Sunday, May 1, 2011

Wisconsin Beer Cheese Soup

Origin: Wisconsin, USA
Prep Time: 40 mintes
Cook Time: 20 minutes

The list of ingredients for this one is long, so I will just share the link we used here!

Basically we started the soup with a mirepoix (onions, celery, and carrots) with some spices. We added vegetable broth, beer, and milk as well as some spices and of course LOTS of cheddar cheese. Here are the pictures!






Pizza Style Monkey Bread

Origin: Italy...kind of
Prep Time: 1 hour
Cook Time: 20 minutes

It seems that we have about 1,000 for some sort of pizza-related food item. We are college kids, so usually they look pretty appealing to us. This is a recipe for a fun twist on this Italian classic!

We started by making the dough with the following ingredients:
1 packet of active dry yeast
1 tbsp sugar
1 and 1/2 cup water
2 cups baking flour
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tbsp salt

We let the dough rise for about an hour, I think that next time we will give it a little bit more time because it was still a bit tough, but we were hungry so we didn't wait!


 We then rolled the ball into monkey bread size pieces, dipped it in flour first and then butter, followed by a mixture of mozzarella cheese, shallots, garlic, parsley, and Wee Willy's seasoning.


Bake in a muffin pan or a mini-bundt pan.


Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes

Yum!

We also made our own marinara sauce using whole canned tomatoes, red wine, olive oil, basil, and garlic-