So interesting that Casablanca mentions sandwiches because I don't think of that at all. Having grown up in Japan, omusubi / onigiri rice balls are what I crave. I sliced and froze some, and toasted and put salted butter (yes, salted @bpfoto) and enjoyed the bread. Oh, and I always give away at least half to a neighbor or passerby outside :)
@jyokota I love slightly salted butter on toast. Best way to enjoy it! And making my own bread when I can means I can avoid the soya flour in most commercial breads, since I am allergic to soya.
Had to google your rice balls. They look delicious!
@casablanca The purpose of bread is to be the carrier of good butter. I once had such memorably good butter in the UK at a restaurant I asked the waiter about it. He asked the chef and found out that it was made in a "pacojet immulsifier" but it's almost $7000 so my husband who was typically indulgent of my wishes said no. Can you believe it? I didn't get to have the $7000 world's best butter-maker. So now I just buy Kerrygold Irish butter.
@jyokota Kerrygold is delicious! I currently use Lurpak slightly salted. Totally agree about butter. It is fabulous and bread would be meaningless without it.
Looks a beautiful texture Junko.....well done! I endorse the butter notion!! I never ever buy margarine! We have to buy slightly salted Country Life as it’s British! As ex farmers I am required by guilt to but British! Ha ha!
Ironically, I got my first breadmaker (when noone had ever even heard of such a thing here in the UK) after a visit to Japan. I was really struggling with Japanese food and after two weeks of it was staying with a japanese friend whose parents I had never met before. I got up dreading what might be presented to me for breakfast becasue I knew I would have to be polite and eat it enthusiastically, when lo and behold, I woke up to the smell of bread baking and coffee! Yoko's Mum, traditional Japanese in every other way possible, had been to the USA the year before and come back with a bread maker. Well, to me that day, it was the best bread I had ever tasted , and on return to UK we sourced the same bread maker and have barely bought a loaf since (that was nearly 30 years ago). Aside of all that, you are learning good lessons in photoshop.
So interesting that Casablanca mentions sandwiches because I don't think of that at all. Having grown up in Japan, omusubi / onigiri rice balls are what I crave. I sliced and froze some, and toasted and put salted butter (yes, salted @bpfoto) and enjoyed the bread. Oh, and I always give away at least half to a neighbor or passerby outside :)
Had to google your rice balls. They look delicious!