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Danielle Hey y'all, I'm Danielle - the crazy behind this blog, where I share my creative life adventures as I survive life as a momma of 5 superheroes & wife to my best friend & fellow nerd. Life doesn't have to be perfect to be GREAT! You can reach me at danielle (at) busymomshelper.com - ABOUT -

20+ of the Best Roll Recipes

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I have to admit, I use to be terrified to make rolls. I’d had so many different ones others would make, I was intimidated, convinced it would be a challenge. Then I gave it a try, and realized it was so EASY! With Thanksgiving coming up soon, I now happily volunteer to bring rolls every time – and am always eager to try new, delicious variations! Now YOU have all the help you need with picking the perfect roll recipe this holiday season, with 20+ of the Best Roll Recipes!
20+ Best Roll Recipes for the holidays or any occasion #rolls #bread #recipe #food #thanksgiving #holidayfood #sidedish
I love good rolls! You can serve them with so many different dishes, and really switch it up with jelly, honey, butter, glazes, you name it! They shouldn’t be a huge headache to make, though, especially during the holiday season. I mean, really…you have enough other foods to worry about like the turkey, stuffing, not to mention a dozen or so desserts! Who needs to also stress about making the perfect roll?! Not me anymore, thanks to this collection of 20+ of the Best Roll Recipes!
20+ of the Best Roll Recipes / by Busy Mom's Helper

Cheese Biscuits and Free Menu Planner Printable

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Happy Friday, y’all! For our 3rd and final guest poster (for now, at least) we’ve got the sweet Sarah from Printable Charm sharing with us a super delish recipe….and a Free Menu Planner Printable!  So heeeeeeere’s Sarah! Woot Woot!

Who Wants Cheese Biscuits?

Cheese Biscuits & Free Menu Planner Printable / by Printable Charm for Busy Mom's Helper #cheese #recipe #printable #freemenu
At my house that question is met with hands raised and excited expressions! My boys (including my husband) love breakfast for supper. Now that school is just around the corner, I am gearing up with menus in hand. I love to plan my menus ahead of time. It makes the whole, “What’s for supper, Mom?” moment at the end of the day so much more pleasant! I’m even sharing one of my menu printables with you! I hope it helps you as much as it helps me.

I was thrilled when Danielle asked if I would share a favorite family meal with you, and looking at all the yummy recipes on her site knew I would have to bring my A game. So, these aren’t just any biscuits. These are my mom’s cheese biscuits. It wouldn’t matter if Mom and I used the same recipe, same cooking utensils and same baking dishes…hers will always taste better. Is it a secret potion moms know how to sneak in whatever it is they are serving up? I hope at some point that transformation occurs for me. You know how boys love their mothers’ home-cooked meals! My mom cooked breakfast and supper every day for our family. Even when we were all busy with work, piano lessons, dance class, church, cheerleader practice, softball and basketball, she made sure we ate those two meals together as a family sitting at our round wooden table.I don’t remember when Mom first began the tradition of cheese biscuits on Saturdays. My sister was a cheese-aholic. She primarily dined on a diet of cheddar cheese, baked potatoes, chicken breasts sauteed in soy sauce, and hamburger patties for several years during childhood. She has since branched out, but Mom might have added cheese to her biscuits to coax Katie into trying anything new. When all the cousins would travel to the beach for our annual vacation, Mom and Aunt Zanne would take turns cooking breakfast with Aunt Gee for all the kids. Mom always packed her box of Pioneer biscuit mix just in case the IGA did not think as highly of the staple as we did. The biscuits have garnered a following over the years. Light and fluffy inside with a little crunch on the outside…best enjoyed right from the oven. The shredded cheddar makes little pockets of oozing cheese inside the biscuits. Donnie, Jack and Brett eat theirs with fruit preserves, but I like mine plain.

Dodie’s Cheese Biscuits

  • 3 cups Pioneer Biscuit Mix
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
  • vegetable oil

Stir together biscuit mix and milk until combined. Gently mix in cheese. Sprinkle counter with 1/4 cup baking mix. Turn dough onto floured surface. Knead a few times. Roll 1/2-inch thick. Cut biscuits with a 2-inch cutter. Pour 2 T vegetable oil in 9 x 13 baking dish. Place biscuits in dish, turning each biscuit over once coating both sides with vegetable oil in baking dish. (This is her secret for perfectly crisp outside and fluffy inside!) Bake at 450 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes.

