New Recipe Monday

This past week I tried several new recipes. One of them was "Easy Apple Pie Rolls". I found the recipe for them here. These were pretty good. I made them for breakfast, but they could also be considered more of a dessert. Around here, those two words are synonymous. :) It was a little strange to put the dough into a pan full of liquid, but as you can see from the picture above, the rolls do soak up quit a bit of the liquid and what's left is like apple pie filling.

Now that I'm not working (away from home that is!), I've found my love of cooking again. I had lost it there for awhile. I have so many recipes saved and bookmarked and cut out that I could probably try something new every day and never run out! I hope to share more of the recipes I try on here, at least the good ones!

New Bread Recipe

Today I tried a new recipe for "Pillowy Soft Whole Wheat Bread". It turned out very well and is yummy. I like it because most of the hard work (aka kneading) is done in the bread machine. Don't get me wrong, sometimes I like kneading bread. It's very theraputic. Some days though, it's nice to let the bread machine do the work. This is the first whole wheat recipe that I have gotten to work for me. I have a feeling it's because of the wheat gluten, which I had never used before, but had bought for this purpose. Although you use the dough cycle on the bread machine, you do bake it in the oven. Lest you think my bread turned out perfectly, I thought I'd share the "keepin it real" picture. This is the one that shows the chunk that got stuck in the pan when I took it out.

Easter Cookies

Today we made "chick" sugar cookies from the recipe found here.

I asked Tim if the first batch (that I overcooked) were hard. Tyler heard me and said "they're not hard, they're crunchy". That made me feel better!