Dinner Rolls

Can you believe it's already November?? Stores are starting to stock up with holiday items and I just couldn't be happier! We'll be hosting Thanksgiving again this year and I'm starting to put together a list of items to make. These dinner rolls will definitely be on that list! They are melt-in-your-mouth yummy!


Thanksgiving last year was a great one. It was the first time we hosted, we celebrated my birthday, we bought my wedding dress, and got our first Christmas tree! The day of Thanksgiving, everything was going smoothly; all the food came together, was ready and looked delicious. I popped the sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows in the oven on broil for a quick minute and went to start serving plates. When I looked at the oven, I saw it lit up... with flames! I quickly opened the oven door to put out the fire that was my beautiful sweet potatoes and marshmallows.

Good thing my sister was there to document it, or else we may have forgotten all about this little incident.
We all got a good laugh out of it (especially my dad and husband as I was frantically trying to put out the flames!) and I'm sure this story will come up every year from here on out.

Dinner Rolls
recipe from For the Love of Cooking

• 1 cup of water
• 2 tbsp of butter, softened
• 1 egg (hold under warm water before breaking it)
• 3 1/4 cup of bread flour
• 1/4 cup of sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 tsp regular active dry yeast

Place all dough ingredients in the bread machine in the order listed. Select the dough cycle and press start. Once the bread machine stops (it was one and a half hours on my machine). Grease a cookie sheet. Divide dough into 15 pieces and shape each piece into a ball. Place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Brush with butter then cover; let rise in a warm place 30 to 4o minutes or until doubled in size.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees and bake 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.