The bread stick experiment

Well, last night I made chicken bacon ranch pasts and a recipe for bread sticks that were supposed to be Olive Garden knock offs.
While they didn't turn out exactly like Olive Gardens, they were still very yummy.
Here is the recipe for the bread sticks:

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups warm water
2 Tbs. Sugar
1Tbs. yeast
1Tbs Salt
2 Tbs butter, softened
4-5 Cups flour

Topping:
3 Tbs butter, melted
sea salt
1/4 Tsp garlic powder

Directions:

For the dough, pour the water into a stand mixer with the sugar and yeast. Let that sit for about 10 minutes.
Add salt, butter, and 2 cups of the flour. Mix the dough on low. Add the rest of the flour 1/2 cup at a time, until dough scrapes the sides of the bowl clean.
Mix the dough about 5 minutes on medium speed, until it's soft and easy to work with.

*Note: If you don't have a stand mixer, you can still do this by hand, it's just going to take much longer. The stand mixer just saves you the kneading time. I would say about 15 minutes of kneading if doing by hand.

Roll the dough out to a long log, and cut into 12-14 pieces. Roll those pieces into about 6 inch long snakes.
place on foil lined cookie sheets (you'll need at least 2)

Place in 170 degree oven for about 15 minutes (or let sit at room temperature) until doubled in size (or at least close) Once they are risen, brush them with the melted butter (not the garlic powder butter mix) Bake at 350 degrees about 12-15 minutes, or until golden.

While they are baking, combine the topping. When they are hot out of the oven, brush them with the topping.
*Note* I did this with the first batch...the second batch I brushed with just melted butter, let that dry, then brushed with the topping.

I'll also throw in the recipe for the Chicken bacon ranch pasta, but trust me, I can't give exact measurements as this was a throw together with no recipe thing.

Chicken bacon ranch pasta:

1 box bow tie (or shell) pasta
1 envelope dry ranch mix
Miracle whip (or mayo)
about 6-8 strips of bacon
1/2 a tomato (or can of diced tomatoes)
Chicken breasts-about 2

Boil pasta. While water is boiling, cook chicken. You can fry or bake, it's really your preference.
In large bowl, combine dry ranch mix with enough Miracle Whip (or mayo) to make it creamy and cover all your pasta. You'll have to guesstimate, and taste test until you like the results.

After the mix is to your liking, put in cooked and drained (I sometimes rinse) pasta, and crumble the cooked bacon and dice the cooked chicken. Add all this in.

Carefully stir in the tomato, and you're done.

It's filling, and awesome...at least if you're like me. I love ranch, and I <3 bacon.