Bread Braid Instructions

Braids

All braids use ¼ dough recipe. Roll out dough into large rectangle. Make horizontal cuts on the long sides of the dough from the edge about 1/3 of the way across the rectangle. These cuts should be about 1 ½” apart. After cutting you should have the center third uncut with 1 ½” 'fingers' extending off of either side of the center third. Spread filling down the center. Braid by alternately folding left and right fingers over filling. Bake 25-30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Basic Bread Dough Recipe, versions #1 and #2

Basic Dough Recipe #1

10 ½ c white flour (all-purpose or bread flour)
½ c white sugar
1 T salt
3 heaping T SAF instant yeast
~ 3 T liquid lecithin
4 c hot tap water

Mix dry ingredients. Add Lecithin and Water. Mix about 1 minute and check consistency. Add more water as needed to achieve moist almost sticky consistency. Mix additional 5 minutes.

Basic Dough Recipe #2

4 c warm water
1 c sugar
1 c mashed potato flakes
1 c shortening
2 t salt
3 eggs
2 c flour
1 ½ T yeast
~8 c flour

Place first seven ingredients in mixing bowl and stir to batter consistency. Stir in yeast and let sit a few minutes. Add 2 more cups flour and beat well with mixer. Add remaining flour. Additional flour or water may be added to achieve desired consistency.

Cream, Chicken, and mushroom rolls

cream cheese chicken rolls

¼ c softened butter
½ t pepper
8 oz. Cream cheese
4 oz can mushrooms, drained
2 c cooked cubed chicken
½ dough recipe
¼ c melted butter
crushed herb seasoned bread crumbs or croutons
½ c finely chopped nuts

Combine first 5 ingredients. Roll out dough into large circle. Cut pizza style into 8-12 slices. Place 1-2 T filling at large end of triangle. Roll up like a crescent roll. Seal so as to encase filling in dough. Dip rolls in melted butter then coat with mixture of crumbs and nuts. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Lower fat substitutions: use neufchatel cheese instead of cream cheese. Instead of dipping rolls in melted butter, dip in egg whites or spray with non-stick spray to facilitate coating with crumbs.

Orange rolls

Orange rolls/cinnamon rolls

¼ dough recipe
4 T butter
2 T orange juice concentrate
grated orange peel
1 c sugar

Roll out dough into large rectangle. Melt butter and orange juice concentrate in bowl in microwave. Brush light coating onto dough, reserve excess for frosting. In bowl combine sugar and orange peel. Sprinkle on dough. Cut into 2” squares. Stack 4 squares and place vertically in muffin tin. Bake 10-15 minutes.

Frosting:
~ 1 T butter (excess from above)
~ 1 T orange juice concentrate (excess from above)
1 c powdered sugar
milk as needed

Combine butter, orange juice and powdered sugar. Mix by hand with fork adding milk until drizzling consistency is achieved.

Berry braid

Berry Braid
Filling:
¾ c sour cream
1 egg
4-5 T brown sugar
2 c frozen berries, defrosted and drained (juices reserved for frosting)

Combine sour cream and egg, mixing well. Spread down center of braid. Sprinkle with brown sugar and berries. Braid. Add glaze below after baking.

Glaze:
1 c powdered sugar
1 ½ T butter
1 T berry juices
milk as needed

Melt butter in microwave. Combine butter, berry juices and powdered sugar. Mix by hand with fork adding milk until drizzling consistency is achieved.

Ham, broccoli, and cheese braid

Ham, Broccoli and cheese braid

2 c cooked cubed ham
1 ½ c steamed broccoli
2 T butter
2 T flour
1 c milk
8-10 oz. Cheddar cheese cubed/grated

Melt butter in skillet. Remove from heat and add flour, mix until smooth paste is achieved. Return to heat and add milk, stirring until thickened and bubbly. Add cheese and stir until melted. Remove from heat and add ham and broccoli. Fill braid.

