Lion House Rolls

2 tablespoons Yeast
2 cups Warm Water
1/3 cup Sugar
1/3 cup Shortening
2 teaspoons Salt
2/3 cups Dry Milk Powder
1 Egg
5 1/2 cups Bread Flour
Softened Butter

1. In your mixer or large bowl, mix together your water and yeast. Let it proof for 5 minutes and then add in your salt, sugar, dry milk powder, shortening, egg, and 2 cups of the flour. Knead together until smooth.
2. Gradually add in the remaining flour until soft dough is formed.
3. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. Place the ball of dough into a greased bowl and then flip the dough over. Cover the bowl and let it rise until doubled in bulk. Punch down and divide into thirds. (At this point I like to keep 1/3 of the dough out and freeze the other 2 into seperate bags for later use...I just don't need very many rolls for my small family)
4. Roll out 1/3 of the dough into a circle and spread your softened butter. Cut the dough into 12 equals pie shaped pieces like so:5. Starting with the wide part of each piece roll it up into a crescent.
6. Place them all on a greased baking sheet with the point of the roll on the bottom.
(If you chose not to freeze the rest of your dough then follow steps 4-6 with the remaining dough)
7. Cover your rolls and let them rise again until doubled in size.
8. Bake at 350 for 10-15 minutes.

9. Rub some butter over the top of the rolls when they come out of the oven and then serve.

Yields: 3 dozen rolls

**You can even sprinkle some garlic powder onto the buttered dough before you roll them up. It makes a nice garlic roll for your pasta dishes.

Mexican Rice

Ingredients needed to make this recipe:

1 tablespoon of oil
1 cup of Long grain rice
Chopped Onions (may use dehydrated if you want)
8 oz can of Tomato Sauce
Water
1 "heaping" tablespoon of Knorr Suiza Chicken Flavor Buillon

1. In a 2-cup measuring cup pour your 8 oz can of tomato sauce. Fill the rest of the measuring cup full of water. Pour in your "heaping" tablespoon of the knorr seasoning. (When I say heaping, I sure mean heaping)
Mix the seasoning in your liquid mixture and then pour it all into a pot. Bring this to a boil.
2. While you are waiting for your liquids to boil, get out a pan and heat up your oil. Pour in your rice and start to brown the rice. Before the rice is browned, add your onion and cook until clear. (If you are using dehydrated onions, make sure they are hydrated by this point) Once the rice is browned, pour it into the pot with the liquids.
3. Let it boil for just a minute and then stir. Cover the pot and reduce to a simmer for 20-30 minutes. Then stir.
**If your rice is still not as soft for your liking, just add a little bit more water to the pot and cover it back up and let it simmer for a little bit longer.

Mini Loaves

Instead of making rolls for dinner, make some mini loaves of bread. How fun would that be for everyone to have their own little loaf of bread? Let me tell you...it's WAY fun. Now you don't want to eat it like a roll...you eat it like bread would be...in slices. So give everyone their own loaf and as they want some, they slice off a piece of bread and put on butter and jam. SO FUN!

(Just like my other bread recipes, you'll need a small and large scale to weigh your ingredients)

24 ounces Warm Water
1 ounce Yeast
40 ounces Bread Flour
1 ounce Salt
1 1/2 ounces Sugar
2 ounces Non Fat Milk Powder
1 1/2 ounces Shortening

1. Dissolve Yeast in water. Then add your Salt, Sugar, Non Fat Milk Powder, and Shortening. (When I make bread I personally like to use Kosher salt because it adds an extra kick. Try it out)
2. Slowly add in the Bread Flour. Knead until fully incorporated.
3. Spray a bowl with cooking spray and set your dough inside and then flip it. This gives it a nice coating on top so that it will keep your dough moist and not get a crusty coating while rising.
4. Cover your bowl and let the dough rise for an hour.
5. After it is finished rising, pull off a section of your dough and roll it out. Roll it up (like you would cinnamon rolls) and put it into your sprayed bread pan. Do this for every loaf. Make sure not to fill the pan to the top with your dough because it needs room to rise and then will rise more in the oven. If you have extra dough let over you can put it in a bag and throw it in the freezer for next time.
6. Once you filled every spot in your loaf pan, cover it up and let it rise for another 30 minutes or so.
7. Bake them at 350 for about 15 minutes or until done.
8. While still hot, rub the top of the loaves with butter. This will not only add a nice butter flavor, but also keep the top of the bread nice and soft and not be crusty.

