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Easy One Pan Breakfast Casserole

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Easy One Pan Breakfast Casserole

 

This one pan breakfast casserole with sausage is very easy, and you can easily customize it by adding other ingredients. The sausage almost makes a crust at the bottom, giving your taste buds a nice surprise! 

 

 

Last weekend, my husband asked if I could whip up some breakfast for us and my mother-in-love, who’s visiting us. I knew we had some eggs we needed to get rid of, and we just bought sausage on our last grocery trip. So, I had the idea to make some kind of quiche. Mind you, I’ve never made a quiche before. So once I saw the time it took, I decided to go another route, making a quiche-like dish, which I settled on calling a casserole.

To lock in my idea, I scoured the fridge to see what all I could add. What I found was shredded cheese, campari tomatoes, and a bit of salsa, I liked where this was going and didn’t want to make it too complex. So, I settled on those ingredients. Making this was basically a shot in the dark since I was just winging the whole thing, but luckily, it turned out great, and was hubby and mother-in-love approved.

I finished the meal by just making a slice of toast for each of us, and I made us a Pineapple Fizz, which is just pineapple juice and Sprite. You can also substitute the Sprite for ginger ale, or you can add sparkling wine for a fancy mimosa. 

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This one pan breakfast casserole with sausage is very easy, and you can easily customize it by adding other ingredients. This dish would be perfect for breakfast or brunch!

  • Author: Alyse Nicole
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 25 minutes
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 8 people
  • Category: Breakfast
  • Cuisine: American

Ingredients

  • 8 oz sausage (choose your spice level)
  • 6 large eggs
  • ½ cup mild salsa
  • 2 campari tomatoes
  • ½ cup shredded cheddar cheese
  • seasoning (to taste)

Instructions

  1. Heat pan and add sausage. Set burner on medium high heat, and place plan on burner. Once the pan is hot, add sausage.
  2. Cook sausage until brown. Break the into crumbles with your preferred cooking utensil (I used a spatula), and cook the sausage until brown.
  3. Beat and season eggs. While the sausage is browning, beat eggs and add your preferred seasoning. I used Sooo Matcha Soul seasoning from Caribreoso Flavor Boutique.
  4. Add eggs to pan. Add eggs to pan with sausage, distributing them evenly. Then let them cook for a few seconds.
  5. Add salsa and tomatoes and let cook. Evenly pour salsa. Then add tomatoes, and let cook for 5 minutes, never stirring the ingredients.
  6. Preheat oven. While the casserole cooks, preheat oven to 400°.
  7. Add cheese, and place casserole in oven. Sprinkle ½ cup shredded cheese on top of casserole, and place casserole in the oven, cooking for 15 minutes.
  8. Cook 15 minutes then in 5 minute intervals until done. Check after 15 minutes. If the eggs aren't fully cooked, continue to cook in 5 minute intervals until done. I cooked mine for 10 additional minutes following the initial 15 minutes.
  9. Slice and serve immediately. Remove from oven, slice into eighths, and immediately serve.

I also recommend making this one pan breakfast casserole for brunch. It’s very easy and relatively fast to put together and cook. You can even make different variations for your breakfast and brunch guests to have  options. I plan to add spinach in the future to see how that meshes. The options are virtually limitless for this dish!

 

 

 

 

Thank you for checking out my recipe! Let me know how it turns out for you and if you customize it at all.

 

Peach Cobbler Pound Cake

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Peach Cobbler Pound Cake

 

Some time last year (I think it was in the summer), we had the most delicious cake I’ve ever tasted, a peach cobbler pound cake! I’ve been trying to chase that high ever since. So, last Thanksgiving, I decided to try my hand at making it since we had basically all the ingredients because I already planned on making a regular pound cake. After a quick web/Pinterest search, I came up with this recipe.

I’m not big on the blogs that have an entire autobiography before getting to the recipe. So, I’ll save you the five minutes of scrolling lol. The recipe is right below.

 

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This is a fun and delicious twist on two classic desserts, a peach cobbler and a pound cake. There's a few extra steps for this, but it's definitely worth it in the end!

