Savory Breakfast Muffins

Weekday mornings are sometimes a struggle. Ok a lot of the times. I like Man-Child to eat a good breakfast but don’t always feel up to cooking! I try to make cereal a once a week kind of thing, so I am always looking for easy yet filling breakfast ideas. I think this one fits the bill! Plus any leftovers can be frozen and reheated!

Here’s what you’ll need:

2 cups self-rising flour

3/4 cup shredded cheese (I used a mix of cheddar)

2 tablespoons sugar

1 cup cooked and crumbled ground pork sausage

1 cup milk

1/4 cup vegetable oil

2       large eggs

 

 

Here’s how you make it:

Combine first 4 ingredients in a large bowl. Make a well in center of mixture. Whisk together milk, oil, and eggs until well blended. Add to flour mixture, and stir just until dry ingredients are moistened. Spoon mixture into lightly greased muffin pans, filling two-thirds full. Bake at 400° for 15 to 16 minutes or until golden brown.

ENJOY!

Honey Buns

A few months ago just before Christmas I made a bunch of Cinnamon Rolls for the Hubsters co workers. You can find that recipe here. What I didn’t realize until later that day was that I forgot a central ingredient! The Hubsters LT said how much he liked the honey buns?! I was like What? Honey Buns? What? So then thinking back I realized that I may not have put cinnamon in all the cinnamon rolls! Well I realized this was kind of a happy accident. I remember eating honey buns when we were kids as a special treat on Saturday mornings as we watched cartoons! But homemade honey buns, now we’re talkin’. This recipe is a little different than the one I used before. But I really like the dough on this recipe!

 

Here’s what you’ll need:

 

DOUGH

1 cup warm milk (110 degrees)

2 eggs, room temperature

1/3 cup margarine, melted

4 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup white sugar

1pkg yeast

FILLING

1 cup brown sugar, packed

A pinch ground Cinnamon

1/3 cup butter, softened

GLAZE

1 cup Powdered Sugar

1tsp Vanilla

1-2TBSP Milk

1TBSP Honey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s how you make it:

 

Dissolve the yeast in the warm milk in a large bowl. Mix in the sugar, margarine, salt, and eggs. Add flour and mix well. Knead the dough into a large ball. Put in a bowl, cover and let rise in a warm place about 1 hour, or until doubled in size.

After the dough has doubled in size turn it out onto a lightly floured surface, cover and let rest for 10 minutes.

In a small bowl, combine brown sugar, cinnamon and butter. Roll dough into a 16x21 inch rectangle. Sprinkle evenly with sugar/cinnamon/butter mixture. Roll up dough and cut into 12 rolls. Place rolls in a lightly greased 9x13 inch baking pan. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled, about 30 minutes.

 Meanwhile, preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake rolls until golden brown, about 15 minutes.

While rolls are baking, beat together powdered sugar, vanilla, honey and milk. Spread glaze on warm rolls.

 

 

ENJOY!

Button Bracelet

Remember when I said I love bracelets but hardly ever wear them? Well I'm making another one! I just can't help myself. This one is actually for my niece she loves all types of Jewlery. and I thought that she would love this bracelet. This is actually a pretty easy craft and would be a great project for someone who is learning to sew to practice their stitches on!

 

Fun Fact: The 1st buttons can be traced back to ancient Egypt.

 

 

Here’s what you’ll need:

 

1in wide Elastic

 

Sewing Thread

 

Needle

 

 Buttons in the colors & shapes u like.

 

Here’s how you make it:

 

 Cut a piece of elastic that is 2 inches longer than your wrist. Pick out the buttons you would like to use on your bracelet. Try using similar colors, buttons with the same theme (like flowers or bugs), or striped buttons.  Sew the first button on about 1 inch from the end of the elastic. Continue sewing buttons all over the elastic until it is covered EXECEPT for 1 inch at each end. Overlap the ends of the elastic, then use little stitches to sew your bracelet together. Sew over it again & again to make it hold. Cover the stitches by sewing on more buttons.    TIP: If using both shank & 2 or 4 hole buttons, sew on the buttons with holes first, filling in blank areas using the shank buttons.   

 

ENJOY!

Philly Cheese Steak Pockets

When I was in high school I went to visit my step brother in Philadelphia. He took me to get Philly Cheese steaks and ever since I’ve been hooked. Of course none are as good as the ones you get in Philly. I don’t know why but it really is true. We make them at home all the time. I wanted to make them a little different this time and so I decided to put them into dough pockets. Which was a great idea and less messy! Which is always a good thing!

