This is the Dough that Never Ends...

As I have said in a previous post, I am on a cooking/baking kick, and now the kick has turned into obsession and my obsession has taken over my kitchen!
On Saturday morning I thought it would be fun to try a recipe I found for homemade doughnuts. It was a challenging recipe but a lot of fun and the doughnuts, from what I heard, tasted delicious.
Well I was feeling ambitious that day, I even went to the gym, and I decided if I could conquer those doughnuts I could probably make Aunt Kay's AMAZING roll recipe. They are famous in our family and I wanted to extend the fame to my in-laws and make some for Sunday dinner.
I sadly only had my little hands to knead the dough and Brandon's assistance in adding more flour when needed (thanks for the help love). When I was given the recipe I was told to half it, but I thought that since I was making it for my little family PLUS my husbands family it's better to have too much then too little...
I just didn't think it would be THIS much!

Two cookie sheets full of rolls... right there is more then enough for my husbands family!

ANOTHER cookie sheet of rolls, I guess that will last us for dinner the rest of the week. But then there are 3 pans of bread sticks! I made bread sticks because I ran out of cookie sheets. Then when I ran out of pans I STILL had MORE DOUGH!

So I made a Creamy BBQ Chicken Pizza from scratch! I spent 90% of the day in the kitchen with my overwhelming amount of dough to keep me busy! My oven has never been put to work more. And I had to face reality that my kitchen is just too small to accomplish my baking ambitions!

With ALL this food I am so grateful to have our awesome friends to help us out and take some of it off our hands! Gar and Lisa came over to watch the BYU game and got to fill up on homemade pizza and bread sticks. We are close enough that I am almost sure Gar wouldn't eat 4 pieces by himself if he didn't like it, so thanks for the compliment Gar! Oh and Brandon too, he definitely helped out!

Everyone ate the wonderful food but me... SIGH. I ate a salad, salmon, and some fruit... oh joy!

Irey really liked the pizza too!

I felt like a 50's housewife, wearing my apron all day and baking. I even served my husband and guests their food. I am just sorry I didn't have a kitchen tabled to serve it on, we sold ours.

(I love that Irey's little face is peeking in from the backround)

This is my mountain of rolls waiting to be zip-locked and put away. Brandon had to run to the store because I forgot to buy them, story of my life!

Even though I basically spent a day in the kitchen, I loved it. I am so weird,I know, but I just think it's one of those things you discover about yourself later on... and once you do your are really excited and maybe even over the top for a little while? I never would have thought it so much fun. I think I mostly enjoy the sense of accomplishment that I get from it! And believe me, Figuring out what to do with all that dough would make anyone feel accomplished!