Quick Cinnamon Rolls

Ingredients: *Makes about 18 rolls*

1. 1 3/4 C. warm water

2. 6 TBSP sugar

3. 1/2 C. oil

4. 3 TBSP instant yeast

5. 1 1/2 tsp. salt

6. 2 eggs

7. 5 1/2 C. flour

Melted butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon

Directions:

Mix together #1-4. Let sit for 15 minutes, then add next 3 ingredients. Mix together and roll out into a rectangle, about 1/2 inch in thickness. Spread with butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon mixture. Roll up dough and cut each individual roll about 1 inch in thickness. Place cut side down on greased cookie sheet or in greased muffin tins. Let sit 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake for about 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool slightly, then frost. 

Frosting: Mix powdered sugar w/ small amount of milk or cream. Should be consistency to drizzle on rolls. 

* I'm not a huge fan of powdered sugar frosting, I would suggest making a cream cheese frosting instead*

-Recipe from my mother in law-

Homemade French Bread

I've been wanting to learn how to make some things in the kitchen that I've never made before, homemade bread being one of them. This recipe is super simple and my mother in law was kind enough to share it with me. 

Ingredients: *Makes two large loafs*

2 TBSP dry yeast

1 TBSP honey (sugar works fine too)

1/2 C. warm water

2 C. hot water

3 TBSP sugar

1 TBSP salt

5 TBSP oil

6 C. flour (unsifted)

1 egg white 

Optional: sesame seeds/ seasoning etc.

Directions: 

1. Dissolve yeast in 1/2 C. warm water w/ 1 TBSP honey. Let stand for 10 minutes

2. In large bowl combine 2 C. hot water, sugar, oil, salt, and 1/2 the flour. Mix well. Stir in dissolved yeast. 

3. Mix in remaining flour.

4. Stir dough, then allow to rest for 10 minutes.

5. Repeat 4 more times. (If you have a mixer turn it on for about 5 seconds, then rest dough for 10 min.)

6. Roll out dough into 2 rectangles. Take the long side of the rectangle and roll up the dough and pinch ends. 

7. Place side by side on greased cookie sheet. Take knife and diagonally cut three small cuts across the top of each loaf.

8. Baste with egg white/sprinkle with sesame seeds etc. 

9. Let loafs stand for 30 minutes/ Preheat oven to 400 degrees

10. Bake for 25 minutes. 

Chocolate Chip Cookies

I LOVE cookies, how can you not? Chocolate chip cookies with milk are definetly one of my favorite things. I think I ate all those cookies in the picture in one sitting, minus the one I saved for Thayne.....and the sad part is I'm not exagerating. 

INGREDIENTS:

3/4 cup salted butter (softened)
1/4 cup canola oil (I used vegetable oil)
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
3 cups flour
1 1/2 cups choc. chips

DIRECTIONS:

-Preheat oven to 350 degrees
-Cream butter, oil, and sugars
-Add eggs, beat until fluffy
-Add baking soda, baking powder, salt, vanilla, and flour
-Fold in chocolate chips
-Roll cookies into 1 inch. balls, place on cookie sheet
-Bake for 8-10 min.

RECIPE FROM twotwentyone.net

                                                                 HAPPY EATING!

Thai

Have you ever had Papa Murphy's Thai Chicken Pizza before? So good! Which is surprising coming from me since my go to pizza is ALWAYS pepperoni. Anyway this is one of Thayne's favorite pizza's so I decided to make it at home. I found this recipe online and it was SO good. Better than Papa Murphy's, but hey I could be biased. :)

And if you don't have a pizza stone, GET ONE! I will never, ever, ever, ever make a pizza without one again. The pizza turns out so much better, and I think I got mine at T.J. Maxx for like ten bucks. Best ten bucks I ever spent. Now my obsession with T.J. Maxx, thats a whole other story... 

>>Makes one large pizza>>

Crust
1/2 cup warm water
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon dry yeast

Sauce
1/2 cup sweet chili sauce

Toppings
1 large chicken breast grilled and thinly sliced
1/2 a small zucchini thinly sliced
2 green onions chopped
2 Tbsp. diced red onion
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2  cup shredded cheddar cheese
crushed red pepper flakes
additional sweet chile sauce for drizzling

Additional-cornmeal

Directions
For the crust, place warm water and salt into bowl. Add a cup of the flour and the yeast then stir. Add remaining flour and stir/knead into a sticky dough, adding additional water if needed. Let dough rest, covered with a clean towel for at least 10 minutes or up to 45.

Preheat your pizza stone in oven for about 20 minutes at 500 degrees.  Roll out pizza dough. LIBERALLY sprinkle your pizza peel (easily transfers pizza onto pizza stone) with cornmeal. Place dough on pizza peel. Spread chili sauce over prepared crust. Then layer the grilled chicken, half the zucchini slices, mozzarella cheese, rest of the zucchini slices, green onions, red onions, and cheddar cheese. Sprinkle with red pepper flakes and drizzle chili sauce over top. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until browned on top.

                                                                          Enjoy!

recipe adapted from tammysrecipes.com