Lots of pumpkin and orange fall-y foods – Autumn vegetable hash with eggs baked on top, squash challah – but the hits of the day were the bacon & cheese pull-apart bread, and the pumpkin sticky pudding. I got the bacon bread recipe from taste of home – but instead of using purchased bread dough, I used my own standard pizza dough – 3/4 cup water, 1/2 – 3/4 tsp. active dry yeast, 1 tsp. salt, 1 tsp sugar, (optional 1 TBLS olive oil – I left it out here because I figured there’d be plenty of oil in the bacon & cheese) , 1 1/2 cups flour, mix and knead in the mixer for 3 mins. or by hand until smooth and elastic (about 8 minutes …) and let rise in the fridge for 4 – 8 hours. I also omitted the packet of ranch dressing mix. Next time I make it, I think I’ll add some red pepper flakes, so it’ll be even more like the famous Stella’s Hot Spicy Cheese Bread, but with bacon. I thought I got the pumpkin sticky pudding from Epicurious, but it doesn’t seem to be there, so seems to me I’ll have to post it myself.
