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Biscuit or Bun? Anyone? Days 62, 63 and 64

Two huge boxes came to my office stuffed with awesome loafs of fresh baked bread from Rotella’s Italian Bakery. Rotella’s bakery is in Nebraska and they bake for many QSR chains. I am thinking this amount of bread may last me a while. So the next few blogs you read will include Rotella’s signature bread. The buns that arrived just looked awesome. Not only was the Brioche Bun high in profile, it had a great chew with an incredible shine to it. I had to make hamburgers just so we could eat it.

 

 Rotella’s brioche bun

A delicious burger made with Rotella’s buttery Brioche bun, with a side of curly fries and corn on the cob.

I saw something really interesting in their line-up of buns that I’ve never seen before.  It looked like a bun, but tasted like a biscuit. So yes, they call it their biscuit bun. You know how you’ve tried to make a sandwich with your biscuit, and it falls apart because it’s too crumbly? Well, Rotella’s has the solution.

This particular bun, rich in butter with a biscuit-like taste, actually holds together very well.

So, that I put it under further stress by grilling it.  Why grill a biscuit bun? Because I felt it would crisp up real nice with all that fat, and it did! When I served a grilled ham and cheese on this biscuit bun at breakfast, there were calls for seconds. Least to say, this bun was a hit!

 

Rotella's biscuit bun

Grilled ham and cheese on a biscuit bun makes a great breakfast offering.

I am also impressed by the different sweet breads that Rotella’s offers up. The blueberry toast, cran-multigrain and raisin bread were great with just butter. It was also wonderful when used to make french toast.

Rotella's raisin bread.

Rotella’s raisin bread.

Here’s what I ate on Days 62, 63 and 64 of EB90:

Food Portion   Calories 
Day 62
Sesame Bagel 100g 200
Honey Wheat Nugget Bread 3 slices (45g) 285
Rotella’s Cranberry Grain Bread 2 slices(45g) 210
Rotella’s Blueberry Toast 2 slices (40g) 200
Rotella’s Raisin Bread 4 slices (38g) 360
Fruit Cup 1C 50
Ricotta Cheese 1/4 C 100
Apricot Sugar-Free Jam 2 Tbsp 40
Butter 2 Tbsp 200
Stewed Pork and Rice 1 C 500
Stir Fried Greens 1C
Coconut water 2 C 100
Run -600
 Total 1645
Day 63
Everything Bagel 1(100g) 210
Wholegrain Sourdough 80g 103
Baguette 100g 255
Rotella’s Biscuit Bun 90g 200
Rotella’s Raisin bread 1 slice (40g) 90
Rotella’s Brioche Bun 80g 270
Nutella 2 tbsp 200
Butter 2 Tbsp 200
Cherries 1C 74
Hamburger 114g 200
Corn on Cob 90g 80
Grilled ham and cheese 1 335
Curly Fries 15 140
Pineapple 3 oz 41
Calcium Supp
2398

 

Day 64
Bagel 200g 520
Rotella’s Cranberry Grain Bread 4 slices(45g) 420
Whole Grain bread 4 slices (38g) 320
Butter 2 Tbsp 200
Ricotta Cheese 1/4 C 100
Berry Cream Cheese 2 Tbsp 50
Strawberry Jam 2 Tbsp 100
Stir Fried Vegetables 125g 36
Sweet sour chicken 86g 219
Rice 50g 48
Calcium Supp
 Total 2013

 

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