St. Patrick's Day Fun!

Okay -- I do realize this is a bit late to post about St. Patrick's day, but this month has been a wee bit busy around here, so it's time to catch up on a few posts I'd like to share.

Every since I became a mom for the first time on St. Patrick's day in 2004, this Irish holiday has carried an extra special meaning to me. Over the past 7 years, we have had so much fun celebrating with plenty of green and Irish cheer.

This year, I had signed up to bring in rolls for the St. Patrick's day themed teacher appreciation luncheon at my children's school. It was pretty simple and straight forward to take my basic and delish Kamut Dinner Roll recipe and simple dye them green!

Since I had that hard to mix gel version of the green food coloring, I went ahead and mixed it in with the 1 1/2 cups of warm water called for in the dinner roll/ bread recipe and then added it to the pan.

After pouring in the green water, I added the other liquid ingredients.

After 45 minute "Quick Dough" cycle completed, it was time to check out my green dough.....

Next, I shaped the dough into about 2 dozen dinner sized rolls.

I then let the rolls rise and roughly double in size for about 20 minutes before baking them in the oven at 400 degrees for 10 min.

I can't say they look quite as appetizing colored GREEN, however, paired with some Irish Herb and Garlic butter, they were fantastic!