Weekend Brekkie: Skillet Casserole

I don't know if there is such a thing as a skillet casserole, but as my normal sized casserole dish was filled with something else, I threw all the ingredients for a casserole/quiche thingy into my skillet.

Sautee cherry tomatoes and half an onion, chopped.

As suggested by my older bro, I used coconut oil in the skillet.
This dish smelled so good from start to finish!

Four eggs.

Scramble and add milk until it looks right (don't you love my precise measurements?).

Add enough flour and mix well until it's the right consistency.
The mix needs to remain thin. If it gets even as thick as pancake batter, that's a little too much.
I know, I'm so helpful.

Cover and cook for 10 min on med/high heat. You'll be able to see it firm up.

Uh oh, totally forgot to brown the cooked sausage along with the onion and tomatoes.
Oh well, throw it in now and at least let them get warm.
Cover and cook an additional 5-10 minutes.

Stir and season with salt and pepper to taste.
This was so tasty and very filling because of the flour.
Baby Boy loved it with ketchup, but then, he loves most things with ketchup.

Enjoy your weekend! 

What are you munching on for weekend breakfast?

Weekend Brekkie: Cinnamon Buns

Mmmm... cinnamon buns fresh out of the oven.
Granted, they're the refrigerated kind that are bought in a can, but hey, still yummy.

Happy Weekend, Beauties!
What's today's breakfast look like on your side of the world?

Weekend Brekkie: French Toast

Mmmm.... we love french toast. Everyone has their own version of this family favorite.
Here's my easy to whip up recipe:

-2 eggs
-splash of milk
-cinammon to taste
-2 Tbs sugar
-nutmeg to taste

In a small bowl, beat eggs well. Add the remainder of ingredients and mix well.
Coat bread on each side with mixture and brown in a hot greased skillet.

Enjoy! 

I plan to do absolutely nothing 'responsible' today.  I'll probably let Baby Boy play with his toy trucks in our outdoor space (which I really should get around to naming) as I craft and fiddle with my lovely plants.
Happy weekend, Beauties!

Weekend Brekkie: Pancakes from a Ketchup Bottle 7/24/2010

This morning, after breakfast (so technically it's not brekkie), I was in the mood for pancakes, but, poor me, I was no longer hungry.
So, I took the newly washed empty ketchup bottle (which my toddler ketchup monster had finished off the other day) and decided to prepare our lunch with it!

Whipping up a basic homemade pancake mix, I added cocoa powder for chocolate pancakes! Woohoo!

The mix went into the fridge to await our grumbly lunchtime stomachs.

Lunch! The skillet was hot in no time. Here's a shot of my homemade pancake dispenser in action.

I remember always wanting to use a ketchup bottle to make funnel cakes ( I LOVE funnel cakes!), but never thought of using it for pancakes until seeing an infomercial for a pancake dispenser.

I made some baby pancakes for Baby Boy and thought, why not toss a few chocolate chips on 'em?
So I did.

Baby Boy was a little apprehensive at first.
I think he thought they might be (gasp!) healthy. Which is odd because he loves healthy stuff!

But soon he was scarfing them down ....

And humming happy pancake songs.

A definite success. Oh, but I was wishing for whipped cream!

Happy Weekend, Beauties!

Weekend Brekkie: All Stirred Up Pancakes

Pancakes are fun to make when you have a cheerful little helper to mix the batter!

He stirred the entire time. Haha! I told Baby Boy he could stop and he said "No stop. I cookin."

Well-stirred pancakes sizzling away :)

Mmmm..... serve hot with jelly or butter for a weekend treat.

Aaahhh.... sweet rewards.

Yay! It's Saturday! We're heading out to have some fun (away from the house!). Enjoy your family time!

Weekend Brekkie: Baked Puff with Apple Topping 6/12/2010

I found a new recipe for the baked pancake (or puff) we love making. You can see a  recipe similar to what I usually make here.
The following one is much more economical and just as tasty.

• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup sifted all-purpose flour
• 1 pinch ground nutmeg
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar for dusting

 Directions

1. Place a 10 inch cast iron skillet inside oven and preheat oven to 475 degrees F (245 degrees C).
2. In a medium bowl, beat eggs with a whisk until light. Add milk and stir. Gradually whisk in flour, nutmeg and salt.
3. Remove skillet from oven and reduce oven heat to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Melt butter in hot skillet so that inside of skillet is completely coated with butter. Pour all the batter in the skillet and return skillet to oven.
4. Bake until puffed and lightly browned, about 12 minutes. Remove promptly and sprinkle with powdered sugar. 

For a change, I chopped up an apple and browned the cubes in butter, adding a little bit of brown sugar, thickened the mix with a bit of cornstarch and a touch of vinegar and voila! A thick, pleasantly sweet, slightly tart apple topping that was a huge hit :)

Yum. Cut and serve while it's hot. Happy Weekend, people!

Weekend Brekkie: Sausage Egg & Cheese Mini Quiches

Another very easy, wonderfully munchable breakfast, perfectly suited to sitting on the couch and watching Saturday cartoons with your toddler.

