Dinner Rolls & Yummy Pull-Aparts!

Much apologies for not posting this sooner! These are SOOO yummy and SOOO easy!

Shauna Colvin’s Dinner Rolls

2 cups scalded milk (or better yet, 1 cup evaporated milk and 1 cup hottest tap water!)

¾ cup warm water

1 cube margarine, melted

***(you want the temperature of all the above liquids to be 90°-100° or about baby bottle temperature. So if you scald the milk or overheat the margarine, use cold water instead of warm water etc.)***

2 large eggs

½ cup sugar

2 tsp. salt

4 cups flour

2 Tbs. yeast

Add the ingredients in the order listed above, whisking in the eggs and adding the yeast on TOP of the flour (to shield it from the salt). Add 3-4 more cups flour, a ½ cup at a time until the dough cleans the sides and bottom of the bowl. Knead for 7 minutes. Turn out onto lightly floured surface. Squeeze off balls of dough about 2 ¼ inches in diameter. Place about ½ inch apart on a greased baking sheet. Preheat oven to 400°. Cover dough with warm wet towel and let rise about 20 minutes or until double. Bake 15-18 minutes or until golden brown. Brush with butter and cover with a towel until serving. Here's a little video to show you how Shauna shaped the dough balls!

Shauna’s Sticky Pull-Apart Ring

Make Shauna’s dinner roll dough above. Preheat oven to 400°. Spray a Bundt pan with cooking spray. Place a ring of 2 ¼ inch balls of dough in the Bundt pan (usually there is a wider section every inch or so). Next place a second ring of dough balls in between each ball from the original ring. Sprinkle ½ of a small package of cook and serve butterscotch pudding mix evenly over the dough. Melt ¾ cube of margarine in the microwave. Mix ½ cup light brown sugar in with margarine. Pour the mixture over the roll dough. Cover with a warm damp towel and let rise about 15 minutes or until double. Bake about 20 minutes in 400° oven. Dump out immediately onto a serving plate and serve!

Shauna’s Italian Pull-Apart Ring

1 cube butter

1/8 tsp. dried minced garlic OR one clove fresh garlic

Make Shauna’s dinner roll dough above. Preheat oven to 400°. Spray a Bundt pan with cooking spray. Sprinkle pan with parmesan cheese. Dip 2 ¼ inch balls of dough in melted garlic butter and place in a ring around the bottom of the Bundt pan (usually there is a wider section every inch or so). Next place a second ring of buttered dough balls in between each ball from the original ring. Sprinkle more parmesan cheese evenly over top of dough balls. Pour remaining garlic butter evenly over top. Cover with a warm damp towel and let rise about 15 minutes or until double. Bake about 20 minutes in 400° oven. Dump out immediately onto a serving plate and serve!

Breads Class 7-20-2010

Shauna Colvin’s 100% Whole Wheat Muffins

1/2 c. margarine

1/2 c. light brown sugar

1 large egg

Cream above ingredients together like cookie dough.

I c. milk

2 c. whole wheat flour

1 tsp. baking soda

¼ tsp. vanilla

Mix again.

Fill muffin tins about ½ full.

Bake at 425° for 12 minutes or until lightly brown. Dump out to cool.

Shauna Colvin’s Beehive Biscuits

2 c. flour

4 tsp. baking powder

½ tsp. cream of tarter

½ tsp. salt

2 Tbsp. sugar

Blend together with fork. Then, using a pastry blender, cut in:

½ c. shortening

Make a well. Add the following to the well:

2/3 c. milk

1 large egg

Mix the liquids together in the well first, then mix into the dry ingredients just until moist. DON’T OVERMIX! Dump out onto lightly floured surface and knead lightly (basically coating with flour) SEVEN times. Roll out about ½ inch thick. Cut into circles. Place on cookie sheet with circles just barely touching each other and just barely touching sides of pan. Carefully put extra pieces back together to re-cut without overworking. Bake at 450° for 10-15 minutes, or until lightly brown.

GROUND TURKEY

I was looking through my recipe drawer today and was amazed at just how many loose recipes I have. Some I printed from the computer. Some I wrote on actual recipe cards. Some I jotted down on whatever was handy at the time. Those are usually my best ones. I thought I would share two of our family's favorite ground turkey recipes.

