Bread adventures.

You know when you make something for the first time and it doesn't quite turn out how you want it? So then you decide to make something else that you know you do well to make yourself feel better? That's what happened yesterday.

My first attempt at bread, taken from, you guessed it, A Girl Called Jack. A simple herby bread. Not meant to be a big loaf. Dense. Herby. But I must have not done something quite right, maybe I should have left it even longer to rise? Cooked it longer than it said to? Meh, anyway.

Dough rising, which was quite exciting as I've never done this before:

Then it came out like this:

So it didn't taste great (but didn't give me any adverse effects and was better toasted). So then I thought I need to do my ragu pasta thing. That'll taste delicious. 

RAGUUUUUUUUU!!!!!

Minced beef
Glass of red wine
Red onion, sliced thin
Large carrot, grated
2 clove of garlic, crushed
Black pepper
Oregano
Basil
Bay leaves
200g passata
Squirt of ketchup
Pasta
Parmesan

Dry fried the minced until browning then poured the red wine in and let that cook off. I then added the carrot, onion and garlic to soften. In go the herbs and black pepper, passata, then water from swilling the passata left in the carton. I add a good squirt of ketchup to sweeten it. That simmered for a while while I did the pasta. And that is it. Simple.