Well, it's been a really long time since I participated in the Foodista Challenge! Since my strawberry mousse it seems… I like challenges because they allow me to push myself on an imposed theme while with the blog normally I follow my feeling and my desires. It pushes me to exceed myself, something I don't necessarily do without constraint. The problem is that the date is imposed and it always disrupts my schedule a bit. Before I rarely had time to have a recipe ready on time but now that I give more time to the blog, I think I'll participate more and more often. And for this month's recipe I propose an almond, walnut and chocolate spread!
I finally took the theme head-on because I made a spread but also the bread to go underneath! Indeed since this summer I've been making sourdough bread and after a few failures and disappointments, I think I'm starting to get the hang of it. I'm happy that this challenge allowed me to share a bread recipe because it's not really in the editorial charter of this blog in theory.
On the other hand, I don't feel comfortable enough yet to talk to you about sourdough so I'm going to give you the recipe that can be made with yeast. I had brought flour from Normandy to make Nordic bread and it was really, really delicious! The bread has a slight hazelnut taste and crunches when you taste it. It has character and you can feel the difference with bread from the bakery. OK, let's not lie to ourselves, it also has that little taste of pride and bad faith of "it's much better because I made it MYSELF". But tasted with Mom's strawberry jam it was just a KILLER.
It pairs very well too with the spread I'm proposing to you. I had brought walnuts from the garden and I thought it would be a good idea to mix them with chocolate. Finally when tasting the bitterness of the walnuts was a bit too present so I added some almond butter to rebalance and it was perfect! It's also much healthier than spreads full of palm oil that you can find in stores. I really need to get into the habit of making it more often because it's really super simple!
