::Sunday Breakfast Casserole::

Did I ever mention that breakfast is my favorite meal of the day? I eat breakfast pretty much every morning. It's nothing fancy; normally toast and fruit. However, I love 'breakfast' foods; pancakes, french toast, caramel or cinnamon rolls, you name it, call it breakfast and I love it. Egg bake, which is what this casserole pretty much is, is something that my grandma makes alot of times when we stay at her house. This isn't her recipe, but when I was looking through a cookbook (Braddock 125th) I came upon this recipe and thought it sounded fabulous. It was tastey and i'm sure no where near healthy. Is a recipe that calls for a dozen eggs ever healthy?! But anyways, moderation, right? This recipe is easy to make and makes the house smell like all kinds of wonderful. Enjoy!

I had this in the freezer so this is what I used for the meat.


Gotta love potatoes!

...onions...

...and peppers too!...

The recipe calls for 1/2 cup of green peppers but I used a cup of a mixture of these.

Pretty!

Once again, my favorite baking dish! Some where in the future maybe i'll have enough followers to give away something like this?!

Eggs! Eggs! Eggs!

Milk.

On a side note, I was going through the fridge and realized in the past couples days I have bought 5 pkgs cream cheese and tons of cream! I better get on to baking something!

The mix of milk and eggs.

I used mexican and cheddar cheese.

The recipe says to brown the ^above^...but just saute until tender.

Then add the meat...or tofu. hahahhaha

back to the cheese...I used a heaping cup full in the mixture.

I also added a couple shakes of the ^above^

I also didn't let the hash brown unthaw and added them to the egg mixture right away.

...all mixed in!

Meat mixture ready to be added.

Ready for the pan.

Now ready for the cheese.

Parsley and cheese on top and now ready for the oven!

Close up.

All done! For me, at 40minutes it wasn't done, so I baked for about another 15 minutes. It will be done when it doesn't "jiggle" when you shake the pan.

MMMMMMMM!

...and more...MMMMMMMMMMM!


Eat with a little salsa.

or

Eat with a little ketchup.

or

Melt a little velveeta and hot sauce and serve. (since i went with the Jimmy Dean 'HOT' sausage type)

::Tortilla Roll Ups::

Made tacos and have tortillas left over that you don't know what to do with (besides put cheese on them and melt them in the microwave)? Still not sure of what to bring to your 4th of July get-together? Just want to make a finger food to have on a hand for a little snack? Well, this is it!

I looked at a bunch of different recipes and then put some of the ingredients together and came up with my own. This recipe is super easy, simple, and doesn't take long to make; not to mention super good! Enjoy!

::Tortilla Roll Ups::

Tortillas

1 (80z) pkg cream cheese

1/2 cup sour cream

1 cup cheese of your choice (mexican would be good for this, but I just had cheddar on hand)

Taco seasoning

Ranch seasoning

Garlic Powder

Onion Powder

1 sm can green chiles

1/2 sm can jalapeno peppers (add the whole can if want more spicy)

1 sm can chopped olives

1/2 cup finely chopped purple onion

Beat cream cheese until smooth and then beat in sour cream until smooth. Stir in the rest of the ingredients and spread a large spoonfil onto a tortilla. Roll up and slice. Place on plate or serving tray, cover, and refrigerate. Then, serve, devour, and enjoy!

This recipe is easy and can be also very versatile. If there is another ingredient you want to add, go ahead and try it! Also, if you want more spice, add more jalapenos or spices..just enjoy!

Ready for a beatin'...

Sour cream.

Cream cheese all blended.


Cream cheese & sour cream blended and ready for the rest...

Green chiles.

Add the ingredients and then sprinkle with a generous of the taco seasoning, ranch seasoning, and then a couple sprinkles of the garlic and onion powder.

Purple onion...pretty!

All mixed up and ready for the tortilla.

The tortilla ready for the action.

Spread on the tortilla.

All rolled up!

