Black Bean and Salsa Soup

Serves 4

Ingredients:
2 (15 oz.) cans black beans, drained and rinsed OR 3 c. of cooked black beans
1 1/2 c. vegetable broth
1 c. chunky salsa
1 tsp. ground cumin
4 Tbsp. sour cream, optional
2 Tbsp. thinly sliced green onion, optional

Directions:
1. In a blender, blend beans, broth, salsa, and cumin.  Blend until smooth or desired texture.
2. Heat the bean mixture in a saucepan over medium heat until thoroughly heated.
3. Ladle into bowls and top with sour cream and green onion.

Canning

This is the best website I have seen for instructions on canning.  It has step by step directions along with detailed pictures.  Check it out for information about canning.

http://www.pickyourown.org/

How to Form Rolls

HOW TO FORM ROLLS:
I form my rolls this way for dinner rolls.  It is easy and fast!

1. Knead dough for a minute.

2. Pour oil on countertop in shape of a rectangle.  Roll dough out into a rectangle.  

3. Sprinkle a little sugar all of the dough.  Roll up.

4. Smooth out seam on long edge.  You may need to put a little oil on finger to smooth it out.

5. Cut dough every 3/4" and place on greased cookie sheet.

6. Let rolls rise until doubled (about 1 hour).

How to Form a Loaf of Bread

HOW TO MAKE FORM THE LOAVES:

1. Squeeze off a ball of dough for your first loaf.  

2. Knead the ball of dough by hand by rolling the dough and pushing down with the bottom of your hands for about a minute.

3. Pour about 1/4 c. of olive oil on your counter and smooth out into a rectangle.  Place the ball of dough on the oily rectangular surface.  Roll dough out flat with a rolling pin into a rectangle (about the size of 8" x 12") to get all of the air bubbles out.  

4. Roll the dough up like you are rolling a cinnamon roll.  Start rolling at the short end.  Roll up, then tuck the sides in.  Roll up, then tuck the sides in.  Repeat this until your dough is completely rolled up.  

5. Smooth out the seams on the long edge and the sides.  You may need to put a little oil on your finger to smooth it out.  

6. Place doughy loaves into greased loaf pans.

7. Let rise until doubled. (About 1 hour)

Em's Bread

This recipe will make 9 loaves or 7 loaves and 1-2 pans of rolls.  I usually make loaves AND rolls.  I put my rolls in the freezer and pull a few out for dinner.  They taste just like they came out of the oven! I make this recipe in my large universal plus bosche.  You may need to 1/2 the recipe if you have a smaller mixer.

INGREDIENTS:

7 1/2 c. warm water (not hot)

3 Tbsp. yeast

1 c. honey

½ c. potato flakes

3 tsp. salt

3/4 c. oil

1 ½ tsp. cinnamon, optional

2 T. Vital Wheat Gluten

2 T. Dough Enhancer

9 c. wheat flour (grind 6 c. of wheat kernels)

5 1/2-6 1/2 c. white flour

olive oil

DIRECTIONS:

1. In boshe add water, honey, and yeast into mixer. Mix enough to allow even distribution. Allow to sit while wheat is being ground (about 5-7 minutes).

2. Add the potato flakes and mix until dissolved.  Add salt, oil, cinnamon, wheat gluten, dough enhancer, and ground wheat flour.

Add additional white flour until dough starts to pull clean from the side of the mixer bowl or until the dough is slightly sticky to a finger.  DON'T ADD TOO MUCH FLOUR!!! or your bread will be dry.

3. Knead dough in mixer for 12 minutes.

4. Pour 1/2 c. of olive oil on the counter where you will placing your dough.  Lubricate hands with olive oil and pull all of the dough out of the bowl onto the oiled surface.

5. Form dough into loaves.  
**Click the link on the homepage "How to Form Loaves of Bread" for instructions and pictures.

6. Form dough into rolls.

**Click the link on the homepage "How to Form Rolls" for instructions and pictures.

7. Bake loaves for 28-35 minutes.  It depends on your oven.  I bake mine for 30 min.

    Bake rolls for 12-15 minutes.

    **I only use 1 baking rack when I bake my loaves so they bake evenly.  I only have 1 oven so I bake 4 loaves at a time.  After all of my bread is baked I bake my rolls for 12-15 minutes (one pan at a time).

Chunky Tomato Soup

2 tsp. dried onion

½ tsp. dried basil

½ tsp. paprika

¼ tsp. garlic powder

2 (10.75 oz.) cans condensed tomato soup, undiluted

2 c. milk (or 2 c. water + 6 Tbsp. Non-Instant or 12 Tbsp. Instant Powdered Milk)

1 (14.5 oz) can diced tomatoes

1. Blend all ingredients except for the can of diced tomatoes until smooth.

2. In a saucepan bring blended ingredients and diced tomatoes to a boil.  Let simmer 5 minutes.