The Beat That My Heart Skipped – A blog dedicated to daily design inspirations. By Rohini Wahi.

Last week ceramist Mia Blanche shared a day in her life with us, and amidst her routine of taking her children to school in the snow, creating in her studio and picking up supplies for school trips, we saw her making the time to wake up and bake ‘Poolish’ bread every morning!

Intrigued and thinking it must be a great recipe if she managed to fit it into her busy routine, we asked her to share it with us. In my opinion there is nothing like the smell of fresh bread wafting through the house on a cold morning to make me feel ready to embrace the day. Nothing says ‘wake up’ than good, warm and crusty bread spread thickly with just butter and a pot of coffee…

Here is Mia’s recipe for ‘Freshly baked Poolish Bread’ accompanied by her wonderful pictures. Louise x

Mia’s Freshly Baked Poolish Bread

‘Poolish’ is an amazing bread that be made with a miniscule amount of bakers yeast. It is the one dough that can’t be kneaded by hand – it’s just too wet and sticky, so this is a great recipe for a busy person it just takes some preparation beforehand. It’s the wet dough that results in a nice crusty holey bread. Poolish bread also has some of the lovely flavours of sourdough so is really tasty eaten on it’s own with butter.
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I’m completely obsessed with the whole sweet and sea-salt combination in confectionary that had become so popular on the other side of the pond, but there’s really not that much to choose from here in the UK [can anyone recommend any treats like this?].

So, when I came across these yummy ‘Brown Sugar Biscuits with Chocolate, Toffee and Sea Salt’ on The Kitchenist, one of The Beat That My Heart Skipped’s favourite foodie blogs  – I knew I had to have them! See the recipe here.

Oh! I have never heard of such a treat, but doesn’t it just sing of spring? Blood orange butter is a compound of sweet butter flavored with the juice, zest and flesh of blood orange, a dab of honey and a pinch of salt. You can find more of these lovely images and the whole recipe over at The Kitchen Sink which recommends making up a batch of this to spread on biscuits to remind you of sunny days when they no doubt fade!

With Easter fast approaching, it seems like I’ve got chocolate on the brain more so than usual. I couldn’t resist drooling over the website of London chocolatiers Melt. Their shop has a kitchen on site so you can see and smell the chocolates being made!

Specialities include sea salted caramel bon-bons, slabs of chocolate popcorn and raspberry and chocolate lollipops adorned in rose petals. Watch a blissful video of the store creating their chocolates here.