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you may have noticed that i am a couple weeks behind in my posting… but this pumpkin bread is still from december, as i refuse to let go of fall. to be fair, this isn’t all me; i asked my friend ed, the birthday boy, what he wanted and he said pumpkin, i knew that the fall season would need to be extended until the very end (we still have until the solstice, ya know). even then, i am pretty sure you will find me making pumpkin treats well into winter…especially this bread! mmmmmmmmm
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as a former (and temporarily current) vegan and trying to eat gluten-free for a while, a lot of the foods i eat have quotation marks around the recipe title…one of the things i want to make soon is “apple pie” with “ice cream”; i can’t help but laugh, but hey, if they make me healthier and taste okay, nothing wrong with some punctuation in my food.
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first, let me get some facts straight. some of the things i love are: dogfishhead beer, pumpkin ale, pumpkin spice, brown sugar, bread, pumpkin bread, just about anything fall-related except for mushy squash. here is something i dont like: recipes that sound fantastic but in reality are not.
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you know how people say “oh, i could do that in my sleep…”? well, i am pretty sure that most of the baking i did this week was actually in my sleep. wait, no. i have barely slept at all this week, so perhaps a trance or a daze would be a better word for it. there are many things in my life that i should be quite proud of, things that truly are impressive, but today… today i am proud that i did not: yell at anyone, punch anyone, rip my hair out, fall down in a fit of tears, fall asleep at my desk, start laughing hysterically for no reason in a meeting with our CEO, or anything else indicative of the mental state i am in. seriously, between not sleeping and some of the people i encountered in my work day (okay, the screaming children at target didn’t help either), i feel like im losing my mind… going bananas, if you will.
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so my friend david told me stories of how he and his mother always make bagels, how much fun they have, and how good they are. when he said he would be in town i thought “great, he can teach me how to make bagels!” i typically try out recipes on my own, but since i have had some difficulties with yeast breads in the past, and it sounded like a fun thing to have company for… i figured i would wait for him.
david arrived saturday morning, excited for some bagel-makin’. i got out the ingredients and looked over at him, expecting him to get us started. *this* is when i found out that david has never actually made bagels. david’s mother makes bagels. okay, to be fair, he has turned the small round pieces of dough that his mother made into bagels by boiling and baking them.
in any case, we had fun making them. they ended up tasting more like bread (yes, there’s a difference, for those that have never had a ny/nj bagel), but still good… especially for some delicious tomato mozzarella sammies! i am fairly certain that the reason they ended up flatter than they should have been was due to my poor choice of utensils to stir the yeast/warm water combo (a bunch got stuck), as well as being afraid to over knead.
re-bake will be coming on this one!
