Yesterday while at church I got to talking with a friend of mine about our Sunday dinners. It turns out we were both making pot roast. She had been smart and defrosted hers the night before and it was now cooking in her crockpot so when she walked in the door after church she would smell its deliciousness. Mine however was still defrosting in my kitchen sink not making a delicious smell yet! She went on to tell me she would be making homemade dinner rolls when she got home. That sounded good to me! She gave me her recipe as she knew it by heart ( she makes them all the time and it is very easy). So when I got home I proceeded to get my pot roast cooking and then got out all the ingredients for the rolls. She was right, it took me no time to have the dough mixed up and in a warm place rising (or so I thought!). After an hour I checked the dough and there it sat...only slightly bigger than when I put it in there to rise. Now what should I do? Forget the whole thing? I was really looking forward to nice warm homemade dinner rolls. Not to mention how nice it would make my house smell. Start over? I got all the ingredients out again. I really didn't feel like mixing up the dough again. Just make the best of what I had and use that? I chose option number three. I went ahead and used the dough that I had. I put three balls of dough into each muffin cup and baked them about twenty minutes. It did make my house smell good but they really didn't rise any more. They actually didn't taste bad either. They were just a little dense. At the end of the meal (which was delicious by the way) caitlyn looks in the bread basket and says "mom...this looks like a basket of poop!" then Doug looks in there and says " yeah, if we were in Canada that would be a basket of moose poop!" Thank you Doug and Caitlyn! Lesson learned... check the expiration date on your yeast!
