Bread!!!

Sorry it has taken so long for me to post!!! It has been a very busy week and even though I'm blogging, I still have no idea who to blog or use this program and had a few issues. 

This week it lighter so I will try for a daily post. 

Last Sunday I was excited about making dinner for the church group. I made a simple bbq chicken in the crockpot using 5 large chicken breasts. I added some salt, pepper and let it do it's thing. When it was super soft I used to forks and shredded it. I added some sweet baby rays bbq sauce and we were set. 

I did originally make my own sauce but found it a little to spicy for the kits. 

I saw some recipes online and made my own sauce, it came out pretty good.

BBQ Sauce Recipe

1 cup Brown Sugar

1/4 Soy Sauce

1/4 Ketchup

1 tspn Vinegar

2 shakes of garlic powder

1 light squirt of mustard

and 1 or 2 shakes of Cayenne pepper

Throw these items into a small pot, stir, let simmer, let cool and serve!

Now, along with my chicken I made some awesome little buns. These are considered hot dog/ hamburger buns but I use them whenever I can. They are moist on the inside and the outside is nice and crisp. I found that if you don't do the egg-wash before you bake them, they are very much like hamburger buns, which I think are gross. 

This is the book I used, it's called The Bread Lovers Bread Machine Cookbook By Beth Hensperger

Ingredients, and a messy table. Disregard the cans of crushed tomatoes as well as the disinfecting wipes.

So I've got this issue. I am incredibly impatient. I used to try to make pizza dough and would just end up eating frozen because I hated to wait all day for the dough to rise and then kneed it then let it sit again. I found it annoying. So, I got this machine for $25 from some guy on Craigslist. I now, usually, only eat the pizza I make. Oh that will be for a future post!!!!!!

Ah yes, the bread machine.

 So when the machine does the work for you, you have more time to do other things. In my life those things consist of baby, cleaning, pup, cleaning, eating bites of whatever I can find, filling the Brita filter because I have a headache and have now gone the entire day without liquids and forgot about it until I got the headache... and then cleaning some more before I have to make a meal or something. 

Pretty self explanatory, the bread ball.

And now we cut the bread into whatever size we want and let them rest. Then I add egg wash and bake.

And here is my beautiful final product.

It is really easy to use and a fantastic easy to follow recipe. 

The ingredient list from The Bread Lover Bread Machine Cookbook by Beth Hensperger is as follows:

1 cup of water

1 large egg

4 tbsp butter, sliced

2 tbsp sugar

3 cups bread flour

1/4 cup nonfat dry milk

2 tbsp potato flakes

1 tbsp gluten

1 1/2 tspns salt

1 3/4 tspn yeast

I have a bread machine so all I do is hear it knead and it takes some time to rise then knead then rise. This is about 1.5 hour process. When the bread has finished it's last rise, I take it out, toss some flour on it and use my dough knife and portion it into 8 equal rolls and let it sit for 30 minutes. When 30 minutes is up I toss the egg wash on top and pop them into a preheated oven at 375 degrees for 18 minutes. My stove runs hot so timing is pretty important. When they come out I let them cool and then eat them as soon as I can. It's a great recipe. Very easy and such a great treat for pretty much anything. 

Time is pretty precious and I make due with things on hand when I'm low on it. I'm assuming that you are low on time so the crock pot recipes are really easy to follow for that reason, I don't have enough time to really cook at the stove everyday. I hope you enjoy these super easy recipes. At the very least, I try the bbq sauce. It's pretty great. Add a little more cayenne for more of a kick.