Valentine's Day - Tomoto round bread ♥

Happy Valentine's Day! Today I'm in charge of bread and dessert for our dinner.

To start with I made a lovely coloured tomato bread in the round tin, and I'm cutting it into hearts ♥♥. Andy and Lana already had some for breakfast, and they seemed to like them. ;D

Now, it's time to do the prep for dessert...

Ingredients:

Strong flour 230g

Semolina flour 20g

Milk 190g

Sugar 1 tsp

Yeast 3g

Olive oil 1 tbsp

Tomato paste 1 tbsp

1. Put all the ingredients except olive oil in the standing mixer, and knead for a minutes.

2. Add oil. Keep kneading for 10 minutes.

3. Cover the dough with cling film and rest it until it has doubled in size.

4. Punch the dough to let the air out. Make a ball and rest the dough for 10 minutes.

5.Grease the tin, place the dough and rest it until it has doubled in size.

6. Preheat the oven to 190ºc. Bake for 40 minutes.

Click here for round loaf recipe.

Tomato jam

Tomato is one of my favourite vegetable. Especially in the summer, I eat them not only in my salad but also just as a snack, lovely...

On the other day I got a bag-full of tomatoes in different sizes from a veg & fruit stand, and I decided to try making that amazing tomato jam I had in Spain. I love the vivid red sweet jam so much that I had it almost anything when I was there...

So..., my tomato jam is dead simple! All you need is tomatoes (1.2kg), sugar (500g), a red pepper, and a teaspoon of lemon juice. I cut the tomatoes and pepper, and cooked them with lemon juice in a pot for a little while. Then I started adding sugar. I've used 500g of sugar but the amount of sugar can be changed depending on your taste:) Here, you need a little bit of patience.... you've got to simmer the jam down until it becomes half its volume... it does take time, but I promise, it's worth it! Soon, you'll smell of nice sweet tomatoes...

I had my home made tomato jam with Camembert. Unfortunately I was too hungry to prepare those fried Camembert I had in Spain, but this would do for now!

Verdict... simply awesome...! I can't wait to try it on some other stuff. I'm thinking of vanilla ice cream...
Any recommendations?