Cheese and Chive Bread

There is nothing quite like the smell of freshly baked bread, and it is even nicer when the smell is coming from your very own kitchen. This Cheese and Chive bread requires no yeast and is made the farm style way using self raising flour instead.

I love how this bread is so versatile and can be made as a loaf, or individual mini loaves, or even in muffin pans. My favourite way is to bake them in these small terra cotta pots, which can be bought at any nursery. When made as small loaves, they taste almost like cheese muffins or scones. Either way, this Cheese and Chive bread is amazing served straight from the oven with lashings of farm butter.

This earthy and rustic bread reminded me so much of my stay in Namibia a few years back, I thought I would share a few pictures from my stay there. Namibia has a truly unique landscape. Sun scorched and starved of rain, it is home to endless desert plains, sand dunes and beautiful scrubland. The red dunes of the Namib Desert that stretch for miles are so spectacular and a landscape photographer's dream.

I was so privileged to have been part of a photographic workshop to this beautiful part of Africa. We were up every day way before dawn to drive for miles through the barren landscape, and then hike up the huge dunes, so that we would be in the perfect spot to photograph the sunrise over the plains. As you can imagine the weather is brutal and the sun beats down relentlessly, so we would return back to the farm before the heat was too intense, for a late breakfast and to work on our images, have lectures, and present our best pictures of the day, before we would head out again to catch the late afternoon light. Getting back way after dark, we would always be greeted by the smell of meat stews and home baked bread.