Recipe Review: Breakfast Bacon Egg Cups

 

After seeing these yummy egg cups on pinterest I had to try them! They are super easy to make.

 

Ingredients:

Eggs

Spices and seasonings (I used seasoned pepper and garlic salt)

Bacon

Shredded Cheese

A muffin tin (not that this is an ingredient!)

 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2.  In your muffin/cupcake tin wrap the bacon around the circular edge

3. Wisk together 1 egg for each tin and add your seasoning. I added a splash of almond milk but I think this might have made it too runny there it got messy in the tin.

4. Pour the egg mixture into the bacon wrapped tin

5. Top with shredded cheese

6. Repeat in each tin for the number you want to make. The nice thing about this is you can make 2 or 3 for yourself or a whole tin for a larger group.

7. Bake for 30-35 minutes

8. Let cool and pop the bacon egg muffins out and onto your plate.

9. Enjoy!

 

Recipe Review: Crunchy Parmesan Ranch Chicken

I just posted a recipe for the Crispy Chicken a few weeks back. I loved that recipe and have since found a similar one. I just made it and it is oh so delicious! Thanks to Erin from How to Nest for Less for providing such a yummy recipe I found on Pinterest! It’s a very easy and quick recipe to make.

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cups crushed cornflakes
• 3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 packet dry Ranch dressing mix
• 1.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 1/4 cup butter or margarine – melted

DIRECTIONS:
Mix together crushed cornflakes, parmesan cheese and ranch powder package in a container large enough to put your chicken pieces in.
Cut chicken breasts in strips (or chunks) and dip in butter. Then coat with parmesan cheese, ranch and cornflake mixture. Try to cover nearly all the surfaces.
Either place chicken on a baking stone, or in a pan sprayed with olive or vegetable oil. If there are bare spots that the mixture hasn’t fully covered, you can always sprinkle another layer of the mixture on top. Depending on the size and thickness of your pieces, you will bake for 20- 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Just be sure the chicken is cooked through.
I thought the chicken turned out amazing! I used fresh parmesan cheese which I think made it a bit too greasy. In the original recipe she used Kraft parmesan cheese which is pretty dry and powdering so I would suggest trying this type of parmesan cheese versus the shredded fresh cheese that is next to the cheddar shredded cheeses. I also think the greasiness could have been from dipping this in butter, next time I will use egg whites, much healthier!

Recipe Review: Muddy Buddies

I was first introduced to this thing called muddy buddies by a dear friend of mine back in high school. I had never heard of such a thing or tried them, but after I did, I was in love with this sweet treat! I got the urge to make some muddy buddies, so I found the recipe, got the ingredients and whipped it up!

Gather your ingredients:
9 cups of any Chex brand cereal, I used Corn Chex
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar


1. Pour 9 cups of chex cereal into a large bowl
2. In a microwaveable bowl combine chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter

3. Microwave for 1 minute. Stir. Microwave another 30 seconds or until mixture stirs smooth. This time greatly depends on the power of your microwave
4. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla to mixture and stir well
5. Pour the mixture over the cereal in the bowl and stir well until all pieces are evenly coated

6. Pour the mixture into two gallon size Ziploc bags, splitting evenly
7. Add 3/4 cup powdered sugar into each Ziploc bag
8. Seal the bag well then shake until all the pieces are evenly coated in the powder

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9. Remove from bag and store in airtight container. You don't want to leave it in the same bags as they have chocolate and powder all over them!
Enjoy your treats! They are seriously delicious!

Recipe adapted from Betty Crocker


What have you been making lately? Any recipes you suggest I try or want me to review? I would love your suggestions!

Look what I stumbled upon

I just found a few really cool websites. First if you haven't heard of stumbleupon.com you must go to it as soon as you are done reading this post. You simply enter in your interests and it finds websites, blogs and videos that may be of interest to you. You can then thumb up or down the finds just like Pandora. The second page it took me to was craftgawker.com which has some seriously cool ideas and projects. Whats even better is the multiple "Gawker" sites: dwellinggawker.com (I really fell in love with this one), foodgawker.com and weddinggawker.com. They all have amazing photos ( I think thats why I love them so much!)

 Photo from dwellinggaker.com originally from handmadecharlotte.com

I had the hardest time choosing a photo to share from dwellinggawker because the designs are so incredible and so my taste! It's rare to find a site that is everything you love!