Once upon a time, when I was but a brooding teenager fooling around in the kitchen in my childhood home, I suddenly felt adventurous. What might happen, if I strayed from the narrow path of making the same chocolate cake from NESA’s cookbook in a million variations and tried something daring, something new? This adventurous spirit coupled with the memory of a certain ready-to-heat coffee and chocolate bagel from Hattings Bageri, made me dig out a recipe for that wonder of a dumpling-like ring. It was an instant success and yet I didn’t manage to return to bagel-baking until about a month ago (18 years later).
Tags: Bagel recipe, breakfast
Yesterday T worked up a really smooth and stretchy pizza dough from a recipe by Claus Meyer. For a pizza that we were having tonight that is. Of course this early preparation really set off our hunger prematurely and watching the little rolls of dough slowly rising in the fridge didn’t help much. So when we finally made four different pizzas a few hours ago, we were more than just regularly excited. We were set for disappointment…
You know how when you have guests over for dinner and you’re trying frantically to finish up in the kitchen? How there’s no time to play the perfect host and they start hanging around the kitchen table asking half-assedly if they can help? Well, I finally decided to put an end to all that dalliance. Now I’m regularly sealing all of my hospitality into little sticks o’ love to keep them preoccupied and feeling really special. 
