What is your favorite Pizza Selena Gomez?

My sweet daughters got the chance to meet Selena Gomez! She was really nice and gave them her undivided attention. We got to see her new movie Monte Carlo and then meet her at the Four Seasons to ask her fun questions.

My 5 year Taylor asked her what her favorite pizza was and Selena surprised us with

Jalapenos and Mushrooms!

Selena also told us that while filming the movie she loved to eat bread and Nutella. The movie starts out in Texas and then you get to see Paris, then Monte Carlo and a little bit of Romania or so we thought.

Katelynn my 9 year old asked if she really got to go to all these places and thats when we learned Texas and Romania were actually filmed in Budapest!

Ashley my 7 year old asked her when her birthday! Its July 22 and she will be 19. My girls just loved the chance to meet her and they really got the Royal Treatment.

Take your daughters to see Monte Carlo, the movie is cute and they places are beautiful. Its was really clean and Selena did a great job playing so many characters!

Fast Easy Bread (Basic Dough)

If you have questions ask away!


and part 2

Monkey Bread as seen on Oprah but way FASTER!

I watched Oprah the other day and it was all about her best friend Gayle. Gayle loves food and one of her favorite things to eat is Monkey Bread. The whole audience got to try it and I thought I would check out the recipe. WOW! I was shocked to see how long it would take to make it, around 3 hours. You can make Fast Easy Monkey Bread in 60 minutes or less from start to eating. Please don't be like me and dig in when it is way to hot! I always burn my mouth because I just can't wait.

First make the dough, but remember that if you make a full recipe it is enough for 2 pans of monkey bread. In my case I made a pizza for dinner and monkey bread for dessert.

Roll out half the dough and cut it into 1 inch squares. Coat each square with cinnamon and sugar and then place in a bunt pan.


If you want to add pecans sprinkle them on the bottom of the pan and then place your cinnamon/sugar dough pieces of the top.

Then make your sauce. 1/2 cup BUTTER (real butter, no substitutes) 1 cup brown sugar. Microwave for 2 minutes but stir after 1 minute. Then add 2 tablespoons cream or milk stir until all mixed together and it looks like caramel sauce. Then drizzle all of the sauce over the dough pieces in the bunt pan. Let it rise for 10 minutes and then bake for 20 minutes.



Remove from oven and set a plate or platter over the top of the bunt pan and flip it out on to the platter. Don't worry about smashing the monkey bread that has baked up and out of the pan. It will look great and taste even better when you flip it up.

Enjoy with friends and family, its way to much to eat by yourself, trust me!

A Request for Rolls

I had a request for how I make dinner rolls. I grew up watching my dad make rolls for sunday dinner and when I asked him why do you knot them he said it looks nice. So here is how I make them.

I start out by making a batch of FAST EASY BREAD dough.

Out of one batch of dough I can get about 20 rolls.

I take a tennis ball sized amount of dough and roll it in my hand to make a snake or 6 inch rope. Then I just take the rope and tie it in a knot. Spray your hands with cooking spray to keep the dough from sticking. Spray as often as you need too.I place them on a large cookie sheet and let them rise for 20 minutes and then bake them for 20 minutes.

I really like to eat them with butter and honey or just butter if I am eating them with a yummy Sunday dinner of roast and mashed potatoes.

I use the remaining rolls (if there is any) for sandwiches for the kids lunches or breakfast in the morning.

Pumpkin Shaped Bread Bowls and Rolls

These are super easy to make and add lots of excitement to any soup. My kids must eat a bowl of potato soup before trick or treating and putting it in a bread bowl shaped and colored to look like a pumpkin adds enough fun that they eat it up.





First to color your dough, just add red and yellow food coloring to your water before you add it to your dry ingredients.

Then shape the dough into 6 medium size balls with square stems on top.

Paint pumpkins with more food coloring, I used a kids watercolor brush.



I also cut little slits along the sides of the pumpkin to add texture and depth.

Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes.

Cool for 10 minutes and then cut the top off.

Dig out the inside of the bowl.

Fill with your favorite soup and enjoy! I really like potato soup, or white chicken chili.

Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls with Caramel Sauce and Cream Cheese Frosting

This time of year everthing is about the great Pumpkin! Tonight the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown is on and everywhere I turn I see pumpkins. Thanks to a dear friend I now have a wonderful FAST EASY BREAD recipe with pumpkin in it and maybe just a pinch of sugar! But really who can keep track of how much sugar you eat this time of year!

Make these delicious, pumpkin, sugary pieces of perfection and watch everyone fall in love with pumpkin!

Ingredients:

YOUR Favorite pumpkin pie filling (Libby's easy pumkin pie mix)
7 cups unbleached bread flour

¼ cup brown sugar (can use honey or any sweetener 1:1)

1 tsp salt

2 Tbsp SAF-instant premium yeast

2 tsp  Soy liquid lecithin
 (Do not measure, just easy squeezy quarter size squirts) 


Filling
2 tsp. pumpkin spice
4 Tbsp. Melted Butter
2 Tbsp. Cinnamon
1 cup Brown Sugar

Prepare your favorite pumpkin pie filling. Add the ¼ cup brown sugar, 2 tbsp yeast, 2 tsp liquid soy lecithin, 1 tsp salt to the filling and mix. Add bread flour slowly until you get workable dough. Roll out to about ¼” thick.

FILLING: Brush melted butter over dough. Mix cinnamon, brown sugar and pumpkin spice together and then spread over melted butter on dough. Roll dough into log. Take dental floss (or any cutting utensil) and cut pieces to about 1” thick rolls. Place in greased baking dish, cover and let rise for about 15-20 minutes. Then bake at 375 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until golden. Take out let cool for 5 minutes then drizzle with caramel icing, cream cheese icing or both!

Caramel Icing:
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Dash salt
1/4 to 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
Melt butter in a saucepan; stir in brown sugar and milk. Cook and stir over medium-low heat for 1 minute. Stir in vanilla, salt and 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar; beat until well blended. Add more sugar, if necessary, to achieve desired consistency.

Cream Cheese Icing:
2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup milk
In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter until creamy. Mix in the sugar and vanilla.

And the winner of THE FAST EASY BREAD kickoff competition is????

Annie Kershisnik Blake! This is what she had to say!

i made monkey bread last night because i can't resist the gooey goodness. apparently neither can my daughter because she pulled her little two-year-old self up to the table and we sat like vultures, eating together till the plate was almost clean. it was delicious and fun.

Thanks to all who commented! We will have another competition soon, so stay tuned!