Butterhorns

Seriously amazing. You will never want to make another dinner roll in your life. A very forgiving dough and very versatile. We like to take this dough and fill it with all sorts of things; from ham and swiss to raspberry jam and chocolate. This came from Crystal Paine of Money Saving Mom fame. Another great thing about this recipe, you just half it and it fits perfectly in a breadmaker and then the machine will do all the work for you. Also freezable! :)

(makes 32 rolls)

2 Tablespoons dry yeast, heaping
1/3 cup warm water
9 cups flour, divided (you can use any mixture of white or whole-wheat flour you’d like)
2 cups warm milk
1 cup butter, melted
1 cup sugar
6 eggs
2 teaspoons salt
3-4 Tablespoons butter, melted


In a large mixing bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Add 4 cups flour, milk, butter, sugar, eggs and salt. Beat 2 minutes or until smooth.
Add enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. Turn onto floured board and knead lightly. (Or, knead in mixer until sides of bowl are clean, then knead two more minutes.)
Place in a greased bowl, turning dough once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled (1-3 hours).
Punch dough down and divide into four equal parts. Roll each part into a 12-inch circle and brush with melted butter.
Cut each circle into 8 pie-shaped wedges.
Roll up each wedge for wide edge to tip of dough and pinch to seal. Place rolls, top down, on baking sheets.
Bake at 375 degrees until lightly browned (about 8-10 minutes). Brush with melted butter as soon as they come out of the oven. Remove and serve immediately or cool on wire racks.

Sarah's Meatloaf Recipe

I vary this a lot depending on how many people I'm making it for.

This is the "recipe" I use when I make it for my family.

1 lb ground beef (or chuck, it doesn't matter)
1 lb sausage (I use the Jimmy Dean Sage sausage)
1 large white onion, chopped into large chunks
2 rolls of Ritz crackers, crushed
2 large eggs
1/2 palm of Kosher salt (that's just what I use. I guess its about 1 tablespoon of coarse salt, maybe 1/2 tablespoon of table salt)
About 4 turns of crushed pepper. (I don't know if you have a pepper mill or not, but its probably 1/2 teaspoon or there abouts)

Mix this all together. I use my hands and press into a 13x9 glass baking pan.

The glaze that I put on top is simple. It's just brown sugar and regular mustard. What I usually do is put a big scoop of brown sugar in a bowl and add mustard to it until its a thick glaze. I think its probably a loose cup of brown sugar and 1/2 cup mustard. I really do this part to taste, so you might take a little taste before you put it on your meatloaf, and add more brown sugar or mustard depending. The glaze gets spread over the top before you cook the meatloaf.

The meatloaf gets baked at 350 for about an hour or until the meatloaf is browned and cooked through.

This does produce a lot of oil in your cooking pan, so it is best to remove it to a serving platter for the table. :)

Sometimes I'll add an extra pound of hamburger when we have company coming over. You just add an extra egg and roll of ritz crackers and maybe another onion if you like onions. But, don't do more than two lbs of beef per roll of sausage. You can fit three lbs of meat in the 13x9 pan just fine, but if you do more than that, its best to split it up into two pans.

Cherry Dream Squares

This is a recipe that was given to my mother ages ago by Susan Martz. It was originally with Cherry pie filling, but we like it with all kinds: peach, blueberry or apple. I've even tried adding an extra can of pie filling for when I'm serving it with ice cream.

1 package white cake mix
1 1/4 cup of oats
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1 21 oz can of pie filling
1/4 cup of brown sugar

Grease 13x9 pan. In a large bowl, mix the cake mix, 6 tablespoons of butter and 1 cup of oats. Reserve 1 cup of crumbs. Add egg to the large bowl, mix and press into pan. Spread pie filling over. To reserved crumbs add 2 tablespoons of butter, brown sugar and remaining oats. Mix together and then crumble over top of fruit. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes. Yummers.