cinnamon rolls with walnuts & raisins

I omitted the glaze on purpose, "it's already too sugary and buttery", says the mom.

"No, it's not", says the sons.

I added diced walnuts and raise for the filling, and I hand split the walnuts. my son asked me, why did I just use the food processor, first I didn't even thought about it, secondly then, I didn't want to do the wash after use it and lastly, why don't I give my hands and fingers an exercise of the day.

Dough
1 cup milk
2 envelopes active dry yeast
1 pinch of sugar and salt
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter
2 large eggs
4 1/4 cups wheat flour

Filling
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoon of cinnamon
1/2 c Diced Walnuts
1/2 c raisins
some butter for spread the dough

How To

Dissolve yeast in warm milk, add sugar and salt and set aside for 10 minutes. 

In the bowl beat butter, sugar, eggs, and flour until light and fluffy.  Beat in the warm milk mixture.

Scrape the dough into a large bowl and cover tightly. Let the dough stand in a warm place until it is doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.

Cut four 15-inch-long sheets of wax paper. Turn the dough out and divide it into quarters. Working with 1 piece at a time, roll the dough to a 14-by-7-inch rectangle, about 1/4 inch thick. Roll the dough around the rolling pin and unroll it onto a sheet of wax paper. Repeat with the remaining 3 pieces of dough. 

Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, blend well the filling except the butter for spread onto the rolled dough.

Evenly spread 1 sheet of dough with one-fourth of the filling. Tightly roll up the dough, cut the rolls of 1 inch thick. Arrange the cinnamon rolls, cut side up, in concentric circles in the pan, starting from the edge and working into the center. Cover the rolls with plastic wrap and let them rise in a warm place for about 1 hour and 30 minutes, until puffy.

Preheat the oven to 350°F, and bake them for about 25 minutes, until golden and risen.

yum!

Grill Hawaii bun + cheeses + avocado

Who is the Chef of the day? Year!
Kids cook it, mom loves it. Yum!

oatmeal bar

Baked Oatmeal Snack Bars

 

I just cannot not share this recipe with you, I found this one online and it use neither butter nor sugar and it’s very easy to do.  But it does have some sugar in the dried fruit like cranberries though, and you have choice not to use this one, for example use raisins instead.

One more thing is I use cholate chips instead of seeds for it. First I love cholate and the kids too also it’s on sale at this holiday season, I just cannot resist them. It also has some sugar and butter in it too. Next time I’ll surely add some seeds too.

I cook 4 batches at one time and cut the milk to 4 cups instead 5 otherwise, it comes out too moist. And I strongly recommend you use the pizza cutter to cut into pieces when it’s done, it comes out really nice bars.

Ingredients

·         1.5 cups rolled oats

·         1/2 cup chopped walnuts [or any nuts you like

·         1/2 cup dried fruit (any you like – raisins, cranberries, dates, figs)

·         1/4 cup seeds (any you like – sunflower, pumpkin, flax, sesame)

·         1 tsp cinnamon

·         1 tsp kosher salt

·         1.25 cups skim milk

·         1 egg

·         1 tsp vanilla

Method:

1.    Preheat oven to 350*

2.    Mix dry ingredients.

3.    Mix wet ingredients.

4.    Pour wet into dry. Stir to combine.

5.    Pour into a 9×9 baking dish either coated in cooking spray or lined with parchment.

6.    Bake for 40 minutes.

7.    Cut into 9 squares.

 

hash browns

I found that you can also make hash brown using oven, baking. This is I prefer to do the dish without inhaling the smoke from cooking.

For the ingredients, you just use the exact same as pan fry them.

And this time, besides the shredded potato, egg, wheat flour, salt, oil, pepper, I’m going to have a tiny little bit of shredded carrots too. That way it will be more nutritious and looks prettier with the carroty, I think and hope.