CRAP SPATULA: Herb Bread

It's Friday!!!! YAY!!!

I thought I'd post about a recipe that takes a little bit of time and is perfect for over the weekend as you can organise it in the morning, go about your day and then whip it up in time for dinner.

For the last 5 years we have been making our own bread. Well, the Bread maker actually makes the bread, I just put all the ingredients in the tub thingy.

The only time I buy bread is if I have a craving for a french stick or baguette and that's coz I don't have a very wide oven or one of those fancy baguette bread trays.

Every now and then I will make up a bread dough in the bread maker and then use it to made a kind of herb and garlic bread scroll.

It's SUPER easy and very tasty. The childrens like it coz it kind of unravels into a fun green bread slinky :P

All you need is some bread dough and a herb spread.

To make a basic herb spread (a variation of my green sauce) I just use the Bamix to whizz up some garlic, oil, parsley and a bit of salt.

*HINT - whether you make your bread dough by hand or in the bread oven, you can make it in the morning and just leave it til the arvo when you're ready to bake. It will keep rising, so don't worry if you come home to find that your placid little ball of dough has turned into a blob that is trying to take over your kitchen! Just poke it and it will settle down again.

Once you have your bread dough, all you need to do is knead it out flat on an oiled tray, spread the herb mixture over it, roll it up into a long sausage looking thing and bake in a meduim oven til you it gets a nice golden crust.

I don't really know how long it takes to bake because I usually forget I have it in the oven and then smell baking bread, start swearing and run into the kitchen with my arms waving about in a frenzy. I always expect to find smoke and burnt bread, but it always seems to be perfectly done. SO now I just subscribe to the 'don't worry! when you smell bread, it's done!' theory of baking :P