Roast Beef Rollups

Experimentation and trying new things is a major part of our regular cooking, but it doesn't always involve huge dinners or complicated meals with tons of ingredients. Recently while thinking about pigs in a blanket (hot dogs baked inside rolls) we thought of trying some different variations that don't involve hot dogs.

Here we've unwrapped refrigerated crescent rolls (usually found near the butter or cookie dough at the grocery store) and we're squirting some dijon mustard on them. Of course you can go with anything else instead - honey mustard, spicy brown, standard yellow, or any other condiment that you prefer.

For the meat we're using thinly sliced roast beef from the grocery store's deli, which is layered over the mustard spread.

Along with the meat, we're also putting on some shredded Swiss cheese. Again any possible meat and cheese combination can work here, but this is the one we enjoyed the most.

For a fun little twist I put sliced pickles on one of mine. Jarred jalapenos or stuffed olives would also be exciting choices.

For a variation using standard flavors I love we also did some with chicken and buffalo sauce instead of mustard and beef.

After all the ingredients are in place, roll up the crescent rolls into these cute little shapes.

Here we've used a full package of crescent roll dough and put together eight different roll ups.

They only need to bake for about 10 or 15 minutes and they're ready to go!

These are delicious eaten as is, or with a dipping sauce like ketchup, ranch, buffalo sauce, thousand island, etc.

See you again soon as we look into more innovative pastas, an amazing twist on pizza done in a bread pan, and our first try at huevos rancheros!