I don’t know about you, but rainy Sundays make me want to find a warm place to avoid the coming of Monday. This usually means on any given Sunday afternoon you can find me baking in my kitchen.
This particular wet day I decided to try out recipes from two of my favorite food bloggers: Zesty Cook and Kath Eats. Recently Zesty posted this recipe for these yummy-looking dinner rolls, the kind your aunt pulls warm from the oven on Thanksgiving. These are fairly simple and a safe bet to bring along for the scary Meeting the Parents for the First Time dinner. You can find the recipe here.
My rolls turned out massively huge, so I took a mental note to scale down the amount of dough per roll next time. During this procedure I also came to notice that my kitchen has horrendous lighting, due to the fact that we use halogen bulbs. This is kind to our electric bill, but hard on my poor camera. So I will spare you the yellowy-orange pictures of the blobs of dough. You’ve seen raw dough.
We enjoyed our rolls with some butter and homemade lamb stew from my mother.
I broke down and used the flash for the last one because I was sick of looking at yellow. I hate the flash. I’m still a little bitter.
Next I tried out Kath’s recipe for bagels. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but bagels are a big deal to me. I’ve noticed that there are a lot of bagels haters out there. “Bagels are too high in fat and calories to be worth their consumption,” they say. Oh, I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you over the loud and delicious bite of bagel I’m currently chewing.
At any rate, Kath is a healthy girl, so I figured she would make a healthy bagel. These are made with whole wheat and small enough to tempt a bagelophobe.
It’s sort of a complicated process, but I got a real kick out of it. First you make the dough, then you let it rise. Then you shape your bagels and refrigerate them for at least six hours (or overnight, as I did). In the morning you boil them, chill them thoroughly in an ice bath, and bake. Behold:
While these bad boys were baking, I whipped up some scallion cream cheese.
For breakfast we enjoyed our fresh, hot bagels with butter for the Boyfriend and scallion cream cheese for me.
Drool.
Don’t be shy, make these yourself. You can add toppings, too, just like at a bagel shop. Once you get the hang of it, I bet this will become your Sunday tradition, too!
Wow I am super impressed with those bagels.
How do you find time!? I’m so impressed Miss, these look fabulous!! And homemade scallion cream cheese!? You’re wowing me!! It all look delicious!
Hey check out Jack behind the scallion cream cheese!
those bagels look amaaazing. kudos to you for taking the time to boil, bake, etc. your kitchen looks pretty jazzy and old school, too — i’m a fan!
Wow–I am totally salivating. And the little crevices in the bagels look so inviting! And I love scallions.
(And what a great enamel table–they’re hard to find!)
Jdog