Sliced and lookin' so yummy!

Pretty to serve too!

Platefull!

More of the action!

::Fruit Pizza::

::Fruit Pizza:: ...I don't even know where to start with you. Besides that you make my Top 5 Favorite food list. I'm more of a person who likes to have small snacks throughout the day instead of three large meals. So, my favorite foods aren't usually meatballs and gravy with mashed potatoes, but are things like ::Fruit Pizza:: , popcorn, etc.

::Fruit Pizza:: is one of my favorites because I LOVE fruit and mostly all kinds of fruit! ::Fruit Pizza:: also has a nice crust, with a cream cheese type of layer, lots of fruit, and then one of the best parts...the glaze! You know how you grow up with something and that is the way you always like it? Well that goes for me and the crust of this ::Fruit Pizza:: . I have had fruit pizza that has been made with a fun fetti cake mix in the crust as well as a sugar cookie dough crust; I don't mean to offend anyone, but I like the crust of this ::Fruit Pizza:: recipe the best, but that goes to this being the crust that my mom and one aunt usually made. Anyways, done about the crust!

On Facebook, I posted in my status what recipes people would like to see on the blog. I got requests for recipes with fruits that are in season and also one specifically for fruit pizza. So, since this ::Fruit Pizza:: is my favorite and since there are so many good fruits in season now, how perfect to post this!

Anyways, I hope that everyone is having a happy Friday and is going to enjoy their weekend! Thank you to my mom for my favorite ::Fruit Pizza:: recipe. Also, how appropriate, it's her birthday tomorrow!

Enjoy!

::Fruit Pizza::

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup powdered sugar

2 cups flour

For the crust: beat the butter and then add the powdered sugar and then the flour. Press into the bottom of a jelly-roll sized pan (I usually use a size thats a little smaller than that, but I didn't have the pan since it held the ::Nutter Butter Balls:: that I gave awway). Bake at 300 degrees for about 20-25 minutes. Cool.

10 oz vanilla chips (I always use the white chocolate chips)

1/4 cup cream

8 oz pkg cream cheese

For the middle layer: in the microwave melt the cream and vanilla chips together, stirring often. Once done, beat in the cream cheese until smooth and spread evenly over the cooled crust. I place this back into the fridge while I am preparing (washing, slicing) the fruit.

Use whatever fruit you like!

1 cup sugar

4 T corn starch

2 cups pineapple juice

2 tsp. lemon juice

For the glaze: place all ingredients into a saucepan and cook over meadium heat until thick. Cool. Then spread over fruit, covering all fruit.

Crust ingredients.

Beat the butter a little.

Add the powdered sugar and beat a little.


Then add the flour and beat.


Done and ready for the pan!

Like I said earlier, I usually used a pan that was a little smaller than this. But this works great too!

Crust evenly spread and ready for the 300 degree oven!

Ingredients for the middle layer.

Melt this in the microwave and stir frequently until smooth.

Fresh fruit!

Ingredients for the glaze!

Crust all baked up!

Middle layer ready!

...and spread on the crust.

I also use some of the canned pineapple from when I use the juice for the glaze.

You need a couple cans to get the amount of juice or else just buy the regular pineapple juice.

Jamyson loves kiwi on it.

Peaches & nectarines.

Pluots. AKA Dinasaur eggs. Super tastey!

Strawberries!

Grapes!
I did have a request for a recipe with mangos. I have to do some research on that one but mangos would be great on here too!

Star spreading out the fruit!....

Add more and it gets prettier....

...and prettier...

...and prettier...

...and prettier! Until it's so pretty you can't wait to serve it and eat it!

Close up!

Now onto the glaze!

According to my recipe it's a fourth of what I posted on here. Thats how much I increased the amount of glaze byl because you want it to cover all the fruit and not to mention it is so yummy!

Want to make this for the 4th of July? Just use strawberries and blueberries to make a flag!

Enjoy!