Spaghetti bread!!

Ok, so I've had several requests. So here is the spaghetti bread I made the other night.
I used to make "baked sandwiches". It had been a long time though. I'm not sure why I stopped boredom I suppose. But a few months ago I was cruising "pinterest" and saw a pin called spaghetti bread. I. Love. Spaghetti. My mom cooks us what ever we want for dinner for our birthdays, and has for as long as I can remember. And for as long as I can remember I get spaghetti. So I pinned it and then clicked through to check out the recipe thinking maybe it was similar to a pizza bread I do for the kids. Nope. It is a baked sandwich with spaghetti in it. Crazy. Thinking who would eat spaghetti in bread... Then remembered my hubby likes it (oops sorry hon;) )I scrolled down an was unimpressed that is was made of frozen dough ( just not my thing. If its yours great!) then noticed that is was a frozen dough website. (I will put the site here when I am not on my phone..)
But I totally live the braid so anyways enough of the babble and on with the how to!!

The bread part!!

I used a white bread recipe out I the book that came with my mixer. I don't like white bread so I used while wheat flour. Really use what ever bread recipe you want. This makes two loaves of bread. I uses just under half to make this and them made a loaf of plain bread with the rest. If you want thicker bread on the outside of you loaf, use more and don't roll it so thin.

• 1/2 C Low fat milk. (I should note that I use milk made from skim milk powder. We live frugalish)
• 3 T sugar
• 2t salt
• 3T butter 
• 4 1/2 t active dry yeast
• 1 1/2 cups warm water
• 5 to 6 C flour (If you use whole wheat you won't use s much.)

Place your yeast in a warm bowl with your warm water. (If you are going to use a mixer, do this right in the mixer bowl) While that is dissolving, heat milk, salt, butter, and sugar over low heat in a sauce pan (duh) cool to luke warm. After it has come down to temp add to the yeast mixture hanging out in the bowl. Add 4 1/2 cups of your flour. If you are using a mixer and dough hook you will want to mix it on a low setting for just a few mins. If you are a hands on kinda person then start kneading away. Slowly add more of your flour until it becomes a smooth dough ball that no longer sticks to your hands or counter (Or bowl) Place in a greased bowl and cover. set aside to rise for an hour or until double in bulk.

Turn your dough out and divide into two. (I do one slightly smaller then the other for spaghetti bread.)

While your dough is rising you need to cook yourself up some pasta. and then mix it in with your fav sauce... OK now set is aside.

Get out your rolling pin and roll out your dough. I rolled mine to about a 1/2cm thick. I like thin sandwich bread though. so you kinda have to figure out what you like here. I rolled mine straight onto my stoneware sheet that I was going to put into the oven. you may have to roll it on the counter and then transfer if your sheet has an edge. (I didn't take photos) will next time Promise!!) lay your pasta right up the middle 1/3 of your dough. I also added cheese and extra garlic to the middle of mine. To do the braid make slits in 4-5cm increments up the edges of the dough sticking out and fold them over one side then the other. (check out the link to the other web site above until I get my photos.) I stretched mine a bit while I did it. Let it sit and rise for about an hour (Then I rubbed olive oil and sprinkled garlic powder and parsley to the top of mine.) I baked it along side my other half of the dough that I just popped into my stoneware bread loaf pan and let rise With it, for about 40 mins at 375(F)

You can do tons of stuff with this idea. CJ used to love individual sandwiches with ham and cheese baked in. It will go as far as our imagination.