Bits & Pieces #4: Easter Food, etc.

Hi friends! It's been a while since I've done a Bits and Pieces post.

Can you believe it's Easter weekend?

I'm still not sure what I'm making for Easter dinner. Maybe we'll have our family yearly Easter picnic on Sunday instead of Saturday like we usually do. We usually eat these favorite foods every Easter.

I know I'll be making these bunny rolls sometime.

I make them with my favorite cloud light crescent roll recipe. They're super easy. You mix them up and shape them and then let them rise. Perfect for making ahead and then baking at dinner time (stick them in the fridge to rise if you make them a few hours in advance).

These bunny ear rolls (or bunny tails, depending on how you look at them) are really easy to make with my one hour roll dough. Just make a ball for the middle and stretch some dough around for the ears/tail.

Sometimes I wonder what I would do with my time if I didn't love to bake. Decorate? Garden? Shop? Clean my house? Finish the laundry? Read a book?

Since I enjoy baking, I've been making a lot of treats lately to share with others for refreshments or just a little treat. Here are a few of my favorites...

I've made...

Glazed Lemon Cookies -- the perfect spring cookie, bursting with lemon. Love them!

Scotcharoos -- I like to make these when I need a treat for a crowd. Too dangerous to make a big pan of them just for my family. They disappear too fast.

Chocolate Crinkles --

I blogged about these in December, but since then I talked to my sister-in-law, Annelisa, and found that I'd been making them wrong. I'd been adding extra flour to make the dough more stiff. She told me that it's supposed to be kind of "brownie batter like". You chill the dough and then it scoops nicely with a spoon. No extra flour needed. I updated the recipe post.

All righty...I could go on about food all day. But I better get busy.

One more thing...I've been posting more on Instagram these days. Feel free to follow me.

Did you notice my new(ish) follow me buttons my left sidebar? You can easily follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and even email me.

I post quite often on Facebook too.

Anyway... have a great Easter weekend! See you here on Monday for another menu.
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One Hour Rolls

These rolls are amazing! I've been making these rolls since 2001 when I was a newlywed and my sister-in-law shared the recipe with me. The rolls are light, fluffy, easy to make and they only take one hour! And delicious too! I've made these rolls more times than I can count, so I've perfected the art of making them. Here are some step-by-step instructions with pictures for you. Here's what you'll need. I buy pretty much all of the ingredients in this recipe at Sam's club, thus the huge containers. You need warm water, yeast, oil, sugar, salt, egg and flour. In the mixer bowl, add warm water (not hot), oil, sugar and yeast. Mix together. After ten or fifteen minutes the yeast mixture should be puffed up like this. Time to add the salt and beaten egg. Then mix in the flour. (I've used a mixture of half wheat and half white flour successfully.) Keep adding flour until the dough is manageable. It ...

Chicken Angelo

Don't forget to enter the Whirley Pop giveaway . It ends tomorrow! Am I the only person that asks their friends what they're making for dinner all the time? That's kind of why I started this blog, because I want to know what my friends are making for dinner. The other day I asked my friend, Juli (who is great cook), what she was making for dinner. She told me she was making Chicken Angelo. Then she told me what's in it. I knew I had to try it too because she has some picky eaters at her house like I do. I figured if they'll eat it then maybe it was worth a try at my house. This Chicken Angelo pasta has my favorite things, artichoke hearts and mushrooms in it. But don't be fooled into thinking that my family likes these things too. Because they don't. They won't touch an artichoke or mushroom with a ten foot pole. That being said, my family loved this pasta dish. They even gave me the go ahead to make it again. ...

Week 394 Menu

Hi there! This week is flying by! So excited that we've been having blue skies and warmer weather. Our snow is almost all melted and little bulbs are sprouting in the flower beds. However, we had our 10th snow/ice day last week!!! Hopefully it was the last one. Life has been busy, busy and I need to plan out the rest of our week's menus, even though it's already Thursday. Here's what we've eaten so far and what I'm planning: Monday: chicken stirfry, rice/quinoa Tuesday: breakfast for dinner Wednesday: flatbread pizzas Thursday: roasted butternut squash, pasta, chicken sausage Friday: tacos Saturday: leftovers Sunday: pot roast, mashed potatoes, one hour rolls Alrighty, that's what we're eating this week. How about you? What's on your menu this week? Feel free to share. I love it when you do! More from Jenny:

What is on your menu this week?

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