Here's the non recipe:
-Start out with pillsbury refrigerated biscuits. Preheat oven according to package instructions.
-Cut each biscuit in half so you have little half moons.
-Flatten each in the palm of your hand and form into a rough circle, then place in a greased muffin tin.
-Add whatever you'd like, a bit of chopped polish sausage and cheese were what we had in the fridge.
-Then beat two eggs, adding a little milk or water to stretch.
-Pour a little bit of egg into each muffin cup. You don't want to run out. Pour a little in each and then go over all of them again until you run out of egg, to ensure even distribution.

Once your pan is full of the savory stuff, use the leftover halved biscuits to make Awesome Jelly Buns, first invented in this post.

Try unsuccessfully to pinch the jelly buns closed. You could make an egg wash to seal the edges.... Nah. Wish 'em luck and toss 'em in the oven.

After tummies have been grumbling for 10 whole minutes.....
Mini Quiches? Check.

Not quite so successful jam buns? Check.

One very appreciative and hungry boy? Double check.

The mini quiches are great in almost any combo: Egg and cheese. Cheese. Ham and egg. Bacon and egg. Chocolate chips. Alright, I haven't done choc chips..... Yet. Happy weekend, people!

Weekend Brekkie: Cheesy Tomato Egg Casserole

I wanted to  make something different from what breakfast normally is around here. After making it, though, I've searched for terms to describe it and it turns out that what I was doing very slightly resembled a type of Tomato Strata. The strata recipes are really delicious sounding. I'm going to have to try one next time! But for now, here's my 'new' eggy breakfast:

Place 2 Tbs butter into baking dish and place in oven. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Meanwhile, add 5 eggs and 2 Tbs milk into a bowl and beat well. Pour into melted butter in heated baking dish.

Sprinkle 1 cup cheese all over and add 1 tomato, cut into thick long slices. Place back in oven for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes, stir it all up and replace in oven for 5 minutes. Stir and replace for 5 minutes. Repeat until eggs are cooked to your liking. This is how it looked after the first 10 minutes, mostly cooked on the edges, but still raw in the center.

Very hot! Let cool for 5-10 minutes and then serve. It was pretty tasty and very easy, which is always a plus when it comes to a hot breakfast for us : ).

Happy Weekend : )

Weekend Brekkie: Boxty

I made boxty! Very filling and entirely delicious, which is amazing to me because I don't really like potatoes. I'm more of a rice kind of girl. Hubby, however, loves the tubers so I'm trying to find ways to use them more. Baby Boy is turning out to have a hankering for spuds too, so I guess it's a good thing that there are a world of different ways to have potatoes.

So, the recipe says use grated potatoes. Surprise! I forgot to pack my grater. Huh. So, 3 cups thinly sliced potatoes it is :)

Coat with 2 cups flour

Mix well 4 Tbs milk with 2 eggs

Add to potatoes and mix well until potatoes are well coated with a thick batter. Better use your hands for this part.

Heat 1/4 cup oil in a pan and place boxty in sizzling oil in 2 to 3 inch wide patties. Cook for 3 to 4 min on each side until golden brown. Drain and serve with a pat of butter on top and a side of your favorite meat.

I forgot to take a photo of the finished ones! Well, that's because I couldn't make them fast enough for our growing boy to eat. Hubby and Baby Boy were in tasty tater cake heaven.

Yesterday, I shaped left over mashed potatoes into patties and browned them for lunch. So, imagine the beautiful golden brown and deliciousness of this photo on the boxty in the last photo :) Only the boxty tasted much much better. Baby Boy loved the mash patties, which made me start searching for more potato recipes. So, I have my little man to thank for finding the boxty recipe :) Now I can't wait to try colcannon! Maybe for to'ona'i (Sunday dinner)! Yum.

Up for a quick peek at the 'boxy' sizzling away in the pan. He told me the boxty was singing :)

And back to cooking his own ' yum yum boxy' in the drawer next to the stove :) He kept giving me tastes of his dish. I think he was hoping that I'd return the favor.

I feel like Baby Boy and I have worked extremely hard this week, so we're having a Jammie Party! Which means we get to stay in our PJs for as long as I can stand it and watch cartoons and play tag and pillow fight and generally act like very silly people with no responsibilities. I hope you all have a lovely jammie wearing weekend :)

Easy Awesome Jelly Buns

The other morning, we were in the mood for something pastry-like but the smell of fresh coffee reminded our stomachs that waiting for a traditional dough to rise was out of the question. So, after a look into the fridge and finding a canister of refrigerated biscuits (Yay!), inspiration hit and I had to share this quick how-to: 

I love Pillsbury biscuits.

Flatten each precut biscuit 

Place a spoonful of your sweet filling in the center. Remember, this is supposed to be easy, so use what you have. We had grape jelly, but I think this would be great with any kind of jelly or preserves.

Bring ends together and pinch to close. Place on cookie sheet, pinched ends down, and bake according to package instructions. Jelly leaked out of a few buns, so next time, I'll brush the inner edges with egg wash so they seal better.

10 minutes later.....

Mmmmm..... quick and delicious :)

We loved these! Baby Boy wolfed one down and then asked if he could have another "Awesome", hence the name. Am I the only one who thinks this week seems unbelievably long? I'm working on some crafts today and trying to keep my mind off my headache. Creating always seems to put me in a better mood :)

 Wishing you a wonderful and Wacky Wednesday....