Cooking Exceptionally With Gin Lee

Savory Italian cheddar bread This is the perfect bread to serve alongside any of your favorite pasta dishes. It's truly yummy! To create the savory Italian cheddar bread, I add shredded cheddar cheese and Italian seasoning to my dough before the dough's ten hour rest. Ingredients: 2 cups of all-purpose flour 1 cup of whole-wheat flour 1 teaspoon of seasoning salt ¼ teaspoon of active dry yeast 1 teaspoon of Italian seasoning 1-½ cups of warm water, add more if needed 1-½  cups of shredded Cheddar cheese Instructions: In a large mixing bowl, combine the all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, and add the yeast. Stir well. Then add the Italian seasoning and the seasoning salt; stir until all the ingredients are incorporated well. Now, add the warm water to the flour mixture; combine with a wooden spoon. Sprinkle shredded cheddar cheese into the dough mixture. Combine well until the dough comes together. Cover the bowl of dough with a clean towel or plastic wrap and allow the dough ...

Baking Bread With Gin Lee: Bread Baking Essentials & Tips Welcome to the wonderful world of bread baking! If you're new to making bread at home, don't you worry one bit because I'm here to walk you through everything you need to know to get started. And if you're already an experienced baker, well, I hope you'll find a tip or two that makes your baking even better. I'll be honest with you: the first time I made bread, I was terrified! I thought it would be too complicated, too finicky, too easy to mess up. But once I got my hands in that dough and smelled that first loaf baking in my oven, I was absolutely hooked. There's something magical about turning simple ingredients: flour, water, yeast, and salt into a beautiful, golden loaf of bread. And trust me, if I can do it, so can you! Let me share some of the most important lessons I've learned over the years. These tips will help you avoid the mistakes I made when I was starting out, and t...

Garlic rolls This recipe is so simple and fast to prepare. The garlic rolls pair amazingly well with spaghetti, ravioli, rigatoni, lasagna, fettuccine Alfredo, linguine, manicotti, cannelloni, chicken cacciatore, chicken ala king, as well as Italian pizza. I will be making six garlic rolls today. If you need a larger amount just double or triple the ingredients to make a bigger batch. I am also using stale leftover dinner rolls that I have on hand, but you can use fresh homemade or store-bought dinner rolls to create your very own garlic rolls. Ingredients: 6 dinner rolls 6 teaspoons of butter 4 to 6 teaspoons of minced garlic, amount depending on your tastes Instructions: First, cut a deep x-shaped pattern on the top of each dinner roll with a bread knife or clean kitchen scissors. Then smear a teaspoon of butter (or more depending on your preference) inside each dinner roll. Now, add as much or as little minced garlic as you like inside each dinner roll. Place each roll on a baking t...

Gin's homestyle, Arkansas hot dog buns  Never have more hot dogs than you do buns again! This recipe will make 10 large hot dog buns, and 12-14 smaller ones. These hot dog buns can be formed into 4-inch, 6-inch, or foot-long buns. I make these in 4-inches for brats, 6-inches for regular hot dogs, and 12-inches for foot-long hot dog buns. First, explanations behind why grocery store hot dog buns and hot dog packages don't equal out the same  Have you ever scratched your head in wonder, why the packages of hot dog buns and hot dogs never match up in total? When hot dogs were first being produced in the early nineteen forties, they were most commonly made in packs of ten. Nowadays, some of the brands are packaged with less, and some with more, however, they never match up.  Hot dog buns, most often come in a count of eight in packages, because the hot dog buns are baked in groups of four, and the specific pans that are used only hold a total of eight. This simply...