Baked Ham and Cheese Sandwhiches

Welcome back to the Asylum!  Did you enjoy your Sunday pass?  We hung out here at home and I worked on pallet signs (well, I recruited help).  Hubs and the kids worked in the shop.  They are starting to paint the motorcycle they have been turning into a café bike. 




I think Mother Nature needs to join our Asylum.  It was in the upper 80s last week and this week it is rainy and as I type this it is currently 48, the week before it snowed!  So we are breaking out the slippers and hoodies.  I washed the blankets over the weekend and every chair or couch has a blanket to cuddle up in!  We have a large house that is mostly a big open space.  So keeping it at a high temperature would break the budget.  All I know is I get to have cute slippers!  You should ask Saucy Irish about her Fluffy (Puffy) Little Shoes!




So I was trying to think of something that would be warm to eat and quick and easy.  Then I remembered these little gems a friend had told me about!  They will go great with soup for a complete meal!  I would recommend my Hawaiian Sweet Roll recipe for your bread! 


My hubs has always done something similar with ham, cheese and bread slices.  He throws it in the microwave just long enough to melt the cheese.




Baked Ham and Cheese Party Sandwiches
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Ingredients:

3/4 cup melted butter 1 1/2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 1 1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce 1 1/2 tablespoons poppy seeds

1 tablespoon dried minced onion 24 mini sandwich rolls 1 pound thinly sliced cooked deli ham 1 pound thinly sliced Swiss cheese

Directions:

1.	Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
2.	In a bowl, mix together butter, Dijon mustard, Worcestershire sauce, poppy seeds, and dried onion. Separate the tops from bottoms of the rolls, and place the bottom pieces into the prepared baking dish. Layer about half the ham onto the rolls. Arrange the Swiss cheese over the ham, and top with remaining ham slices in a layer. Place the tops of the rolls onto the sandwiches. Pour the mustard mixture evenly over the rolls.
3.	Bake in the preheated oven until the rolls are lightly browned and the cheese has melted, about 20 minutes. Slice into individual rolls through the ham and cheese layers to serve. Note: We would replace the cheese with American or Pepper Jack at our Asylum! Oktoberfest is approaching so make sure you get your orange  or black "jackets" for the occasion!

Hello Crazies, Welcome to our Asylum!

Welcome to Our Asylum's Kitchen!  We are creating our own Cookbook Blog of our favorites.  You will see recipes from myself, the Spicy German and my Bestie, the Saucy Irish!  All the recipes we will share have been tried and tested on our families, otherwise known as the Asylum Residents.  We live in two different states and our husbands are cousins, we joke that they were meant to marry us just so we could be friends!  We are both military wives and moms as well, we fight with and love each other like sisters.  The Saucy Irish is an amazing cook and I am a baker, so you will get both worlds from us!

I will let the Saucy Irish share about herself tomorrow, today I have taken over the Asylum!  I am a stay at home mom of two boys and a military wife.  I have a love of all the old German recipes that come from my Mennonite roots.  Saucy Irish can't claim all of the Irish as I have a lot of that too, but my baking leans more toward the German side.  She is also the voice in my head-you know those voices you don't want to admit to hearing?  Well, here you can because we are an Asylum after all!  She is the voice I hear encouraging me to eat healthy, and to JUST TRY IT!  She is also the voice I hear telling me to be very careful when using a knife, as you know not all Asylum Residents should be allowed sharp objects-I am one of those. 

Through this blog and our Facebook page I hope to share her encouragement and mine with you, maybe we can keep each other out of the real Asylum!  I invite you to sit down at Our Asylum's Kitchen table for a little conversation, some great food and friendship!

Here is your first recipe!  A great one to share with the residents on Easter!

Hawaiian Sweet Rolls

Similar to King's Hawaiian Rolls

 

3/4-1 cup pineapple juice

1 egg

2 TBSP vegetable oil or coconut oil

2 1/2 TBSP honey

3/4 tsp salt

3 cups flour

2 TBSP dry milk powder

2 tsp yeast-fast rising

 

Preheat oven to 375 while you are mixing-you will need a warm place to let the rolls rise.  I cheat and use my bread maker to do all the mixing for me. 

 

Start out with 3/4 cup pineapple juice and add the rest if it looks dry.  Your dough should look slimey, sorry best word I could give it! 

 

When it has finished mixing I will use Crisco to keep the dough from sticking to my hands.  I make each roll and put into a round pan.  I love using the round pans because you can make the rolls look like a flower. This will make one or two pans, depending on the size you make the rolls and the size of your pan. 

 

 Set the pans in a warm place-your preheated stove is a great place! Cover them with a light towel and walk away, no poking people!  When they have doubled in size (about 45 min), put them in the oven for 10-15 minutes, until the tops are golden brown.

 

Disclaimer-This is a combination of several recipes that I have tried and didn't like!  I adapted for the bread maker because I am lazy.

 

Adaption-Some people will add coconut flakes to the dough as well-here at my Asylum there are only a couple of us crazies that will eat coconut. 

 

 

Have a great day!  Oh, did I mention once you come to the Asylum we don't let you leave?  We have  a nice jacket for you to try on...