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.

Overnight French Toast

Ingredients:
1/2 loaf white bread
4 eggs
1 c milk
2 T sugar
1/2 t vanilla
cinnamon
(powdered sugar for dusting)

Instructions:
1. Spray pan and lay one row of bread down. Cover with egg mixture.
2. Repeat until all bread is covered.
3. Soak overnight (or all day) in fridge.
4. Bake at 400 for 30 minutes.

Another meal without a recipe

After all, meals without recipes are some of my favorite!! ;) The downside to most of my "meals without recipes" is that they are usually quite unhealthy. Take this one for instance...

Biscuits with Sausage Gravy, Scrambled Eggs, and Smoothies!

For the biscuits, I used Pillsbury refrigerated southern style biscuits. Put them on the pan, bake for 13 minutes, done.

For the gravy, I used Pioneer Brand's Country sausage flavor gravy mix. It's with all of the soup packages in an envelope. All you have to add is water. Hold on, I'm not done with the unhealthy stuff yet...

I added Jimmy Dean refrigerated sausage crumbles to the gravy. They come in a package, cooked for you, and ready to be re-heated. Awesome.

So I put the biscuits in the oven, made the gravy, re-heated the sausage and mixed it up in the gravy, scrambled the eggs, and made smoothies with (yes, packaged) Jamba smoothie frozen fruits and apple juice. Then, I put it all on the table with jelly, honey, and butter for self-serving...and while the boys doused their biscuits in honey, I enjoyed a nice, hot biscuit with sausage gravy, yummy scrambled eggs, and a scrumptious smoothie to top it all off.

Oven Baked Fritatta

Ingredients:
8 eggs
3/4 c milk
dash of pepper and garlic powder
1 c shredded cheese
2 c diced ham
(any other omelet-type ingredients: sausage, spinach, etc.)

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Mix 8 eggs, milk, pepper, and garlic powder in a bowl. Whisk together.
3. Layer other ingredients in a greased 9" pie dish.
4. Pour egg mixture over layered ingredients.
5. Bake for 40 minutes to 1 hour.

Helps:
Once the eggs start to "puff up" in the baking process, you might need to press down the "toppings" lightly with a fork.
::The top of the fritatta should be a nice brown color. Stick a knife/fork down the center and make sure it comes out clean.

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.

Breakfast...it's what's for dinner!

Tonight...

Sausage Egg Casserole

Blueberry Muffins

Smoothies: 1 banana (sliced), bag of frozen mixed fruit, 1 cup apple juice

Crustless Egg Casserole

Ingredients:
bacon, 8 pieces (and/or sausage)
1 1/2 c milk
1/2 c biscuit mix
3 eggs
1/4 c butter, melted
1 c cheddar cheese
salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions:
1. Cook bacon and break into pieces
2. Combine remaining ingredients in a bowl, mix with a whisk, and pour into greased 9" pie pan.
3. Sprinkle bacon and 1 c cheddar cheese on top. Use fork to push down in.
4. Bake at 350 for 30-45 minutes.

Sausage Egg Casserole

Ingredients:
12 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 lbs. ground breakfast sausage
16 oz. shredded cheddar cheese

7 slices bread, torn into pieces

Instructions:
1. Brown sausage, crumble, and drain.
2. Pour eggs in greased 9x13 dish.
3. In bowl, mix sausage, bread, and 12 oz. cheese. Pour into eggs.
4. Top with remaining cheese.
5. Cover with foil and bake at 350 for 15 minutes.
6. Uncover and bake until brown and bubbly.