Breakfast Hash

So Jessica over at how sweet it is popped up on my facebook feed this AM with this wonderful recipe: Grilled corn summer breakfast hash.  However, since I don't have any grilled corn, nor was I going to run to the store, buy corn, and grill it, I decided to make this dish MY way :D  Its still totally inspired by Jessica tho :D

I'm using bacon bits and frozen corn, so I jump straight in with roasting the potatoes, instead of making the bacon.  Because there is no bacon fat, I use a small bit of olive oil.

Start roasting your potatoes.   Put them in your pan on the stove in some oil.  Cook for 8-10 minutes.  Your potatoes will start to turn brown and yummy.

Add your bell pepper and green onion.  It will start to smell really really good right now. Cook for 5 more minutes.

Add some cut up zucchini.  YUM!  Cook for another 5 minutes.

This is what it starts to look like.

And this. SO MUCH WIN!

After cooking your mixture for another 5 minutes, turn off the heat and add your corn (I heated up my frozen corn) and bacon bits!

Look at this!  Bacon, peppers, potatoes, zucchinin, onion, corn, all mixed into one meal!










Lots of fun colors.

I'm sure adding mushrooms woulda been good too; too bad I don't have any right now :(










I wish, now, that I had taken more...

Or if you're TJ, you scramble some egg in with it all and mix it up.

Too bad I don't like scrambled egg...

2.5 tablespoons of bacon bits

4 potatoes, chopped into cubes

1 small zucchini, chopped

1 tsp of pre-chopped garlic (2 tsp of garlic, minced)

1 yellow pepper chopped

1/2 red pepper, chopped

1 cup frozen corn, heated

1 tablespoon olive oil (you may not need this)

1 green onion, chopped

salt and pepper

Heat a skillet over medium heat. Add some oil, and add potatoes with a sprinkle of salt and pepper to the bacon fat and cook for 8-10 minutes, stirring and tossing every few minutes. 

Add peppers and onions (and another little sprinkle of salt and pepper) to potatoes and cook for another 5 minutes, stirring. At this time you may need to add more olive oil depending on how much oil is left. After 5 minutes, add in the zucchini and garlic and cook for 5 minutes more, stirring. Turn off heat, add in corn and bacon. 

QUICHE

While browsing simplecomfortfood I saw a recipe for quiche.  I knew then that it had been too long since I have had quiche (2-3 years, maybe) and that it would have to be dinner sometime soon.

So tonight I made quiche. 

I was lazy and took a roll of crescent rolls and pressed them into a pie plate.  I'm lazy and didn't feel like making a pie crust.  Or going to the store (its 90+ degrees) and buying a premade crust.  They don't fit properly, so you do have to rip them a bit and make them fit.  If you use a normal pie crust, you have to bake it for about 14 minutes at 375.

Chop up your potato(s) and add them to a pot of boiling water.  This was actually too many potatoes.

Chop up the rest of your veggies.  I used one stalk of green onion, part of a carrot, part of a orange pepper, celery, and bacon.  I realize bacon isn't a veggie, but I used bacon bits to be lazier.

 Put them in a pan with some olive oil, cook/saute till soft for a bit.

Put some cheese on the pie crust, and put your potatoes on top. 

put the rest of your veggies in there also.

In another bowl, beat 3 eggs, 1/2 cup of milk, dash of salt, dash of pepper, and dash of dried mustard.  Beat very well.  Pour into pie crust.  Put more cheese on top.

Put on cookie sheet covered with foil, as to catch any drips that may or may not happen.

Put in oven (375*F) for 35 minutes.

Let cool, cut, serve, eat.  Repeat as needed till full.  YUM!

I got a "very very good" from TJ :D









1 cup of chopped up potatoes
1/4 c bacon bits
1/4 c chopped colored bell pepper (I used orange cuz its what I had on hand)
1/4 c chopped carrot
1/4 c green onion
1/4 c chopped celery
3 eggs
1/2 c milk
1 cup of cheese (anything you want!)
dash pepper
dash salt
dash dry mustard
Pie crust (or crescent rolls if you're like me)


Cook pie crust OR press crescent rolls into the pie plate.  If using crescent rolls, do not bake!  They puff up and are done and if you were to cook them again they'd burn and it wouldn't be tasty.  Trust me.

