Recipe :: Banana Waffles

I start work super early so midweek I miss making breakfast for les enfants. I get to do the exciting weekend breakfasts when we have loads more time and get to laze about eating it in bed!

A couple of weeks ago I bought a waffle iron. Since then, I have made waffles at every opportunity. This has gone down well with the kids! 

Banana Waffles (makes 5-6)

You will need:

100g flour
100ml milk
1 egg
1 banana
2 tbsp golden caster sugar
2 tbsp oil

Mix flour and sugar together in a bowl and make a well in the middle. Beat the egg, milk and oil together in a jug. Mash the banana and add to the milky mixture. Gradually add the liquid mix to the well in the flour whisking slowly adding a little flour and milk to the well at a time to make a smooth batter. 

Pour into your waffle iron and cook for 3 mins. Serve with your favourite topping, my children like honey and sprinkles...(I know. for breakfast. terrible mother). 

Recipe :: Overnight Brioche Rolls - The Perfect Weekend Breakfast

I stumbled across this super easy looking recipe in an old Co-Op Magazine. It looked so simple and the perfect weekend breakfast for lazing about with the children.

There are 2 steps, you make the dough the night before you want to eat the rolls, then you bak them the next morning to enjoy for breakfast. it feels so nice to have freshly baked brioche, but really unfussy.



You will need:

500g strong bread flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon dried yeast
1 teaspoon salt
150g butter
4 eggs
200mls milk
12 teaspoons sugar (for sprinkling on top of each roll.

Beat the butter and 2 tablespoons sugar together in a large bowl. Add 3 of the eggs and 1 tablespoon of the flower and beat together until smooth and runny. Add the remaining flour, the yeast, salt and milk and beat until you have a smooth dough. Cover with cling film and leave the dough at room temperature overnight to prove (or at least 7 hours),

The next morning, roll the dough into satsuma sized balls and place into a greased 12 hole muffin tin. Brush with the remaining egg and sprinkle each roll with a tsp of sugar.

 Bake for 25 mins at 170 degrees Celsius.

Enjoy warm with butter and homemade jam - yum.

Eden

We are so lucky to live so close to The Eden Project. At the weekend we spent a very happy day there exploring the biomes and discovering amazing plants and flowers. 

We visit regularly, as the Eden Project offers a fantastic deal for locals, so that you pay a really reasonable fee and get to go as many times as you like for the year. We love it as there is so much for the children to do, lots of running about, star shaped sandpits in teepees, not to mention the biomes, they even got to grind (roll) oats into porridge oats this time. Much fun was had pumping water in The Core, as well as running around The Seed, which is a stunning 70-tonne granite sculpture (of a seed!) in the heart of the core. The Eden Bakery is one of the children's favourite parts of our Eden visits, the food is delicious and the cakes and scones are HUGE!

It was bring your dog to Eden day on Saturday and Edie (who adores dogs), was super excited to see the pooches wandering around, the highlight of the day for her was watching a demonstration with a policeman and his dog, who was also called Edie!

There is a park and ride bus that takes you back from the Eden project to the car park, which for little ones is a little tough on their tiny legs after a long day of charging around, so we took the bus. Charlie thought it was amazing. When I put him to bed and asked him what his favourite part of the day was, he said "going on the bus!".  Simple pleasures.

Happy days x