7 Layer Breakfast Casserole is a hearty breakfast dish with seven flavor-filled layers including hash brown potatoes, corn, peppers, bacon, tomato and cheese. Fully Tested Recipe This one took four or five rounds of experimentation (I lost track) for the specific layer configuration. Hash browns on the bottom? The top? What about the bacon? Lots […]
This easy recipe for Oatmeal Breakfast Parfaits is an easy and delicious way to use up leftover oatmeal and start your day off right. Leftover Oatmeal Who knew so many people were having the same problem I was with what to do with leftover oatmeal? My Leftover Oatmeal Cookies recipe is one my most popular […]
This Chocolate Cherry Instant Pot Steel Cut Oats recipe can be done in a flash with the pressure cooker settings or can be cooked overnight with the slow cooker settings. That’s the magic of the Instant Pot. It is so many appliances in one. Know Your Oats It’s important to note that this recipe calls for […]
Adding Bacon and Cheddar to my Fluffy Sour Cream Waffles recipe was a very very good idea. I had breakfast for dinner on the brain when prepping for this week’s Facebook Live so I took my favorite waffles in a savory direction. You’re going to love these Bacon Cheddar Waffles! Calvin and I did. You […]
These Tater Tot and Bacon Breakfast Burritos are much thanks to a housewarming gift from my friend Aaron at Go Lb Salt. He dropped by the Simon Ranchito with BACON!!! His dry cured savory herb bacon was, perhaps, the best housewarming gift ever. So, obviously, it meant that bacon was on the menu for Saturday […]
Want to make breakfast on Christmas morning infinitely less complicated? A hot breakfast, ready to go in the slow cooker is the way to go. This recipe for an overnight breakfast casserole celebrates my favorite southwest flavors with pepper jack cheese and green chiles. Of course, because it’s the holidays, it’s got BACON <3. It […]
Happy Thanksgiving! My sincerest well-wishes to you and yours for a healthy and relatively sane Thanksgiving. Yes, it’s a crazy time, and if ya need a dose of reality to keep you from losing it while spending time with friends and family, don’t forget the Flapping Chicken. Please, let them flap and give yourself permission […]
Donuts are a Saturday morning tradition at my house. Typically we’ll buy them at our favorite local donut shop, but this weekend, we’re enjoying homemade Cookie Butter Cake Donuts. I’ve been tinkering with this recipe, looking for an excuse to use cookie butter in something. My friends at Belgian Boys sent me a few jars […]
For those who are college bound in the fall, looking for something easy to cook up in a dorm room, I’ve got some dorm room recipe inspiration for you. Both of these recipes have flexibility and you can add your own creative twist to them. Change up the veggies, spices, sauces, go crazy! But, the […]
What’s the story with these crunchy granola cups? I taught a cooking class all about holiday brunches back in December. In addition to monkey bread and crepes, I also showed the class how to make granola cups to fill with yogurt and fruit. I had used someone else’s recipe, and it was fine, but I […]
Get the NEW and IMPROVED version of my Sour Cream Waffles on my new website. I’m not going to lie. I am officially burned out on waffles. I know, hard to imagine when these fluffy lovelies are staring you right in the face! The truth is that I was on a quest to develop a […]
This recipe is one that brings our whole family together. A few years ago Ryan mentioned how much he loves smoked salmon, especially on a bagel with cream cheese. I quickly discovered that packaged smoked salmon is expensive and most times, too salty for my tastes. Fortunately, we had inherited a smoker from my in-laws, […]
