Garlic Monkey Bread

I may have found a new food blog to start following. :)  Eat Cake For Dinner has some good taste, as I got to see with this tasty garlic monkey bread recipe.  Her notes and changes were definitely helpful.  I made this recipe once without following her tips, and it was an uncooked biscuit disaster.  This week I made it with her useful advice, and we had golden garlic bread bliss!  Hooray!

So add this to your list of easy but tasty weeknight bread/biscuits/rolls bag of tricks.  This recipe is pretty similar to my Garlic Parmesan Knots, but comes out with a different flavor.

Ingredients

• 7.5-oz can buttermilk biscuits
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 tablespoon dried parsley flakes
• 1/8 cup grated Parmesan cheese, plus 1 tablespoon to sprinkle on top

Directions

1. Using a pizza cutter, cut biscuits into 6 pieces each and place in a large bowl or ziplock bag. 
2. Combine remaining ingredients in a small bowl (or the cup you melted the butter in), and pour over the biscuit dough.  Toss gently to coat.
3. Grease a 12-cup muffin tin, and place 6-7 pieces in each cup.  I get 8 biscuits with these proportions.
4. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese.
5. Bake 14-16 minutes or until golden and center of each mini monkey bread is fully cooked.

Baked Old Bay Fish and Parmesan Garlic Knots

Tonight we had one of my easier meals: fish, macaroni and cheese, and rolls.  But this is no blah fish, and these are no ordinary rolls.  Not by a long shot.

Parmesan Garlic Knots

I found this recipe on Pinterest, and I'm pretty sure I could make these every night with no complaints from the peanut gallery.  A few modifications, and we're off.

Ingredients

1 tube (12 ounces) refrigerated biscuits (I use the Pillsbury Grands original flaky layers biscuits)

Nonstick cooking spray

Little bit of flour

1/4 cup butter (4 tablespoons)

3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese (I grate mine fresh, but store bought is fine, too!)

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon dried oregano

1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes

Makes 8 knots

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees (425 if baking the fish at the same time).
2. Spray a cookie sheet with nonstick spray
3. Lightly flour work surface,  roll each biscuit into a rope (about 10-12 inches), and tie into a knot. Tuck the ends under and press against another piece of dough so they stay in a knot.  Place 2 inches apart on the baking sheet.
4. Bake at 400 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.
5. In a small bowl, melt the butter in the microwave.  Then stir in the Parmesan, garlic powder, oregano, and parsley.  You can make this while the knots bake, but will need to stir again before brushing the knots because the ingredients will separate.  Brush the warm knots with the mixture.

Baked Old Bay Fish

I found this one in my love for Old Bay and giving random seasonings a try whenever I made fish a few years ago.  Hence the very imprecise measurements.

Ingredients
Fish fillets (I usually use tilapia with this recipe)
Nonstick cooking spray
Onion powder
Salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Old Bay seasoning

Makes as many fillets as you use

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
3. Sprinkle both sides of the fillets with a tiny bit of onion powder (only a couple shakes), a bit of salt and pepper (a few shakes), and generously with Old Bay to evenly coat the entire filet as shown in picture.
4. Bake in oven for 15-18 minutes.  I often use frozen fillets that I haven't even thawed (they come out just fine!) so those may take closer to 17/18 minutes.  Fresh ones may be more on the 15 minute side.