

I searched www for the function of salt for baking bread.

- Taste.

- crust colour.

- Preserve.

- Tighten the texture of the gluten structure.

- Slow down yeast action.

Adding salt during different stages of preparation affect results.
Amount of salt is usually no more than 2% of toal flour weight.
 
Because this time I used a lot of dried mixed fruit
and I ate the bread the same day,
There is no great need for salt in this recipe.