Recipe #357: Cinnabon Scones

my younger sister made these for mother's day and sent the recipe on so I thought I would try them! She found the recipe here. I didn't get to take a picture, but have been enjoying them for breakfast in the mornings!

You need:
2 cups all-purpose flour 
1 cup rolled oats 
1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp granulated sugar
1 Tbsp baking powder 
1/4 tsp salt 
1 stick (8 tablespoons) butter, chilled and cut into pieces 
3/4 cup whole or low-fat milk 
1 egg, lightly beaten 
1 tsp vanilla 
1/2 cup toasted chopped almonds
2 tsp cinnamon
3/4 cup powdered sugar
3-4 Tbsp orange juice or milk.

• mix together flour, oats, 1/4 cup sugar, baking powder and salt
• add in butter and mix until mixture is crumbly
• in a small bowl mix together milk, egg, and vanilla
• add to dry mixture and mix until everything is evenly moistened
• in a separate bowl mix together almonds, cinnamon, and 2 Tbsp sugar
• mix into dough so it is swirled together, but not completely mixed in.
• drop by rounded 1/4 cup fulls onto greased cookie sheets.
• bake at 425 for 11-13 minutes or until golden brown
• let it cool on a rack for 5 minutes
• mix together powdered sugar and juice or milk to make a glaze for the top. add to scones before serving warm

Recipe #340: Paprika and Parsley Foccocia

1 small grapefruit size of pizza dough
paprika
parsley
crushed red pepper
olive oil

• heat oven to 450
• spread olive oil on the bottom of a pie pan
• roll out the dough into a circle that it the size of your pan
• place dough in pan, flip to cover both sides with the oil.
• indent the dough with your finger to keep it from puffing up so much.
• add parsley, paprika and red pepper on top
• bake for 15 minutes or until done
• remove from pie tin and allow to cool 

Recipe #330 and #331: Cinnamon Rolls and Spinach Tomato Scrambled Eggs

The boys slept in this morning, giving me sometime to make a good breakfast for when people started to wake up!

First the cinnamon rolls. I found the recipe here on the blog by the authors of my favorite bread and pizza books!

you need:
about a grapefruit size of bread dough (recipe found here)
mixture of cinnamon, sugar, and brown sugar (maybe like a handful of sugar and brown sugar and a couple pinches of cinnamon)
chopped up walnuts

• take out dough and form into a ball. let it rest for 15 or so minutes
• roll out into a 1/4 inch thick square. 
• cover with sugar mixture, then walnuts
• roll up and cut into the size rolls you want (I did six)
• let it rest for 45 min to 1 hr 
• preheat oven to 350 and bake for 25 minutes

Eggs:

you need:

2 eggs and 1 egg white

spoonful of feta cheese

spoonful of mozzarella

spinach, cut into thin pieces

1/2 roma tomato, diced

basil

• in a bowl mix together all ingredients
• scramble over medium heat until eggs are no longer runny

Recipe #323: Cinnamon and Sugar Foccocia

You need:
1 small grapefruit size of pizza dough
cinnamon and sugar
olive oil

• heat oven to 450
• spread olive oil on the bottom of a pie pan
• roll out the dough into a circle that it the size of your pan
• place dough in pan, flip to cover both sides with the oil.
• indent the dough with your finger to keep it from puffing up so much.
• add cinnamon and sugar on top
• bake for 15 minutes or until done
• remove from pie tin and allow to cool 
• then eat!

Recipe #297: Pita Bread

Another easy recipe from Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day

that we have already used in a couple of recipes!

You need:

about a grape fruit size portion of pizza dough

a little olive oil

• preheat oven to 500 with baking stone in the middle of the oven for about 30 minutes
• just before you are ready to bake divide the dough into four small balls
• dust one ball with some flour and roll into a small circle
• slide pita on to stone and bake for about 5-7 minutes. i can fit about 2 on my stone so I roll one out, put it in the oven then do the other one really quickly.
• it should be puffy and lightly browned. 
• I followed their greek style the first time and brushed the dough with a little olive oil and then punched it down because I wanted to use it to wrap, not really stick stuff in it.
• let them cool wrapped in a cotton towel, on a cooling rack 

Great with Mediterranean Beef Wraps or Turkish Stuffed Pita Boats

Recipe #294: Focaccia

A great recipe from none other than Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day! I love the fact that with one recipe you can make so many different things (be on the lookout for more delicious flatbreads!)