**My mini loaf pan is a Wilton brand that I bought at Bed Bath & Beyond.

HOW FUN IS THAT!

Twiced Baked Potatoes

6 medium Potatos
1 1/2 cups Sour Cream
2 tablespoons Butter
Cheese
Bacon Bits

1. Wash your potatoes and bake at 400 until soft (aprox an hour).
2. Take your potatoes out of the oven and cut them in half length wise.
3. Dig out the inside out of the skin.
4. Beat the potatoes and then add the sour cream and butter. Season to taste (I like to use seasoning salt, garlic salt, salt, and pepper).
5. Put your potatoes on a baking sheet and sprinkle cheese and bacon bits on top.
6. Cover with foil and bake at 350 for about 30 minutes.

Depending on the size of potatoes you may need to add more sour cream...I just keep adding more until I get the taste I like!

Wheat Bread

24 ounces Water

1 ounce Yeast

1 ounce Salt

1 1/2 ounces Sugar

2 ounces Non Fat Milk Powder

1 1/2 ounces Shortening

1 pound Bread Flour

1 pound, 8 ounces Wheat Flour

1.  Dissolve yeast in water, and then add all the other ingredients except the flour.  Mix at ow speed.

2.  Sift and add the flour.  Let it all continue to mix until all ingredients are fully combined.

3.  Let the dough rise until doubled in bulk. (approx 1 hour)

4.  Roll out the dough and roll it into loafs.  Let it rise again.  (approx 1 hour)

5.  Bake at 375 for about 20 minutes.

IMPORTANT!  This recipe is all done by WEIGHT, not MEASUREMENTS so you do have to have a small scale for the small ingredients and a large scale for the flour.  This recipe makes 2 BIG loafs, so if you are like me then you might want to only do half a recipe so you only make 1 loaf!

Lil' Smokies in bacon

1 bag of little smokies
Bacon
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
1/2 Cup Honey

1. Spray your casserole dish,
2. Cut your uncooked bacon in thirds and wrap a third around the little smokie and stick a toothpick in it to hold it together. Continue doing this until your casserole dish is full.
3. Mix your Brown Sugar and Honey together and spoon it all over the top of the bacon smokies.
4. Bake in the oven for an hour at 350.

These are so yummy and so dangerous because you wont want to stop eating them. SOOO GOOD!!!!

Outback Steakhouse Honey Wheat Bread

1 1/4 Cup Warm Water
2 tsp Sugar
2 1/4 tsp Yeast
2 Cups Bread Flour
1 3/4 Cups Wheat Flour
1 Tbs Coccoa
1 tsp Salt
2 Tbs Softened Butter
1/4 Cups Honey
2 Tbs Molasses
Cornmeal

1. Put warm water and yeast into a bowl and add the sugar. Let sit for a few minutes.
2. While the yeast mixture is sitting, put the flour, coccoa, and salt into another bowl and mix.
3. Mix butter into dry ingredients, add the honey and molasses and mix.
4. Slowly add the flour mixture to the yeast mixture until all mixed. Place in covered bowl and let rise until doubled in bulk (about an hour)
5. Separate the dough into 4-6 even portions. Roll each dough portion into logs that are about 6" long and 2" wide.
6. Moisten your hands then rub water onto each dough log and sprinkle some cornmeal onto them.
7. Sprinkle cornmeal onto your baking sheet or pizza stone and cover it loosely with plastic wrap. Let it rise for another hour or until doubled in size.
8. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes or until cooked fully

Mozzarella Sticks

1 Pound Mozzarella
3 Eggs
1 Cup Seasoned Bread Crumbs
Light Vegetable Oil

1. Cut cheese into 2 inch long, 1/2 inch wide sticks.
2. Dip cheese into beaten eggs and then into bread crumbs two times.
3. Freeze for about 15-20 minutes and then fry into oil until golden brown (about 2 minutes on each side).

Baked Bean Casserole

Oh everyone has to try this. This is the perfect season and time of the year for this dish. It's great for BBQ's...you will all love it I promise.

2 Large cans Pork and Beans
1/2 Pound Bacon
1 Large Onion
1 Green Pepper
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1 Cup Ketchup
2 Tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce

Combine all ingredients and place in 9x13 pan. Cook for 2 hours covered and 1 hour uncovered.