Cinnamon Rolls

For some reason, when everyone around me starts getting sick, I'm never better. But apparently my immune system likes to take a little vacation every time there's a change of season. A few days ago, Spring arrived, and predictably, I'm down for the count. Usually, a hot shower gives me just enough of a charge to propel me to my desk at work. Not today. When I woke at 5 am wide-eyed and hungover from knock-out cold medicine, I knew it wasn't going to happen for me.

I feel no shame in the fact that the next thought to cross my mind, as I was laying in bed staring at the ceiling, was how I was going to use the day to make cinnamon rolls. Maybe not the typical thought process of a young male planning his day away from the corporate world, but for this guy, assuming I could shake the medicine induced hangover, the opportunity was ripe for the picking. This has been a priority of mine for months, but it was never high enough on the list that I was willing to allocate an entire Saturday or Sunday; Too much to get done on those days. And it's not an overly challenging recipe, it's just one of those yeast bread recipes where you need 1-2 hours between steps. In the end, your always glad you did it, but since you have to plan your schedule around it it can be a pain in the ass. Normally, like most folks, I don't have the luxury to do that, but this was something that I needed to try, and now was the perfect time to do it. Everyone loves a good cinnamon roll, so if this went well, I would definitely be revisiting. I need a showstopper breakfast/brunch recipe that I can turn to if we're hosting people. People we want to come back that is. There are a bunch of quick breads, muffins, and other stuff like that I knew would could whip up in half the time. I needed to determine if the effort was justified by the final product.

It was.

Not that I expected less, but if the last step of the recipe - "Serve immediately" - was removed from the text and all you were allowed to do was sit there, look at, and smell them, I would still revisit this recipe - over an over again. If you're invited over for a long weekend and we like you, this is what you'll be waking up to.