Interesting looking dinner roll recipes

[medtran49]

I think the term "dinner rolls" might be a southern thing, but just "rolls" or "bread rolls" is the same thing.

Breakfast bread would be biscuits, muffins, English muffins (vs American muffins), toast. A lot of Jewish delis here used to serve an assortment of mini muffins, including cornbread, pastries, biscuits prior to Covid free to the table. That practice has pretty much died.

Table bread is served at most American or Continental restaurants, though not necessarily at ethnic restaurants. It is usually warm and could be rolls or mini loaves of some kind. There are 2 American chains, The Cheesecake Factory and The Outback that are famous for their dark bread. The Cheesecake Factory even sells it at the grocery. Our most favorite high end Italian place serves warm mini rustic loaves with soft butter. Another place serves rustic mini loaves with a shallow good sized bowl of lightly sauteed garlic and dried herbs, with olive oil poured over the mix at the table to dip the bread. Neighborhood Italian places serve garlic rolls, usually 2, with entrees, or as a purchased side of 6 or 12. When I've eaten in Italy, never had a garlic roll, although there was usually grissini or some kind of rustic bread served at dinner on the table, maybe a nice chunk of rustic bread with coffee of some kind for breakfast. The Indian restaurants around here have bread of various kinds available on the menu, sometimes a mixed basket.

 

[TastyReuben]

So, a ham roll, a bacon roll, a cheese roll etc. You would probably call that a sandwich?

That, or just whatever specific name it is, like “hamburger.” I’ll have to tell you the “hamburger sandwich” story one of these days (if I haven’t already).

 

[TastyReuben]

The Cheesecake Factory and The Outback that are famous for their dark bread.

Oh, and Red Lobster is famous for their cheddar biscuits (which you can also buy mixes for) and there was a chain in Texas when we lived there…Black-Eyed Peas?…they were famous for their rolls as well, though I think it was as much the whipped honey-butter.

Oh, and O’Charley’s, if you have those, they also say they’re famous for their bread…and who can forget Olive Garden and their never-ending greasy salty garlicky breadsticks?!

 

[medtran49]

I love the Texas Roadhouse rolls as well, though I'll pass on the cinnamon butter.

You know, I'm just not that impressed with the Cheddar Bay biscuits. Not sure why, they just don't do it for me.

 

[TastyReuben]

Growing up, always, always bread with every single meal, and even with a snack, half the time Mom would find some way to fit bread into it. It wasn’t a meal without bread.

Usually, it was biscuits (appropriate at every meal) or cornbread or white sandwich bread with loads and loads of butter.

My Dad hated white sandwich bread. Mom would fix his plate for him and he’d see a piece or two of white bread on there with no butter, and he’d say, “Good lord, Jean, put some butter on that bread. It ain’t fit to eat otherwise!” and she’d have to butter it for him.