Homemade walnuts bread – as hygge wants

Luca always tease me for my (not so) secret passion for pillows. Sofa, chairs, on the floor, only the bathrooms don’t have them. The bed then – there I unleashed. He says that within a short time the “train” of pillows will start from the headboard to the foot, and that time is not far away.

My mother has always amazed at how the roman word “ozio” suited me. “Ozio” doesn’t mean laziness or idleness, is the italian way to define the art of taking your time for passions, hobbies, relax. As stay hours in the bath with unlimited availability of chill out music, magazines, books of any kind, essential oils and candles. My mom, on the other hand, takes not more of 5 minutes to have a shower.

At her urgent request “from where are you out?” For which every bad joke was wasted, has reply my Guru who believes that in my previous life I was a high-ranking noblewoman and her past are still too vivid and present in myself. Bad stuff go from honor roll to paper roll.

However, yesteryear nobility and nowadays misery aside, I feel super-hygge. If you wanna know what the word hygge means to me read what Ramona says here and Sara here. I almost finished to read The Danish way to happiness by Meik Wiking . I must say that up to page 127

I totally agree with my friend Meik.

Is surely a fad or mood of the moment, the hygge is not the first and certainly will not be the last – it’s crazy how I feel in sync with this way of seeing and reacting to daily life.

But is it true that, as the author says, the Danish word hygge is untranslatable in other languages? In fact we have to search for a word that enclose in one term all the sensations that make you feel good, cuddled and loved.

So, hygge is:

• feeling good about yourself
• surround yourself with friends who do not feel the embarrassment of the silence
• the confidence
• intimacy
• the italian “bella vita”
• fluffy socks
• blankets
• the stars in the sky
• an hug
• eat with your fingers
• two hours in the bath because just because you want to
• listening “Kiss me” and think about how cool it was when there was Dawson’s Creek at Tv
• dinner with 4 frinds, stalkerizing Joshua Jackson once discovered his Instagram profile, Limoncello shots, send photos winking in direct, get blocked
• the controversy out of the door please
• light the fireplace even in May because it gives good vibes
• the coffee in the mug drunk with both hands, the hot chocolate with cream
• a slice of this homemade walnuts bread to booster with nutella.

Staying at home is the new going out. I want to live like that, with the sun in face.

I’ve talk about homemade walnuts bread. So: it has an extremely hyggeligt slow rising; eat it with fingers, either alone or in a good company. It is full of fiber and walnuts and all their benefits. It is obviously very tasty.

It’s homemade. It can be kept well for several days, but if you frozen a part it won’t be offended. It’s perfect in a sweet/ savoury / toasted / nature version.

And all this, for me, is infinitely hygge.

HOMEMADE WALNUTS BREAD – the recipe

INGREDIENTS

• 300 grams of Manitoba flour
• 300 grams of wholemeal flour
• 200 grams of shelled walnuts
• 400 grams of water
• 4 grams of powdered yeast
• 5 grams of sugar
• 6 grams of salt
• A little oil for greasing the pan

While you’re tasting listen: Erase / Rewind, The Cardigans

PROCESS

1. Combine the flours with yeast and sugar.
2. Fragments the walnuts coarsely between fingers and merge them with the flours; mix them. The nuts inserted at this point of preparation will emit all their essential oils in the dough giving it a fantastic purple color.
3. Add the water and begins to knead – primarily with a wooden spoon, as soon as the mixture begins to become detached from the walls, transfer it in a floured surface.
4. Knead by hand a few minutes.
5. Put it to rise in an airtight container for at least about fifteen hours in the fridge.
6. Extract the container from the refrigerator and, without opening it, let it rise another 4 hours.
7. Now the dough is totally rised, knead it giving the shape you want and put it in a greased with olive oil pan. Let stand covered for an hour.
8. Make an oblique cuts on the surface, first in one direction and then in the another.
9. Bake the walnuts bread in a preheated oven at 250 ° C in the lower part of the oven for 45 minutes, or until it is well browned.
10. Get of the walnuts bread from the oven, let cool and cut in thick slices. Break the bread and give it to your hygge disciples. Pimp it with nutella, banana slices, strawberries and coconut flakes.
11. Or eat it alone. You, candles, pillows, oil 31, the grandmother cover, your dog on your legs.

Ph. Sara Cartelli
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