It’s the third day of my little »World Diabetes Day« week and today we are baking again… a really simple and easy Wholemeal Spelt Oats Bread. Unfortunately, bakeries that are still baking bread are slowly disappearing here in Berlin, so it can’t hurt to have one or two recipes in your repertoire to be able to make some nice bread yourself… not only during times of lockdown ;)
It’s official – we are in a second lockdown here in Germany. Well… not a complete lockdown. You can still go out, meet with a few people, go to work, go shopping… nothing compared to other countries I guess. Restaurants are closed though. This means that in the next few weeks there will be more cooking and baking happening at home. If you want to improve your baking skills while staying at home, you can try making this Pumpkin Apple Bread – another delicious and easy lockdown bake.
I don’t want to be the one telling you »I told you so…« – a new lockdown has just recently been announced for Germany… the social distancing rules getting more strict, some people started hoarding toilet paper again… let’s hope that flour and yeast are not disappearing this time or I will go crazy for sure. ;P
Well… just in case you need to stay home and want to bake again – I got a new recipe with bananas for you. Banana bread was very popular the first time, why not try something new? How about some Banana Bread Scones? Equally delicious and easy to prepare ;)
Do you have some time? Then off to the supermarket, buy some yeast (it’s finally back in the stores!) and then let’s make these delicious Overnight Cinnamon Rolls! As the name already tells you, these fellas here need a little longer than regular cinnamon rolls, but the additional time is definitely worth it! And with “additional time” I do not mean you have to work more than usual… these little rolls just need some more time to relax and get ready, but otherwise they are easy peasy to prepare ;)
Do you like baking bread? Then you probably baked milk bread already, right? Unfortunately, it took quite a while for me to realize that making milk bread at home is a very nice thing to do. Well… sometimes I am just a bit slower than others at learning stuff ;P Milk bread aka. breakfast bread is quite similar to a toast – obviously – and if you make it yourself at home you can do much more with it than with those pre-cut bread from the supermarket. A popular version of a milk bread is this Japanese “Shokupan” Milk Bread here. Easy to prepare, really nice and fluffy. Just the way a milk bread should be.
It seems that banana bread is a trending topic right now. My recipe for banana bread with walnuts turned into one of my most clicked recipes on the blog in the last several weeks ;) Even news outlets start talking about banana bread now. Crazy. It became a trending lockdown topic. Well… banana bread has always been a favorite in our home and is made on a regular basis – not only because everybody else does it right now. A loaf of good old banana bread is simply delicious and almost always easy to prepare. Same for this (gluten-free) Coconut Banana Bread here (even if attributes like gluten-free, flourless, and sugar-free might suggest a more complicated recipe… that’s not the case).
I love my job, but in between I love to bake and try new things in the kitchen. A lot of my friends and colleagues encourage me to bake - for a very simple reason: they get the leftovers - and it seems they like it most of the time ;) 
