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Muffin without Milk (if you're allergic to milk)
1 cup each of yogurt, rolled oats, flour, and dried fruit or nuts,
1/2 cup each of egg beaters, fructose, and sunflower
seed oil,
and some baking powder.
I add flavorings almost randomly (orange, lemon, almond, vanilla, maple, cinnamon),
whatever I feel like and I think goes well with the nuts and / or fruit I added.
You can also use apple or orange juice instead of the yogurt.
These muffins are a little high in fat, but it's a good quality oil high in omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids.
Also,
studies in Germany have shown that underweights should not rigidly confine themselves to the standard 30% or less of calories
from fat, going up to 40% is permissible and may even make weight-gain easier.
So none of that 0.1% fat yogurt for us,
let's go for the 2% or 3% :-)
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Homemade Bread
2.2 lbs of flour (use just wholemeal flour, or mix it half and half with white flour to make it less
'dense')
2 teaspoons of salt
2 packets of dry yeast (should be something like 1/2 oz total)
2 1/2 cups of water (you
might need a bit more depending on the flour)
Put all the ingredients in a bowl and knead either by hand or use a mixer (like a kitchenaid or whatever
you have), and knead it for about 5 minutes, until you have a nice, soft dough and no more loose bits of flour. If you have
dry flour still, add a bit more water and keep kneading. Then cover it with cling film, and a towel, and let the dough rise (in
a warm place) for about an hour, until it's twice as big as before.
Preheat the oven to the highest setting (250C/480F).
Then shape it into buns, loaves, braid it, twist it, do whatever you like with it. Put the loaves on a baking sheet that you
either greased or covered with baking paper, and fill a small oven-proof bowl with some water, and put that onto the baking
sheet as well. The bread will rise a bit more while you wait for the oven to heat up.
Bake the bread at the highest setting
for 10 minutes, then open the oven door to let all the heat and steam out, turn the heat down to 200C/390F and bake for another
15 to 20 minutes, depending on the size of your buns (loaves take 20 minutes, small buns might only take about 10 more minutes).
The bread is done when it sounds hollow if tapped on the bottom with a wooden spoon.
Tips for adding interest (and calories) to the bread:
- add nuts, seeds, raisins or chopped dried
fruit to the flour mix and blend it into the dough
- if making buns, stuff them with dried fruit, nuts or chocolate pieces
when shaping them
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