Dinner Rolls and Hassleback Potato

http://pinterest.com/pin/195765915022545900/
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/big-batch-quick-dinner-rolls-recipe

• 1/2 cup lukewarm water
• 2 cups warm milk ( 100 - 110°F)
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 2 1/2 tablespoons yeast, instant preferred
• 6 to 7 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour

Directions:

Mix water, milk, butter, sugar, salt and yeast into mixer- turn on for a few minutes and then let rise until yeast has foamed a little.

Next add 3  cups of flour, mix thoroughly. 

Add 1/2 a cup of flour at a time until the dough is slightly firm- but not a lot. Plavcec it in a greased bowl for 20 minutes until it rises.

After the dough as risen, roll it out into a rectangle. Cut the dough into 12 pieces, then form into a ball.

You can either place them on a sheet, like I did or other pans (see original post)

let them rise again for 20 minutes. After that bake at 250 for about 20 minutes.

Verdict: I think they kinda taste like pretzels... not bad though :/

POTATOES

http://pinterest.com/pin/195765915023309946/
seasaltwithfood.com

So I started by washing my potatoes. Then I sliced them thinly (not cutting all the way through). I added some garlic slivers  into each opening of the potato, drizzled some olive oil and butter over them and finished with some salt and cracked pepper

Bake at 425 for about 40 minutes or until golden:

Verdict: Not bad; I added a little too much pepper. I loved the garlic flavor and the slight crispiness of the top of the potato- however, I feel like my centers weren't soft enough like a baked potato.

Dinner rolls

Pintrest Objective : http://pinterest.com/pin/195765915022120301/

What you'll need:

• 1/2 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
• 1/2 cup warm milk
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup butter, softened
• 1/3 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
• 1/4 cup butter, softened

Directions:

Add milk and water in small sauce pan and heat to 110-115 degrees. Add yeast and a pinch of sugar to activate. Set aside for 5 minutes.

Combine all the other ingredients into your mixer, turn on for a minute. When the yeast mixture is ready, add to the flour and turn on until smooth

(if it's still sticky add more flour, too dry a tsp of water)

form into ball and place in greased bowl and let it rise for 30 minutes

or until doubled in size.

punch dough down and shape into circles

At this point I also started:

Pintrest objective: http://pinterest.com/pin/195765915022295556/

The original poster uses store bought rolls...I kinda thought it was cheating (which you probably think I'm doing by trying more than one pin at a time) But I figured, why not?

I shaped  the two sets of rolls and buttered the tops of my original rolls and placed both trays back into my warm oven to rise again for

30 minutes until doubled in size

Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees and bake for 15-20 minutes (I'm still getting use to my oven!)

Regular Dinner rolls

Verdict?: Oh man these taste good!!!!! They are so light and fluffy and amazing warm... I have a bread addiction that I'm getting looked at ;)

Garlic Dinner rolls:

Verdict: It's missing something... I just don't know what yet. Maybe I need to add more garlic. Still good though :)