Oh hey guys....you caught me while I was working on my kneading technique.
Speaking of kneading I wanted to share a Holiday tip with everyone!
Most people go for sugary sweets this holiday season but I must admit my mom has a soft spot for savory and sometimes salty type foods. With that in mind and the new budget Mom and Dad are trying to stick too, Mom was looking over foods they by and what may be able to be nixed. She spotted the bagels but she loves the bagels! But roughly $4 for a bag of 6, is killer. So Mom found a recipe thats just yummies. She likes to put sea salt and a sprinkling of onion powder on her bagels before she makes them but I thought I would steal it from her table and share it with all of you! Maybe you can make some bagels for a holiday get together!
First off you're gonna need a bowl, you humans are good at fetching things!
Then 4 cups of flour, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt, a pack of yeast, a tablespoon of oil any kind will do really, and 1 1/4 cups of warm water. Just toss it all in the bowl, mix and try not to make a mess!
If your dough is still too dry then add water a tablespoon at a time until your dough comes together. Then bring it out on the counter and knead, knead, knead till its smooth if it sticks too much to the counter theres no shame in adding a little flour to your hands to unstick it a bit I see Mom do this quite a bit!Then cut your dough into 6 to 8 pieces and roll into a log that roughly protrudes an inch from each side of your hands when they are flat and together like your showing off a lovely ring! Wrap the dough around your fingers and roll where the two ends come together!
Do that for all the pieces!
Now Mom is really partial to parchment paper so she usually uses that right about now but if you don't have it available just butter up a sheet pan!
Mom lightly dusts the bottoms of her bagels with some flour then puts them on the sheet pan and in a warm place to rise for 20 minutes.
Then you have a pot of water boiling with a tablespoon each of sugar and salt in it and you boil all the bagels! Mom does her ones at a time for about 30 seconds on each side and places them back onto the sheet pan when they are all boiled she sprinkles on the sea salt and onion powder or leaves them plain or anything else you want.
Now you're gonna want that big heaty thing Mom calls the oven at about 425 degrees.....wow thats hot! Here is where it can differ from person to person. Moms oven is old and doesnt hold its temps very well so hers take about 8 minutes on one side before she flips them for an additional 6 minutes, some people could take 10 minutes on one and 8 on the other just keep an eye and wait too see a light golden tan before you flip. Then just take them out and let them cool! You can make them as big or small as you want and will be a nice break from all those holiday sweets!
Moms favorite part is they are a fraction of the price to make then to buy and take so little time!
Hope you enjoy them!
Dad got Mom a new camera to take some really good pictures of me. She says I'm a great model! Mom got Dad some storage stuff for his favorite toys and a shirt. Then Mom and Dad went to see my cousins on christmas eve and got some really good pikhs of them I would like to share with you all, unlike me they are not scared of the tree. I hear Fluffy really got into the swing of things especially for dinner...he was always right there making sure not to miss a single moment!
Mom says she has plenty more cat pikhs to share with you but she wants to make em last! So keep an eye out! Hope you all had a very meowy Chrissymouse I did!
Hey efurryone! Tygana here reporting from the cold cold cold northeast. I thought I would show you all some pictures of my property...it's been stolen by this cold white stuff, I tried to take it back but I just couldnt bring myself to fight the stuff!
So this is my walkway to my porch saturday night it was still snowing....
I woke up sunday morning to this....my porch has been devoured!
So I told Mom I would take a little break from my all important task of protecting my property to show everyone what I got!
Mom had this neat empty spot right next to the TV! So I said...fill it mai cards! I'm pretty sure these are all I'm gonna get this holiday season but theres always next year to look forward too! Mom and Dad even got one card for themselves...hahahhaha one. I'm so cool.
Hosted by Fin from Housecat Confidential! So mom would like to correct herself and also dedicate yesterdays viewing as part of Hunt Week! My prey? Computer birds!
So I got a comment from Amy and the House of Cats asking what video it was I was watching because those kitties would like to enjoy it themselves too! Katie from Glogirly and Katie asked if this same contraption can get bunnies and squirrels! Sparkle from Sparkle the designer cat asked if I finally caught one. Finally, Wendy mother of the 3-D's asked if my mom found this fun new thing for me. Well I have answers for you all!
Good thing she doesn't mind coming second to my first. Hehehe
So Mom took the mailing wrap off for me, and in it was another box! I pretty purple box! Mom says there was one fetching cat on that box!
I got a stocking full of toys! Temptation, some felix treats I believe those are UK issue and these thrive prawns! Oh and this pretty collar! There was even something in the box for Mom and she was so excited to see it it was so unexpected! It's a lovely cat keychain that she now sports with her favorite keychain she got from her Dad.
Now I've got so much more to add to my stash!
All us kitties can relate to this....so desperately wanting to be out...well even though shes not supposed to Ms.Boo got her wish she opened the screen door on her own and snuck outside!
Isn't she cute?!
Inspecting the tree!!!
So from Ms.Boo to all of you in the cat blogosphere
The breeder Harry's mom got Fiona from will not take responsibility even if it did happen on her watch. Harry's mom is feeling the financial crunch like many of us and Fionas treatment which will include visits, blood work, teeth cleaning, and extracting two teeth and possible biopsy of one of the lesions total cost being around $1,000.00.
