Category: Breakfast and Brunch

Banana Bread Two Ways

Breads and Muffins, Breakfast and Brunch

Over ripe bananas call for a little baking! Decided to try it two new ways! Happy Sunday!

Ingredients

For the bread:
    • 3 over-ripe bananas, smashed up
    • 1/3 cup melted butter
    • 3/4 cup sugar
    • 1 egg, beaten
    • 1 tsp vanilla
    • 1 tsp baking soda
    • dash of salt
    • 1 1/2 cups flour
Cinnamon Swirl: 1/3 cup sugar and 1 Tbs cinnamon
Blueberry: 1 cup of fresh blueberries

Directions for the Cinnamon Swirl Bread-

  1. Preheat oven to 350. Butter and four a loaf pan. These would be great in muffin tins as well.
  2. Mix bananas, butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla together. sprinkle baking soda and salt around on top of the banana mixture. Then gently stir in flour. Be careful not to over-mix!
  3. In a small dish, mix together the 1/3 cup sugar and 1 Tbs cinnamon.
  4. Add 1/2 of the batter to the loaf pan and then sprinkle half, or a little more than half of the cinnamon-sugar mixture all over the batter in the pan. Add the rest of the batter, and then sprinkle the leftover cinnamon-sugar on top.
  5. Bake for 50-60 minutes, but remember, if you’re using a different-sized loaf pan, be careful and keep a close eyeball on it!

Directions for the Blueberry Bread

  1. Preheat oven to 350. Butter and four a loaf pan. These would be great in muffin tins as well.
  2. Mix butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla and baking soda together. Then gently stir in flour. Be careful not to over-mix!
  3. Gently stir in blueberries
  4. Bake for 50-60 minutes.

Apple Cinnamon Bread Pudding

Breads and Muffins, Breakfast and Brunch

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So yummy! The girls gobbled up an entire spoonful! Serve with ice cream for an amazing dessert or warm for a yummy breakfast…

Apple Cinnamon Bread Pudding

Ingredients
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter, more for greasing pan
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
⅓ cup sugar
Pinch salt
½ loaf sweet egg bread, cubed-  I used apple bread 
2 eggs, beaten

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a medium sized baking dish and fill it with bread.

2. In a small saucepan over low heat, warm milk, butter, vanilla, sugar and salt. Continue cooking just until butter melts; cool.

2. Add eggs to cooled milk mixture and whisk; pour mixture over bread. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes, or until custard is set and the edges of bread have browned. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Weekend Wrap-Up and a Yummy Monday Brunch

Breakfast and Brunch, Eggs, Vegetarian, Weekend Wrap-Up

Good morning, friends! I hope everyone had a GREAT weekend!

Friday we had a great time at the pool. The girls had a blast with lots of the neighborhood kids.

 

Then the girls had a slumber party with a few friends. They had a blast!

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Then they slept over with my parents. The hubby and I had a great time with some friends at the house. I made my “famous” enchiladas. It is nice to hang with family friends without kids every once in a while.

Then yesterday, my parents met us at Texas Roadhouse for dinner to celebrate the hubby’s birthday! Their filet is to die for! We started with some yummy potato skins. img_4388

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Now on to the brunch I made this morning…

Sunny Side Up Eggs with Sauteed Mini Heirloom Tomatoes

I got some amazing tomatoes this week at the farmer’s market. I mean…July is the BEST for tomatoes! I took a couple of handfuls of those beauties and cooked them in a bit of olive oil with a good pinch of salt and pepper. I covered them with a lid and just let those babies pop and char for a good 5 minutes. I toasted some English muffins and made my sunny side up eggs.


I topped the English muffins with an egg and some of those gorgeous tomatoes!

PERFECTION! 

Leftover Loving-Arugula, Goat Cheese, and Apple Fritatta

Breakfast and Brunch, Eggs, Leftovers/ Freezer Meals

So I am not paid to endorse Blue Apron ( I will if they are reading this, hint, hint), but I really have enjoyed the meals so far. This is my families favorite…011

Roast Pork and Smashed Potatoes.  I really don’t want to be sued, so let’s just say that I followed the recipe to a tee.  I basically roasted the pork in a cast iron pan with a special spice blend. I cooked some small potatoes,  smashed them, and roasted them in the pork pan. I made a side salad of arugula, walnuts, apples and goat cheese. It was all amazing!

I was the only one who ate the salad. DUH! But I made this beautiful healthy frittata…

Arugula, Goat Cheese, and Apple Fritatta- I really just added all the ingredients of the salad above with a few chopped mushrooms, 1/2 chopped pepper, grated Parmesan cheese, and 8 eggs. This picture does not describe the beauty of this masterpiece. Wilted Arugula mixed with eggs and cheese is a thing of beauty. I ate a piece for breakfast cold with a bit of Cholula on top. YUM!!!!!!!

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