Checken Broccoli Bread

Chicken Broccoli Braid

2 c cooked cubed/shredded chicken
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 c steamed broccoli
1 c grated cheddar
½ c chopped onion
½ t season salt

Combine all ingredients and fill braid.

Southwest Chicken Braid

Southwest Chicken Braid

2 c cooked cubed/shredded chicken
½ c frozen corn
½ c black beans, rinsed and drained
1 can green chilis
½ c salsa
1 c grated cheddar cheese
¼ c chopped onion
½ can cream of chicken soup
1 ½ T taco seasoning

Combine all ingredients. Fill braid. Serve with sauce consisting of ½ can cream of chicken soup and ½ c salsa.

Philly Cheese Steak Bread

Stuffed Steak Braid

1 Lb. Thinly sliced steak
1 ½ c sliced mushrooms
1 c sliced green peppers
½ c sliced onion
2 T butter
3 T Worcestershire sauce
½ t pepper
1 c grated mozzarella, plus 8-10 extra slices

Cook steak in frying pan. Add veggies and butter and sautee. Add Worcestershire sauce and pepper. Remove from heat and add grated mozzarella. Fill braid. Add slices of cheese along top of filling before braiding.

Southwest Chicken Braid

2 c cooked cubed/shredded chicken
½ c frozen corn
½ c black beans, rinsed and drained
1 can green chilis
½ c salsa
1 c grated cheddar cheese
¼ c chopped onion
½ can cream of chicken soup
1 ½ T taco seasoning

Combine all ingredients. Fill braid. Serve with sauce consisting of ½ can cream of chicken soup and ½ c salsa.

Strengthening Marriage Class

Strengthening Marriage Course - by Wilf and Mary Jo Gardner -
Sunday evenings 6:00PM - 7:30PM,
High Council Room, CS Stake Center.
8 week course. Begins May 2 (no meeting on May 9 (Mother's Day).

The class is limited to 30 participants. This course is not a lecture class. It involves active learning. Manual cost is $5 per participant.

Participants will learn how to resolve conflict, foster greater trust, and make marriage a priority so they can enjoy greater happiness together.

Participants will learn to listen and to share feelings and to handle angry feelings appropriately.
Participants will gain a better appreciation for the eternal significance of the marriage covenant and of the eternal possibilities that come through celestial marriage.

Participants will learn to develop greater unity, equality, and mutual respect.

To sign up email maryjorichardson@gmail.com, or wgardner@ocean.tamu.edu or call 99-693-3399

Young Women Girl's Camp Fund raising

The Young Women are looking forward to Girls Camp this year! They have a goal to earn some of their own money for camp. If you have a household project or a babysitting need, please consider discussing it with Laura Nixon, our Young Women's President or a Young Woman's parent. Thank you!

Thank you from Kristi Linton

Dear Sisters,

I’d like to thank the many of you (and your Primary children) whose hands made the beautiful quilt I received for my upcoming baby. College Station 2nd Ward holds a special place in my heart and will be forever remembered each time I use this quilt. Thanks to so many of you for your love, kindness and friendship and for blessing my life in so many ways.

Love,

Kristi Linton

***Upcoming Events***

Events & Activities

• There will be a Walton Grain Order coming up, see Beverly Little for details.
• Playgroup on Tuesday at 10:00am, see playgroup post for details.

Links for VT Message and Lessons

Here are links to the Visiting Teaching Message and the lessons:

March Visiting Teaching Lesson-

http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?locale=0&sourceId=eb59fcaf2abf6210VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=f318118dd536c010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD

March RS Lessons:

March 14th: The Creation by Lisa
http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=61811f7962d43210VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=198bf4b13819d110VgnVCM1000003a94610aRCRD


March 21st: The Fall of Adam and Even by Meg
http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=06d11f7962d43210VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=198bf4b13819d110VgnVCM1000003a94610aRCRD

A note from the Stake RS President on Canning

Hi Sisters,

It is canning season again. I have had several calls about how to can. I have attached the Nation Center for Home Food Preservation website. This is an excellent website, with safe instructions for canning, freezing, drying, preserving anything, anyway you can think of and yummy recipes. Great, easy instructions to understand. I have also attached the UGA website for canning tomatoes. It has instructions and diagrams that will be useful to those of us who are new to the canning experience.

