Lately I’ve been eating the same few things for breakfast and that’s really not ideal, so I decided to develop something new. Breakfast, well, in a lot of places it has its own specific requirements: It has to be fast, mornings are short on time. It has to be balanced, basically you need a bit of meat and a bit of veg. It has to taste good. If you eat a pile of vomit-like stuff in the morning, your whole day is ruined. So recently I made this thing I have no idea what to call.

I based this on a recipe from Xiachufang. This was only my second time baking bread, so I don’t have much experience. The first loaf I baked wasn’t this one — it turned out badly, more like a flatbread…

The bake-it-yourself bread series. A bloomer. The European kind. Probably the most classic, most beginner-friendly one out there — Paul teaches you to bake bread, from the BBC Recipe channel. Paul Hollywood’s bloomer http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/paul_hollywoods_bloomer_84636