Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls

I used to love Pillsbury cinnamon rolls. I remember making them as a kid and particularly liked the frosting. I always liked cinnamon rolls anyway - especially right out of the oven. Every once in a while on a road trip on the turnpike we would get a cinabun. We haven’t had a cinnamon roll for a very long time. So when we were grocery shopping last week we picked up the pillsbury roll package. Yesterday was a good day to try them out. Although it’s been years it felt like yesterday opening the package and hearing the “pop” to expose the product. On an ungreased cookie sheet the round dough was placed in a circular pattern. After fifteen minutes in the oven they were a touch overdone but it didn’t matter. The smell in the house was lovely! Then the icing was scooped on to the hot buns. I couldn’t wait to get a taste. And it was simply delicious! I went a bit overboard and had three of them. My husband had one. So we saved the other four for another day - today! They don’t taste as good the second time around but it hardly mattered. It brought back some wonderful childhood memories. And it was well worth the effort! 

Pillsbury Biscuits

My husband has coffee when he gets up very early at 6:00. I get up around 8:30 and have a swig too. Every day around 11:30 we have “brunch.” After a morning walk we come home and have the usual items - eggs of some sort, bread of all kinds to add cheese and jelly, and fruit. Sometimes we will share a single sausage or have small potato pancake sides. At the grocery store this week we noticed some Pillsbury items that we have overlooked for many years. We do get the French bread, but never the biscuits. So we decided we would give them a try. I’ve always liked biscuits and it’s been a while since we have had any since we don’t ever go out for breakfast anymore. For that matter we don’t go out for any meal anymore. So we got out the cookie sheet and followed the directions, placing the eight dough pieces and putting them in the oven for the allotted time. It’s not something that we would have that often, but it was a really nice change of pace. They were delicious! I prefer them with jelly - this time it was grape. So we froze the remaining four and had two more today, along with the eggs, bread, and fruit. We end up eating twice a day and that has been our pattern for many years. Luckily we enjoy the brunch time. It’s nice to switch it up once in a while. Maybe next week we will try the cinnamon rolls. 

Bread Fiends

We love bread. We have some form of it every day - usually with cheese. My husband gets really nervous when the bread supply gets depleted. Sometimes we order Moby Dick Persian food because you get a hefty helping of bread that lasts until the next grocery run. It just so happened that the bread supply was in a dangerous situation. We were in need of every type of bread we usually have. So when I ordered online for Giant curbside pickup, they must have thought we were crazy! We needed English muffins, bagels, two sizes of French breads, pizza bread, naan garlic bread, taftoon, submarine rolls, Kaiser rolls and wonder bread. On top of that the angel food cake was also needed. I can’t tell you how delicious the freshly made French bread tasted! The sad thing is that the rest of it had to be cut up and put in to the freezer along with all the others. So we are now well stocked up for awhile - until the next time. I used to eat slices of plain wonder bread as a snack when I was a kid. There simply is nothing better!