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Blueberry Bagels

Blueberry Bagels

Blueberry Bagels

Bagels!  Recipe for home made Blueberry Bagels

I remember when bagels were a rarity  in the Midwest.  A friend would bring them back from New Jersey when he went home  on school breaks. Well, it was w-a-y back in  1972.  Now that I am retired and really into cooking, I like to try recipes, even if they are available on the market.  Better yet, I like make food without the unpronounceable ingredients.

A brief how-to make bagels.

Ready for the first rise.

Ready for the first rise.

This dough happens to be yeast bread dough.  Bagels also are a yeast dough,  the recipe I have is a small amount of yeast dough that makes 12 bagels.

 Besides knowing what goes into your homemade bagels, you also can decide what goes in your bagels or what to put on top.  The above bagels have white raisins, same dough as for the blueberry bagels.

Bagels in a boiling water bath.

Bagels in a boiling water bath.

Boiling the bagels sets the crust before going into the oven.  The interior texture is dense and  crust chewy. The bagels are in the water 45 to 60 seconds.

Enjoy Blueberry Bagels with cream cheese and jam.

Blueberry Bagels

Blueberry Bagels

Now that you have tried the Blueberry Bagels, try them again for your flavor and flare, such as raisin bagels.

Fresh Raisin Bagels

Fresh Raisin Bagels

Blueberry Bagels

Julia Ann
Home made bagels to enjoy toasted, with cream cheese and jam. Add blueberries or raisins, nuts and seeds. Decorate the top with nuts, seeds or plain for sandwiches. Your choice and ideas. A mixer friendly recipe
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Prep Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 50 minutes
Course Bread
Cuisine American
Servings 12

Ingredients
  

  • DOUGH
  • 1 1/2 cups of warm water 105-115F
  • 1 tablespoon instant yeast
  • 3 tablespoons honey
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons sea salt
  • 4-5 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 to 1/2 cup frozen or fresh blueberries
  • 1 egg white thinned with 1 tablespoon water
  • sprinkling of corn meal.
  • WATER BATH
  • 3 quarts water
  • 1 tablespoon honey or brown sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

Instructions
 

  • Add the warm water into a large bowl.
  • Sprinkle the yeast on top and blend to dissolve for 5 -10 minutes. It will become bubbly.
  • Add the honey, olive oil and 1 cup of flour mixed with salt.
  • Stir at low speed, blend briefly to mix.
  • Add remaining flour while mixer is going.
  • Using the dough hook, knead at low speed for 10 minutes. Dough will be smooth and elastic.
  • Roll into a large ball, put into well greased bowl and grease the ball of dough.
  • Cover bowl with plastic wrap, let rise in a warm place 1 hour to double in size.
  • Prepare water bath to boiling.
  • Preheat over to 425 F.
  • Prepare baking sheet with parchment paper, lightly sprayed with oil and sprinkled with corn meal.
  • When dough has doubled in size, punch dough down.
  • On a lightly floured board, roll into a long log, divide into 12 equal pieces to make a 2-inch balls.
  • Flatten the dough piece, add 3-4 blueberries in the circle.
  • Fold the dough over the blueberries and seal on underside.
  • Punch a holes in the middle with your thumb, make hole about 1-2 inches big.
  • Cover bagels and let rise 15 minutes until puffy.
  • Drop into the seasoned boiling water. They rise to the top.
  • Let simmer for 45-60 seconds each side.
  • Lift out with skimmer.
  • Set on the baking sheet.
  • Brush with egg white and water.
  • Bake 425 F, 10 minutes, or until lightly brown.
  • Turn after 10 minutes and brown on the other side.
  • Remove upon rack to cool.

Notes

These can be frozen. Adapted from King Arthur Flour Bagels....... Julia Ann and cookbookinabox® in partnership with Netta Belle’s Choice® bring you great recipes for your cooking experience. ©2007-2018 Netta Belle’s Choice® cookbookinabox® “Reg. U.S. Pat. & Trdmk.Off.” Reg. “Trade-marks Canadian Intellectual Property Office. ”nettabelleschoice.com and cookbookinabox.com.All rights reserved.
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The object of homemade is not about the perfection in the appearance, instead, it is the challenge of trying and getting delicious outcomes to please family and friends. Practice perfects the appearance,  though one cannot control oozing hot blueberries or resist the tantalizing aroma?

Join me for a cup of hot ginger tea.

Ginger Tea

Cup of Ginger Tea

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Netta Belle’s Choice Upside-Down Cake

 

Ready to enjoy Peach Upside Down Cake with a scoop of ice cream.

Ready to enjoy Peach Upside-Down Cake with a scoop of ice cream.

Don’t you like it when you find a quick recipe and make little changes you have another delicious dessert?  This is how I think of the Netta Belle’s Choice® Upside-Down Cake. It is the same basic cake layer dressed up to which ever fruit is in season.  I started out with just making pineapple upside down cakes, then did not have pineapple.  Blueberries were in season and later peaches.  So 2 new cakes were added to my Netta Belle’s Choice® cookbookinabox® Recipe Box.

