Cinnamon baked Apples

This recipes is from the Ultimate Daniel Fast blog.   I can't wait to try this over some oatmeal for breakfast...yum!

 

Cinnamon Baked Apples

2 cups thinly-sliced apples, unpeeled (about 2 apples)
1 cup unsweetened apple juice
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place sliced apples in an 8 x 8-inch baking dish. In a small bowl, whisk apple juice and cinnamon, and pour over apples. Bake 15 minutes, stir, and bake another 15 minutes. Serve warm.
 


Jill

Marvelous Maple Granola

Ingredients:
3/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
4 cups Kelloggs Frosted Flakes
2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
1 cup slivered almonds
1 cup flaked coconut
1 cup dried tart cherries or raisin.(Iused crasins)
Yogurt or fresh fruit

In a small bowl stir together syrup, oil, honey, vanilla, salt.

In a large bowl combine Frosted Flakes cereal, oats, almonds and coconut. Drizzle maple syrup mixture over the top. Evenly spread in jelly roll pan lined with foil and lightly coated with coking spray.

Bake at 325 for 40-45 minutes or until golden brown, stirring every 10 minutes. Cool completely, stirring once or twice, Stirr in cherries. Store in airtight container for up to 2 weeks.

Serve sprinkled over yogurt or fresh fruit

Marney

Champagne Salad

This recipe is from Mom's college roommate Patty....It is great for a dessert or a brunch.
Champagne Salad
Cream together:
8 oz. cream cheese
3/4 c. sugar
Add:
1 10 oz. pkg frozen strawberries, with juice --thawed
Beat strawberries into cream cheese mixture until well blended.
Fold in:
8 oz. can crushed pineapple - drained
2 bananas - chopped
1 c. choppped pecans
1 med. Cool Whip
Blend well
Pour mixture into a 9" x 13" pan, cover well and freeze. It needs to sit out for a while when you are ready to serve to making cutting easier. I usually use a glass pan, but have used foil pans and it works well. I love this recipe and have kept leftovers in the freezer for weeks. Most recently I froze the salad in foil lined muffin cups which makes in easy to thaw just one cup for a quick snack.

Spinach Bacon Quiche

I made this recently to take to a breakfast with some friends. It made 2 quiches so my family was able to try it too. My four year old, Luke, said "Yuuuuummmm...you did good mom!". That is a success in my book! This recipe is courtesy of Marci from her blog, On My Menu.

Ingredients:
1/2 pound of bacon
10 oz package of spinach
1 cup sour cream
salt and pepper to taste
2 unbaked pie crusts (i used store bought...i know..the horror)
1 onion, minced
1/2 diced mushrooms (i omitted)
2 cups diced ham
16 oz colby jack or sharp cheddar cheese (shredded)
4 oz Parmesan cheese
8 eggs
1 cup half and half
1 Tbsp parsley

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Brown bacon, drain, crumble, and set aside. Saute spinach in bacon drippings. Drain spinach and set aside. Saute onions. Add mushrooms. Stir in ham and bacon. Combine spinach, sour cream, salt, and pepper. Add meat mixture. Mix in cheese. Divide into each pie crust.
Mix eggs, half and half, and parsley. Pour over pies. Place pies in oven and bake 45-50 minutes or until tops are puffed and golden brown. Let stand 5-10 minutes. Each pie serves 8.
**If reheating, cover pie with foil and bake at 325 for about 20-30 minutes, checking frequently to make sure it's not getting too brown. **

Pancakes..from the Guenther House cookbook

1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 TBSP sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 large egg
1 1/2 cups sour milk
1/2 tsp baking soda

Combine flour, salt,sugar and baking powder. Add egg, sour milk and baking soda to make a batter Fry on greased griddle..not too hot (use a preheated 375 degree griddle or frying pan)
To make sour milk, place 1TBSP distilled white vinegar or lemon juice into a one cup measuring cup . Pour in milk to one cup mark. Let stand 5 minutes. Stir before using.

I made the 1 1/2 cup sour milk by just adding a TBSP and a 1/2 of the vinegar to the 1 1/2 cups milk.
These seemed lighter than the usual pancakes. Will make again.
Pam

Bacon,Egg, and Cheese Muffin

Definitely one of my new favorite breakfasts. Quick, simply, and tasty. Does it get any better? My kids love that they can pick these up like a piece of pizza and gobble them up (and they do). I love breakfast, but it is a meal I often struggle with. The kids are usually dragging me (literally) out of bed in the morning so first on my list of priorities is COFFEE. This of course is after new diaper, milk for KC, OJ for Luke, and Gabby is fed. This is something on can throw together while my heavenly coffee is a brewin!

Ingredients:

English muffin

precooked bacon or turkey sausage patties

egg

shredded cheese
cooking spray

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray large (texas size) muffin pan with cooking spray. Place half of an english muffin in each cup (or as many as you desire), place torn up bacon or sausage pattie next, crack egg over top of the meat, sprinkle with cheese and seasonings if you like. Bake for about 15 minutes or until eggs no longer wiggle. I really do the wiggle check! My little man doesn't like runny eggs.

