Happy Thanksgiving!

These are fantastic! I just made these for Christmas and they are the simplest yeast recipe I've ever done. Thanks for sharing the family recipe from the Hawaii gang (we call her Yee-po!)

My now late Goon Goon (grandfather) use make roast turkey with hoy sein sauce and stuffing with hoy sein sauce mix in it. Chinese American Thankgiving with chow mein and potato salad and baked ham with brown sugar mustard pineapple glaze.

Thank you! Hope you had a nice holiday--I was reminded this weekend of Lime Jello!

Wine Gurl: Thanks for sharing. Treasure these times with family, when they are gone all we have are sweet memories. It is hard to have Thanksgiving without my Mom or Dad as it was a special time. The holiday season always evoke such sweet memories as the rest of the siblings talk about all the quirky things that happened during the time our family was all together. Even though my sister does a good job with holiday meals, I always miss Mom's special touch. After all she is the first woman I fell in love with!

we all have bread in our back stories that brings back a flood of recollection. i bet we have had for ten thousand years.

for me it's the classic southern biscuit of my Virginia youth and jalapeno corn bread from my years as a Texan. into our bread goes the labor and the love and the sorrow and the loss. out of it comes our memories. it ain't no accident that 'breaking bread' is a bibilical image.

I love stories like this. Thanks for sharing Melissa! I'm copying the recipe and it is on my to-do list.

i was looking fwd to this blog... and the mention of monkey bread and ur mom brought a tear to my eye. i know ur happiness in bringing this to ur mom magnifies ur thankfulness for this food memory, which makes it esp powerful. and u reminded me that tgiving is not abt the spread, which has always been my focus for this day, but abt the ppl who gather together ard it.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! That picture of your aunt and Popo reminds me of Thanksgiving dinners past at my paternal grandparents' house. My grandpa was the cook though (and a damn good one at that), Popo..not so much. He made some great biscuits but I don't think they were ever put out for Thanksgiving. Anyway sounds like a great recipe!

Happy Thanksgiving Melissa !!!

Happy Thanksgiving! No one remembered to get rolls for my family's dinner this year, so we're having Mexican cornbread and white bread instead. If I had time and if we weren't eating in less than two hours, I'd give this a try. For now I'll take your word for it.

You had what The Glenlivet brand ambassador Rick Edwards would refer to as a "sensory hallucination coupled with deja vu." it's amazing the kinds of memories that food can trigger.

It's been a while since Ive been to Mariposa. I remember when they opened, they used to serve popovers. Will have to stop by to try their monkey bread.
What do you mean by "cakes yeast"? because I would always bake in bulk, I'm used to working with 1# blocks of yeast.