Sausage & Cheese Egg Roll Cups

My kiddos have been in love with Egg Rolls lately. So I have been eyeing thru Pinterest for ideas on what to make next with these amazing little things. So the other day at the grocery store I was picking up more and I noticed the Won Ton wrappers and thought oooh what could I make with theses.

I mean these things are like magic, I have seen my string bean child eat sooo many helpings in forever.

I got a couple ideas and modified them to our liking and this is what I came up with, very basic quick breakfast.

So you'll need:

*Log of sausage I use Jimmy Dean
*Cheddar and Mozzarella Cheese grated
*Won Ton wrappers


~Preheat oven to 350-400 degrees. Cook sausage untill done, grate cheeses together, and then while waiting take a muffin tin and place wrappers in cups. Bake for about 5 minutes just the wrappers. Then take out and place your sausage and cheese in cups and bake for another 10-15 minutes.

Then enjoy!

You could also totally put egg, peppers, tomatoes, and bacon etc in these and they would be just as delish.

Stuffed Sweet Peppers

I have to share this one with y'all! Oh my goodness these are so amazing! My girls our in love with sweet peppers and will even eat them raw. They could go through 20 of these little cuties if I let them. So my mind started turning and I was wondering what I could do with them to make a little dinner side.

1. The girls LOVE the sweet peppers, so hard part over of making them eat something "weird"
2. I LOVE peas, and cream cheese
3. The man of the house LOVES bacon

So with that been said, I threw it all in a bowl and mixed away and then stuffed. I have tried them in the oven and they turn out great! I have to say that one night I was grilling and I went ahead and through them on there. I do believe they turned out even BETTER! I will defiantly be cooking them that way again.

I couldn't really tell you how much of each to cook/chop or what not into it. Just go with what you like I guess. Maybe not so much cream cheese just enough to make it ball up I guess in the bowl?!?! Oh and SOFTEN the cream cheese makes mixing a much easier and quicker job.

I really hope that y'all enjoy these as much as my family does. Ill tell you what to, I am not a pepper fan. Though I could eat a whole plate of these.



Before going in the oven




Out of the oven and ready to eat



I like how on the grill they kinda char up I guess, lol. :)



Cinnamon Rolls

OK so I made a mass amount of Cinnamon Rolls, which I did on purpose. I wanted to see how well they would freeze and then be reheated. I have to say they did well. I wouldn't want to keep them frozen for more than 3 months. That's just me though. So anyways here you go:




Dry ingredients



Milk, butter, sugar, and salt



Add egg to dry ingredients




Mixed together :)

 ***Somewhere along the line I forgot to take pictures of rolling it out and adding the filling  to it, OOPS!


Roll her up




Cut into equal quarters, about a half inch I would say.



Yummy

 

Prep: 45 Minutes

Rise: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Rest: 10 minutes

Bake: 20 minutes

Oven: 375 degrees

Makes 24 rolls

 

4 to 41/2 cups all purpose flour
1package active dry yeast
1 cup milk
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup butter or margarine
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
1/3 cup butter or margarine

1. In a large mixing bowl combined 2 cups of the flour and the yeast; set aside. In a small saucepan heat and stir milk, granulated sugar, and 1/3 cup butter, and salt just until warm (120 - 130 degrees) and butter almost melts; add to flour mixture along with eggs. Beat with an electric mixture on low to medium speed for 30 seconds, scraping bowl. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes. Using a wooden spoon, stir in as much of the remaining 2-21/2 cups of flour as you can.
2. Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Knead in enough remaining four to make a moderately soft dough that is smooth and elastic (3-5 minutes). Shape dough into a ball. Place dough in a lightly greased bowl, turn once to grease ball. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size (1 -11/2 hours).
3. Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface. Divide in half. Cover and let rest 10 minutes. Lightly grease two baking pans; set aside. For filling, stir together brown sugar, 1/4 cup flour, and cinnamon; using a pastry blender or fork, cut in 1/3 cup butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
4. Roll each dough half into a 12x8 inch rectangle. Sprinkle filling over dough, leaving 1 inch unfilled along one of the long sides. Roll up each rectangle, starting from the filled long side. Pinch dough to seal seams. Slice each rolled rectangle into 12 equal pieces. Arrange in prepared pans. Cover and let rise in a warm place until nearly doubled in size (30 minutes).
5. Preheat oven to 375F. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden. Cool about 5 minutes; remove from pans. Enjoy!

*Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

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French Bread

I am forever going to be making my own French bread. This was so delicious, it froze nicely, it baked well. Two thumbs up! I precut my french bread into smaller portions so that I could just grab out of the freezer and go. I have made garlic bread, and cheesy bread.

I would say if you do make some and freeze it, I wouldn't let it sit in the freezer past 3 months. It would probably start getting a stale taste and what not.

Prep: 40 Minutes

Rise: 1 hour and 35 minutes

Rest: 10 minutes

Bake: 35 minutes

Oven: 375 degrees

Makes 2 loaves (28 slices)

 51/2-6 cups all-purpose flour

2 packages active dry yeast

11/2 teaspoons salt

2 cups warm water ( 120 to 130 degrees)

Cornmeal

1 egg white, slightly beaten

1 tablespoon water

1. In a large mixing bowl stir together 2 cups of the flour, the yeast, and salt. Add the 2 cups warm water to the flour mixture. Beat with an electric mixer on low to medium speed for 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes. Using a wooden spoon, stir in as much of the remaining flour as you can.

2. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead in enough remaining flour to make a stiff dough that is smooth and elastic ( 8 to 10 minutes total). Shape dough into a ball. Place in a lightly greased bowl, turning once to grease dough surface. Cover, let rise in a warm place until dough doubles in size ( about 1 hour).

