2023 wasn’t a great cooking year for me, so I hadn’t been able to think of anything I’d actually repeated besides my favorites from the cookbook Bavel, especially the buckwheat sourdough bread, but most of those I “discovered” in 2022.
The current NYC bagel thread made me realize that I did in fact repeat something many times this year: bagels! I’ve baked from, made cream cheese from, and made lox from Cathy Barrow’s book Bagels, Schmears, and a Nice Piece of Fish. I’ve used this book so often I wrote a thank-you email to the author, something I’ve never done before (though I probably should to Bryant Terry and Rachel Yang). I guess 2023 was better than I already remember it being. 
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