the #buildupbagel challenge
So everyone and their sister seems to have bought The BodyCoach book recently, myself included because I bloody love a cookery book fad, especially one that promises I'm going to get lean in 15! I assume that means after only 15 minutes, my entire body shape is going to change and I can go back to sitting on the sofa, right?
Anyway, I'm not following the book's fitness plan because I already have a pretty good regime, but I have been making a lot of the recipes (check out this post to see some of the goods I've made recently) and I know I needed to up my protein intake so these meals have really helped.
I digress, the lovely people over at The New York Bakery Company(doesn't that sound like the best place ever to work � New York AND Bagels?) read about my plight and contacted me to ask if I�d like to have a go at creating some of my own #buildupbagels , if you didn�t already know The Body Coach (aka Joe Wicks) promotes bagels as one of his post workout carb meals! I bloody love a bagel, and I love a food-based challenge, so figured this was a win win situation for me.
Now getting a parcel FULL of bagels was definitely one of my more exciting days, and as much as I would have liked to eat the lot in a few days, even I could manage that much bread based deliciousness so I've cannily frozen half of them which means I've still got plenty left to look forward to.
So here are some of my creations so far:
1. Ok so technically beans and cheese isn�t exactly haute cuisine, but I�d got home late from the gym, and had some big egg/bagel plans, then opened the fridge to discover we had no eggs, so option number two it was� I wasn't complaining though, beans and cheese is a classic.
2. Now this was my fave, scrambled eggs, chorizo, spring onion, cherry tomatoes and spinach, my mouth is watering just thinking about this. And this was on a red onion and chive bagel, I don�t usually go for onion flavoured this but this was sooo good, I think it�s my new favourite bagel flavour.
3. Technically, this wasn't mine, it was the Mr�s, hence the lack of creativity, but he had this for his breakfast one day, cinnamon and raisin bagel, one half smeared in jam, the other with stem ginger curd, I don�t do cinnamon but he said it was a delight! (and I've seen him have a couple since)
4. This is where things got really exciting, I made a ratatouille-type concoction, chorizo, courgette, shallot and cherry toms fried off, then half a tin of chopped toms added, on a plain bagel topped with 2 poached eggs and a sprinkle of chilli flakes, simple yet so good.
And you can�t beat a Nutella and banana combo, but anything that involves Nutella gets eaten far too quickly for me to take a photo, what can I say, me and Nutella are in a pretty serious relationship and not much can tear us apart.
I reckon I could give Heston a run for his money with some of these bad boys.