You need:
1 small grapefruit size of pizza dough
1/4 onion, sauteed
2 Tbsp fresh rosemary, chopped
olive oil

• heat oven to 450
• spread olive oil on the bottom of a pie pan
• roll out the dough into a circle that it the size of your pan
• place dough in pan, flip to cover both sides with the oil.
• indent the dough with your finger to keep it from puffing up so much.
• add onion and rosemary 
• let it rest for about 20 minutes
• push down into dough so rosemary and onion doesn't slide off when baking.
• bake for 15 minutes or until done
• remove from pie tin and allow to cool 
• then eat!

Recipe #292 and #293: Spinach and Beef pizza on homemade crust

If you have been reading my blog at all you may know of how our bread eating was revolutionized by Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking

We have been making that bread all year. 

I haven't eaten store bought bread in ages! :) 

We had been using the bread dough to make pizza, but finally got this book from the library:

 Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day

and...

our lives are changed again! :) This made the best crust ever! And of course, it was SO easy!

This recipe makes 8 pizzas and last for 2 weeks in the fridge. You can also freeze it, but I haven't read all the details on that yet! Isn't that marvelous. This recipe can be used for many other flatbread recipes as well! I can't wait to try some different things!

You need:

3 cups lukewarm water (100 degrees or below)

1/3 cup olive oil

1 Tbsp yeast

1 Tbsp kosher salt

7 1/2 white flour

• mix water, oil, yeast, and salt using a dough hook on your mixer
• add in flour and mix well
• put into a large container and allow to rise for 2 hours.
• at this point you can either pull some dough out to make a pizza or put in fridge

for pizza:

you need:

orange size ball of dough

pasta sauce

cooked ground beef

 6-7 spinach leaves

mozzarella

• preheat oven as high as it will go (mine was 500) with stone inside
• when oven is almost preheated, take dough out
• shape dough into a small ball
• roll out on a flour covered pizza peel
• over with sauce, beef, spinach, and mozzarella
• slide on to stone and bake for 8-10 minutes!

enjoy! be ready for lots of pizza/flatbread recipes in the next weeks! :)

Did I happen to mention that book found its way into my amazon shopping cart and is now in the mail! :) After looking at all the recipes I knew that there was no way I was going to get my fill in the time I had the book checked out! 

Recipe #210: Cheesy beef roll ups

This is a spin off of a chicken dish I made earlier found here. Will liked this just about as much! I wanted to make a creamy tomato sauce for it so had to play around with some stuff because I didn't have any heavy cream. anyways... I think it turned out pretty good!

You need:
1 lb ground beef
2 cans of crescent rolls
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1 cup of spaghetti sauce
1/2 cup whole milk with 2 Tbsp Flour and 2 Tbsp melted butter (to help thicken a bit)

• brown meat
• in a small cup make a paste with melted butter and flour, add to a saucepan with milk. then add tomato sauce and 1/2 cup cheese
• add some of the cream sauce and cheddar to meat.
• grease bottom of 9x13 pan, put some of cream sauce on bottom
• unroll crescent rolls and add some of meat mixture to each one then place in the pan.
• add some more cream sauce on top and then top with remaining cheese
• bake at 375 for 25 minutes

enjoy!

Recipe #207: Pigs in a Blanket

Well, I think there will be a couple more variations of this coming, but I had some leftover sausages to use up so this became a quick and easy lunch

You need:
1 can of crescent rolls
2 italian sausages
cheddar cheese

• cook sausages and cut in thirds
• spread rolls out
• top with cheese and then a sausage on wide part of roll
• roll up
• bake at 350 for 11-13 minutes

Recipe #192: Chicken Roll-Ups 2

So here is another version of the chicken roll up. I made a dish earlier this week found here. I had some extra filling left over so decided to bake it into some bread!

You need:
chicken filling

1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

1/2 cup milk (plus 2 Tbsp for later)

4 oz cream cheese, softened

2 Tbsp butter, softened

1 tsp garlic powder

2 chicken breasts, cooked and shredded

1 small onion, chopped

grapefruit sized portion of boule bread, recipe found here

• first pull out portion of dough and let it rest for 40 minutes
• turn on oven to 450
• mix together the rest of the ingredients (you won't really need this much, I used leftovers from a previous meal)
• roll out dough into a long narrow rectangle.
• Add some filling to the middle of the dough.
• roll up and bake for 30 minutes, or until outside is brown

Recipes #190 & #191: Lasagna Soup in a Bread Bowl

I found the Lasagna recipe on pinterest, but is originally found here, thanks to the Deen brothers it is a lighter version of Paula Deen's recipe. However, I don't know how many calories we actually saved by using a bread bowl.
Anyways. First up, the bread bowl.
You need:
boule bread dough found here

• tear off smaller sections of dough then normal--a little bigger then a fist size
• allow to rest for 45 minutes
• bake for about 30 minutes
• cool for several minutes then cut off the top of the bread. scoop out some of the bread inside and leave on the plate to use to dip in soup

once bread is resting start the soup. 

