New York-Style Bagels
Did you know that homemade bagels are AMAZE-BALLS?!!!!! Well, they are! OMG they are so good. I don't know how anyone could ever give up carbs. I mean, these bagels are so good. They are totally worth the 2 days it took to make them. Yea, it took two days to make them, but all of it wasn't hands on. Most of the wait was waiting for them to rise for 24 hrs (and I didn't have time after work one night, so I actually let them rise for 48 hours). I'd always been kind of nervous about making bagels because one super traditional recipe I read used lye to boil the bagels. Lye? Like the caustic basic solution stuff? The recipe even had a note about how it's hard to purchase/illegal maybe to sell lye in the grocery store so you had to order it online. Can't remember where I saw that recipe, Food & Wine or epicurious. But yea, that put me off making bagels. But then my friend Laura told me she made bagels with her mom and they were a...