Whole Wheat Bagels

MmmMmmm... That about sums it up!

I thought making bagels would be hard, but it surprisingly isn't! I will, though, make a single batch next time instead of a double batch...

:)

Find recipe and instructions here.

Homemade Pizza Dough

To keep with the spirit of Pizza, I figured I should now post our pizza dough recipe. The original recipe comes from the kitchen of my Mother-in-law, but we have since modified it to fit our needs. Here it is!!

One pizza
3/4 c warm water
1 T yeast
1 T brown sugar
1/6 t salt
1 T olive oil
1 2/3 c whole wheat flour

Mix warm water, yeast, and sugar in mixing bowl until the yeast is activated- about 5 ish minutes. Then mix in the rest of the ingredients. Add flour until the dough no longer sticks to the pan. We then usually take the dough out, pour a little olive oil into the bowl and then turn the dough over and over, until all sides are covered. (Helps to keep the dough from sticking to the pan as it raises.) Place the bowl in a warm area (our garage works great in the summer-in the winter we usually turn the oven on the lowest setting-170-and keep it in there for about 10 minutes), and raise until doubled. Roll out on a floured surface.

We then roll it out to fit our pan (a pizza stone), roll up the edges (because we like a fluffy crust), and top with our favorite toppings. Put it in the oven for 26 minutes (maybe more...) and then eat!

Whole wheat biscuits

We love bread products in our home. There's just nothing like fresh bread ____ (insert sticks, biscuits, etc.) cooking in the house! Since we now only use wheat flour, some of these bread products were giving me a bit of a hard time. Like the biscuits. Anytime I would take our favorite biscuit recipe and switch out the white flour for the wheat, they would go all wonky on me. Not cool. So for our squash and white bean soup with parmesan biscuit meal last week, I decided we needed to find a recipe for wheat biscuits. And found it I did! This was definitely a keeper recipe! (If only I could remember where I found it at...)

Whole wheat biscuits
1/2 flour
1 1/2 whole wheat flour
1 1/2 T baking powder
1 T sugar
1 t salt
1/4 cold butter
1 c milk

sift together flours, baking powder, sugar and salt in to medium bowl. Cut in butter; add milk and stir until just combined. Knead (on floured surface) 10-15 times. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 12-14 minutes until golden brown.


My only goal now is to figure out if I can use all wheat flour instead of that 1/2 c white flour...

Whole wheat breadsticks

We got this recipe a few years ago from some friends of ours and it is by far our favorite breadstick recipe! So good, and so easy to make too!


Wheat Breadsticks
2 c wheat flour
1 1/2 c white flour
1 1/2 c hot water
2 T sugar
1 1/4 t salt
1 T yeast
1/2 T brown sugar

mix hot water, yeast, and sugar. let the yeast react. mix in other ingredients. let sit for 5ish minutes. then roll into breadsticks, brush butter over the tops. Season with garlic salt, parsley & parmesan cheese (whatever sounds good to you!). cook for 12-15 minutes at 400. YUM.



*I did use all wheat flour this last time and they turned out just the same, texture wise, and of so yummy taste wise. :)