Baking Bucket List: Bagels (every one’s a fluffy one)

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.

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 …

Recipe search

Mr L is hankering after a dish that both he and I recall, though I think that we made it in separate lives. I have checked all of our likely cookery book sources and cannot find it. I’m wondering if the Interwebs can come to our assistance.

Lentil Burgers

Today’s Lentil Burgers were a bit of a mess. Good job the bread came out passable.

Stodge

A recent conversation got me to thinking and I realised that we are eating far too much meat – way more meat than I have ever before eaten in my life. It’s kind of become a habit. Well, I wish to break that bad habit

I will do better

Crazy, awful dreams last night. I was pretty much wakeful all night, on that brain-active threshold ‘twixt sleep and waking. No idea why – I had a salad sandwich and a cup of tea for my evening meal. Not exactly living on the edge, is it? I’m up early again but tired and grumpy with …