An Amazing Loaf of Bread

I have made a lot of things in my day...but I have never baked a loaf of bread in the oven. I have made it in the breadmaker, but today my friend inspired me to begin baking bread. I am glad she did. This bread was super easy to make and it turned out awesome. It is not the healthiest recipe I found, but it was easy and turned out well. I did substitute one of the cups of flour for wheat flour so that helped.

Ingredients

• 1 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 (.25 ounce) package bread machine yeast
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 3 cups bread flour
• 1 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Place the water, sugar and yeast in the pan of the bread machine. Let the yeast dissolve and foam for 10 minutes. Add the oil, flour and salt to the yeast. Select the dough option on your breadmaker.
   

This usually takes 90 minutes or so.

After it is ready....put the bread in a pan and then let it sit to rise again for another 30 minutes.

After it's second time rising.....it is ready to bake.

Bake at 375 for 35-40 minutes. If it starts to get to brown....add aluminum foil to the top and it will help it. Mine cooked for 35 minutes and was perfecto!!!

Delicious Dressing

2 apples, diced, peeled, and cored. Usually use sweet apple, like a granny smith or braeburn.
½ pound of sausage....like the kind you buy in a circle tube with sage.
½ cup of onions chopped up.
1 tsp. Of garlic minced.
¼ cup of pinenuts.
½ cup of parsley chopped.
1 bag of Pepperidge farm stuffing mix....herb seasoned stuffing by pepperidge farm, blue bag, kind of in crumbs.
2 tsp. Of fresh sage chopped, or buy sausage with sage. (Can omit this if you get the sage sausage)
2 cups of chicken broth.
1 egg beaten.

Brown sausage and drain the fat off of it, add onion and garlic, and cook until it is kind of soft, not very long. Add apples, and keep stirring. Then add bread crumbs, salt and pepper a few shakes, add pinenuts, parsley, and the egg. Then add the chicken broth, and mix it up in a big sauce pan.

It should be kind of squishy, or add some more chicken broth. Sometimes you need to add more chicken broth to make sure that all the breadcrumbs are moist. It should be a little bit stiffer than cake batter.

Have the heat turned off while mixing everything up. Once it is all mixed, transfer it.

Bake for 45 minutes to an hour at 350. Bake in 9 x 13 glass baking dish or a 9 x 13 aluminum dish.

Roasted Sweet Potatoes

3 tbsp. Butter

3 tbsp. Honey

¼ cup orange juice(Just regular orange juice)

4 medium sweet potatoes.....2 lbs. Total.

On the potatoes, peel them, half them crosswise and quarter length wise. Chunk them so that they are all about the same size.

Heat oven to 400 degrees.

Use butter in the pan, use a big baking dishing, bigger than a 9 x 13 pans.

Or do in 2 batches.

Lightly butter the dish, 1 tbsp. Of butter throughout the dish.

In a small saucepan, melt 3 tbsp. Of butter, whisk in honey and orange juice. Add sweet potatoes into the buttered baking dish, then pour on the honey and orange juice mixture, toss it around so they are coated.

Sprinkle with salt and pepper, roast until the potatoes are brown and tender. 45 minutes.

Have them made and then throw them in the crock pot to keep them warm.

Stir them about every 15 minutes until they are tender and they seem done.

Fabulous Fettuccine Alfredo Sauce

1 tsp. garlic minced
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
1/2 cup parmesan cheese.....Shredded
1 tsp. parsley

In 1 tsp. olive oil saute garlic about 1 minute. Add cream, bring to a rolling boil, then add the parmesan cheese, bring back to a rolling boil. Turn down head to medium- let it continue to bubble until it thickens. This can take up to 20 minutes. Mix into your pasta and add parsley to add color.

This alfredo sauce is awesome, just don' t eat to much of it if you are on a diet.

Feel free to add shrimp or chicken to your pasta.

Easy Pumpkin Pie

I made this pumpkin pie the other day, it was so easy, it seriously only took about 10 minutes. Making the crust took a few minutes, but the pie part was a since.

Here it is: It is also awesome!

1 9 inch unbaked pie crust (If you make it yourself, I just used the Betty Crocker cookbook recipe that can be found on the internet)
1 can 15 oz. pumpkin
1 can sweeten condensed milk
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla and cinnamon extract
1/2 tsp. nutmeg, salt, and ground ginger

Preheat oven to 425. In a large bowl, beat all ingredients together with a whisk or mixer. Pour into pie crust and bake for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 and bake for 35-45 minutes longer. Cool before serving.

Weight Watchers Lowfat Pumpkin Cookies

1 spice cake mix
1 can (29 oz. of 100% pumpkin)
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips


Mix together cake mix and pumpkin together. Add chocolate chips.

Cook 20 minutes at 350

These cookies are awesome. They are 1 point a cookie...unless your like me and add extra chocolate chips and they are 2.

Sister Aljets Sensational Buttercream Frosting

1 lb. powdered sugar....4 cups...I usually use a little more than this
1 stick real butter at room temperature
1/2 cup crisco shortening
1 tsp. vanilla
2-3 tbsp. milk

Blend butter and shortening....then add powdered sugar and vanilla. Add the milk to the consistency that you want. I continue adding milk and powdered sugar until it tastes how I want it. Note: I always heat my milk when I do this, but you can do whatever.

Also...I add 1 capful of almond flavoring to frosting to add more flavor.