Looks like Judy may have fallen into a wine induced slumber....

Or the girl woke up.

I hear condoms are the ideal storage container for leftover risotto.

Is THAT what they're calling it now?

Pancreatic cancer though... ech. Not one of the fun ones.

There's a fun one?

I also have the brown hair/red beard issue.

It's pretty much the only reason I don't rock a full-on one more often. The longer it gets, the redder it gets. Waiting with bated breath for the gray to come. Then it won't matter. As of now I have two gray strands near my right temple. Two down, nine hundred ninety-eight thousand to go!

What's the problem with a red beard?  My partner has the same angst, and I just don't understand why.

In Australia, we don't have a huge tradition of bagel-eating.  Bagels are more of a novelty for the wider community here.  In fact, the closest most non-Jewish Australians have probably come to eating a bagel would be dipping a Burns & Ricker Garlic-flavoured Bagel Chip into their French onion dip.

I was lucky enough as a youngster to try a proper boiled bagel at a kosher bakery in a suburb of Melbourne with a large Jewish population.  It was plain, with a chewy texture and a hint of sweetness.  You can imagine my disappointment when I tried to replicate the experience years later at a cafe advertising bagels on the menu, and was served a roll made from regular bread dough shaped into a ring.  This is what passes as an authentic bagel here.  You can get lucky sometimes when a sandwich bar goes to the trouble of buying in boiled bagels, but that's the exception to the rule here. 

As for adding flavourings......DON"T MUCK WITH THE BAGEL!  I even have issues with the addition of poppy seeds, but that's probably unwarranted.