November 28, 2011

I hope everyone had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving!  I remembered to take time and count my blessings!  I even included by blog as a blessing!  We spent the day with my husbands brothers and sisters.  All 5 of them were together!  9 of 11 nieces and nephews were present.  5 of 7 great nieces and nephews were present!   27 all total were present.  That was and is such a tremendous blessing! 

Friday I spent the day with our daughter and grandson and went to Colorado Springs shopping!  Another blessing.  I have the most adorable grandson on the planet! 

 

here he is enjoying the scenery at Gunther Tooties!  He sees a camera or a cell phone aimed at him and starts posing and grinning!

Last week I made cookies for our churchs Thanksgiving cooking ministry.  Tuesday night we all got together and boxed them up.    The ladies outdid themselves!!! 

Now this weekend was my cooking weekend for our brunch at church.  I tried a new recipe that I found!  Breakfast Bierocks!  They were a hit!  fairly easy to make!  and I made 3 casseroles.    Also made up some breakfast burritos along with homemade tortillas!  For the bierocks i made the bread.  I love to make bread. 

Weekend Brunch Casserole

1 lb sausage roll, browned

2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

1 can refrigerated crescent dinner rolls (8 oz)

4 large eggs, beaten

3/4 cup milk

1/4 tsp salt

1/8 tsp black pepper

Preheat oven to 425 F.  Crumble and cook sausage in skillet over medium heat until browned.  Drain sausage.  Line bottom of greased 13 x 9 inch baking dish with crescent roll dough, firmly pressing perforations to seal.  Sprinkle with sausage and cheese.  Combine remaining ingredients in medium bowl until blended, pour over sausage.  Bake 15 minutes or until set.  Let stand 5 minutes before cutting into squares; serve hot.  Refrigerated leftovers. 

Make Ahead Breakfast Casserole

1 lb sausage roll, browned

2 1/2 cups seasoned croutons

4 large eggs

2 1/4 cps milk

1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup (10.5 oz)

1 pkg frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry (10 oz)

1 can mushrooms, drained and chopped (4 oz)

1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese

1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese

1/4 tsp dry mustard

Picante sauce  or salsa  (optional)

Spread croutons on bottom of greased 13 x 9 baking dish.  Crumble and cook sausage in medium skillet over medium heat until browned.  Drain sausage, spread over croutons.  Whisk eggs and milk in bowl until blended.  Stir in soup, spinach, mushrooms, cheeses and mustard.  Pour egg mixture over sausage and croutons.  Refrigerate overnight.  Preheat oven to 325 F.  Bake egg mixture 50-55 minutes or until set and lightly browned on top.  Garnish with herb springs and carrot, if desired.  Serve hot with picante sauce, if desired.  Refrigerate leftovers. 

Breakfast Pizza

1 lb sausage, browned

1 pkg refrigerated pizza crust dough (13.8 oz)

8 oz pre-sliced mushrooms

1 cup diced tomato

2 cups shredded pizza blend cheese (I use mozzarella)

4 large eggs

Preheat oven to 400F.  Unroll dough and press into a greased 9 x 13 inch baking dish, covering bottom of pan and 2 inches up sides of dish.  Crumble and cook sausage and mushrooms and tomatoes over crust.  Top with shredded cheese.  In small bowl, whisk eggs until well combined.  Pour over pizza.  Bake 13 to 15 minutes or until eggs are set and crust is brown.

Breakfast Bierocks

Bread dough

8 eggs

1 lb sausage

1/4 small onion

shredded cheese

1/2 melted butter

Cook sausage with onion, and add to scrambled eggs.  Put in center of 4 inch bread dough squares.  Top with shredded cheese.  Pull corners together, pinching edges, then turn over and bake on cookie sheet.  Bake about 20 minutes at 350 F   Remove and brush with melted butter and serve. 



November 20, 2011

Okay..I've been horrible about updating my blog.  I pledge I will TRY to do better.  Just been busy here.  I will try to do it much better. 

