Maybe Blue does have a clue

My oldest brought home a recipe from a friend's Blue's Clue's book the other day. We had all of the ingredients on hand, so I figured "why not?" Well, it turns out they were really yummy!

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Blue's Banana Muffins

Ingredients:

3 large bananas

1 1/2 c flour

1 c brown sugar

1/2 c butter

2 eggs

1/4 c sour cream

1/4 t salt

1 t vanilla

1 t baking soda

1 1/2 t baking powder

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350. Spray muffin pan.

2. Cream together butter and sugar.

3. Add sour cream, eggs, mashed bananas, and vanilla to butter mixture.

4. Mix all dry ingredients in separate bowl and add to butter mixture.

5. Pour batter into muffin tins.

6. Bake for 20-30 minutes until muffins are golden brown and spring back to the touch.

Cinnamon Rolls for dinner...no one complained :)

I don't know if cinnamon rolls are actually difficult to make from scratch or not, but I can tell you that this recipe below is VERY easy. I don't like nuts on almost anything, so I left those off (probably another reason my kids didn't complain about dinner....bread, sugar, cinnamon. I mean, it was basically like a dessert on your dinner plate as the main course.)

The Meal:
Pull-Apart Sticky Buns
Bacon
Eggs
*(Smoothies)
Blueberries and Grapes

*We almost always have smoothies whenever we have breakfast for dinner, but I totally forgot about them. PLUS, tomorrow is grocery day for me this week, and we needed to finish off the grapes and blueberries from the produce drawer...so it all worked out :)
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Pull-Apart Sticky Buns

Ingredients:
1/4 c chopped pecans
1/2 c sugar
1 t ground cinnamon
1 (11 oz) package refrigerated breadsticks
3T butter

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Melt butter
3. Combine pecans, sugar, and cinnamon in mixing bowl and mix.
4. Unroll dough and separate into 8 strips.
5. Dip strips in butter and then coat with pecan mixture.
6. Roll dough up into spiral roll shape and place in greased baking dish.
7. Sprinkle any leftover pecan mixture over top of rolls.
8. Bake 20-25 minutes.

Banana Bread

Ready for a yummy, EASY recipe that is oh-so-NOT-good for you?? You can certainly make this one healthier by using less sugar and/or replacing the shortening with regular butter (and probably other things, but I wouldn't know because I'm NOT a cook at heart, remember??)

Banana Bread

Ingredients:
1 3/4 c flour
1 1/4 t baking powder
3/4 t salt
1/2 t baking soda
2/3 c sugar
1/3 c shortening (Crisco)
2 eggs
2 T milk
3-4 ripe bananas, mashed

Instructions:
1. Stir flour, baking powder, salt, and soda in small bowl. Set aside.
2. Mix shortening and sugar with a mixer in a large bowl.
3. Add eggs and milk to shortening mixture. Beat until smooth.
4. Add 1/2 of the flour mixture to the shortening mixture and blend with beaters.
5. Add 1/2 of the bananas, then the rest of the flour and rest of the bananas. Beat well.
6. Lightly grease 8x8 pan (or bread pan, but 8x8 pans work the best for me when getting this thing done all the way through.)
7. Bake at 350 about 30 minutes. (Just stick a fork in the middle to make sure it comes out clean, letting you know it's cooked all the way.)

I serve this with lunch, as a snack, or even as dessert!! My kids act like I'm giving them brownies :)