Brioche

I'm a busy person. There is nothing I love more than a weekend jam packed full of activity. But every now and then I like to slow down. I like to leave days free to see what happens. Let destiny have a look in. I had one of those free days. It was a lovely lazy Sunday with not a care in the world and not a job to do. I was just pottering around the house and enjoying doing not very much.

Of course that didn't last very long and before I knew it I was scouring my favorite blogs looking for a recipe for Brioche. Why? Just cos that's what having too much time on your hands leads to. Bea at La Tartine Gourmande had a great recipe that was simple but did take a lot of time. Perfect for my situation. I had nothing but time on my hands. Well I did before I started making the bread ...
You see, there is a lot of time spent letting the dough rise ....









... and then letting it rise again. With all of that time on my hands I found myself thinking of other things I wanted to do. I took the dog for a walk which actually turned into a long coffee break at the cafe in the doggie park followed by a leisurely stroll along the water front. All of these lovely activities made me forget about making my bread. When I got home from my walk I realized we had to be at a friends house for dinner in 30 minutes and so I wouldn't be able to make the bread.

I've never made brioche before so I thought maybe I could mix up the dough again and maybe it would rise. Well here's some information I learned the hard way. Two rises is all you're getting out of this dough. All the willing in the world would not make the dough rise again. But I was not going to let this bread get the better of me. So the following day I made it again and on this attempt I made sure I left enough of that precious little thing called time.