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Monday, February 17, 2014

Biscuit Breakfast Bake




Biscuit Breakfast Bake:



Ingredients:
_ 1 can Grands Biscuits
_ 1/4 cup milk
_ 6 eggs
_ 1 cup shredded cheddar
_1 cup shredded mozzarella
_ 1 lb ground sausage

*Preheat Oven to 350*


Step 1:
Cook the sausage until brown and drain
Step 2:
Cut Biscuits into 8 pieces







Step 3:
Put biscuits into bottom of pan






Step 4:

Put drained sausage over biscuits then top with cheese


Step 5:
Whisk together the eggs and milk



Step 6: Pour eggs over biscuits and sausage













Step 7: Stick it in the Oven! Bake for 35 to 40 minutes on 350

Step 8:
Voila!!!! Eat Up


Biscuit Breakfast Bake:
_ 6 Eggs
_1/4 cup Milk
_ 1 cup shredded mozzarella
_1 cup shredded cheddar
_ 1 lb ground sausage 
_ 1 can Grands Biscuits

Preheat Oven to 350
Cook and Drain Sausage
Cut Biscuits into 8 pieces
Put biscuits into deep baking dish, top with sausage, then shredded cheeses
Whisk together eggs and milk and pour over cheeses
Bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until golden 



Friday, February 14, 2014

Home Made World Showcase Passport for Epcot

So this will be my boys first real trip to Disney, the first time my oldest son went he was 11 months, but now he is 7 years old and this could not be a more perfect time to take him. His excitement is through the roof and if big brother is pumped about something than so is little brother! However I know that I can't guarantee that every moment of Disney will be "magical", as much as I would like to contest that. I know that Epcot is not the most exciting park for kids, but with a little creativity I think I can increase the fun factor to at least an 8. I refuse to pay $12 to $20 a piece for two books so that my boys can get a stamp.....Now I am not totally mean, I wouldn't dare rob them of the World Showcase Experience, I just want to give it to them at a lesser price and customize it  a bit. So after a little bit of "Pinteresting" I found an amazing Photo Bucket Site with a full World Showcase Passport that you can print out. 
Click the Photo 
Not to mention each country has a custom Mickey, adorned in country appropriate attire with a matching Tinkerbell.


So here is what I did, I went to Michael's (craft store) and bought 2 4x6 clear plastic photo books for $1.00 a piece and 1 pack of card stock. I spent $7 total. I printed each one twice size 4x6 on one piece of card stock and stuck those bad boys in the photo album.  Voila! The kids each have a passport that they can have stamped and an extra page. My hope for this extra page is to get a Cast Member from each country to write the boys a message in the different languages or even their names. It will give them a goal at each country while me and daddy eat and drink our way around the world.
Want the other countries?



Let the Disney Obsession Begin

Ahhh in just 7 short months I will be in the happiest place on Earth with my the hubs and my two gremlins. Any vacation in my near future inspires this crazy person to fester inside of me and create The Trip Folder, but a trip to Disney World creates a whole nother monster.....Duh Duh Duh (pause for effect) The Magical Disney Vacation Binder! It also morphs the crazy person into an obsessive freak that thinks of nothing but the pending Disney trip and all things Disney, thus dragging everyone in her path down in to the sparkly Disney hole. Now I know that I am not the only one of me out there, various Google and Pinterest searches have proven that, but let's be honest. Not all Disney vacations were created equal and you can't have too much Disney information. So I will spend the next 7 months sharing my OCDD (Obsessive Compulsive Disney Disorder) with you. I will discuss topics like packing lists, meal planning, pre-trip shopping tips, and of course The Magical Disney Vacation Binder and all of it's components. Note: This is my first official attempt at blogging so I am not completely up to date on my blogging etiquette so please feel free to share constructive criticism in the comments. 
As for now I will leave you with a link to my Disney Pinterest Page so that you can see my research so far. 
http://www.pinterest.com/kristilland/disney/

Monday, February 13, 2012

Roo is 5!

Sweets and Skating!
Birthday Boy and his candy cake



Candy Bar

Candy Cake


BooBoo's is 1!!!!!

Mommy's Little Monster Turns 1!