3. Punch dough down. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide dough in half. Cover, let rest for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, lightly grease a baking  sheet, sprinkle greased baking sheet with cornmeal.

4. Roll each dough half into a 15x10 inch rectangle. Tightly roll up, starting from a long side, seal well. If desired, pinch and slightly pull ends to taper them. Place shaped dough, seam sides down on prepared baking sheet. In a small  bowl stir together egg white and the 1 tablespoon water. Brush some of the egg white mixture over loaf tops. Let rise until nearly double in size about 35-45 minutes.

5. Preheat oven to 375 degree. Using a sharp knife, make three or four diagonal cutes abouts 1/4 deep across each loaf top. Bake for 20 minutes. Brush again with some of the egg white mixture. Continue baking for 15 to 20 minutes more or until bread sounds hollow when lightly tapped. Immediately remove loaves from baking sheet. Cool on wire racks.

Recipe courtesy of Better Homes and Garden Cookbook.



Banana Muffins

What do you do when you have left over bananas that know one will eat?!?!? Make BANANA MUFFINS! Then everyone eats them :) No wasteful food in this household, everything gets brought back to life.

Got everything ready to go!

Added flour and such, made my well and added the milk and egg.

Just keep stirring, just keep stirring ( watch Finding Nemo one to many times :) )

Add caption

Notice two missing my girls just couldn't wait to eat them :) Proud Mama

Receipe Courtesy of Better Homes and Garden Cookbook.

Muffins

Prep time 10 minutes 

Bake time 18 minutes

Oven 400F

Makes 12 or so muffins

1 3/4 Cups all- purpose flour

1/3 cups sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 egg beaten

3/4 cups milk

1/4 cup cooking oil ( I use olive oil for everything and I never notice a difference)

1. Preheat oven to 400F. Grease muffin tin or use muffin cups or lined paper bake cups. Set aside. In a medium bowl combined flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in center of mixture, set aside.
2. In another bowl combined egg, milk, and oil. Add egg mixture all at once to the flour mixture. Stir just until moistened ( batter should be lumpy.
3. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling each two-thirds full. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown and a wooden toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool in muffin cups on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Remove from muffin cups, serve warm.

• Banana Muffins, prepare as at left, greasing muffins cups ( do not use paper bake cups ). Reduce milk to 1/2 cup. Stir 3/4 cups mashed banana and 1/2 cup chopped nuts ( I don't prefer nuts in my baking products, though I do enjoy them by themselves. Weird I know ) into flour mixture along with the egg mixture.

I hope you enjoy making these and finding a new purpose for your older, ripened bananas.

New things are coming out soon! .........

I'm trying something new tonight for dinner and I just cant wait to share the outcome. I have tried a couple new venison recipes that I will be sharing SOON! One has to do with back straps, I personally have never really been much of a fan for them. Though when talking to a relative he gave me a few pointers on how to remove the "gamey taste" I do believe it did the trick. I sooo enjoyed the back straps and will be enjoying them more often now. :) Also I did a Beef-n-noodle version but with venison and a few other added ingredients that I don't normally put in my beef-n-noodle dinner. But it was sooo delicious!

Stay tuned for the updated post to be coming out! recipes included. Please also take a moment and leave a comment. I would love to here if you enjoy what I share! Also let me know what you may want to hear about???

The more I learn everyday the closer we are to be less in debt, more money in our savings, and living off the land that is provided for us. I wish I would have learned more sooner and been a little more opened minded when I was younger.

Olive garden Bread sticks?!?!? Yes Please

I found a recipe for making what pretty much taste like Olive Garden bread sticks. I love them, who doesn't? So I gathered up the cooking supplies and set forth on my mission to see if we would include this recipe into our life. It passed with flying colors! Yippie Skippie.

So here is everything you need minus the pasta noodles that was for dinner. :)

Here I have added water, sugar and yeast. Lets stand for 10 minutes.

Added salt, butter and 2 cups flour and cup at a time after combined with first 2 cups.   

 Let dough rest in bowl for about an hour. Then roll out in a BIG log :)

Cut that log into about 12-14 little logs and roll them out into little perfect logs.  

Place on lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake in low heat take out coat with butter,then  turn heat up and bake for rest of time.

The finished product. One is missing a bite, because my girls just couldn't wait!



Recipe

Dough:
1 1/2 cups warm water
2 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp yeast
1 Tbsp salt

2 Tbsp butter, softened
4-5 Cups flour


Topping:
3 Tbsp butter melted
Sea salt
1 tsp garlic powder



For the dough, pour  water, sugar and yeast in bowl and  let sit and froth for about 10 minutes. Add salt, butter, and 2 cups of flour. Mix the dough . Add the rest of the flour a cup at a time, until dough scrapes the sides of the bowl clean. Mix the dough about 5 minutes until its soft and easy to work with.
Let the dough rest in the bowl until doubled in size, about 1 hour I place a towel over my bowl and set in the oven. Nice warm draft free place. Roll the dough out into a long log, spray a knife with cooking spray and cut the dough into 12-14 pieces. Roll those pieces into about 6 inch long logs. Spray 2 large cookie sheets with cooking spray and lay the bread sticks out leaving about 2 inches between each one.
Place them in the oven with the temperature turned to 170 degrees. Let them rise for about 15 minutes, or until doubled in size. Once risen, brush them with the 1 1/2 T of melted butter and sprinkle them with salt. Now preheat the oven to 400 degrees and bake them for 12-14 minutes or until golden brown. While they are baking combine the rest of the melted butter with 1 tsp garlic powder. When the bread sticks are golden brown, remove them from the oven and brush them with the butter/garlic mixture.