Restaurant Dinner Rolls

Since I've decided to face my fear of baking breads and rolls, I wanted to make bread like some restaurants serve. Since my son was very little, his favorite is Outback's Black bread served on its own cutting board with a knife and cup of butter. I used the recipe for Dark & Soft Restaurant Dinner Rolls Recipe | King Arthur Baking. <---- Click for the recipe.

It called for straight molasses, but we don't like the strong flavor, so I substituted brown sugar. It has a milder molasses flavor. I didn't have the ratio quite right, but they turned out great. I found out I needed to double the amount of brown sugar when substituting for the molasses. I'll fix that next time. 

Ready to rest for an hour or so.

Second rise

The hubby ate these! 

This recipe made 12 large rolls! 

I'll be making these again! 

Dark & Soft Restaurant Dinner Rolls Recipe | King Arthur Baking. <---- Click for the recipe.

Yeast Rolls and Honey Butter

Those that know me, know that I don't do a lot of baking, at least not breads and rolls. (Yeast doughs) My son and his fiancé gave me a Kitchen Aid stand mixer last Christmas, and I got brave enough to go for it. The right recipe helps! I tried my best foodie friend Mary's recipe. I did it! Her recipe is awesome! I do have to work on size consistency! LOL 

Cooking with Mary and Friends <- Click on this link for the recipe! 

 I made Honey Butter to go with them,

at the hubby's request! 

1 stick of Butter
3 Tablespoons Honey
1/4 teaspoon Vanilla

Mix together until smooth. Refrigerate, if there is any left! 

Cheeseburger Slider Casserole

• We have been having a rough time in the South/Southeast after Hurricane Matthew. North Carolina is continuing to have flooding issues. Here in South Carolina, many people remain in the dark with no power. I am lucky. I have my power back on, but just 2 miles down the road they are still without power. It is possible that they will be without power for a few more days! With that being said, we got a little tired of the grill. I have never missed my stove more! You might think casseroles are boring, but when you even have to grill water, you may understand why a new casserole recipe brings me so much joy!

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• 2 pounds ground beef
• 2 cups diced onion
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 can Diced Tomatoes, drained
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 12 slices cheese (your choice)*
• 12 dinner rolls**

Topping

• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 teaspoons minced Garlic
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9×13 baking dish with cooking spray.

Place hamburger in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion and garlic, and cook, stirring occasionally, until beef is browned and onions are cooked. Drain off fat. Stir in drained tomatoes and cook until heated through. Season with salt, pepper.

Place bottom half of buns in prepared pan. Top with beef mixture & sliced cheese. Finish off with the top half of the bun.

Mix all the ingredients for the glaze in a saucepan over medium heat until melted, smooth and combined. Pour over the buns.

Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.

* I used American Cheese.

** Use Plain Dinner Rolls and not sweet dinner rolls.

Hot Ham and Swiss Sandwiches

2 -12 packages of dinner rolls
1 1/2 lbs of Honey ham
12 slices Swiss cheese
1 stick of real butter
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon Garlic Powder

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.Split the rolls in half, leaving them attached to each other. Place the bottoms of 12 rolls on a sheet of aluminum foil. Place a few slices of ham on the rolls until covered. Top with the cheese slices. Put the dinner roll tops on the bottoms. In a sauce pan, mix butter, Worcestershire sauce, and garlic powder. Brush the melted mixture over the dinner rolls. Wrap with the foil sheet and bake for 15 minutes or until cheese is melted. 

Garlic - Onion Mini Rolls

This recipe came about today basically by mistake, accident, expiration dates... you name it. Everything I tried to cook today threw me a curve in some way or another. Do you check the expiration date on all your groceries? I don't mean just the milk, eggs and meat... I mean everything! It seems like every time I come home from the grocery store for the last few months, something is close or past its sell date. The hubby brought home a bottle of Caesar salad dressing last month that expired in May of 2011! Today it was a 4 pk of canned biscuits that I bought to make monkey bread. Luckily, I had just bought a pizza dough to make a Chicken Caesar Pizza, and now that the dressing was expired, I could use it in place of the biscuits. It just wasn't enough dough to make monkey bread, so I came up with these little clouds of yumminess!!!

 I started with

pizza dough, raw and rounded into 1/2" balls

1/2 cup finely chopped sweet onion

1/2 cup butter, melted

2 garlic cloves, minced

1/4 teaspoon salt

 Place the dough balls into the butter mixture

about 5 or 6 at the time.

Scoop them out with you fingers so some of the

onion and garlic bits

transfer to the greased baking dish.

Bake at 375 degrees for about 20 - 25 minutes.

Buttery little clouds of yumminess! 

Must have been pretty good... This is all that was left for me :-)

Here is the recipe as I intended it to be... But I like it better the way it turned out today! :-)

Garlic-Onion Monkey Bread Recipe

2 loaves (1 pound each) frozen bread dough or 24 frozen unbaked white dinner rolls, thawed

1/2 cup finely chopped sweet onion

1/2 cup butter, melted

2 garlic cloves, minced

1/4 teaspoon salt

Herb-seasoned olive oil, optional

Divide dough into 24 pieces. In a small bowl, combine the onion, butter, garlic, parsley and salt. Dip each piece of dough into butter mixture; place in a 10-in. fluted tube pan coated with cooking spray. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.

Bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm with olive oil if desired. Yield: 1 loaf (24 pieces).