Lis is an excellent cook, even if she makes me do the "cooking" part

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A couple days ago, I wanted butterscotch pudding, so I made some. Except I don't use recipes, and I'm not actually THAT good at pudding, so what I ended up with was a butterscotch/caramel sauce, more than a pudding. It was pretty good, but kind of too sweet to eat on its own. Lis has been dipping apple slices in it, and that works pretty well, although we've got Gala apples right now, and it really needs a tart apple, like a Granny Smith, to balance.

Anyway, this evening, Lis said, "I'm peckish. Go to the store, buy a bag of bread dough, and make caramel rolls."

See, the grocery store right by us sells bread/pizza dough, in one-pound bags. They've got a bakery, and grocery store bakeries around here assume that you might want to bake your own stuff sometimes, but not want to bother making the dough, and it's very convenient. You can make pizzas, calzones, flat breads, or loaf breads with the stuff -- it's just a basic, generic, versatile dough.

I've never made anything jelly-roll-like, but what Lis wants, Lis gets. I bought a pound of dough, rolled it out into a rectangle, spread a cup of butterscotch/caramel sauce on it, rolled it up, let it rise/rest for a couple minutes, sliced it into eight pieces, and put them into muffin tins. Sideways-ish -- so that the round part matched the roundness of the muffin tin, if that makes sense. I let it rest/rise for a couple more minutes while the oven heated to 350 degrees (175 C), then baked it for half an hour.

They're darned good.

And it's all Lis's idea. Yeah, I did the actual COOKING, but the entire concept is Lis's.

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This is why I'm always telling stories about you two; because you're nifty like this.