Today, was a first for me!  I did a Once A Month Cooking presentation and I loved it!  I was so nervous...my knees were knocking so loudly I'm sure you could hear them at your house!  But I was excited to do the presentation too!  They were receptive and I think fairly excited about it.  If you ladies are reading this...please know that I really did enjoy it and I hope you learned something, as that was goal!  Thank you for having me! 

I baked 2 doz cookies yesterday and HUGE pot of chili.  Friday I cooked Chicken chicken soup, made 2 loaves of Bread,  jelly and a pineapple pie in the oven! 

For lunch today we had the chili AND chicken noodle soup and cornbread!  soooo yummy, but I didn't eat any cornbread...I don't like it, but I can't eat it anyway! 

Thanksgiving is coming up this week, and I will be making Zweiback rolls and pumpkin pie, butterscotch pudding (from scratch, not the boxed stuff!) and a crustless pumpkin pie.  Will try to post pictures, but will for sure post some of the recipes. 

Also will post a picture of my freezers!  full!!!! 

More later on! 

thoughts

Well.....where do I begin!?~  We held our first once a month cooking group!  We will have to see if we offer any more!    Started out to be 6 ladies going join my daughter and I.  On the night before cooking day...got a phone call that a lady wasn't going to make it...5 minutes later, another one...not kidding.  Then as I hung up, another.  Kept up like that for a bit...until we were down to one.  Talk about discouraging.  Not mad, not upset, really not hurt...just discouraged.    terribly discouraged.  I feel led to have this as a ministry guess I just thought that it would just go...but nope....obstacles.  That mean ol' devil! 

So I just decided to go on.  I'm making plans....I'll open it up, maybe, and see how many show an interest. 

We did have fun the day of cooking!  Amber did almost all of the recipes from the list.  She is so happy with a full freezer.  The other lady that joined us, made soups for when her family comes to visit during the holidays!  We shared recipes and we shared tips and tricks!  Almost as important, we bonded, and laughed! 

We ate lunch.  I provided with homemade frozen pizza!  Let them know how easy this program is! 

This last weekend....WOW...I always bake cookies for the office to give out at Halloween!  So...I made, with the assistance of my 5 year old granddaughter, Baleigh...15 dozen cookies...chocolate chip, oatmeal, monster, and cake mix cream cheese cookies!  The last ones are the bomb!!!!  YUMMMMMY.  So...after we made the cookies, I made our breakfast/brunch items for church for sunday.   2 breakfast quiches, 1 breakfast pizza, and 1 huge breakfast casserole!  I whipped up a 5 lb batch of meatballs to be made up on Sunday.  and I put a roast on for sunday dinner.  I whipped up a batch of Italian zucchini soup! 

Sunday morning was our breakfast/brunch before church.  This was in honor of our wonderful Pastors.  What a wonderful special turnout.  Shows what a blessing they are to everyone's lives.  After church 2 of our children and 2 of our grandchildren joined us for a dinner of pork roast, potatoes, gravy.  Then again, Baleigh and grandma whipped up 2 more batches of cookies for the total of the 15 doz.  I finished up our laundry and got ready for the week. 

Last night was Halloween...duh...     Worked the P.D. giving out treats...and cookies.    After working all day, then that....I was exhausted when I got home.  tonight I'm sitting.  Blogging! 

Okay...here is the recipe for the cream cheese cake mix cookies

1 box of cake mix....any flavor

1 8 oz pkg of softened cream cheese

1/4 cup of butter softened (I use butter flavor Crisco)

1 large egg

1 tsp vanilla. 

1 cup add ons...whatever suits your fancy (chocolate chips/nuts/raisins/M&M's)

Combine cream cheese and softened butter until well combined.  Then add the dry cake mix and combine well.    Mix in egg and vanilla.  '

Bake in a 375 degree oven until golden brown around edges.   

I used a white cake mix and added M&M's...I've thought about using a spice cake and using raisins &/or nuts. 

More later. 

Any suggestions?????