Have fun and enjoy the fruits of your labor this winter! This is a great way to help build up your 3 month supply that the Prophet has counseled us to do.

http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/index.html

With Love,
Suzanne Todd
Stake RS President

Music Makers

Music Makers meets weekly on Fridays in the Nursery at 10am and is a great opportunity to invite friends-not-of-our-faith ;) We took a break for the month of July but beginning this Friday we'll be back-in-action and singin' away! If anyone has questions or would like to volunteer to help with part of the experience...they may email me elenamorganqtpie@hotmail.com or give me a call at (512) 395-5096

Feed Our Missionaries

We can again sign up to feed our missionaries!

They can take appointments 2 weeks in advance, so we will start including a sign up in the RS Binder.

Missionary Opportunities

The church has launched a new video channel on YouTube called Mormon Messages. Each week, Mormon Messages provides short video segments about the church's basic beliefs, as well as inspiring stories and messages of hope. members are invited to watch these gispel-centered videos and then share them over the Internet with family, friends, and people of other faiths.

The Mormon Messages can be accessed at mormonmessages.org or http://www.youtube.com/mormonmessages

Scout Information:Youth Protection Training

Youth Protection Training

If you are older than 18 years old and plan to attend any youth camping activity in the stake, you need to complete "Sexual Abuse And Child Molestation Awareness" training. This training is required by a recently enacted Texas law.

Instructions for how to complete this training are contained in a memo from the Sam Houston Area Council regarding the new state regulations at the following website:
http://www.samhoustonbsa.org/Home/Training/YouthProtectionTrainin

If you plan to participate in a camping activity as a leader, you will need to complete this training before attending the activity. Please be sure to save copies of the documents you complete to verify that you have done the training.

Building Safety

The Bishop has been concerned over the safety of our Sister's and their families in the building during the day. Several incidents have occurred that fortunately have not had bad outcomes, but could have. Our church is unique in many ways and one of them is that we don't have a full time Preacher or Pastor onsite during the day. Some individuals expect this and go from church to church hoping to find clergy at the church that they can ask assistance from. So, just as a reminder and to avoid a possible bad situation, Sisters are asked to not be alone in the building during the day.

There are times when this can't be avoided, for instance when the enrichment committee needs to set up for the evening activity or the same for the Young Women and other organizations, just remember that there is safety in numbers and to keep all the Church doors locked when you are inside. In talking with the Bishop, he has advised that a presidency meeting of 4 sisters is probably not sufficient safety in numbers and we are encouraged to hold our Presidency meetings etc. in homes or locations other than the church unless Priesthood is present.
Our beautiful church is there for all of us to enjoy-we are so blessed to have it, but let's all be cautious and keep safe while using it!

Recipe: Lentils with Fresh Chiles and Cilantro

Lentils with Fresh Chiles & Cilantro

2 cups split red lentils (HEB has them on the bread isle in the Indian section)
1 16oz can Garbanzo Beans or chick peas, drained
3 Tbsp olive oil or coconut oil
1 onion, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic-pressed
2 tsp fresh ginger root-pressed
2-3 fresh Anaheim green chilies, seeded and chopped
1 tsp ground cumin
4 cups warm water
1-2 teaspoons salt
1 Tbsp fresh cilantro leaves-chopped

Wash lentils and let soak for 30 minutes. Heat the oil in a medium saucepan, preferably nonstick, over medium heat and add the onion, garlic, ginger, and chilies. Stir fry the mixture until it begins to brown.

Drain the lentils and add to the onion mixture together with the cumin. Reduce the heat to low and stir-fry for 2-3 minutes, then pour in the warm water. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to low, cover and simmer for 25 to 30 minutes.Stir in the salt, cilantro. Serve garnished with the strips of chile and tomato. I serve this dish on top of basmati or brown rice.