Jill

Toad in a Hole

What is up with this name?? My family has always called this favorite simple breakfast a "toad in a hole". I loved eating these as a kid and it still hits the spot occasionally. My kids are still learning to love it.

Ingredients:
slice of bread

butter or margarine

egg

salt and pepper

Read carefully because it can be tricky! Butter both sides of bread (whatever kind you choose). Cut out the center with a favorite cookie cutter or a juice glass. Heat buttered skillet to medium and cook bread for a minute or so before frying egg in the center. Cook egg to desired texture flipping once. Cook the cut out as well, my favorite part. Season with salt and pepper and serve.

Jill

Puffed Pancakes

I made these this morning for Luke's first day of preschool. He really liked them. They were a bit eggy, but we all enjoyed them. The best part was how easy they were to make and not the mess of traditional pancakes. This is another recipe from Marci's blog.

Ingredients:

1 Tbsp butter (real butter)
6 eggs

1 cup of milk (i used 1/2 1% and 1/2 whole)

1 cup of pancake mix or bisquick (i used bisquick)

Preheat oven to 425 and place the butter in a 9X13 dish. Let the butter melt in the dish while oven is preheating. Combine all other ingredients in blender. Once butter is melted and oven heated pour ingredients in dish and bake or about 15 minutes. When done sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve with maple syrup or fresh fruit.

Jill

Cheesy Sausage Breakast Bake

Sarah Pointer gave me this wonderful Emeril recipe. I started making this for our Christmas morning meal the first year Mark and I were married. I have also made it for house guests and friends. It is always a hit!

Ingredients:
1 tsp butter
8 oz sausage (crumbed) (I use 1/2 tube of spicy sausage and 1/2 of regular - more han 8 oz)
1 lb mushrooms (sliced)
pepper
3 oz cream cheese (I use a little more - never hurts, right?)
1/2 lb ricotta
1/2 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
9 large eggs
1/2 lb monterey jack cheese
1/4 lb sharp cheddar
2 cups chopped green onion

Butter a 9x13 pan. In skillet brown sausage, mushrooms, and seasonings. Let that cool. Mix soft cheeses, stir in flour, baking powder, salt, and eggs. Stir in sausage, mushrooms, grated cheeses, and onion. Pour into pan, refrigerate for 12 hours. Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes.

Jill

Pumpkin Muffins

These are our all time favorite muffin. Lucas asks for these all of the time. The recipe came from Rosemarie (once again) although I think it may actually be Doris's recipe? Anyhoo, it came from the Miller family.

Ingredients
3 cups sugar
1 cup oil
4 egg
beat together and add 2 cups (15 oz can) of pumpkin
2/3 cup water
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
dash clovesand ginger
3 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda

mix sugar, oil, eggs, pumpkin, and water. then, sift together salt, cinnamon, nutmeg,cloves, ginger, flour, baking soda in seperate bowl.
Add dry mixture to liquid mixture and beat. Bake in greased and floured muffins pans (or lined with muffin cups) at 350 degrees for 18 minutes.

Jill

Bacon and Egg Casserole

I love breakfast casseroles! I have the most fun preparing breakfast/brunch foods to serve at our home. I made this for my good friends Christy and Emily at one of our monthly (if we are lucky) get togethers. I loved it and I think they enjoyed it too!

Ingredients:
•6 large eggs
•1 3/4 cups milk
•4 slices bread, torn or 3 croissants, sliced and torn into 1-inch pieces
•8 to 12 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
•10 to 15 sliced grape tomatoes or 2 small tomatoes, diced
•1 1/2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
•salt and pepper
Preparation:
Heat oven to 350°. Butter a 2-quart baking dish.
Whisk eggs with milk in a bowl; set aside.

Arrange torn bread over the bottom of the buttered baking dish. Sprinkle with the bacon pieces and tomato slices. Top with Cheddar cheese then pour the egg mixture evenly over the top. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until puffy and lightly browned.

Jill

Magic Marshmallow Crescent Puffs

Magic Marshmallow Crescent Puffs
¼ c sugar
2 TBS all purpose flour
1 tsp cinnamon
2 (8oz) can refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
16 large marshmallows
¼ c melted butter or margarine

Heat oven to 375. In a small bowl combine sugar, flour and cinnamon. Dip one marshmallow in melted butter; roll in sugar mixture. Place marshmallow on wide end of triangle. Roll up starting at wide end and rolling to opposite point. Completely cover marshmallow with dough; firmly pinch edges to seal. Dip one end in remaining margarine and place margarine side down in ungreased large muffin cups. Repeat with remaining marshmallows. Bake at 375 for 12-15 min.. Immediately remove from muffin cups; cool on wire racks over wax paper. Drizzle glaze over warm rolls. Sprinkle with nuts, if desired
Glaze: ½ c powdered sugar, ½ tsp vanilla, 2-3 tsp milk Mix

Mom gave me this recipe and now this is requested at all sleepovers and slumber parties. The kids love to make it and snack on marshmallows while preparing.

Marney