Dinner Rolls

In my quest to become a little more self-sufficient I'm trying my hand at 'basic' products that I would normally just buy from the shop. Hence the reason that I brought a pack of yeast sachets (which also featured in my pizza dough experiment a few posts ago). Having had success with that I thought I might try my hand at dinner rolls. I quite like having a roll for tea sometimes, but I've always found them to be a bit over priced in the shop. Anyways... here's my first attempt:

I used the recipe and tutorial found on this page. Mine didn't come out as fluffy looking as his did. Maybe I didn't knead it for long enough (it's hard when you have a little girl trying to "bake" a cake next to you). Or perhaps I overcooked it a little in the final stage. But they were edible. In fact Emmy ate 3 in one sitting so they must have been ok!

Pizza Dough

I love pizza. I especially love the old-school home made spaghetti and cheese pizzas. You know... the ones that Mum used to make when you were a kid.

I occasionally make home made pizza for my family, but I've never really like the scone dough type base that I normally use. So tonight I thought I would try to make a proper pizza base - using yeast (a product that has always scared me!).

Here is the result:

Yummy much?

The toppings included spaghetti, onion, ham, sausage, corn, herbs, pineapple, tomato and cheese. I quite liked the yeast product that I used. It comes in boxes of 12 handy sachets, so no measuring required.

The recipe I used was found here. I found the recipe a bit complicated to follow, but once I sorted out which parts were important, it was pretty easy.