And to be honest with you, I wasn't ready for such a good surprise.
The recipe I used said "make yeast dough", "add parsley and blue cheese and shove in the oven". Not too helpful for a beginner. So I did what seemed to be right - mixed dry yeast with flour, added sugar and salt. Heated up watered down milk and mixed it in the flour and started kneading waiting for the dough to get off my hands. Needless to say, the sticky bastard didn't. It was absolutely everywhere, all over me and since I was alone, getting more flour or any other help was making matters worse. Eventually I added an egg. Don't know why and it didn't seem to help as well. But at least I felt I'm doing something.
So I left it alone for half an hour, beated it down and left it for another hour. I was sure I've fucked it up. And trying to "roll it open, put in parsley and blue cheese and roll it into a bread" was another nervbreaking experience that ended in me cursing all unknown gods and taking olive oil to rescue.
And somehow, 30 minutes later I took this beauty out of the oven. And it tastes delicious.
I used:
500 g white flour
1 big spoon of sugar
1 small spoon of salt
1 pack of dry yeast (pack says "for 500 g of flour")
about 300 ml milk and 200 ml water
100 g of blue cheese and unknown amount of parsley leaves
also, unplanned additions: 1 egg, a bit of olive oil
As soon as I forget how painful it was, I'll be making another one!
