Bagels have been on my ToDo list for a long time. This week, completely out of the blue, Mr L asked if we could try making some. He came to me already armed with research although I added some of my own.
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
This, that, the other, and bagels
It is a day of sun, showers and rainbows Shopping has been done, including Highland Park Smoked Salmon for the Bagels we are making tomorrow and… Cream cheese ditto (low fat at that!) and more haggis-stuffed beef olives, for Sunday Our Wedding Anniversary dinner has been ordered – a local free range duck, so that’s …
500
So, what does 500 kilocalories look like? Persian Chicken Curry from the 5:2 Skinny Curry recipe book, served with a spiced cauliflower and green pepper dish that we often make, from a cheapo Simple Indian Recipes booklet. The veg recipe calls for considerably more oil than I used for the fast day – I throttled …
Forward momentum
Hugo is finished, washed and laid out to dry. It may be two or three days before it’s dry enough to wear. I’m very happy that although I wimped out on the Hand Wash Wool cycle, the poncho did survive a Slow Spin. It was amazing how much muck came out in the wash. I …
Warm and delicious
There was no photograph of the cabbage and chestnut bake, this due mainly to the fact that it was late and we were ravenous and it looked sooooo good. And it was. Absolutely delicious. All that treadmill nonsense had me running late in the kitchen and the cooking itself was time-consuming, so poor old Hugo …
I know it’s boring
hey used to sentence folks to hard labour on the treadmill in Victorian days, you know.