Easy like a Sunday morning

6 large eggs

1 cup favorite cheese ( I used colby )

1 tablespoon ricotta cheese

salt

pepper

thyme

3-4 pieces of cooked bacon chopped

Wisk together all ingredients.

Grease with olive oil 3 of the holes in an extra large muffin tin.  Fill empty holes with 1/4 cup water.  Bake in a 350 degree preheated oven for approximately 20 minutes.  

ENJOY!!!

Always have a back up plan.

Day two of our three day weekend and I got up to make Blueberry Waffles.   mmmmmm

I love pancakes, who doesn't?  But I have a confession to make... I have still not mastered the art of pancake making.  (hanging head in shame)  It has been on my list of things to do but why worry about it when I can make Waffles!! Right??  I equally LOVE waffles and they always turn out great.

Well, after today, learning to make pancakes moved up to the top 5.

I got all of the ingredients together and plugged in the waffle iron to pre heat it.  It wouldn't work!!  It was dead!!  I was devastated!! I broke the news to my husband who is the only other one up until now that knew I always mess up pancakes and he was devastated also.  His juice was poured, he had his coffee and he thought he was going to get Blueberry Waffles.

When I said 'I'll just make pancakes' a hush fell over the room.  My husbands smile disappeared.   I so  desperately wanted to save the day.  I wanted to turn that delicious blueberry waffle batter into fantastic pancakes.

I preheated the cast iron skillet, poured in batter and watched.  My husband watched.  They looked good.  They smelled good.  But deep inside I was worried.  The few times I had attempted pancakes they looked good and smelled good but ended up either burnt on the outside or was filled with raw batter on the inside.
Would we have a repeat??

We did!!  :-(  The middle was a little raw.  Not much.  Just one mere minute on the griddle probably would have been perfect.  But they were not edible.

So I picked up my ego, held my head high and cooked up some Bacon and eggs. 

I WILL learn to make wonderful light and fluffy pancakes.
I WILL get a new waffle iron.
And I WILL always have bacon and eggs on hand for a back up plan .

Blueberry Muffins - Great for a lazy Sunday!

I did not create this recipe and I have no idea who to give the credit to for it because I have used it for SO long now.  All I can say is I pulled it from a magazine probably 15 years ago.  Thank You to whomever created it because I love it and I'm passing it on hoping others will too.
This recipe makes 1 dozen muffins.

2 Cups all purpose flour
1/2 Cup Sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup cold butter
1 egg
3/4 Cup milk
1 teaspoon grated orange peel
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

Topping
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons cold butter

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.  Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.  In another bowl, combine the egg, milk, orange peel and vanilla;  stir into crumb mixture just until moist.  Gently fold in blueberries.

For topping mixture combine ingredients, cut in the cold butter and mix until it resembles coarse crumbs.

Fill paper lined muffin cups 2/3 full.  Sprinkle on about 1 teaspoon of topping over muffins.

Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes.

ENJOY!!

Coffee Cake Muffins

The dry ingredients for these muffins can be combined the night before baking. In the morning, just add the liquid ingredients and mix.
Another bonus is the variety. You can add a cup of raisins or blueberries or raspberries or diced apples...the list goes on.

1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
1/3 cup oil

GLAZE
1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

In a large bowl combine all (except nuts) dry ingredients. In another bowl beat the egg, milk and oil and stir into dry ingredients just until moist. I added 1 cup of raisins to the batter but get creative. This weekend I'll be making them with diced apples.

Spoon mixture into lined muffin tins and top with chopped nuts.

Bake at 400 for about 20 minutes.
Cool for 5 minutes.
Combine the glaze ingredients and drizzle over muffins.

Makes 1 dozen

The Picture Doesn't Do Them Justice

My husband loves the convenience of Ego's. And no offense to the Ego company but when I actually read the ingredient list to him, his eyebrows did raise a little. So I set out to find a recipe I could make that had more human friendly ingredients. Well, Mom came through for me because these waffles were supper easy and really delicious.

I froze several small ones wrapped in wax paper and a freezer bag so now he can just pop one of these in the toaster and he's actually getting something with real ingredients.

1 3/4 Cup Flour
2 tsp sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt

Add to dry ingredients
2 cups buttermilk
2 eggs

Whip it all together and you can either do pancakes or waffles.