Joy of Cooking Pancakes with Strawberry Sauce

Not a great picture but this kind of sums up the kind of week I have been having. Honestly, sometimes I don’t want to make dinner.  I wait and wait hoping that inspiration, or at least someone else offering to make dinner, will kick in.   That rarely happens in weeks like this.  I have my…

Rachael Ray’s Cinnamon French Toast Casserole

We are heading into one of our busiest months of the year, March.  This is the month that the schools try to cram everything they can into as it is not quite the end of Winter and not quite Spring Break.  We have two talent show programs with four showings, a movie night, a dance,…

Mediterranean Egg Bake

I love weekends.  I wish weekends were five days long and week days were two. We enjoy being together as a family.  For Christmas this year I planned a year of family dates.  I planned twelve family adventures, one for each month, and bought gift cards or put cash in envelope for each month plus…

Amish Friendship Bread – no starter needed

I am not much of a baker.  I LOVE to cook because it allows me to be really creative.  I don’t like baking as much though because you have to be so precise in the science with baking or it may not turn out.  So, I very rarely bake.  Following a recipe blindly is not…

Broccoli and Ham Brunch Casserole

As we begin the New Year it seems that everyone is making resolutions.   Mine is to get more fruits and vegetables into my children.  We do really good at dinner time.  We usually have at least one or two vegetable sides plus a spinach salad with all kinds of vegetables.  It is breakfast and dinner…

Pancake Muffins made with Breakfast Sausage

I should know better than just to blindly ask one of the other family members to take meat out of the freezer and then tell me what it is before they put it in the refrigerator to thaw.  Too many times I have ended up with them telling me it is something other than what…

Berry Cream Cheese French Toast Casserole

We love breakfast for dinner.  I had been planning on making this for a couple of days.  I just kept forgetting to put it together first thing in the morning so that it had at least 8 hours to sit before I cooked it.    I finally got around to making it and we were all…

Apple Pie Praline French Toast Casserole

This was an interesting day.  I had been planning on making French Toast for quite a few days now but I just never got around to buying the apple pie filling until today.  While I was at the store I saw pecans.  I love pecans but rarely buy them because they are so expensive.  But,…

Slow Cooker Sausage Breakfast Casserole

My family loves breakfast for dinner.  They would like it if I made breakfast for them 3 times a day.  I like breakfast foods just not as much as they do. I had a package of breakfast sausage I wanted to use so I searched for a recipe that thought everyone would like and would…

Cinnamon Cream Cheese Coffee Cake

I have an ice cream family.  They love ice cream.  They would eat ice cream every day, twice a day if I let them.  I am however not a fan of ice cream.  Just not something I love like the rest of my family.  I would prefer a great dish of mashed potatoes or a…

Blueberry Pancakes – Trisha Yearwood’s Recipe

We love breakfast for dinner.  I like making breakfast for dinner because it is generally a quick easy meal.  With the heat index on the rise a short time having the stove on makes me much happier the rest of the evening. We are still living on limited resources this month so I had sour…

French Toast Casserole

I had half a loaf of Italian Bread leftover from last night’s dinner that I needed to use before it turned stale so I found a recipe for French Toast Casserole on-line that looked good. I started with this recipe for French Toast Casserole and then modified it according to the suggestions in the comments…