Little Pleasures

Two weekends ago, my daughter and I went shopping. She needed a dress for an upcoming dance so we decided to shop in Vestal.  The first store we shopped in she found her dress. Next on the list was shoes. We ventured into a few stores, me toting the bagged dress because the shoes have to match perfectly. I planned to treat her to lunch since I had treated our son to dinner not too long ago.  I was enjoying our day together!  She had different plans since she had a Cold Stone Creamery gift card. We looked up the location of the nearest store and went there.  Ice cream for lunch!  Not what I planned for lunch but we enjoyed our cold treat and had a nice conversation as we ate. 

Back to shopping, as she needed shoes before we returned home!  We made a few stops and she found a pair of heels. There were a few more stores to browse and one more plaza to stop at. I saw a HomeGoods store on our way that I planned to stop at.  We finally made it to HomeGoods.  It did not take us long before we had a few items.  Olivia found some items for two of her friends that have January birthdays.  I found a set of metal measuring spoons!  I was so excited. I have wanted a set of these for a few years. They always appeared on my Christmas or birthday list but never came boxed and wrapped. I treated myself and spent $8.00 on the set.  Excitement! Now I have a set that are metal, the measurement is stamped into the metal so no fading or flaking off.  We paid for our purchases and visited a few more stores. 

The last store we went to was a shoe store. I found a nice pair of winter boots – on sale – and a pair of slippers – also on sale. I was finding a few things I needed and they were on sale. I wanted to keep shopping but Olivia said we could leave. I showed her my boots and slippers.  I told her they were on sale and asked her if she wanted a pair of slippers?  I had only made it to one aisle and she was ready to go. Oh well, good thing because normally I am not a shopper but deals can make me want to shop. 

I was also watching the time as kickoff was at 4:30 p.m. for the Packer / Cowboy game. We made it home with plenty of time before the game started. Enough time for me to make dough for Stromboli that I planned to make for dinner at half time.  I can’t say the game was great. The Packers had a strong start but then they started to fall apart – players were injured, Aaron was sacked or was pressured to pass, balls were dropped. I couldn’t walk away though. It was torture but in the end, Packers won!  Go Pack Go!

Lion House Rolls

I am not sure where I found the recipe for these rolls but I knew I was going to make them for Thanksgiving dinner (2016) this year – and I did.  It is an easy recipe and so very good.  If you aren’t a bread baker, try this recipe. 

You won’t be disappointed. (Recipe can be found in blog dated April 24, 2015)

 

I mixed the dough up and put it in my large glass bowl in a warm oven to rise.  And rise it did….

Beautiful dough, isn’t it?  And it was easy to work with. It wasn’t stiff nor did it shrink back after being rolled out. 

While it was rising, I looked up the video of how to roll these again as it had been a year or so since I made this recipe for the first time.  Well, the lady in the video has been rolling these for years and she makes it look easy.

It is not easy but we, my daughter and I, managed to roll them up with our own technique.  Although we did give her technique a try but after I saw all the butter on the window in front of us, I suggested we roll them differently.

 

Here are our homemade Lion House rolls.

Cutting them:

Rolled:

 

Baked:

These rolls did not last long!