Breakfast Casserole

Hashbrowns Eggs Milk Cheese Sausage Salt Pepper Easy. Easy. Easy. As long as you have an hour to spare to let it bake. I make this casserole with the rectangle hashbrowns like you'd get at McDonalds. I also use sausage crumbles. Yes, you can buy ready to go sausage crumbles. Big time saver. I'm not really going to give any measurements here because you can make this dish for two or 10. Totally just depends on how much you want. I put a layer of hashbrowns on the bottom of the baking dish I want to use, then a layer/scattering of sausage crumbles, layer of cheese, eggs (mixed with milk, salt, and pepper), you want enough of the egg mixture to fully cover everything. Cook on 350 degrees for 1 hour. *I've made this for a large group of people = they loved it. And I make this at least a couple times a month for breakfast at home with just the Bebe and my husband. (This recipe I found on a blog. I will give credit as soon as I come across it again. As always I adapted it to my liking.)

Chicken Nuggets

2 chicken breasts, cut into bite sized pieces

1 egg

1 cup of milk

1 1/2 cups flour

1/8 cup powdered sugar

2 tsp. salt

1 1/2 tsp. pepper

1/2 tsp. paprika

Peanut oil or canola oil for frying (I used canola)

Once the chicken is cut into bite size pieces place in a bowl with the egg and milk.

Prepare everything else while your chicken sits in the fridge.  Mix all other ingredients together in a gallon size bag (minus the oil which is for frying) and shake.  When ready to cook pick out pieces of chicken from the egg/milk mixture and place these chicken pieces in the ziplock bag with the flour mixture.  Shake.  

Fry your nuggets for about 5 minutes.  I do it simply on how they look.  We like ours a little crispier so we usually go towards the longer end of time.  Then we just set the nuggets on a paper towel to soak up all the excess oil. 

**My husband loves this recipe! 

Definitely enjoy these nuggets with the homemade Chick-fil-a Sauce!

(Recipe found at tablefortwoblog.com)

Chick-fil-a Sauce

1/2 cup mayo

2 tbsp. mustard

1/2 tsp. garlic powder

1 tbsp. vinegar

2 tbsp. honey

Salt and pepper, to taste

Stir all ingredients together.  Simple as that.

This makes a lot, so I try to to fourth the recipe sometimes because it's just my husband and I eating.

*Yum!  Goes perfectly with some homemade nuggets.

(Recipe found through tablefortwoblog.com)

Baked Oatmeal Muffins

Baked Oatmeal Muffins

Ingredients:

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups applesauce

1 banana (mashed)

5 cups Old Fashioned Oats

½ cup honey

1 Tablespoon cinnamon

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

2 ¾ cup milk

Cupcake liners

*Mix-in’s of your choosing: chocolate chips, raisins, craisins, blueberries, etc…

Directions:

1.      Preheat oven to 350 degrees

2.     Mix eggs, vanilla, applesauce, banana, and honey in a bowl.

3.     Add in oats, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt.  Mix well.

4.     Pour in Milk.  Stir.

5.     You can mix in your choosing of items now if you want them all the same or you can wait until you fill your cupcake tins and sprinkle on top.  (I just added chocolate chips to the whole batch and sprinkled a few craisins on top of some)

6.     Pour mixture into muffin pan.  Use cupcake liners!  You may even want to spray the cupcake liners with cooking spray.  They stick really bad, so either way, with our without cooking spray, use cupcake liners.   **Mixture will look very runny.  Don’t worry.  It will not be runny after cooking time.  These also do not rise much, if at all, so you can fill the muffin tin pretty close to the top.  I believe I was able to make around 20 muffins with this recipe depending on how high you fill each cup.

7.     Bake 30 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.  Cool and enjoy or freeze in a gallon freezer baggie.

If frozen- pop a single muffin into the microwave about 30 seconds.  If heating up more than one at a time, more time will need to be added.

*This is a favorite of Madelyn's for breakfast!

(Recipe adapted from sugarfreemom.com)