Lesson Learned.....Feed the Birds!

This was my week to bring treats to st. James for the choir. I always enjoy having Joanna as my partner.
Now, for the part I didn't enjoy.

I decided to get my sourdough out of the freezer and see if it still worked, After thawing and removing a few chunks of dough it seemed to be fine. I decided to make bagels. They were slow to rise (not a good sign)
but I went ahead and shaped, boiled and baked. The directions said to roll in a ball, make a hole with your finger. I did that a few times but it was taking forever, so I tried a different way. Unfortunately, my way was the wrong way. The circle came apart....blah blah blah. To make a long story short..after all that work, the bagels looked like turds.  I thought about giving them to the birds or squirrels but them decided, that broken up, it would make a good crust for my strata.   It was actually delicious.....but some of the bagel stuck to the bottom of the pan. It took me at least a half hour( after soaking ) to clean out the pan. It was like trying to scrape melted and dried gummy bears out of the pan.   No more bagel bottoms.

The rest of the food was welcomed by the choir. Joe (our organist) asked for the recipe for the Raspberry Coffee cake. I almost left it home as I thought it was dry.  This was caused by the rice flour I used to make it gluten-free.

It was a lot of work, a lot of fun and I'm glad it only happens once or twice a year.



Thanks to Joe for all the help carrying and setting up.

Joe also tried out his new camera in church.