  • Author: Alyse Nicole
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
  • Yield: 16 servings
  • Category: Dessert
  • Cuisine: American

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter (room temperature)
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 3 tbsp brown sugar
  • 4 eggs (yolks separated)
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 1/4 cup whole milk
  • 3 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1 can (15 oz) sliced peaches in syrup (separated from syrup)
  • 3/4 cup syrup from the peaches
  • 1/4 cup whiskey (optional)

Glaze

  • 2 cups sifted powdered sugar
  • water, milk, or liqueur*
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract (or any flavor you want)

Instructions

  1. Geez! That was a lot, but now we can start.

Cake

  1. Combine brown sugar and cinnamon. Preheat the oven to 325°. In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar and 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
  2. Coat the Bundt pan. Butter the Bundt pan, and coat it with the brown sugar mixture. This will give the outside of your cake the flavor and texture of a cobbler crust.
  3. Make peach mixture. In the medium bowl, add the peaches, 2 tsp of cinnamon, and 1/2 tsp of nutmeg. Mix it together, covering the peaches, and save for later.
  4. Combine dry ingredients. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and the rest of the cinnamon and nutmeg.
  5. Beat egg whites. In the second small bowl, beat the egg whites until firm. Now place all these bowls to the side.
  6. Mix butter and granulated sugar. In the second large bowl, mix the butter and granulated sugar at medium speed until creamy and fluffy.
  7. Add wet ingredients to sugar mixture. Beat the egg yolks into the sugar mixture one at a time. Then mix in the vanilla extract and 3/4 cups of the peach syrup. (Alternatively, you can add just 1/2 cup of the syrup and 1/4 cup of the whiskey of your choice.)
  8. Slowly mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Slowly add the dry mixture into the wet mixture. Once it's mixed well, fold in the milk and egg whites.
  9. Pour into Bundt pan. Pour half the batter into the Bundt pan. Then add half the peach mixture. Next, fill the Bundt pan with the rest of the batter.
  10. Bake.Then let cool. Bake for 1 1/2 hour, checking with a toothpick at about an hour. Once the cake is done, remove it from the oven and let it cool in the Bundt pan for 10-20 minutes. Remember that the cake will continue to cook after it's removed from the oven. So don't leave it in longer than the recommended time.
  11. Top with peach slices. Once the cake is cool, remove it from the pan and place on a wire rack (a plate will also do) to continue cooling. Finally, place as many of the remaining peach slices that you'd like on top of the cake.

Glaze

  1. Add sugar to bowl. Place the sifted powdered sugar in the now empty and cleaned medium bowl from earlier.
  2. Add liquid. Whisk in whichever liquid (water, milk, liqueur) you choose, one tbsp at a time, until you reach the desired thickness.
  3. Add extract. Whisk in 1 tsp of the extract.
  4. Drizzle cake with glaze. Take the glaze, and slowly drizzle it over the cake to your preferred liking.

Notes

*If you use a liqueur, you can skip the extract.

 

The Glaze

photo cred: Friendship Bread Kitchen

Here’s the thing, I didn’t have on of the ingredients to make the glaze, the powdered sugar! So, I put regular granulated sugar in the blender to make something similar to powdered sugar. Remember that if you ever find yourself in the same situation!

Well, that’s it! You now have yourself a homemade peach cobbler pound cake! Would you change/substitute anything? What did you use for your glaze? Let me know below!

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Homemade Hummus

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How to Make Homemade Hummus

 

I’ve been really craving hummus lately, but I’ve also been on a DIY kick. So, I decided to look up some recipes on how to make hummus at home and came across this super simple one from Inspired Taste on Youtube. If you want to try your hand in making some tasty, really easy to make hummus, keep reading below. If not, keep reading below. lol

 

 

 

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For a fun homemade snack, give homemade hummus a try. You'll know exactly what the ingredients are, and you can experiment to make it your own.

  • Author: Alyse Nicole
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Total Time: 5 minutes
  • Yield: 4 people
  • Category: Snack
  • Cuisine: Mediterranean

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup tahini sauce
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 1/2 clove garlic (peeled and minced)
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 can (8 oz) chickpeas (drained and rinsed)
  • salt (to taste)

Instructions

  1. Stir up the tahini sauce and add it to the food processor.
  2. Add lemon juice and run the food processor for about 1 minute.
  3. Next, add the garlic, olive oil, ground cumin, chickpeas, and about 1/2 tsp of salt to start.
  4. Run the processor for another minute. Then, stop to scrape the sides and to taste test whether more salt is needed.
  5. Run the processor another minute.
  6. Once it's at the texture and taste you prefer, you can be done.

Notes

If you want your hummus creamier and less thick, add about 1-2 tbsp of water, and run the food processor a little longer.

 

Once it reaches your desired consistency, you’re all done. Grab your pita bread or your favorite dipping veggies, and enjoy! For a little razzle dazzle, sprinkle some chili powder or your favorite seasoning on top. Now you can teach others how to make homemade hummus also!

 

Let me know in the comments if you try this recipe and if you add anything else, like roasted bell peppers or garlic.