MrsPayne212
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How cool I suppose ill have to learn how to make booties one day lol... hey do you by any chance know how many points in a fried egg?
welcome the title of the thread made me laugh a little lol good luck! xx
littlemisspiggy said:Homemade bagels taste better!
People think that making outstanding bagels at home is really difficult, but it's really no harder than making a loaf of bread...and can be done within about an hour.
Don't be discouraged if your bagels look at bit funny at first, you'll get the hang of it in no time, and those curiously shaped bagels will still beat supermarket bagels hands down.
What makes a bagel different from other breads is the two stage cooking process. A bagel is first briefly boiled, and then baked.
Homemade bagel recipe makes 8 (4pp) or 16 (2pp)
4 cups bread flour
1 Tbls sugar replace by using no calorie sugar such as splenda
1 1/2 tsps salt (low sodium)
1 Tbls vegetable oil
2 tsps instant yeast
1-1/4- 1-1/2 cups of warm water.
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. You don't have to worry about soaking the yeast when you use instant yeast (most yeast sold these days is instant yeast).
The dough should feel stiff, but add the extra water if it's really stiff, or you can't get all the dry flour incorporated.
Plop the dough down onto the counter, and knead for about ten minutes, or until the dough is uniform and smooth.
Cut the dough into 8 equal sized balls, and let rest for 10-20 minutes.
Pre heat your oven to 425f or 220 celcius
Now, take each of the dough balls and using two hands, roll it into a little snake on the counter.
When the snake is longer than the width of your two hands, wrap it around your dominant roiling hand.
The dough rope should be wrapped so the overlapping ends are together at your palm, near the start of your fingers.
Now take the two overlapping ends, and use your palm to squish/roll these two ends together.
Once the dough is fused, you should have a perfectly circular bagel-to-be!
This is the only part of the process that can take a little practice before your bagels will look really professional. Don't get discouraged if they don't look perfect, it just takes practice!
Let your bagels rest on the counter for about 20 minutes, and meanwhile, bring a pot of water to boil, and grease a large baking tray lightly (low-fat-spray).
After the 20 minute wait, your bagels will start to look puffy, and it's time to get them boiling!
Add them as many at a time as you can to your boiling water without crowding them.
Boil for about a minute, turn them over, and boil for another minute. Take them out a let dry for a minute and then place them on your oiled baking tray. Repeat until all the bagels are boiled. (if u want any sesame or poppy seeds this is the time to put them on just put the seeds on a plate and carefully put the wet bagel onto the plate press gently and put in tray with seeds side down to bake)
Add the tray to the oven, and after 10 minutes, flip the bagels over, bake for another ten minutes; and they're done!
Let them cool for at least 20 minutes, get the low fat cream cheese ready, and feast on what's got to be one of the best breakfasts possible!
You can add any toppings you like to these. To make sesame, onions, poppy seed, caraway etc. etc. bagels just have a dry plate ready with the seed or spice topping spread out on it. After the bagels have come out of the boiling water, place them face down onto the seeds, and then place the seed side up onto the baking tray. Bake and flip as for plain bagels.
littlemisspiggy said:put them in a bowl or plate when they are rising and cover with slightly wet (clean) teatowel this way the dough wont dry out and the heat of the yeast gets trapped in the bowl making them rise further
littlemisspiggy said:Recipe for homemade taco chips
you'll need:
Bag of Quorn mince (100g= 2pp)
bag of low-fat oven chips (100g=4pp)
packet of chilli herbs
rose-mary seafood sauce (2 tbsp=4pp)
low fat cheddar cheese (40g=3pp)
Serves 2-4
per person measure 100g of Quorn mince
and 100g of low fat oven chips
cut the vegetables up and fry them in low fat spray (4 sprays)
add Quorn mince and chilli herbs
Meanwhile bake chips in oven as instructed
Grate 40gr of low-fat chedder cheese (Low-Low) per person
When Quorn and chips are done add chips to bowl, pour portion of Quorn over the chips and top with two tablespoons of seafood sauce (mary-rose) and 40g of cheese
Eat with big salad
Enjoy!! 13 pp per portion
Hello everyone
Had a great sunday, my wife and I walked 2km today feeling great!! I'm gonna try do 5km by the end of october Our park has a path that is exactly 1km so 5x around park = 5km and loadsa calories burned
Im really nervous about weigh-in tuesday, not sure if we have enough money cuz we have to pay rent tuesday Just feeling bit bloated might be PMS tho... fingers crossed i didnt put on weight
Also big hello to angelicafuzz! welcome welcome! good luck on your journey and WOW on your weightloss so far!!!!
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