Mmm delicious carbs

This is not going to be long. It ought to be because I’m so far behind on this blog that it isn’t even funny – the least I could do is write something in-depth and scintillating that spreads the vegetarian love and helps showcase the stunning dietary variety therein. But I’m not going to. What can I say? I’m a bitch like that.

But a stuffed bitch.

We don’t eat a whole lot of carbs in our house – it’s an easy trap for lots of Veggies out there, and it isn’t healthy to overload on them (as with anything). Recently however, a friend and fellow foodie has been exploring bread baking and all it’s twists, including pretzles. His results just looked too good to pass up and after much begging from the boys, we went out and got the necessary ingredients.

Since he explains it much better than I can (and since I’m full of delicious pretzel and consequently laaaazy), go and visit Charley at www.chuckskitchen.blogspot.com. Ahhh. Coattails. So comfortable.

No, but really, check him out. Besides really breaking into the world of bread, he’s an awesome chef and has some really incredible dishes and a way with words that makes his blog a treat to read. Plus, he’s delving into vegetarianism for the next forty days! Can’t wait to see the tasty dishes he wields.

Onward:

We did two batches, one plain whole-wheat and the other whole-wheat with fresh dill. The plain ones were topped with black gomazzio (aka sesame seeds and sea salt). The dill had garlic, red bell pepper, and sea salt; these were by far the favoured ones. While the gomazzio was good, there wasn’t enough on top and the delicate flavour got a bit lost in the rich, chewy wheatiness. Not a bad thing necessarily, particularly with the grainy deli mustard we dipped it in, but when compared to the bold kick that the garlic ones had? Whoo-ee.

This is definitely something we’re gonna be toying with. I’d like to try make a batch with some sort of filling – maybe a cinnamon-infused dough with an amaretto almond meal centre? Who knows. We’re hooked though and this is definitely going under ‘family favourites’.