Irish Soda Bread with sun-dried tomatoes

                 Home – simple four letters which reminds whole kind of things.  It’s easy with english but in polish we have the same word for house and home.

Smell of newborn baby, fresh cutted grass, pie which was just taken from oven.
But also smell of your uncle’s cigarettes, favorite pencils, smelly odour of your beloved grandma’s olfashioned perfumes.
All those things which connect you with your home wherever you are.

Irish Soda Bread with dry tomatoes:

300 gram of flour ( i use mix of plain white flour and whole wheat )
1 tablespoon of baking soda
1/2 teasspoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon of sea salt
pinch of black pepper
some sun-dry tomatoes ( use as many as you like )
230 ml ( or one cup ) of buttermilk
1and 1/2 tablespoon of honey

Preheat oven to 350F/180C.
Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl. Put your dry tomatoes in some jar and water it with hot water to make them soft. Dry on kitchen paper and cool them down. Mix with your bread flour.
Whisk together buttermilk and honey. Pour inside your flour mix. Using a spoon gently stir it to just to combine and form a soft dough.
Get your baking tray and put some baking paper on it ( i use two layers ) with some flour dusted here and there.Shape nice round loaf, dust it with flour and cut quite deep cross into the top.
Bake 30 minutes or until it golden brown with nice dark crispy skin.