Soft Potato Wheat Loaf and Awards

It has been so long, too long in my perspective since I last made fresh bread. I have been waiting, holding back my "urge" to bake a batch that I would make myself contented. :) Why hold back you ask? It wasn't the right time and the right place as yet. Now that I am finally in my new house with my new oven and reunited with my KitchenAid mixer, it's one BIG happy reunion, lol! And alas the wait was all worth it! A few weeks back when my mom called me over for dinner, I knew the opportunity has arrived. :) I had been wanting to make some nice bread for her and been delaying it for so long. So I quickly went with one of my favorite soft bread recipe which I baked before from 孟老师的100道面包 and modified it a little and came up with this Soft Potato Wheat loaf bread.

Okay, this looks like some ordinary looking loaf, but it is so so soft! I knew from my past experience that using potato in the dough will result in the bread being super soft. ;) But of course the handling and kneading of the dough will require extra work since it will be a soft sticky dough. :P

Since this recipe is similar to the one I have posted before, I will not be retyping it out again here in this post. The main difference is I had replace about 40 to 45g of wholemeal flour (Prima brand) from the bread flour in the dough recipe to make it a wee bit more healthy. :) If you are interested to try this out, please kindly refer to my previous post.

See what I mean? See how the slices gently lay on each other, lol! Furthermore, the loaf was well baked, means the crust was there but not thick, and internal was all nicely risen and puffed. :) *thick skin....I mean me, not the bread*

A shot of a slice of the bread....okay I admit I am really happy with this, hahaha! So good to have fresh baked bread in the house again....the toasty smell filling the whole house...an indescribable happiness for me. :D

Besides the loaf, I had some left over dough and I made 3 small pork jerky buns (肉干面包). I brought them over to my mum's and it was gone in minutes, even though everyone already stuffed themselves with my mum's delicious dinner, heehee. :D

A glimpse of my breakfast (half eaten already...sorry) the following morning. Happy? Contented? You bet I am, lol! You can have this too my friend, just get yourself in the kitchen and start baking. ;) No, no bread machine needed, just you and perhaps a good stand mixer (but your hands can do it too~!) will do. Even though it has been a super long wait of 6 months++, I was smiles again after this bake. Do try it out and let me know how it work out for you.
Before I sign off this post, I would like to thank dear DG for passing not 1 but 2 awards to me. ;0 Indeed it was a pleasant surprise! I had seen these awards lately being passed on to several of the fellow bloggers. And because of that, I will accept the awards and skip the passing on part, hope you don't mind DG. ;)
Thanks again to DG for these 2 lovely awards and wish I can be better blogger with much more interesting post in the future. Have a good week ahead to you all! Cheerios!