Rosemary Bread

I'm starting this one while the bread's baking, and man - if it tastes as good as it smells right now.....

Here's the recipe as I made it:

Romanos Macaroni Grill Rosemary Bread

1 packet yeast (1 tbsp)
1 tbsp sugar
1 cup warm water
1 tbsp melted butter
1 tbsp dried rosemary
1 tbsp minced garlic
2 cups flour (plus more)

Water, sugar and yeast went into mixer bowl, let sit for 5 minutes until bubbly.  Added rest of ingredients, except flour, and mixed with dough hook attachment.  Added flour in 1/2 cup increments until I reached 2 cups, then, because dough was so wet, put mixer on low and added by the tbsp until dough pulled from the edges.  Dough was still pretty wet, so I probably added 3 more tbsp after that.

Put dough into oiled bowl, cover, and let rise for an hour on top of oven after I made dinner.  Then punched dough down, split in half, oiled cookie sheet and rounded the loaves.  Let rise again, uncovered, for 45 minutes.

Cook in oven 15-20 minutes at 375.  A lot of reviews said to brush butter over top, egg wash, etc.  but for this run I'm not putting anything on top to see how it comes out.

Verdict is - delicious!  Did not need wash in any form.  Was light and fluffy and have to go because now I am officially designated "bread cutter" by the family as they beg for more!

Christina

First Try Cooking with Pinterest!

This entry marks another journey - not that of working or nursing mother - but chef!  Using Pinterest, I'll try some recipes and - down to the littlest of substitutions (I almost always make one or skip a step) - record what I found.  You can see the original pinned recipes I try under Cooking with Pinterest (Mostly) Board on my Pinterest account.  Please note that these recipes are "Christina Style" which means they aren't always exactly measured.  Also, I add what type of pan or whatever I used to cook it in since usually I don't have what the recipe calls for.  Today I actually tried 5 recipes - but I've only got pictures of one - so here goes:

Upside Down Potato & Onion Tart  - Mostly

Ingredients:
2 T salted butter
"sprinkle" of italian seasoning
1/2 a giant Costco onion, fairly thinly sliced
3 russet potatoes, thinly sliced
1.5 cups Kirkland shredded mexican cheese
a "swirl" of veggi oil
Pie plate

Turn oven on to 400.  Melt butter, "sprinkle" with italian seasoning, layer slivers of onion over that.  Mix remaining ingredients in bowl while onion and italian seasoning cooks until you start to smell onion cooking :) - that's about 5 minutes.  Take the bowl ingredients and put on top of onions, put in oven for 45 minutes (suggest 1 hr after this trial run if using harder potatoes like russet).

Here it is:

Do your best to flip:

Ok, so it's not as pretty, and russet potatoes definitely need an extra 15 minutes to soften all the way.  45 minutes had them soft but still a bit starchy.  Still were great with the steaks - see you next time!

Funny thing I named this blog "Please Don't Puke On Me".....

I actually narrowly avoiding getting puke IN MY MOUTH.  So yes, I was puked on - my daughter doesn't read this blog, obviously.  I sat there for a good minute going "MMM, MMM!!!! MMMMMMM!!!" to my husband who had no clue what happened.  So here's a note to nursing mothers - don't play airplane with your baby after you feed her.  I would give yourself a good hour before doing it.  Will you listen to this advice?  No.  Because our babies are so cute and loveable and squeezable and we want to play with them all the time, conveniently forgetting that we just fed them.  So don't come crying to me when they puke on you.  Just know we're all laughing at you.  I mean, WITH YOU.  By the way, husband was definitely laughing at me, while wandering around "trying" to find something to wipe the puke off my face.  Awesome.   PS - I'm "Cooking with Pinterest" where I try all these pinterest recipes, complete with not following them to the T because I'm not Suzie Homemaker who has every spice, meat, and pan available to make them with but who is still very hungry when roaming through the food section of pinterest and wants to make it all.  Lots of love! - C