Pasta w/ Creamy Mushroom Sauce and Homemade Garlic Bread

 

 

 

You will need:

1/2 onion finely chopped

2 T chopped garlic

2 T olive oil

1 1/2 cups sliced mushrooms

chicken stock

heavy cream

dill

 

Directions:

Heat up a pan and saute mushrooms, onion and garlic in 2 tablespoons olive oil until the mushroom starts to golden and the onion is soft.
Add 1/2 cup chicken stock, 1 1/2 cup cream and 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill.
Let it simmer for 5 minutes and season with salt and pepper.  Toss with hot pasta.

 

 

You will need:

• 1 cup warm water (70° to 80°)
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• 1 tablespoon nonfat dry milk powder
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
• 4-1/2 teaspoons dried parsley flakes
• 2 teaspoons garlic powder
• 3 cups bread flour
• 2 teaspoons active dry yeast

Directions

• In bread machine pan, place all ingredients in order suggested by manufacturer. Select basic bread setting. Choose crust color and loaf size if available.
• Bake according to bread machine directions (check the dough after 5 minutes of mixing; add 1 to 2 tablespoons of water or flour if needed). Yield: 1 loaf, 16 slices (about 1-1/2 pounds).

Focaccia

I made focaccia last night along with Jill's recipe for Penne with Sun-dried tomatoes and spinach.  The bread machine does the brunt of the work, and you get the fun stuff like punching and poking.

Place the following ingredients in your bread machine, following the order your machine recommends.  Use the dough setting on your machine.

Scant 1 cup water
1 Tbl olive oil
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp yeast

After the dough is done, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface.  Punch it down and flatten it slightly.  Shape the dough into a ball and then roll it into a round of about 10".  Place it into a greased round cake pan.  Cover with oiled plastic wrap and let rise 20 minutes.

Uncover the focaccia.  Using your fingertips, poke the dough to make deep dimples in the surface.  Cover and let rise until double, 10-15 minutes.

Drizzle with 2 Tbl olive oil.  Sprinkle with a combination of garlic powder and kosher salt and a little black pepper, to taste. 

Bake 20-25 minutes, or until golden.  Serve warm.

Bread Machine Dinner Rolls

These rolls were so tasty, especially in PB+J's with homemade strawberry jam!
1 cup water
1 egg
4 1/2 tsp vegetable oil
3 1/4 cups bread flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 1/4 tsp yeast

Place the ingredients into bread machine in order according to your bread machine. (Mine is wet, then dry, putting the yeast in a well in the middle, but some may be different.) Select the dough setting on the machine.

Lightly grease a 9x13.

When dough is finished, shape into 15 dough balls, and place into pan. (Spraying your hands with pam helps the dough from sticking and getting too dried out.)

Cover and let rise until double, about 30 minutes.

Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes, until golden brown.

Brush the tops with melted butter. (Or if your kids have hidden your pastry brush somewhere, drizzle with melted butter.)

Cinnamon Rolls

This cinnamon roll recipe uses the bread machine to make the dough, and makes just the very best cinnamon rolls. It takes just under 3 hours, start to finish, but each step is quite simple. The recipe below is straight from RecipeZaar.com, which a few notes added from me in purple.

Super Fantastic Cinnamon Rolls, recipe 203785 from RecipeZaar.

Dough

• 1 cup warm milk
• 2 eggs, room temperature
• 1/3 cup margarine or butter, melted
• 4 1/2 cups bread flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 2 1/2 teaspoons bread machine yeast

Filling

• 1 cup brown sugar, packed
• 2 1/2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
• 1/3 cup margarine or butter, softened

Frosting

• 3 ounces cream cheese
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

1. Place all ingredients in bread machine in order recommended by manufacturer. Select DOUGH cycle press Start.
2. In separate bowl combine cinnamon and sugar.
3. After dough has finished, turn it out onto lightly floured surface and roll into a 16x24 rectangle. Spread dough with butter and sprinkle evenly with cinnamon and sugar mixture. Roll up dough (start on the long side) and cut into 12 rolls. (Sometimes I make 18 rolls, and put into two 9x9 pans, and freeze one after cutting.) Place rolls in lightly greased 9x13 pan. Cover and let rise until almost doubled (about 30 min). Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
4. Bake rolls for 14-16 minutes. While rolls are baking, beat together cream cheese, 1/4 cup butter, confectioners sugar, vanilla extract and salt. Spread frosting on warm rolls.

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I used half whole wheat dough, to make them a bit healthier. I know, I know.... But that is why they look a bit darker than regular dough.

After cutting, before rising:
After the rise:
Fresh out of the oven:
Frosted: