Anyway, enough of the whine. This post is about... BAGELS!
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| Caraway, sesame and poppy seed bagels! |
So, one morning last weekend, Austin and I woke up dreaming about what we should have for breakfast. As po' folk, our dreams of eggs florentine, biscuits and gravy, or tower's famous french toast were quickly dashed...unless, of course, it was something I could make myself.
After finding out how much stinking butter goes into making hollandaise sauce, and the fact that the ingredient list for english muffins was long and included the dreaded shortening, I gave up on any style of benedict. There was no adequate sausage substitute on hand... but... what about BAGELS???
With just six simple ingredients I could make authentic NY style bagels? Yes please!
And saving us SO much money! Seriously, another successful dinner we've had this week, which I would have devoted a full post to if I wasn't already behind, was falafel pitas. I made the pitas, hummus and falafel (the falafel recipe was tweaked slightly, we baked instead of fried & added a bit of oil to bind in the oven) from scratch. The only other things we put in the quasi-sammach? Lettuce and feta cheese. It was such a reward to have a meal entirely made from scratch that didn't even require me to go to the store to get more ingredients!!
This is turning into more of a recipe box post than I intended -- but I've been having such luck with my cooking!!
Tonight's dinner is sweet potato tamales, I hope they turn out. I hope to get back in the groove of posts, mostly just to keep focused on the now, and my food success... cuz it makes me happy, and being happy is important.
You should make that bagel recipe, though. It was so much simpler than I ever imagined.
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| Pantry/Spices & cats for good measure... |
P.S. I just burned a sh*t-ton of sliced almonds. FML.
Yay!
ReplyDelete#1: I've made bagels once before.. they were..alright. They actually tasted more like pretzels than bagels, which Ed didn't mind. I've also made pretzels..really easy as well. I'm baking up a storm today myself..and have more baking planned. Have been thinking about trying homemade cream cheese, but that requires a odd cheese ingredient that I'm not sure where to get besides ordering in bulk atm.
#2: Cats make everything better. Kirk & KD said I couldn't bring home another cat. (Who WANTED to get in my car..)
#3: lol, burnt almonds. (Sorry).
Is rennet your mystery ingredient? If so, I don't know where you buy it either, though I wouldn't be surprised if the natural foods store sells it?
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about making paneer cheese (an Indian cheese often substituted for meat in vegetarian recipes); we should have a cheese make-off!
Actually no, it's Mesophilic culture. I'm wondering if I could possibly find it at one of the beer brew stores around here.. I know they've got unique yeast cultures and such. If I find that culture.. we can totally have a cheese make-off! :D
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