Achieved: BAGELS

[20thcenturyvole]

I don't even know, you guys. I am not usually one to experiment with bread products - baking is the one area where I will usually stick to a recipe - but we went to Wellington for the weekend (and got told by everyone we knew to MOVE BACK, ALREADY and nodded mournfully, for we miss it so) and bought delicious bagels for the home trip, as is our

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[an_kayoh]

2. The salt rule in our house is: Don't. Unless you're baking, no salt goes in until at least two people have assembled to help you taste the whatever-it-is as you add tiny amounts of salt. Not doing so results in toxic egg salad and spaghetti sauce that tastes like metal.

5. LOL.

[20thcenturyvole]

5. Oh, God, watching it run frantically in a circle before collapsing on a bent stalk of grass was just D: D: D: SO AWFUL. It was only little! I do not care if I kill an ant or a fly or a wasp or a cockroach or a spider (although dead spiders make me want to shrivel up with disgust and horror), but PREYING MANTISES, MAN. THEY ARE MY FRIENDS. As are bees. And butterflies. And ladybugs. Actually, most beetles. I'm going to stop before this turns into a round of "arthropods I have known."

[delurker]

omg, bagels. I am on such a bagel kick right now and it is so tempting to try and make some! Perhaps I will take my bread flour on holidays with me and make some over Easter.

[20thcenturyvole]

I cannot disapprove of that plan. Easter bagels!

[lizzie_and_ari]

You are hilarious. Really enjoyed reading that. One day, you and me, cook-off. It has to happen.

[20thcenturyvole]

Oh, how I long for a cook-off! With lots of people around to eat the vast mountains of food we make, and maybe get roped into doing the dishes afterwards. :D