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Cheese Biscuits & Free Menu Planner Printable / by Printable Charm for Busy Mom's Helper #cheese #recipe #printable #freemenu

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Lemon Poppy Seed Biscuits

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Lemon Poppyseed Biscuits / Busy Mom's Helper
Adapted from Our Best Bites

Don’t you just love it when you make a new thing, and everyone is happy with it? It doesn’t happen often that  6 out of 6 in our household all agree about a meal, but occasionally I hit it right on the mark. This is one of those! I was so glad when every single person was asking for more, especially since breakfast is such an important meal. These were so easy to make, too – double bonus!!!

Lemon Poppy Seed Biscuits

Ingredients – Biscuits
2 cups Flour
1/2 cup Sugar
1 tsp. Baking Powder
1/4 tsp. Baking Soda
1/2 tsp. Salt (unless using salted butter, then omit)
3 tsp. Poppy Seeds (can decrease if you’d like, just your preference)
1 stick Butter, softened (8 tbsp.)
1/2 cup Sour Cream
1 Egg, large
1 Lemon, zest only

Directions
Preheat oven to 400 Degrees. Spray a baking sheet, or line with parchment paper/Silpat.

In a medium bowl, mix the Flour, Sugar, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Salt, Poppy Seeds, Butter and Lemon Zest. Use a fork to combine.

In a small bowl, whisk the Sour Cream and Egg. Combine with the flour mixture until everything is moistened. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into a ball, then press into an 8′ disk.

Lemon Poppy Seed Biscuits

Cut into 8 equal wedge pieces. Place the pieces evenly spaced on the baking sheet.

Lemon Poppy Seed Biscuits

Bake for about 14 minutes, or until lightly golden. Remove and let cool.

Ingredients – Glaze
1/4 cup Lemon Juice
2 tbsp. Butter, melted
1 1/3 cup Powdered Sugar

Directions
Mix the three ingredients together in a bowl. Drizzle over the cooled biscuits.

Notes: Makes 8 biscuits.

Lemon Poppy Seed Biscuits

Mini Biscuit Pot Pies

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Mini Biscuit Pot Pies / Busy Mom's Helper

I know I’m new to the wonderful Texas weather, but it does make me feel at home the way it keeps switching (I’m from northern Utah, and there it could go sunny t-shirt to snowing within 24 hours). Two days ago we were in 80 degree weather here, yesterday it was raining and we needed sweatshirts to go to the bus stop to pick up Failyn. At least that way we’re not doing much of heating or a/c, so saves on the bills!

These Mini Biscuit Pot Pies (aka: The Pot Pie Quickie) were just perfect for the cooler, rainy evening! Easy to make (I feel extra lazy when it’s like that outside, just want to curl up with my kiddos in some warm blankets), delicious and warm. I love how the crust is nice and flaky, and the filling so moist and perfect. You wouldn’t think they’d be so easy to make, but they definitely are! This is the only thing I’ve made this way so far, but many more filling varieties are to come, that’s for sure.

Mini Biscuit Pot Pies

Ingredients:
1 package Refrigerated buttermilk or country-style biscuits (like Pillsbury Grands rolls)
3/4 cup Milk
4 tsp. Flour
1/4 tsp. Black pepper
1 can (10.75 oz.) Condensed minestrone soup
2 cups Chicken or turkey, cooked and cubed
3 oz. package Cream cheese, cubed and softened

Mini Biscuit Pot Pies

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a medium sauce pan, mix the milk, flour and pepper. Stir in the soup and cook over medium heat until thick and bubble, stirring often to prevent burning.

Add chicken and cream cheese. Heat through until cream cheese is melted.

Open the can of biscuits and separate them. Take each one and stretch it so it’s larger and more thin. Think of a pie crust.

In a sprayed muffin tin, line each cup with a stretched biscuit so it covers the entire inside of the cup, plus hangs over the sides.

Divide the soup mixture between the cups, filling them almost to the top. Fold the overhang of biscuit over the top, pinching as necessary to enclose the soup filling.

Bake for about 10-15 minutes, or until pies are golden brown.