Jalapeno Cheese Bread!

I've been wanting to start a "Frugalista In The Kitchen" page on the site and I just keep putting it off.  Enough with it!!!  I will never have the perfect kitchen, utensils, or ingredients!!  I've just decided I need to do the best with what I have.  I shouldn't let a small kitchen and old utensils stop me.  I shouldn't let "not having the perfect Canon camera" stop me!  Well, now that I have an iPhone, I can at least get some decent shots of the food! I've actually taken tons of photos of my cooking escapades and they all turn out so awful, I can't imagine someone wanting to actually try any of the recipes!  So here's my first one with some pretty decent shots I might add!
I got the basic bread recipe from a friend a couple of years ago and tweaked it a little.  You really can bake this bread with anything.  You can omit the cheese and jalapenos to make it just a basic bread, you can add cinnamon and raisins, garlic, you name it!  I use my KitchenAid with the dough hook to get the dough started.  You could use a bread machine or just do it the old fashioned way.... another thing I have "let go!"

Here's what you will need:
1 1/4 C. Hot water
3 T. Olive Oil
3 T. Organic Sugar
1 t. Salt
3 C. Flour (I use unbleached and mix it with whole wheat)
2 1/2 t. Instant Yeast
2 Jalapenos
1/2 C. Shredded Cheese (your preference)

1. Preheat the oven to 170
2. Heat the "hot" tap water in the microwave for about a minute.
3. Add the ingredients to your mixer bowl in the order above (the yeast needs to go in last other wise the hot water will kill it). 
4. Turn the mixer on low for 5-7 minutes.  The dough should be partly sticking to the sides of the bowl and partly to the dough hook.  If it's only sticking to the bowl, it's too wet and needs a little more flour.  If it's completely on the hook, it's too dry and needs more water or oil. 
5. Remove the bowl from the mixer and take the hook out (easier with flour on your hands!)

6. Sprinkle some flour on top and set on top of your oven to stay warm.

*this is what it should look like:

7. Let it rise on your oven for 10 min. 

8. Flour your hands and scrape from the sides down to form a blob - it's really not a ball, it's a blob!

9. Drop it on to a greased cookie sheet.

10. Roll it out - it doesn't have to be pretty, just roll it out.

11. Sprinkle 1 chopped jalapeno and 1/2 of the cheese on the dough.

12.  Roll that up width - wise, then turn it so that it has room to rise. 

* it doesn't have to be pretty, I promise the rising and baking makes it pretty by itself!

13.  Place into the 170 degree oven and let rise for 20 - 30 minutes.

14.  Take out and sprinkle 1 sliced jalapeno and rest of cheese on top.

15.  Place bread back in the oven and turn up the temp to 350 degrees.

16. Bake for 14 - 16 minutes.

17. Voila!  Delicious, warm, spicy, jalapeno cheese bread!!