Cooking Exceptionally With Gin Lee

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...

Country-style no-knead bread Needing bread for dinner tonight? You can start making this bread dough before breakfast and actually have a fresh loaf of bread by lunchtime. It's just that simple. This bread will not be like a typical loaf of sandwich bread. Instead, it's country-style and rustic. It's great served with stew, beans, dumplings, etc. But that's not to say that you can't slice it to make yourself a meatloaf sandwich. This bread dough is super forgiving, as long as you do not place it inside the refrigerator to rise. I started my dough at 6:30 a.m. this morning, and it will be done with its first rest around 9:30 a.m. Afterward, I will take the dough out of the bowl and shape it, but I will never knead it. While shaping the dough, I will roll it around in a flour-cornmeal mixture (to coat the outside dough). Then, after that, I will place the bread dough back into the bowl and let it rest again.  At this point is where it doesn't really matter how lon...