Here’s what you’ll need:

1 Package Steak Umms

1 Onion

1 Green Bell Pepper

1 Pizza Dough

Cheeze Whiz

 

Here’s how you make it:

Pre heat oven to 400 degrees. Chop up the Pepper and Onion add them to a skillet that’s been heated over medium heat and sprayed with cooking spray. Sauté until the onion and peppers are tender. Add in the Steak Umms and cook until it’s no longer pink. Meanwhile roll out the pizza dough, now you can cut it into strips or do circles. It depends what you are going for. I liked the way the circles worked out better. Fill the center of the dough with the meat mixture, add in a spoonful of Cheese Whiz and fold dough over. Place on a baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes until dough is golden brown. Let cool and serve!

ENJOY!

HONEST TO GOODNESS BEST LEMON BARS EVER!

I had never attempted lemon bars until about 6 months ago. I made them for an FRG (Family Readiness Group) meeting. Everyone loved them in fact one friend loved them so much she asked for the recipe and for me to make them again for our next function!  I think they are great too and always love a lemon dessert. I think it’s my 2^nd favorite, next to CHOCOLATE of course! I had found this great recipe for the Best Lemon Bars EVAH on less cake more frosting and had to see if it was as good as it claimed to be. Well let me just tell you UM YEAH THEY ARE! Try 'em you’ll like 'em!

Here’s what you’ll need:

Crust:

2 cups Flour

1/2 cup Powdered Sugar

1 cup softened Butter (no margarine)

Filling:

4 beaten eggs

2 cups Sugar

½ cup Lemon Juice

¼ cup Flour

1/2 tsp Baking Powder

Powdered Sugar for dusting the tops

Here’s how you make it:

Mix first 3 ingredients until a soft dough forms. Press into greased 9×13 pan. It’s a really crumbly crust but comes together when you are pressing it into the pan. Bake the crust @ 350 for 20 minutes. Watching to make sure it doesn’t get too brown. While the crust is baking, mix together the filling. Pour all the filling ingredients into a bowl and mix well. When the crust is done remove it from the oven and let cool about 15-20 minutes. Pour the filling over the cooled crust and Bake @ 350 for another 25 minutes. Check it at 25 minutes it may need a little longer. You want the filling to be set up not wiggly any longer. Remove from the oven and dust the top with Powdered Sugar to finish. Let cool and slice into bars.

ENJOY!

Cabbage Salad

My Sister gave me this great recipe the other day, and I just had to share it with you guys! It’s simple which is always a bonus. I mean I love a good complicated recipe that turns out an amazing dish but honestly a good simple dish that I can throw together in 5 minutes is always a bonus.

Here’s what you’ll need:

½ head of Cabbage

1 pkg of Ramen Noodles

Shredded Chicken

1/3 cup Salad Seasonings or Sunflower Seeds

½ cup Olive Oil

3 TBSP White Vinegar

2 TBSP Sugar

1tsp Salt

½ tsp Pepper

Here’s how you make it:

Chop up the Cabbage place in a large bowl. Break up the Ramen and add it into the bowl, add the shredded chicken. In a small bowl or Measuring cup combine the oil, vinegar, seasoning packet from the ramen, Sugar, Salt and Pepper mix well. Pour over the Salad, toss to get the dressing evenly distributed over the Salad.

You can serve this with any meat you like or you can leave it out altogether. My Sisters family likes to use salad shrimp in theirs.

ENJOY!

Resolution Update: March

Can you believe it’s almost April? Me either! Where has the time gone? Well honestly for me it’s great that the year is going by quickly. This means we are that much closer to the Hubster coming home from Afghanistan! We are now 2 months into our 9 month deployment and every day down is a day closer! Are you still keeping up with your resolutions? I am trying!

Here’s how it’s been going for me:

Getting Healthy: I’ve really noticed that I’ve cut back on how much I eat. I've been trying to use our smaller salad plates to eat on instead of our big dinner plates. I am noticing I am satisfied with less which is a big batch of AWESOMESAUCE! Since the beginning of the year I have lost 14lbs. YAY! So this month got a little off track with the exercise routine, but the last 2 weeks I’ve been at the YMCA or working out at home at least 3 days a week! YAY again!

Getting Organized: I saw on another blog, and now I forget which one but the idea was to get rid of a 100 things in a weekend! So I did! Whew… some of it was easy, some of it not so much! Like throwing away the proof sheet from the school pictures. Why is that so hard? Over half of the stuff came from my bedroom! I was thinking I probally could do a get rid of 100 things from every room in the house! But for now 100 things from the house will have to do. I even got Man-Child in on it; I had him get rid of 50 things!  So that’s actually 150 things out of my house! YAY! Check out the pile of stuff I got rid of!

Spending Quality Time: We went on an unplanned road trip this month when my Grandmother passed away. When you lose someone you realize the important things, and I am grateful for all the great memories that I made over the years with her. Sometimes the best memories are from the littlest events in our lives. Did you see my post about 15 Mother Son date ideas? Check it out, and create memories to last a lifetime.

So I feel like I am doing ok with the resolutions this year so far! How are you doing with yours?