First thing to say - my oven is ridiculous. It's a tiny little thing and that makes cooking a full Thanksgiving extravaganza even more of an adventure than it would already be. So with the turkey in the oven (in a disposable pan because no normal sized roasting pans, even the really nice ones you get as wedding gifts, FIT), you basically have to cook elsewhere.
Enter the toaster oven. I don't love toaster ovens. I don't think we ever had one growing up... Nick's a fan, so I try and give them a shot, but more often than not, things burn. *Foreshadowing, much?*
Recipe for item #1 on my list (Bread): No Knead Onion Rolls from Real Simple Magazine
Step one: Get all your ingredients out for the whole day and lay them on the counter so that there's really not any room left to work. Yes those are industrial sized flour and sugar bags.
Step two: Watch your yeast not turn "foamy" in it's bowl. Watch a youtube video on how to tell if your active yeast foamy. Based on results, try again. Yay foam! (Yay for buying 3x the yeast you'll need, just-in-case.)
Rise little guys, rise!!
Everything was really going very well... dough rose, TWICE! Onions were nice and caramelized and then... the toaster oven.
Holy burned-ness, batman. :( Luckily it was only the tops and after we sawed them off (and promptly threw the garbage - evidence - away), the rolls were really super moist and flavorful and yummy. I wasn't going to show a picture, but... here goes.
So, I've successfully used yeast, it wasn't that scary, and I'll leave my baking for the (slightly) bigger oven.
And to item #1. Bake bread - I say CHECK!
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