Trying to bake....

I was getting a little frustrated this week. I have been working on freezer meals. This has been working for the most part. A little annoying when I get home and look at the recipe and it says Oh yea cook for a half hour then remove the foil and cook for another 15 min....starts to tear my hair out. There have been some recipes that I find that the kids really do like. Such as the pasta tacos ie jumbo shells with taco meat and cheese on top that they loved. There have been some others that the kids really didn't like so much, chicken enchaladas. The main frustration has been when I put something in the oven and I set it to start at x time, I thought it was great when it finally dawned on me that the oven has a delayed start time. Cook x min and it would be hot and ready to almost ready when I get home about 6ish. No such luck. 2 times and nada. I even made sure it would come on by testing it. So I get to scramble to make some dinner and then cook the other dinner for the next day, I have to cook it or throw it out. I am going to try again when I get the manual and try some testing this weekend and see what is going on.

On a good note I decided to make some dinner rolls. I went to the store and realized a dozen was almost $3. Bread is cheaper than that. So I found a recipe and made some last night. I had Sam help and then using parchment paper to seperate them put the dough balls in the freezer to freeze. I though this would be great to defrost and then bake as something quick. Well pulled them out this morning put some in bags and baked a few to try out. The defrost on the microwave heated them up enough that they were already rising and popped them in the oven to cook. They were great. I have enough yeast leftover that I will probably make another batch to put in the freezer for later.