For Easter Brunch, my sister declared that she really wanted a BRAID. This is traditionally something that my mother makes, but as they are currently in the midst of a divorce (did I just air my personal business on the internet?), it was just me, sister, fiance, and Dad there. So I took it upon myself to make this braid!
Here are some action shots...
Cutting up the Canadian Bacon
Cooking the eggs... It is one of my core cooking beliefs that ALL scrambled eggs are much better with a dollop of cream cheese cooked in with them. We used reduced fat cream cheese. Don't knock it 'till you rock it. I think you'll agree with me.
Next step: Laying out the sheet of dough. We used to get reduced fat crescent rolls and it was a pain b/c you'd have to smush it together to make sure the crescent parts didn't break off, but this time, we just got the sheet of dough. I'm spacing on the name, but it was totally worth it. I hope they come out with a reduced fat one soon.
Then I put the ham and the eggs in the center of the sheet, as shown in this photo.
I left out a photo step, but then I added cheese. Duh. Do I even make any recipes that don't have cheese in them?
As the photo above implies, then I cut about 1" strips on the outsides of the mass of food in the middle of the sheet. I think this photo illustrates it better than I could in words.
Also shown in this photo, then I took the dough handles, twisted them over the center, and rested them on the other side.
Baked on 350 for as long as it took for it to look like this, and it was ready! (40 minutes maybe?)
You may have noticed I do not have a recipe for this, but you can find a similar recipe here.
A pose from my father admist helping with the braid:
and for good measure, my favorite four-legged, bandana-wearing buddy, who is sad he's in a car and not outside chasing squirrels:
....and the wedding diet began the next morning. Can you believe I had seasoned green beans for dinner last night? hah! BRING IT ON!
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