For the Lasagna Soup you need:

1 Tbsp olive oil

3 italian sausages, casing removed

1/2 onion, diced

2 cloves garlic, chopped up

sprinkle of red pepper flakes

16 oz of chicken broth (i used water and chicken bullion) 

1 can (8 oz) of tomato sauce

1 can of petite diced tomatoes with green chilies

4 whole wheat lasagna noodles, broken up

3/4 cup mozzarella cheese

sprinkle of parmesan and basil

• heat olive oil up in a pot. Add in chopped up onion and garlic
• Add sausages (casings removed) and mix up until sausage is crumbled and browned.
• add in chicken broth, tomato sauce, and diced tomatoes
• stir. sprinkle in red pepper flakes.
• bring to a boil and the reduce heat to simmer.
• add in noodles and cook for 12-15 more minutes
• remove from heat and add cheeses

pour a some into the bread bowls and wish it was colder outside to really enjoy the nice warm, hearty soup! :)

Recipe #185: Cranberry Pumpkin Mini Muffins

I got my idea from here, but didn't have any butterscotch so used cranberry and chocolate chips instead!

You need:

• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup melted butter
• 1 cup canned pumpkin
• 1 cup dried cranberry
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips

• Mix together dry ingredients in a large bowl
• mix together eggs, butter, and pumpkin
• add pumpkin mixture to dry ingredients.
• Stir in cranberry and chocolate chips
• grease mini muffin pans and preheat oven to 350
• bake for 12 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean

Recipe #184: Reese's Banana Bread

I found a pin that looked delicious, found here.
So I made some mini loaves of bread for my Christmas treats!

You need:
Banana bread recipe found here
mini reese's cups

• Make banana bread recipe
• Before pouring into mini loaf pans, stir in reese's cups
• bake in mini pans for about 20 minutes

Recipe #177: Homemade soft preztels

Why would we make soft pretzels? You will find out in the next post, but they turned out pretty delicious! Will instigated this recipe! He found it here. He also thought is said four pretzels and not eight so ours were really huge. Alex and I shared one. However, I added way to much salt and so they were very salty pretzels! We definitely have room for improvement on this one!

You need:

• 1 1/2 cups warm (110 to 115 degrees F) water
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 2 Tbsp active dry yeast (Will said a couple...so I am kind of guessing)
• 4 1/2 all-purpose flour
• 2 ounces unsalted butter, melted (Will actually forgot to add this)
• Vegetable oil, for pan
• 10 cups water
• 2/3 cup baking soda
• 1 large egg yolk beaten with 1 tablespoon water
• Pretzel salt (or we used Kosher since we didn't have any)
• 
  
• mix together water, sugar, and salt
• add yeast and
• allow to sit for 5 minutes
• add in flour and butter, mix until well combined and pulls away from sides of bowl
• oil dough with veggie oil 
• allow to sit and rise (doubling in size) approximately 50 minutes
• on an oiled sheet, divide dough into 8 sections
• roll out and form into a pretzel shape
• bring water and soda to a boil
• one at a time, allow pretzel to sit in water for about 30 sec
• remove and return to parchment lined pan.
• brush with mixture of egg yolk and water
• sprinkle slight amount of salt.
• bake for 15 minutes or until dark brown in color

this is more like pretzel bread because it was so large. but check out all the salt too...

we need to improve our pretzel making skills a bit!

Recipe #173: Mushi Pan

Mushi means bug or steam in Japanese. Don't worry, this is the steamed variety. I love it in Japan and found a recipe from here that I wanted to try! It is missing something, a little sweetness, but it was still very delicious! The original recipe was really small, but this will make 8 cupcake sizes perfectly.

You need:
4 eggs
8 tsp milk
8 tsp sugar
little less then 1 cup flour
4 tsp baking powder

• mix eggs, milk and sugar
• add flour and baking powder to just mixed
• pour into 8 cupcake liners 
• steam for 12 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean

We topped some with cinnamon before steaming. Other things to try are raisins, apple chunks...anything that sounds yummy! :) It is surprisingly easy, so i will definitely try this again!

