Sweet Butter Rolls

As I mentioned in my first post, I am in the middle of a Thanksgiving dinner recap with some of my favorite dishes of the season. This is dish two in a five part series. The first began with cranberry sauce done two ways.

If anyone who has gotten close to me can attest (and as I have mentioned in previous posts), I love bread. I love bread in all forms. It definitely is a type of food I will select meals around. I also do not discriminate. All bread is welcome.

Enter the dinner roll. Every Thanksgiving dinner needs some sort of roll. And I'm not talking about these (although they are quite tasty).

I romped around the good ol' interweb and found this little recipe that had excellent reviews. The rolls did come out quite good although I had one little complaint. In the linked recipe, it is stated that the rolls are a bit more dense than crescents but not as much as dinner rolls. I would disagree. They were quite dense in my opinion. I do not want to write-off this recipe as the density might have been my own doing due to over-kneading so I will make these again and update the post with the results.

French Onion Soup

I love French Onion Soup. It is one of those little comforts that hits the spot on those days when you need something to warm you up. While the weather has not been conducive to hot soup lately, I was still craving this stuff and so I cooked up a batch.

What's interesting about French Onion Soup is that it has quite a history. Originating back to ancient Rome, onion soups were plentiful because onions are cheap and easy to grow. The modern form of the soup emerged in 18th century France and was widely seen as a food for poor people (take notice college kids). Finally, the soup was revitalized in the 1960's in the United States due to an increased interest in French cooking.

Chocolate Chip Banana Walnut Bread

We all know the story here. You buy some bananas at the store. You eat some. You forget about the rest of the bunch.

Fast forward several days.

Bam. You are looking at a bunch of bananas that look bruised, battered and too far gone to eat. Before you get sad and frustrated at tossing what was once perfectly good food, you have another option...make banana bread.

Well I made the obvious choice. In fact, this was my first time making banana bread and I only learned one very important thing - I should have been making banana bread way long ago.

Pesto Garlic Bread

Pesto Garlic Bread 

I love bread. 
I really love bread.
Understatement? Very likely.

Ode to Bread by PR

Be it flat, a stick, a twist, or a roll. 
Be it with garlic, cheese, or other spread. 
Be it corn, banana, or sour dough.  
It is wonderful, this food we call bread.

Wow. Okay.  I will not do that again, but you get the point and so onto the recipe after the jump.