 Peach Upside Down Cake

Putting peaches into the plate

Putting peaches into the plate

Pouring cake batter over peaches.

Pouring cake batter over peaches.

Peach Upside Down Cake

Peach Upside-Down Cake

Ready to enjoy Peach Upside Down Cake with a scoop of ice cream.

Ready to enjoy Peach Upside-Down Cake with a scoop of ice cream.

Netta Belle's Choice Upside-Down Cake

Julia Ann
A quick and easy dessert of a moist butter cake dressed up with seasonal sweeten fruit on top.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

  • 1/4 cup unsalted butter melted

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven 350 F. Preheat a sheet of foil on the lower shelf to catch drippings.
  • Grease a 10-inch deep dish pie plate.
  • TOPPING:
  • Peel and slice the peaches into the lemon juice.
  • Mix the melted butter and brown sugar in a small bowl.
  • Spread this on the bottom of greased pie plate.
  • Arrange the toasted almonds on top of the butter and sugar
  • Drain the peaches, dry off any excess juices.
  • Arrange the peach slices over almonds and butter/ brown sugar mixture.
  • CAKE BATTER:
  • Whisk together all the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt and spices.
  • In a larger bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  • Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
  • Beat in the almond extract.
  • Alternate adding the flour and milk, beating after each addition until well blended.
  • Spread the cake batter evenly over the peaches.
  • Bake in the middle of the oven for 45-55 minutes, or until tester comes out clean.
  • Cool the cake on a rake for 15 minutes.
  • Run a knife around the edge to loosen cake, invert cake onto a platter.
  • Serve warm or at room temperature.

Notes

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Bluleberry Upside Down Cake _750 To get your creative juices flowing, here are a some pictures of other fruit ideas. Humm… I think I will make the cake, put it on a platter and slather it with whip cream and cover it with fresh strawberries and drizzle chocolate on top.  Go to go! Cake, strawberries and whip cream are awaiting.  ENJOY  your choice Upside-Down Cake.

 

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Oriental Vegetable and Rice Bowl

Oriental Vegetable and Rice Bowl

gives a change to your menu.  Do you serve mostly southwestern, southern, midwestern meals, Italian, Indian, or Mexican cuisines?  Here is a recipe for Oriental Vegetable and Rice Bowl. As cooks, it is so easy to get into the habit of fixing the same thing over and over particularly if your family is busy and on the go.  I have found by serving one type of cuisine, there is a likelihood of having all the ingredients. However, when you like to cook, it is challenging and fun to try something different.

Some tips regarding Oriental cuisine:

1. Fast cooking at a high temperature is a key to Oriental cuisine.
2. The chief protein in the Oriental diet is the soybean: as in soybean oil, soy milk and soy sauce.
.3. The rapid, minimal cooking helps preserve the flavor, color and texture in Oriental cooking.

This Oriental Vegetable and Rice Bowl is a simple lunch or dinner dish.

 Add a fruit gelatin salad, crusty bread and fruit cup for a quick week day dinner.

Oriental Vegetable and Rice Bowl

Oriental Vegetable and Rice Bowl

Recipe for Oriental Vegetable and Rice Bowl

Oriental Vegetable and Rice Bowl

Julia Ann
Stir-fried vegetable with pork and brown rice for a quick light meal. A good way to use left over meats.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Total Time 23 minutes
Course Entree
Cuisine Asian
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

  • BROWN RICE

Instructions
 

  • BROWN RICE
  • Put broth and rice in large saucepan, bring to boil, cover and simmer 45 minutes.
  • When broth is absorbed and rice is tender, stir, recover and let stand 10 minutes before serving.
  • BASIC SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE
  • Put sugar, wine, vinegar, soy sauce and catsup in small saucepan, heat to boiling.
  • Stir cornstarch into water until smooth.
  • Add to sugar mixture; heat and stir until thickened. Keep warm
  • VEGETABLES
  • Slice and dice all vegetables.
  • Heat wok or 12 inch non-stick skillet until hot, not smoking.
  • Add oil, stir to coat pan and add meat stir to brown, remove meat, keep warm.
  • Add onions, carrots, cook 1 minute.
  • Add peppers and broccoli, cook vegetables 3-5 minutes.
  • Add the meat to vegetables.
  • Add the sweet and sour sauce to skillet cover and bring to a simmer.
  • Serve over brown rice.

Notes

If using left over meat or poultry, just heat thoroughly with vegetables before adding the sweet and sour sauce. Inspired by The creative cooking course, the American Homemaker's Academy 1973.
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 A Versatile Oriental Vegetables and Rice Bowl

You have many options to develop your own special Oriental Vegetable and Rice Bowl by changing the vegetables, the rice and the meats. The basic sweet and sour sauce can have many changes of taste by using pineapple juice, and the pineapple in the vegetables, brown sugar, or different vinegar.

Here are some suggestions to complete the meal.   Enjoy Your Oriental Vegetables and Rice Bowl.

Inspired by The Creative Cooking Course, The Creative Homemaker’s Academy 1973.

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