Recipe #160: Stuffing

I love my mom's stuffing. Love it! She has used this one for a long time, I think it is from the Betty Crocker cookbook.

You need:
3/4 cup minced onion
1 1/2 cup chopped celery
1 cup margarine
9 cups bread cubes (I used whole wheat)
2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp crushed sage leaves
1 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp pepper

• In a large skillet cook and stir onion and celery in butter until onion is tender. add spices
• stir in bread.
• stuff turkey just before roasting
• makes 9 cups enough for 12 lb turkey (I doubled the recipe)

Recipe #157: Sticky Bun Ring

Found this on pinterest, but it is originally found here. I made two for breakfast at school this morning, but will probably make another one at some point this weekend! :)

You need: 

2 tubes of buttermilk biscuits (smaller size)

1/2 cup syrup

3 Tbsp butter, melted

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon

chopped up pecans

• spray a bundt pan with non stick spray
• mix together syrup and melted butter
• mix together brown sugar, cinnamon, and pecans
• pour half of syrup mixture in bottom of pan
• pour half of brown sugar mixture in. (try and get a lot of pecans down there)
• take biscuits and spread them around to form a ring
• pour remaining syrup mixture and brown sugar mixture on top.
• make at 375 for 20 minutes or until golden brown
• wait a minute or two and then turn over onto a plate
• enjoy!

Recipe #138: Apple Pie Bread

So left over apple pie dip equals a delicious bread!

You need:
one grapefruit size portion of bread dough
apple pie dip
flour for pizza peel

• take out portion of dough and allow to rest for about 40 minutes
• preheat oven after 20 minutes and allow the stone to heat
• roll out and put apple pie dip on two thirds of the dough
• roll back up and tuck ends under so it is sealed.
• cut little slits in top of dough
• bake for about 35 minutes

i still need to work on getting the insides to stay inside...but it was still delicious!

Recipe #122: Pizza Bread...

Yep, different then a calzone, still need to work how much stuff to put in the bread, the top always opens up when baking, but it was very delicious and a tastier alternative to the original plan of spaghetti!

You need:
a grapefruit size amount of boule dough
ground turkey (or hamburger)
spaghetti sauce
cheddar cheese, shredded
parsley

• take our your dough and allow to rest for about 40 minutes (preheat oven and stone about 20 minutes before baking)
• brown meat, add some basil and oregano
• mix with some spaghetti sauce, but not too much. you don't want to to be really wet
• use some flour and a rolling pin to roll out the dough to a thin layer, about 1/2 inch thick
• layer meat and cheese across top of surface (I am wondering if maybe it would help if you did only two thirds of the surface so that the last bit you roll up would not break open...)
• roll the dough up, make sure to turn in sides as you go.
• put bread on the stone in oven.
• bake at 450 for about 30 minutes or until bread is golden brown
• allow to rest a bit before cutting. 

eat with a fork or your fingers! 

(the pasta sauce is best eaten with a fork! Find the recipe here.)

Recipe #108: Oatmeal Pumpkin Bread

Fall is upon us, I was pretty excited to make this all week...but then I wasn't sure if  I loved the taste, not pumpkiny enough...
Another great recipe from the Artisan Bread is five minutes a day book!

You need:
1 cup fresh or canned pumpkin puree
2 cups lukewarm water
11/2 Tbsp yeast
1 Tbsp Kosher Salt
5 Tbsp butter, melted
1/3 cup honey
1/2 cup old fashion oats
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup rye flour (I did have any so used all whole wheat instead)
4 cups white flour

• Mix together water, yeast, salt, and butter
• add in oatmeal, pumpkin, and flours
• cover and allow to rest for about 2 hours
• refrigerate if not using right away
• When ready to bank... cut off a cantaloupe size piece
• shape into a ball 
• place in a greased loaf pan
• allow to rise for 40 minutes if using right away or 2 hours if dough has been refridgerated
• preheat oven to 350
• place loaf in oven, pour 1 cup hot water in the broiler tray
• bake for 45-50 minutes or until firm.

so here is what the first loaf looked like...

Tastes great with Cinnamon Butter!

The second loaf I rolled it out and sprinkled on some cinnamon and sugar and then about a 1/4 cup of dried cranberries! I am going to take it to school tomorrow to share with my team during our planning. Hopefully it will taste good! :)