well its your lucky day!
i have fallen in love with soft pretzels. big warm yummy pretzels and i do not mean the kind you find at a football game. there is an amazing restaurant and brewery who offer 2 pretzels as an appetizer! they are divine. well then i discovered the flying saucer thanks to the boys yearning for beers and they have beyond delish pretzels for an appetizer! luckily both marsh and i love the flying saucer and we have the coolest one right here in nashville. it is officially our monday night football joint (i know i am such a boy at the moment, but i am def being a great wife!). then this past saturday we went to baileys, a bar and grill place, to hang out with the lsu alumni nashville chapter folks. they had pretzels as an appetizer as well! i am just one lucky girl! they are delicious and completely different at all places.
anyways i made banana bread on saturday and it actually turned out beyond edible to the point of mmmm delicious! feeling quite confident i located bobby flay's pretzel receipe from the episode of throwdown in which he actually won.
sunday, while marsh watched football all day, i decided to try my hand at making pretzels from scratch. besides i had a lovely green kitchen aid stand mixer with a dough hook calling my name. i gathered up all the ingredients and away i went! one of the best parts was making the dough (my own dough!) and then letting it sit and rise. it totally doubled up in size, so cool! then i cut into 8 pieces, rolled out the dough and twisted into classic pretzel shape. much more difficult then you might imagine. the directions said: "take right side and cross over left. cross right to left again and flip up" it took me several tries to get it semi right and even then after having to boil them for 30 seconds the shape faded.
nonetheless i was incredibly proud of my creation! i did get one perfect! 
i put an egg wash on them, salted them and baked them in the oven. 2 problems occurred though: recipe called for parchment paper but you could only buy it in a huge size. i saw a smaller box of wax paper and went for that. i still am not sure if they are 2 different things but the pretzels def stuck to the wax paper. you are suppose to line the cooking sheets with parchment paper and spray generously with pam. i did that with the exception of using wax paper instead. oh well, so despite needing more salt on the pretzels and having to cut off the bottoms of the pretzels, they surprisingly turned out well. really well for that matter! looks can def be deceiving though because they did not look like the classic pretzels i have been munching on for weeks. even so i succeeded in making something most people probably never think of : soft pretzels from scratch! hard work, loads of time, paid off! and people say i can not cook. i lucked out with an incredible husband who appreciates my work (and no, not because he is obligated to, thank you very much!)
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