Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

This Week's Bread: "School Cafeteria" Yeast Rolls.

Again, dryer than I like. I'm beginning to think that yeast rolls simply don't scale down well.

I might try again next weekend, and just make a full batch of yeast rolls to see if they come out right, but at the same time, while they make 24 rolls, that's FIFTY ONE Jenn-sized rolls if I want to keep my blood sugar under control. That's NINE WEEKS of bread to freeze.

I've always told myself that I'm not going to deny myself food I like, just cut it down to a portion I can have that keeps my sugar under control. I'm going to tryu scaling them down to 37g of carbs instead of 15g whic will result in larger rolls, but is at the top limit of what I can safely have.

Or I may just simply need to shelve the idea of home made Jenn-safe yeast rolls as something I can make, and just buy them and cut them down to size.

The following recipe makes 24 regular sized rolls.

# School Cafeteria Yeast Rolls

Plain Chicken

2.5 Tbsp yeast
0.75 cup warm water
6.5 cups bread flour
11.0 Tbsp instant non-fat dry milk powder
6.5 Tbsp sugar
1.0 Tbsp salt
6.5 Tbsp vegetable oil
1.25 cups water

1 - In a small bowl, combine yeast and warm water. Set aside.
2 - In the bowl of an electric stand mixer, combine flour, sugar, salt, and dry milk powder.
3 - Add vegetable oil and water. Mix on low for 3 minutes.
4 - Add yeast mixture and knead on medium speed for 8 minutes, until the dough is smooth and elastic.
5 - Loosely cover the bowl and let the dough rise in a warm spot until double in size, about 45 minutes.
6 - Punch dough down.
7 - Lightly spray a 9×13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
8 - Divide the dough into balls and place in the prepared baking dish.
9 - Loosely cover the dish and let the dough rise in a warm spot until double in size, about 30 minutes.
10 - Preheat oven to 400ºF.
11 - Bake rolls for 18 to 20 minutes.
12 - Brush baked rolls with melted butter.

#thisweeksmeals #cooking #baking

::flashback to high school::

Guy Who Was a Jerk to Me in High School: Why do all the girls hang out with a nerdy guy like you?
Pre Transition Jenn (out loud): I dunno. I'm just nice to them.
Pre Transition Jenn (internally): They know as much as I do that I'm a girl, my dude. I told them.

Thank you to all the girl friends who saw the real me back then. Still love y'all. ❤

Wierd Non Sequitur Star Trek Image of the Week

Tears of the Kingdom Post-Game Milestone:
All Energy Cells obtained! They give Zonaite out like candy down in the depth.

Current status:
All Shrines
97 Light Roots
All Korok Seeds, Main Quests, Side Adventures, Shrine Quests, Side Quests and Memories completed.

94.58% Complete
360 Hours Played

Two years into using Linux Mint, and I hardly ever touch Windows anymore. I've had to use it for some Multimedia stuff, but beyond that, nothing. I'm looking at relegating Windows 11 down to a Virtual Machine, at this point.

Meet my Windows 11 VM: Mineru. If you get it, you get it.

::searches Google Images for some Mineru wallpaper::

"OH GAWD, SAFE SEARCH ON! SAFE SEARCH ON!"

"Okay, if I'm going to be superstrict about my diet, Saturday is cheat day. Just still gonna log carbs and insulin, just not care. An now, A BAGEL."

::checks nutritional info::

"THAT HAS HOW MANY CARBS?!?! I USED TO EAT THREE OF THESE WHEN WORK WOULD HAVE THEM ON FRIDAYS!!!!"

Bob Barker
1923-2023
(He got as close to 100 as he could without going over)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CajdyoaSM0

Playing around with how I want to do the Superman comparison pages. I really don't like the ST:TMP page, but I can't think of any other way to deliver the information.

Also: I don't have a copy of the theatrical version of Superman! How did that happen?