Curry Turkey Meatballs

You will need:
1 pound ground turkey
1/2 medium onion
1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder (I use yellow).
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg beaten
1/3 cup dried plain bread crumbs (I like the panko variety- any will do)
2 tablespoons olive oil

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Combine turkey, onion, curry powder, cumin, salt, egg, and bread crumbs in a bowel. Mix until well combined. You can use your hands, but personally I don't like the feeling. Roll into approximately 20 meatballs (or use a cookie scoop).

3. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Cook meatballs in batches until browned on all sides. Transfer to baking dish and bake meatballs for 15 minutes or until cooked through.

We usually have this with brown rice and some kind of vegetable (zucchini or whatever). Don't be afraid to serve your kids curry. Mine really like it--you never know.



Turkey Sausage

You will need:
2 lb ground turkey
1 teaspoon pepper
1 1/2 teaspoon sage
1 1/2 teaspoon thyme
1 1/2 teaspoon rosemary
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon oil
3/4 cup applesauce

1. Mix all ingredients well.

2. Drop by tablespoon onto a cookie sheet.

3. Put wax paper on top and push down on each ball with the bottom of a glass to flatten.

4. Bake on 350 degrees until done.

Hint: Don't flatten them too much and make sure to not overcook them or they will be dry.

This recipe is very "spicy" (not hot, but very flavorful) and so to make it more friendly for my kids, we have adjusted the spices somewhat from this recipe, just lessened the amounts.


Enjoy!

My new favorite cooking blog!

This could be bad. Look what I found today!

www.jamiecooksitup.blogspot.com

I get in these cooking phases and it's never good for my waistline. Do you have a favorite food blog? If so please share.

High Fiber flaxseed wheat bread recipe

This is a post I put on my on my other blog this morning and I thought it would work for this blog also :-)

I was helping my Dad clean his house last week and I came across a newspaper clipping he had saved that had blue ribbon 2009 Utah Fair winners recipes. He had saved it for a Spice cake recipe full of walnuts Yuck! (Sorry I don't have an issue with spice cake I'm sure it is very good. I just have a texture issue when there are hard things in soft things) Generally I don't like nuts in cookies and cakes except for some reason I can handle nuts on top like German Chocolate cake etc. Kind of weird I know, but anyway back to what caught my eye.
Because I have been trying to eat more healthy I have been looking for a good high fiber bread recipe. I saw this Flax seed wheat bread reicipe from Sharlet E. Braman of West Jordon Ut. I figured it must be good if it won a prize at the State Fair so I tried it :-) And it did not disappoint! The recipe makes about 5 loaves. I made a batch on Friday and my family has almost finished it off as you can see from this picture I took this morning. I guess I better make more!

I only made one change. I put in honey instead of molasses. Next time I may try to add some oatmeal too. Try it! You'll like it! And It is way healthier than store bought.

FLAX SEED WHEAT BREAD

• 3 3/4 cup hot water
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar

•1/4 cup molasses

• 3/4 cup butter

• 1 1/2 tablespoons salt

• 3 packages Fleischmann's RapidRise yeast

• 2 beaten eggs

• 2 tablespoons wheat gluten

• 2 tablespoons dough enhancer

• 1 cup ground flax seed

• 5 cups whole wheat flour

• 5-6 1/2 cups white flour


Heat water to almost boiling and pour into large bowl. Add sugar, molasses, salt and butter; stir to dissolve and melt. Add 3 cups wheat flour, eggs, dough enhancer, gluten, yeast and flax seed.

Beat well with mixer. Add the rest of the wheat flour while mixing dough with mixer. Add enough white flour until you have a soft dough.

Pour out dough onto a counter and knead in enough flour to make the dough smooth and elastic for 5-10 minutes. Place in a clean, greased bowl, cover and let rise until double in bulk (about 45 minutes). Punch down, shape into loaves and put into a greased bread pan. Cover and let rise for 30 minutes. While bread dough is rising, pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
Bake bread for 35 minutes. Remove from pans and rub tops of the loaves with butter. Cool on a rack and place in plastic bags.