Every time Joshua or I makes something homemade (usually Joshua) that I’ve only ever purchased from elsewhere, I am amazed. Every time we go shopping, I buy bagels. I really like having them for breakfast and sometimes as snacks. This time when I went to reach for them, Joshua stopped me and said this would be the week we made them at home.

I can’t tell you much about the recipe. Joshua followed a recipe from The Bread Baker’s Apprentice that seemed pretty straightforward to me: mix flour and stuff, knead, spend some time in the fridge, then bake. There were a few deviations for making bagel-bread instead of regular-bread, of course. Here’s the photographic evidence:

First, after the bread was made into its little balls…

It got rolled into snakes…

Then shaped into rings…

Then, after it’s left to puff up a bit in the fridge…

The rings go into a pot of boiling water for a minute on one side…

Then flipped for a minute on the other side…

They all go on baking sheets and into the oven…

And then (magically!) bagels appear!

Real live, just-as-expected bagels! Yummy!