Late Night Craving To Bake

Even though I was very full from the delicious burger that I had today from an awesome place on Queen Street East called The Burger's Priest, I had a huge craving to bake. I decided to make cinnamon rolls. I didn't want to make too many so here is my recipe that makes six.

Cinnamon Rolls

1 cup                   Flour

1 tbsp                  Sugar

2 tsp                    Baking powder

½ tsp                   Salt

3 tbsp                  Margarine

½ cup                  Milk

Preparation

Preheat oven to 400ºF.

Combine dry ingredients.

Cut in the margarine in until mixture is crumbly.

Add milk and mix well.

Flour a surface and knead in as much extra flour as needed.

Roll the dough out into a rectangle roughly ⅓” thick and 7” wide.

Spread with some margarine and sprinkle on a layer of cinnamon, brown sugar and raisins.

Roll into a log and cut into 6 pieces.

Place rolls in a muffin tin and sprinkle tops with a bit more brown sugar.

Bake for 20 minutes.

My First Blog Post

I've been trying to figure out what i can do with my love of cooking for a little while now. Since I don't like the pressure of having to be quick in the kitchen I figured that becoming a chef would be bad idea, so I've (obviously) decided to start a blog. I will be posting pictures and recipes of the foods that I cook. So without any further adieu, tonight's diner: pulled pork sandwiches on homemade onion buns with an apple coleslaw.

 I rubbed the pork roast with a basic paprika/brown sugar based dry rub and let it sit overnight in the fridge.

I cooked the roast at 225ºF until the thermometer read 200º. For this roast it took a little over 4 hours.

Here is the dough for the onion buns. I set it to rise in the sun.

 I let the dough rise for 2 hours until it had doubled in size.

 I formed the dough into 6 large buns and let them rise again for 30 minutes. In the meantime I sauteed half of and onion...

Actually it wasn't even half.. this onion was HUGE! (18" around.. I measured)

I brushed the buns with and egg wash and added the browned onions. They baked at 400ºF for roughly 25 minutes. They turned out a little too salty for my taste and the bottoms burned a little.. oops!

Any good pulled pork sandwich has a nice blob of coleslaw on it, and since nothing goes better with pork than apples I julienned a gala and a granny smith apple and added it to the store bought coleslaw mix.

I made a dressing with mayo, sour cream, oil, vinegar, and a touch of mustard, and seasoned it with sugar salt and pepper.

Finally I was ready to start assembling. I heated up some store bought BBQ sauce and mixed in some of the pulled pork, and here they are:

 

 For dessert I made one of Simon's (my boyfriend) favourites, creme caramel. I've never made it before but with this boxed mix it was really easy!