Cinnamon Bread

Like cinnamon rolls? Then this bread is a no-brainer! Tastes super yummy, makes your house smell fabulous, and can be eaten at for a few days (if it lasts that long!). I had to look at a few stores to find the cinnamon chips. They are by Hershey's, and I found them at Albertson's. Worth the hunt...let me tell ya!



Ingredients:

3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 sugar
2 teaspoons instant yeast
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup warm milk
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 large egg
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup cinnamon chips
Cinnamon sugar mix, for topping

In a large bowl mix the flour, sugar, yeast, cinnamon and salt. In another bowl, stir together the milk, butter, and egg. Combine the wet and dry ingredients until smooth. Cover and let mixture rest at room temperature for 1 hour, then stir in the baking powder and cinnamon chips.

Set oven at 350.

Spoon the batter into a greased loaf pan. Sprinkle the top with the cinnamon sugar.

Bake the bread for 35 to 40 minutes. Remove the bread from the oven, let it rest in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer it to a rack to cool completely. Wait until bread cools to slice.

**And because I love my mixer...here she is in all her glory, helping me out in the kitchen ;)

Sausage Hashbrown Bake

I made this for our friends who came over for a playdate one morning last week. Delicious and easy!




Ingredients:

1 lb ground pork sausage
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 of a 10.75 oz can cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup french onion dip
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped green pepper
1/4 cup chopped red pepper
salt & pepper
15 oz shredded hash brown potatoes, thawed

In a skillet, cook sausage until no longer pink. In a large bowl, combine 3/4 of the cheese, and the next 7 ingredients. Fold in potatoes. Spread half of the potatoe mixture into a 2 qt baking dish, top with the sausage and cover with remaining potatoe mix. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Cover and bake at 350 for 30 minutes, uncover and bake 5 minutes more until heated through.

Banana Pancakes

Another great idea for using up those over ripe bananas! I also read online that you can freeze the bananas until you are ready to use them. So now I have a few in there just waiting for the mood to strike to make banana bread again!

Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1 tbs white sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg
1 cup milk
2 tbs vegetable oil
1 ripe banana, mashed
1/2 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
1/4 tsp cinnamon (optional)

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, combine egg, milk, oil, banana, vanilla and cinnamon. Stir flour mixture into banana mixture; batter will be lumpy. Spray a griddle with cooking spray and use aprox 1/4 cup batter for each pancake.

These were amazing. I didn't take a picture, you all know what pancakes look like. I tweaked this recipe from it's original version, using only 1 banana instead of 2 because I thought it would be too mushy. After eating them I know I was right, they were soft, but would've been way too mushy with one more banana. I also added the vanilla and cinnamon - I like those flavors. You could also add nuts!

Hashbrown Casserole-in your crockpot!!

I took this to one of our Moms meetups the other day and it was really, really good. The kids and I ate the rest of it for lunch. I had a total of 4 servings in one day. I need to hit the treadmill, I think.

Ingredients:

30 oz pkg of plain, frozen hashbrown potatoes (shredded)
6 cooked sausage links, cut up
1/2 onion, diced
1/2 green bell pepper, diced
1 1/2 cups shredded cheese
12 eggs
1 cup milk
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper

Spray your crock with cooking spray. Place all of the hashbrowns in the bottom and spread evenly. In a bowl, combine eggs, milk, salt, pepper, cheese, sausage, and veggies. Pour whole mixture on top of hashbrowns. Cover and cook low for 6-8 hrs, high for 3-4.

Apples, Apples, Apples

It's that time of year! We went to a mom's group meet-up today to share apple recipes. Here's what I took, a few I'd been waiting to try:

CrockPot Applesauce



4 large apples, peeled, cored and sliced (I used Gala apples)
juice from 1 lemon
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
1 tbs brown sugar
1/4 cup water

Place apple slices in your crockpot. Add the melon juice and the water. Pour in the vanilla and add the cinnamon. Cover and cook on low for 4-6 hours. Once apples are tender, mash with a potatoe masher or fork. Serves 4




Apple Delish



2 Granny Smith apples
2 cans cresent rolls
2 sticks butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla
cinnamon
1 small can Mountain Dew

Peel and core apples. Cut apples into 8 slices each. Roll each apple slice in a cresent roll. Place in a 9x13 buttered pan. Melt butter, then add sugar and barely stir. Add vanilla, stir, and pour over apples. Pour Mountain Dew around edges of the pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Serve with ice cream and spoon sauce over the top.


Feedback:

Applesauce - first let me say that I am not, nor have I ever been, an applesauce fan. But this was FABULOUS! I liked that it was warm, and kind of chunky, and the vanilla flavor was delicious. My only gripe is that it makes so little. Note to self ** double recipe for next time! This would be so good over ice cream! YUM!

Apple Delish - is just that - DELISH! Sweet, sticky, yummy good! You will love this dish, you have to make it! I forgot the vanilla. I'm not sure how, since it was on the counter already from being used in the applesauce. But I'm lucky to find my own head most days. At least I remembered to take the dishes I made to the meet up. That's good for me!