Roti boy & Roti girl
Mood:  hungry
Today I decided to let my bread machine have its maiden ride… I actually bought the thing already 2 weeks ago, but circumstances like slave labour and just plain unavailability of seemingly simple ingredients like dry yeast made me postpone it several times. Until now I was forced to visit the midvalley megamall weekly to get the only available alternative for bread around; the wallnut-raisin bread of bread shop “Roti Boy”. Ok, to be honest, it was quite ok, but just a flimsy bit too fluffy for my pampered taste, which is well known to all of you who know me. Hey, come on, these are important things in life, people need to have decent breakfast before they go to work ! And in my scarce spare time we need to really enjoy that beer, glass of wine or even coffee we’re having, otherwise it would be no use. Come on guys, just admit that you all miss my whining and that it would have made you more than happy to drag all my herbs, kecap, sambal and so on with us all the way to France because “the cook” prefers to work with good ingredients…. I bet by now you might even have considered letting me import some more African wine to wine-country France hehehehe….. Yeah yeah, I miss you guys as well, but no snowboarding for me the next couple of years… Anyway, to get back to “Roti Boy”, since I was getting bored of the same old fluffy bread you don’t even need teeth for, and also because Roti-girl never seemed to be around which I found quite non-stimulating, I decided to take control of matters and actually managed to get my hands on the cheapest bread machine around (hey, I’m Dutch, ok !), which, haha, actually also happened to be produced in my own country, in Breda.
So, while I’m writing this I’m in the process of making my own raisin bread; Roti-Ron. Actually, it’s supposed to be something like the bread my grandmother used to make, so it is Roti-nenek. Never mind though, it’s quite exciting I must say; I’m hanging above the little window in the machine to see how the dough is being kneaded and probably later on will go on staring how the bread is rising. I haven’t done that since I was a kid I guess… of course very exciting for you all too…. Will he succeed ? Will it be edible ? Don’t worry out there, it’s not exactly if this is the first time I’m baking a bread ok ? I’ve done this before, it was edible and moreover very nice, so if this thing turns out to be some monstrous pie, it’s the machines fault (or the fact I didn’t have a kitchen weighing scale). More about the bread later.