I don't know why, but I thought making bagels was considerably more complicated than making a loaf of bread. Well, it's not: it is easy.

A recipe and a description of how easy it was to make these below.

Almost every weekend I bake. Lately I've been trying different recipes using my sourdough starter. At other times I baked yeasted artisan breads and sandwich breads. But one thing has remained constant: almost every time I have the oven heated for baking I make a batch of banana bread. I can safely say that I've made more batches of banana bread than any other bread.

This evening I intended to bake the the bread for Bread Baking Lesson Two for this site. But I forgot to add one of the ingredients that I intended to write about in the lesson. This left me with a perfectly viable dough, just not the dough I wanted to use for my lesson. So I had to come up with another use for all of the dough I had made.

When I was little, we lived in the Mission District in San Francisco. There was a Mexican bakery there that used to bake a beautiful alligator-shaped loaf of bread. My wife and I were recently discussing this and came up with the idea of trying some animal shaped loaves ourselves. Since she runs a popular Frog Website, the first animal that came to mind was a frog.

Click the "Read More" link below for the dough recipe and information on shaping and baking Frog Bread.