Category: Baking

Corned Beef Bier Rocks

3/18/2020

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What have I been doing while staying at home during this Corona Virus disaster? Baking and Cooking! So far I've baked a big batch of Sprouted Wheat Bread, I've made Corned Beef for St. Patrick's Day and an Avocado Key Lime Pie for dessert (twice)! Since we had corned beef left over, and because I was baking bread, my mind started working and I thought about Bier Rocks. If you haven't ever heard of them, they are a free form beef hand pie basically. They usually have beef, cabbage and onions in them. The dough is a bread dough. I got to thinking that a Reuben style Bier Rock would be really good, sans the rye bread, but with sprouted wheat bread instead! So, I tried it and they are delicious! Here is how I did it.

When I made my sprouted wheat bread dough, I saved one loaf's worth of dough and wrapped it in waxed paper and plastic wrap in the fridge until the next day. Then, I gathered my ingredients:

Ingredients:

Bread Dough (I have used frozen white dough for Bier Rocks in the past! You can use any dough, I used Sprouted Wheat dough this time.)
Left over Corned Beef with the potatoes, cabbage and whatever else you cook with yours, like carrots or onions.
Swiss Cheese slices

Click on the photos below for directions.

Divide your dough into 6 -8 equal pieces, depending on how large you want your Bier Rocks to be. I made 6 with my one loaf's worth of dough. Roll each piece out into an aprox. 8" x 8" square. Then add your fillings.

OOPS. I forgot to show you the fillings. I placed a slice of cheese, the corned beef and then some potato bits and a cabbage slice in the center of the square. Next, wrap the dough all around the filling, pinching it to prevent leaking. Place on a well greased cookie sheet to rise for about 1/2 an hour.

When slightly risen, (you don't want the bread part to be too thick), bake in a 350 degree oven for about 30 min. until golden brown.

As you can tell, Bier Rocks are very free form. But that is okay. They are easy to hold and eat without a mess, which is one of their beautiful qualities. They transport well and taste delicious.

See how there is just enough bread and the filling fills up the space so nicely? The potatoes are a really nice addition to the traditional Bier Rock and so is the flavor of the corned beef.

Corned Beef Bier Rocks

This recipe is a great way to use up your St. Patrick's Day leftovers!
If you are like me and don't have little ones at home to care for and home school, how are you filling your time of social distancing? I have many home projects to get to, so this time alone can be put to good use.
Stay healthy everyone! Wash your hands and don't let these trying times get you down! Stay busy, check on your loved ones and keep praying!

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Dilly Onion Casserole Bread

1/14/2020

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A few different things inspired this bread. First of all, I was watching a BBC show called Britain's Best Bakery, and there are some amazingly beautiful loaves of bread on that show. One particular loaf was made by a British Bakery called Thankful Bakery, and they used nettles and chives in their bread. They put a nettle leaf on the top to make it pretty. It was so simple and I loved it. I have no idea what nettles are, but I started thinking about that idea for an herb filled savory bread. Then, I remembered that my mother used to make a Dilly Bread, only rather than fresh herbs, she used dried. But, I figured I could adapt that idea to fresh. Also, I remembered that her recipe used cottage cheese. I had some ricotta cheese in my fridge and I wondered if I could make that work instead. Guess what! You can!

I started with some green onions, parsley and dill.

The beauty of this recipe is that it only takes 2 cups of flour to make a nice loaf to go with a soup or a stew, or just to eat all by itself! Also, It is almost like a batter bread because there is no kneading and you bake it in a 2 quart Pyrex dish! It is a super simple loaf to whip up.

You just mix it up, put the ball of dough into a well greased bowl and let it rise.

After it had risen, I spread some butter on it, dusted it with a little flour and couldn't resist decorating it with a leaf of parsley and a sprig of dill.

I was pleased with the pretty results!

After 40 minutes of baking it came out nice and brown on the bottom and soft and tender on the inside.

Trust me, you are going to want to give this simple, savory bread a try!
Below the recipe you will see tools and utensils similar to what I have used. Not exactly, my bread board was handmade for me, but I found one similar for you to see.
Happy Baking!

Dilly Onion Casserole Bread

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Lighter Blueberry Banana Muffins-Starting the Year off Light!

1/7/2020

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When the girl's and I got together to discuss blog business over the holidays, one of the things we all agreed on is that we all want to be more healthy this year! Personally, I feel very motivated and I feel like if we all encourage each other throughout the year, we can achieve our health goals. Many times we have heard people say that if they just start to live in a more healthy way, weight comes off and they see progress. But, I know that in my case, I need specific goals set that I can work on and change about my eating habits and exercise plan or nothing will ever happen.
Many of us want to lose weight, some of us want to strengthen our core or our upper body strength. Maddy is training for a 1/2 marathon. So, to achieve these goals we each are making plans that will help us reach them. One part of my plan is to cut back on sugar intake and to avoid mindless eating. You know, when you walk by some cookies, pick it up, eat it and THEN remember that you were going to avoid eating sweets and your weren't even hungry anyway?
In 2020 we will be trying to show you a lot of healthier posts when it comes to food, more activities that encourage a healthy lifestyle as well as our DIY posts that you have let us know that you enjoy.
I am going to start this year with these Lighter Blueberry Banana Muffins. The original recipe came from A Sprinkle of Joy, but I tweaked it a bit to lighten it up and give it more banana punch. I replaced the sugar in the muffin with agave nectar, but there is still sugar in the topping. The sweetness of the fruit doesn't let you miss the sugar in these muffins. They were really good!

Lighter Blueberry Banana Muffins