Recipe: Jazzin' up Freezer Rolls

This week has just felt off. Keith is sick and I have been feeling a bit restless. I miss crafting, but am waiting until my craft room is full set up to start making creative messes again. The last few nights have been spent with a quick walk, watching old shows on netflix, lounging on the couch and making food we have had in our freezer for too long. 

So tonight was no different, however I wanted to liven up some frozen rolls I had to go with our ravioli and meatballs.

So I present to you: easy jazzed up rolls

These are boring old freezer rolls. Remove the plastic cover. Preheat the oven to the directions that come with the rolls- ours was 325 degrees. While it preheats, spray on olive oil (we have this handy thing), sprinkle with sea salt, black pepper and seasoning (I used a mix of Italian Seasoning from a local spice shop).

Lookin' Good

Bake the bread to the packaging instructions.

Once baked, eat it up! It's a really good and easy way to make freezer rolls even better! Enjoy!

Recipe: Bread Machine Italian Herb Bread

Blog world, I have been away for a week! But I have some good excuses. I was sick, then I got a new job, and then my sister had her baby. SO, Bottom line, things are coming up (aunt) Jenn. So, I apologize for the lack of posts recently, but I promise I will be better.

Tonight, I decided to make my favorite bread machine recipe. Italian herb bread! The photo is not great, BUT this recipe is awesome.

What you need:

• 1 cup of water
• 3 tablespoons of olive oil
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of white sugar
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of salt
• 2 and 1/2 cups of bread flour
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of active dry yeast
• 1/4 teaspoon of ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon of italian seasoning blend (I added more)
• breadmachine

Place everything in bread pan, make sure you follow your machine's directions. Select white bread cycle (or light crust) My machine makes you add the "add-ins" i.e. seasoning and pepper in after the initial rise and mixing.  (about after 45 minutes) but every bread machine is different so read your instructions.

Enjoy!

Fall Recipe: Apple Bread

Keith and I went out to the pumpkin patch/apple orchard/corn maze/family fun place on our day off together. The orchard was shut, but we did enjoy ourselves playing all day, and shopping in the store.

 I promise Keith is not as creepy as he looks in this photo.

 I cannot promise I am not this short.

 Keith enjoyed the slide.

Then we went to get the most perfect pumpkin. He is currently on our coffee table, and will be carved soon.

ANYWAY, it was fun. We got pumpkins, squash and a peck of apples. Keith and I have been devouring them because they are oh so tasty. Tonight I grabbed the second to last apple to set aside to make some apple bread. I am made this bread quite a few times and I found the recipe in my handwritten notebook, so I am not sure where it comes from. I believe it's a historic recipe for the 1800s. The breads comes out like a coffee cake, except with more liquid.

Ingridents:
Dough:

• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• 2 T butter
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 cup of milk

Topping:

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 4 T butter, soften
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 apple, diced

Okay Now how to make it!
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Mix flour, salt and baking powder. In separate bowl,  cream butter and sugar. Add beaten egg and milk and stir. Then add flour mixture. Pour mixture into a greased 9" round pan, or a loaf works fine too. For the topping, mix together the butter, sugar, and cinnamon. (Personally, I do less of the butter and brown sugar since this is what liquifies and I don't like mine too gooey. I also add more cinnamon.) Put apples on top.  If you bake in 9" round pan, cook for around 30 minutes or until bread is cooked. Timing might change.

Okay, sorry no photos of it, I forgot my camera! So enjoy the bread, but remember it is a bit gooey and messy, but delish!!!