Breakfast anyone? I am totally a breakfast person. A long time ago when I was at Zac's parents house one morning Cindy made a delicious french toast casserole dish. She was nice enough to give me the recipe but I have not made it once, to this day! Well my mom and sister are here for the weekend and I thought what better time to test out this breakfast casserole then now!? Seems easy enough, and who doesn't like french toast?
Ingredients:
-1 oz. unsliced white, wheat or cinnamon-rasin bread (my grocery store didn't have unsliced so I just used sliced and removed the crust
- 3/4 C. cream cheese
- 1 T. butter
- 1 1/2 C. milk
- 4 large eggs
- 1/4 C. powdered sugar
- 1/4 t. salt
- 1 1/4 t. cinnamon
- 1 t. nutmeg
- 1 1/2 t. vanilla extract
So this recipe is very simple. Start off by preheating your oven to 350. You can use a 11x7 baking dish ( I used a smaller size) and lightly grease it. Cut your bread into 3/4 in cubes, this doesn't have to be exact. I just cut the bread into size I thought was easiest. Be sure to cut off the crust! Then in a bowl mix together your cream cheese and your butter. Once those I blended together you can add milk. Next add the eggs, one at a time, whisking them after each one. Finally add 3 T. of powdered sugar, add salt, a t. of cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and mix together until blended. Pour this mixture over the bread cubes and let it soak in for about 10 minutes. You can sprinkle more powdered sugar and cinnamon over top if you'd like and then place the dish in the oven for 40-45 minutes.
Food, food and more food! Zac and I have been non-stop eating all day! We went to Hydro for breakfast and then enjoyed a nice meal at Pacifico with our good friends Jason and Chelsie. Shout out to Jason, its his birthday today. Needless to say, we wanted some light for dinner. One time when I was at my friend Chelsies house she made this delicious orzo salad. I don't have her recipe...yet, but I figured I would find something on line and give it a try.
For tonights menu: Greek Orzo Salad
Ingrediants
-Orzo pasta ( I used 16oz.)
-1 cucumber
-1 red bell pepper
-1 jar of artichoke hearts
- Olives
- Onion chopped ( I used a small amount)
- pine nuts
- Fetta cheese
Honestly I just cut everything up in the amounts that I would want in my salad. I boiled the pasta for about 10 minutes, drained it and placed in a large bowl. Then I put all other ingredients in the bowl and placed it in the fridge. The salad is still in the fridge right now and once its been about an hour I am going to pour out the existing artichoke heart juice in the salad with some lemon! We'll see how it turns out.