Superbowl Sunday

Buffalo Balls and Fried Pickles

Fried Pickles


Buffalo Balls

Ratings:
Me: The yumminess is worth my house stinking
Hubs: If its fried I love it
Kids: "I don't like pickles" "These are too spicey"
Friends: "Where did you find this little peice of Heaven"


Recipe Fried Pickles:

Ingredients:
- 1 jar sliced dill pickles
- 1 small bag white cornmeal with flour mixed in (amount will vary depending on how many pickles you want to fry)
- Lowry's Seasoning Salt (to taste)
- Vegetable Oil (for frying)

Steps:
1. Drain pickles and pat dry with a paper towel
2. Pour 1 cup cornmeal into ziploc bag and Sprinkle Lowry's in, genourously.
3. Dump pickles into bag and shake em up, shake off excess mixture before cooking
4. Heat Oil in a deep pot to 350, but for those of you who don't know to measure the temperature of oil just set your stove top to medium. You will smell the oil heating up.
5. Drop the pickles in and flip after 1 minute, the cornmeal will turn golden when they are done.
6. Drain on to a paper towel

Tips:
* The pickles must be drained and dried off thouroughly otherwise your batter will become gummy
* If you plan to fry anything else with this oil, save these for last, the batter tends to separate from the pickles leaving cornmeal in the oil, you don't want that getting on anything else.
* A great way to test to see if oil is heated is to drop a pinch of flour into the oil, if it sizzles then you're ready to go, if it doesn't do anything give it another couple of minutes.
* To make sure you have enough seasoning in your flour mixture, taste it! That's right taste it! If you can taste the salt, you're good.

Not ready yet....another minute!




Recipe Buffalo Balls:
I can't take all the credit for these amazong little bites, I actually saw these on an episode of Big Daddy's House in my hotel room while on a business trip. I came home and immediatly made them. Then I I kept having Buffalo Chicken Dip at various party's so I decided to merge the 2. If you would like to watch Aaron McCargo's video for his recipe please visit: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/aaron-mccargo-jr/buffalo-chicken-cheese-balls-recipe/index.html

Ingredients:
- 1 rotisserie chicken
-1/4 cup Frank's Hot Sauce
-2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese
-1 8 oz cream cheese cubed
- garlic salt
-onion powder
- salt
-pepper
-1 cup ap flour
-3 eggs beaten
- 2 T milk
- 1 box Progresso Panko Bread Crumbs


Steps:
1. Remove as much meat as possible from the chicken and dump it in the food processor, blend until chicken is fine chopped
2. Pour chicken into a large bowl and mix with hot sauce, both cheeses, and seasonings. Blend well, mixture will be orange in color.
3. Roll mixture into 1 inch balls and place on a sheet pan.
4. Heat oil in a large pot to 350 degrees or medium to med high
5. Beat eggs and milk together in one bowl, in another bowl pour in flour, and finally put panko into another bowl. So you should have 3 dredging bowls.
6. Roll each ball into the flour first, then egg batter, and finally panko bread crumbs.
7. Drop into hot oil for 3 to 4 minutes each or until golden brown. Filling should ooze out when done.
Drain on paper towels.

Tips:
* Refrigerate the chicken over night before removing it from the bones, it makes it much easier to pull off.
* you can sub canned chicken or chicken breasts for the rotisserie chicken, however you will need to compensate for the flavor you will missing so season the chicken.
Before going into the hot oil

Cook until golden
Yum!


Mo's French Toast~ for the birthday boy

Mo's French Toast


Ratings:
Me: I could eat this every morning
Hubs: He ate 2 pieces before I could put the bacon in the microwave
Kids: The baby was covered in syrup and the birthday boy wanted more sugar and syrup
There were NO leftovers






Ingredients:
- Eggs (1 egg will coat 2 pieces of bread front and back)
- Milk (use 1 TBSP per egg)
-Bread (I usually fix 2 pieces per person)
-Cinnamon
-Butter
- Powdered Sugar
-Syrup



Steps:
1. Beat together eggs, milk and cinnamon in a shallow dish until well blended
2. Heat butter in a skillet, enough to coat the bottom when melted
3. Dip both sides of the bread into the egg batter and place in the skillet
4. Cook bread on both sides until eggs are cooked and toast is no longer mushy
5. Top with Syrup, Powdered Sugar and more cinnamon!





A little more:
* This may seem like a "duh" recipe but surprisingly not a lot of people know how to make french toast.  Plus the secret to making this recipe so special is putting the cinnamon in the egg batter so that it cooks into the bread. My mom used to fix this every birthday when I was little and now I am passing the tradition to my boys.
* If you don't like for your bread to be too eggy add some more milk to the batter, but I love it so I save the eggy pieces for me :)
* If you don't want your powdered sugar to slide off of your bread then put it on before the syrup
* Nothing goes better with Mo's French Toast than some crispy bacon dipped in syrup of course!

 
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