Sugar biscuits

On the occasion of making almost everything myself,  I decide to make my own sugar biscuits, especially when you can add to this recipe. I got the recipe from here. But this is my interpretation:


Ingredient:
375 g salted butter (or add a teaspoon of fine salt if you use unsalted butter)
90 g powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
400 g all purpose flour (you could add a teaspoon of baking soda if you wish)


Method:

1. Preheat oven to 350F (180C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Place butter in a bowl and beat until creamy. Add powdered sugar and vanilla extract and continue mixing until the mixture becomes white and creamy.
3. Using a spatula incorporate flour into the butter mixture until completely combined.
4. Form small round dough of cookies on the prepared baking sheets. You may add chocolate chips, nut bits, M&M's, or basically anything here.
5. Bake for 10-20 minutes or until the base begins to brown.
6. Let the cookies cool completely on a cooling rack before serving.

sun dried tomato and cheese bread

Once upon a day, i suddenly remembered when once Gardenia produced tomato and olive bread, but then one day, they stopped producing them. I used to really liked them too...
So, in the memory of that bread I suddenly wanted to bake my own bread, especially since my mother has started the spark by opening her bakery and I watching The Great Bake Off; British and Australia.



So here are the recipe; I got the recipe from here, but I edited some:

Ingredient:

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• 500 g (16 oz) bread flour
• 400 ml (10 fl oz) lukewarm water
• 50 g (2 oz) freshly grated parmesan cheese
• 25 g (1 oz) dry sun-dried tomatoes (or twice the amount if they come in oil)
• 20 g black olives, pitted and sliced (optional)
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp dried yeast

Method:

1. Add the yeast and sugar to the water. Mix well and leave for 10 minutes to allow the yeast to activate.
2. Put the flour, cheese and salt in a large bowl and mix well. Add the yeast/water, the olive oil and the sun-dried tomatoes (and olives). Mix well to a soft dough. 
3. Knead the dough on a floured surface for 10 minutes until smooth and elastic.
4. Place the dough in a lightly-oiled bowl. Cover and leave in a warm place until the dough doubles in size, in about 1 hour.
5. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface, knock it back and knead for a further 5 minutes.
6. Shape the dough into a large sausage or a round form. 
7. Place the loaf on a lightly oiled baking tray, cover and leave in a warm place for about an hour for the dough to rise again.
8. Cut 5 or 6 slashes in the top of the loaf with a sharp knife and dust lightly with flour.
9. Bake at 190°C/375°F fan oven, 220°C/430°F conventional oven for about 25 minutes until the crust has turned a deep brown.
10. Place on a wire rack to cool.

Info: for better coverage of taste, you could soak the tomatoes in hot water for about 15 minutes before cutting it.