Why I Do Not Have a Food Blog

if you've met me, you'll know just by looking at me that i do enjoy eating.  but if you've been reading this blog, you'll also notice that i don't blog very often about foods that i have eaten, or cooked, etc.  and there's a reason for that.

because i'm a lousy food blogger.

a couple of weekends ago, a few people in flickr and on the blogs started making these awesome looking soft pretzels -- using this recipe.  follow the link and check out the gorgeousness that are those pretzels.  and here.  go look at those.    

so i decided to try my hand at making them.

thing is... i didn't have parchment paper, my mixer is still in it's original box (a wedding gift people -- it's been almost 5 years!) somewhere in the basement and i didn't have kosher or sea salt.

but i threw caution to the wind and thought i could wing it.

alas, i could not.  without a mixer, i got lazy and  didn't knead the dough long enough.  without parchment paper, i instead greased the cookie sheet, and without the kosher salt, i sprinkled morton's on the top.   

and i ended up with these...

pretty fugly, huh.  interestingly enough they tasted ok.  but they didn't rise enough, and they were greasy (i was a little heavy handed with the melted butter on top too).  and the whole boiling them before baking step was seriously messed up because my pretzels kind of fell apart in the process.  they just didn't look right.

but yes, i ate them all.

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day 158  -- i need to dig out that mixer.