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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Sweet and soft rolls!!

I did these yesterday! THEY ARE SOOOOO YUMMY. They do take some time to do but WELL worth the effort I got it from a website called foodieshope.org (see link). YUMMY!!


Sweet and Soft Dinner Rolls:
Who wouldn't love the sweet and soft dinner rolls? But stopping yourself with just eating one or two would be a huge problem! Haha. I found this recipe in one of the Jewish Bread-making book borrowed from the library. Recipe sounded great to me when I read it although I made some adjustments ie adding a bit less sugar than recommended in the recipe.
If you don't want 15-18 rolls, cut the recipe into half to bake less than a dozen rolls. You can also make full recipe dough, cut the dough into half and freeze half the dough for later use. All you have to do is thaw the dough completely, knead a little, divide into rolls and let it rise until it doubles and bake.

For sweet rolls, you need:
1 tbsp active dry Yeast,
4 tbsp Sugar,
1 cup + 2 tbsp Warm Milk (2% milk will do nicely),
1 tsp Salt,
1 Egg to add to the dough (optional, skip it if you don't like Eggs)
2 tbsp Butter,
3 1/2 to 4 cups Plain flour or mix Wheat and White flour,
1 egg beaten for glazing/brushing the rolls (Optional, but gives rolls a gorgeous reddish color if you Egg glaze) or you can use melted Butter or milk to brush. on top.

To bake these:
1. Mix the Yeast, 1 tsp Sugar (out of 4 tbsp sugar), 2 tbsp warm milk (90F to 110F), let it froth for 5-10min.
2. Heat 1 cup of milk, rest for the sugar with butter until butter melts in the milk and keep aside until it cools down just "warm to touch" temperature. Add 1 egg (optional) and beat well.
3. Sift 3 1/2 cups Plain flour with Salt. Make a well in the center, add Yeast mix, mix. Add the milk mixture, mix, knead it well until you get a soft dough, not sticky. Add more flour if you want if you find the dough sticky or use the mixer with kneader and adjust the flour.
4. Keep the dough wrapped in the fridge for 2 hours to let it rest and relax. Take it out and divide the dough into 15 balls. Place them on a lightly oil or butter sprayed cookie sheet as shown, cover with a clean towel, let it double in size for 1-2hrs.
5. Preheat the oven at 425F. Uncover the rolls, brush it with beaten Egg glaze for the best dark reddish color or with melted butter if you want and then place the cookie sheet in the middle rack.
6. Bake for 12-16mins or until they are puffed up and baked, depending on your oven efficiency. Take them out, cool them on a rack. Once cooled, you can store them in Zip lock bag.

Ready for Jam or Jelly!!

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Kid tested mother approved! *

On my new phone I found healthy recipe site that has TONS of great recipes. My husband and I are trying to eat better but both of us have a BIG sweet tooth so I looked on here and found a lot. As I go through them I will rate them and take pictures along with all other recipes I find!

This one is AWESOME!! Tastes great and easy to do.  They seem to flatten out so I think next time I will make them as bars instead. Here you go! 4.5 out of 5 stars! If they didn't flatten out and become one big cookie I would have gave it 5 stars! Just an FYI!
***I totally forgot to put in flour with this batch they tasted great anyway! If you put flour in it then the dough is crumbly put it in a brownie kind of pan (put Pam on the pan) They are awesome!!

80 calorie chocolate chip cookies

SUBMITTED BY: TERRIANGEL

 Minutes to Prepare and Cook
Ingredients
    1/2 cup granulated sugar
    1/2 cup brown sugar
    1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted 
    1 egg white 
    1 cup flour
    1/2 tsp. baking soda 
    1/2 cup chocolate chips



Directions

1)Mix all ingredients until well combined


2)Drop by teaspoonful on a cookie sheet, counting out 26 cookies. (Ok I made 23 but still)


3) Add just a splash of water if needed to make dough stick together. (I added skim milk instead)

Bake at 350 for 8-11 minutes.

Enjoy!



Number of Servings: 26

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user TERRIANGEL.

Number of Servings: 26






Nutrition Facts
  Servings Per Recipe: 26
  Serving Size: 1 serving
Amount Per Serving
  Calories83.3
  Total Fat2.9 g
     Saturated Fat1.8 g
     Polyunsaturated Fat0.1 g
     Monounsaturated Fat0.8 g
  Cholesterol4.9 mg
  Sodium40.4 mg
  Potassium33.5 mg
  Total Carbohydrate14.2 g
     Dietary Fiber0.3 g
     Sugars5.8 g
  Protein0.8 g


*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.