Thursday, March 8, 2012

I'm no longer a virgin,

and neither is my mixer.  Even though it was only our first date...I just couldn't wait.


She was far too shiny...so I had to dirty her up a little bit.  I was flipping through the user manual, and came across a recipe that I already had all of the ingredients for:


Fuck yeah herb rolls.  Not just any herb rolls...ones that you can pull apart.  Amazing.  I have never done that before.  (Link to recipe at the bottom)

Thyme, Oregano, and Dill, which I conveniently planted the other day.


Recipe calls for 1/4 tsp of each herb...
I love my herbs so I added more!! 



I heated water to 115 and added my yeast, as I would with the other bread recipe I tried.  Only this time before hand, I had to heat the hook and bowl with warm water before this, which I never thought of doing before.  Makes sense, keeps the water at a steadier temp.  I added the first part of the recipe, and flipped the switch for the first time.


After some sort of stupid giddy hop and clap deal (what's happening to me?!  Say goodbye tomboy cred.), I added the rest of the flour and finished kneading the dough.  The spiral hook was fascinating to watch because it mimicked the hand-kneading motion quite well.  

One... 
Two...

POW!
The next part is where the "pull apart" thing comes in.  Check it out.

Roll into a 12x9 1/4" rectangle
Brush with BUTTAH
Slice into 6 strips.
Stack the strips, cut into 12 1-inch segments.

Put in muffin pan cut sides up, cover, and let rise for about 45 minutes or until doubled in size.

Poof!  
Now that that's out of the way, I put them in the oven, and proceeded to make a quick and nommy actual meal to go with these rolls.

Whatchu' know about bacon, son?

Chunky mushrooms and lots of garlic

Alfredo sauce.  From a jar.  WORKS FOR ME.
Slap that shit on some spaghetti....instant dinner.  The real stars for me were these beauties.

TA DA!


Yeah, you like that crocheted oven mitt?



The recipe for these rolls is on page 70 of the owner's manual for the KitchenAid Bowl-lift mixers.



8 comments:

  1. That looks great! Congrats on the nommy rolls.

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  2. Damn those look like some mighty fine rolls. Have you made anything else with your mixer?

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  3. There isn't anything in this post that isn't some level of sexiness.

    I love that knife especially.

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  4. That looks amazing! And the mixer, oh man, so pretty. I love mine, but sadly it's just the plain white one.

    I just found your blog via the LSG blogroll and wanted to let you know that I'm a fan!

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  5. I often say that I would give everything in my kitchen up before I gave up my kitchenaid. I'd seriously rather cook over an open flame than whip a merengue by hand.

    (beautysmuse from Rav)

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  6. Woo, that looks fantastic. Looks like you're a good cook! (it can't ALL be the mixer..) ;)

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