Cut up the potatoes into bite size chunks (skin on or off, doesn't matter).  Boil for about 7 minutes, or till a little over 1/2 done.

Saute your veggies and the bacon bits in a bit of oil in a pan.  cook till soft.

Beat your eggs and milk and spices until blended well.

Add a layer of cheese to bottom of pie crust. Add potatoes and veggies.  Pour eggs over top, top with another layer of cheese.  Put in oven (375*F) for 35 minutes or until cooked through.  Let cool a few minutes and eat.

pizza muffins

8 oz meat (beef, turkey, pork, etc ground up)
1.5 cups bisquick baking mix
1/4 c grated parm cheese
1 tsp italian or pizza seasoning
1 tsp dried parsley flakes
1 tsp dried onion flakes
1/4 c chopped green bell pepper
3/4 c chopped tomato
1/3 c shredded cheese (i used colby jack cuz thats what i had open)
1/3 c skim milk
1 egg
2 tsp veggie oil

preheat oven to 375*F. spray wells of muffin pan with cooking spray or use liners. in a large skillet, brown meat. set aside; let cool meanwhile in a large bowl, combine baking mix, parm cheese, pizza seasoning, parsley flakes, and onion flakes. stir in green pepper, tomato and cheese. in small bowl, combine milk, veg oil, and egg. mix well to combine. add to baking mix. mix gently to combine. fold in cooled meat. fill wells with mixture (full). bake 16-18 minutes till toothpick comes out clean. let cool.

EAT!!!!

if you're TJ, you smother with hot sauce, then eat.

notes: i also added mushrooms, fresh, de-stemmed. it was yummy.

Almost stuffed peppers

Havent had much zest for life lately, been kinda depressed, however, i did make dinner tonight...i got the recipe from one of mom's cook books, i don't remember which...forgot to write it down. oops!

here's the recipe tho. turned out good.

1 lb ground beef
2 c water
1 14oz can diced tomatoes WITH JUICE
1 lg grn pepper, 1/4 in slices
1 med onion, thinly sliced
1.5 tsp salt
.5 tsp italian seasoning
.5 tsp pepper
1.5 c uncooked instant rice

lg skillet, cook beef over med heat, drain, remove, set aside and keep warm. in same skillet combine water, tomatos and juice, grn pepper, onion and seasonings; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, until veggies are tender. Stir in rice; cover and remove from heat. let stand 5 min, stir in beef; return to heat and cook till heated through

next time, tho, i'll either use less onion (i only used 1/2) or i'll dice it up really small...i don't like eating onion. :D

whole chicken legs

are harmed in the making of today's recipe. I modified a recipe from The Pioneer Woman, I made her spicy roasted chicken legs. The original recipe can be found here. However, i modified it and i'll give you my modified recipe instead :)

12 whole Chicken Legs
1.5 sticks Butter
Your Favorite Seasonings (i did chopped garlic, chili powder, pepper, salt, and basil)
1/8 cups Lemon Juice (or To Taste)

Melt butter in a saucepan. Pour lemon juice (fresh or bottled). Now add your seasonings. Stir it together until combined. Taste test to make sure its good, add what its missing.

Rinse your chicken legs. With metal tongs, transfer them one by one into the butter mixture and place on a baking sheet. Once all of the chicken legs are coated and on the baking rack, take a pastry brush and give them one last coating of the butter mixture. Sprinkle them with some more of your seasonings.

Place them into a 400-degree oven for 30 minutes, or until the thermometer reads the right temp for chicken.

Yum!!!! I had to put mine in for about 50 minutes, cuz my oven isn't quite whole...its missing one of the panels so heat escapes pretty easily.

I put LOTS of chili powder on 4 of them, for TJ. TJ and C's lil sister S is over while their dad and C put insulation upstairs so that the upstairs can be finished and TJ can move up there :D Life around here'll be happier when TJ is upstairs - he'll be happy and then I can hang out with him more :) (if the girl aint happy, aint nobody happy...ya know?) Now all that needs to be done is painting (white) and carpeting and then MOVE IN DAY :D