Kicked Up Burgers-Carrot Puree- Corn & Homemade Bread

For dinner I decided to make a ground beef patty with a few other veggies. Earlier in the day I made some basic homemade bread to go with. The basic recipe is a Betty Crocker plain white dough that will make two loafs. When laundry is done this becomes the perfect scenario to get bread to rise. Mine did not do the best today but it still had a good consistency and tasted fine.

2 cups of milk, 2 tbsp butter, 1 tablespoon (you could use more if you like your bread a little sweeter) sugar and 1 package of yeast. Mix all of these ingredients in a small saucepan with the exception of the yeast.

This needs to be just warmed through, if this gets too hot it will kill the yeast. I do this on low until the butter melts. In a larger bowl combine all the flour about 4 cups or so and the yeast. Pour the cooled milk mixture over this and stir until you cannot incorporate any more flour. Roll out and kneed for about 5 minutes. Put mixture back in bowl and this needs to rise for a while until doubled in size. After it doubles, punch down in the middle with fist and let rise again for about 10 minutes. Then turn out onto floured surface and cut in half. Let rest again. Then roll once more into a jelly size roll and put into greased bread pans. Let the oven preheat to 375. Once the bread has risen again in the pans to about double let cook for about 40 to 50 minutes. These will be hard on the outside but soft texture on the inside. They will make a tapping noise on the outside

The seasonings I used for my burgers is: 1 tsp. onion power, 1 tsp, garlic powder, 2 tsps. Worcestershire, salt and black pepper to taste. I cooked these on the flattop on medium. I had the leftover carrots from dinner last night and just put them in the food processor and added cumin. The corn was a frozen package that I just put on a baking sheet and cooked for about 30 minutes after the bread was finished cooking.

I have to say I just love a good burger. Cheese and bacon were added to the top of the burger. The carrot puree is underneath the homemade bread. There is a side salad of plain romaine lettuce with croutons and dressing. This was pretty good on a cold snowy day outside.