Thanks .... how kind. I'm proud of my bagels.

I was simply a desperate man yearning for a proper onion bagel ... but the plain ones are really gorgeous. Can you taste them from the picture?

There is something special about that late night yearning .... and bagels will always be associated for me with leaving a club in Soho and making my way to the East End .... but simply being able to make some. I think it's yearning - and not having - that makes the yearning even more painful.

I'm afraid ... at this very moment I have a couple of baguettes in the oven .......