Day 77 - Sausage Bread

Recipe from Mom

This is day 77. Today we kind of did 2 things to make up for our absence. First, my mom made potato and leek soup. To go with that, I made sausage bread, and since it's Tuesday, our dessert night, I made pumpkin muffins a really easy.

Sausage Bread is our own recipe. We mainly make it when we have potato cheese soup, but we decided to make it with this other soup today.

Basically, I you make dough in a bread machine. We used Gluten Free Pantry's French Bread mix.

In the bread machine

Then you make some sausage in a pan.

You spread 1/2 the dough in a loaf pan.

Put sausage in the middle.

Put the rest of the dough on top.

Then you bake it, and it's 11 million thumbs up good.

My mom makes it using frozen bread dough (it's not gluten free). She rolls it out, spreads the sausage in the middle, and rolls it up like a jelly roll. My dad and her like it with mustard. We have it every Christmas, too.

The other recipe is a pumpkin muffin recipe. You get a spice cake mix (we used Namaste GF brand), one can of pumpkin, 1/2 cup of apple sauce, and 1/4 tsp of pumpkin pie mix, which we don't have, so I sprinkled cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger in it.

That's it. You mix it together, put in muffin tins, and bake it. 350 degrees for about 15 minutes.

I think we should up the thumb scale to 5. No, never mind, we'll keep it at 2. These muffins are 2 thumbs up all the way!

Day 44 - Dill Biscuits

Recipe Adapted from Jamie Online and Pampered Chef

Today there was a bit of an argument between Sophie and me (Jared) in the kitchen.  This  was not very extreme.  It was pretty normal because we bicker a lot.  Sophie was trying to tell me what to do and how to cook and I got mad.  I kind of spoke loudly (or yelled) at her and made a rude face, but in my opinion it wasn't actually that rude, but anyway it was a battle of wills.  Neither one of us won.  Except she sort of did since I got in trouble.  But the cooking must go on.

Sophie went to a Pampered Chef party with my mom today and won a Cookie Press.  So that was pretty crazy.  She wanted to make these Cheddar Dill Crisps and Jamie has a recipe for Dill Biscuits which are pretty similar.  Because we went Gluten Free, we adapted or changed the recipes around to make our own Dill Biscuit Crisp type thing.

The Cookie Press was an epic fail.  

It didn't really do what it was supposed to do.  We think the dough was too thick.  

We also used the new GF Bisquick instead of GF flour because we ran out of GF flour.  So we just experimented with the dough in true Jamie Oliver fashion.  It was really easy.

You mix some butter and cheese and flour and dill, then you mold it and bake it.  That was pretty much it. 

They taste pretty good.  I give them 2 9/8ths THUMBS UP (also known as 3 1/8 for those who are math challenged). 

Sophie says a million, kagillion thumbs up.

Thank you, and good night.