Sometimes you just need to fry something. It’s a necessary evil.
Sure frying isn’t good for you, well neither is picking your nose, but I see people do that all the time. We will call it even.

I needed to get my brain working overtime because I wanted to created a recipe for the Johnsonville Wake Up To Johnsonville Photo Recipe Contest.

My husband might have had a little influence on this one. He always comes up with some whacked out food ideas. He wanted these on a stick, but the sausage links are just too thin for that, so I decided on the balls.

They are mighty tasty, mighty tasty indeed! Certainly not your everyday breakfast meal, but they sure are a nice delight every once in a while….you know, when you need a little oil in your life.

You can enter the Johnsonville Wake Up To Johnsonville Contest too.
Go to their Facebook Page, upload your Johnsonville Sausage Breakfast creation and you will be entered for the grand prize of an 11 piece set of professional cookware from ScanPan and a years supply of Johnsonville Sausage. Hurry, Contest ends May 13th!

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There was a day that I did not like Avocados.
I do believe it was a time in my life where I must have been abducted by aliens and brain washed, I am sure of it.
Now, I can not get enough of them.
My love for Avocados began right after High School. Some of my friends went to the University of Florida. I would go visit them for the weekend and we would drink play Go Fish until we couldn’t drink play Go Fish anymore and walk over to Burrito Brothers.

Burrito Brothers is an Institution in Gainesville. It is literally a hole in the wall Taco joint with some questionable characters working there with quite possibly every tattoo know to man tattooed onto them, but the food is AMAZING. I would get a primo beef, double wrapped, with sour cream, tomatoes and red sauce. Mmmm. My metabolism was still with me at that time. My friend got guacamole and offered me some. I of course turned my nose up at it, but gave in because all of the drinking playing Go Fish I had been doing. My life at that moment was transformed.

So I present to you my FAVORITE breakfast sandwich. I crave it on a daily basis. And it fills me up for a long long time. So if you are an avocado obsessed person like me, you must try this. Oh and get yourself some good quality English Muffins. My favorite are Bays English Muffins. They ARE THE BEST. They are thick and what you would think a homemade English Muffin would taste like. You can find them in the dairy section of the store. YUM

This satisfying breakfast sandwich does not have much of a “recipe” but I will share with you what I do.

It’s ok to drool a little bit at this photo. I did.

Are you getting sick of seeing all of my Crescent Creations? We had the Crescent Cinnamon Rolls and then the Cheesy Crescent Rolls and now these Scrumdiddlyumptious Blueberry Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls.

I can tell you one thing..I am not sick of creating them OR eating them!

Ok, before I get into these, I busted out laughing out loud when I was uploading these photos. It looks like I created some sort of “crescent roll monster” with the 2 blueberries on the top.
Tell me you don’t see it??????

I mean look…they totally look like twins

The Geico Money thingy

My once  thought to be Beautiful photo…sigh

Anyway, now that I totally ruined the photo for myself, lets talk about amazing.

Yeah, these are delightful. Easy too. They would be perfect on your Easter Brunch Table.

The inside is warm and creamy with sweet blueberries and the icing had a slight lemon flavor that goes perfect with the fruit.

And now onto the Giveaway

McCormick would love to offer one of my fabulous readers a spring baking set so you can create something wonderful for your self.

Maybe my Blueberry Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls or how about some Lemon Cheesecake Bars, Spiced Springtime Sugar Cookies or Cheesy Bacon & Egg Brunch Casserole. For even more ideas from McCormick, visit them on Pinterest

One winner will win the following (as seen above)

• Corningware Baking Dish
• Spring Cookie Cutters
• Muffin/Cupcake Pan
• Whisk
• MeriMeri Spring Cupcake Liners
• McCormick Assorted Food Coloring
• McCormick Ground Cinnamon
• McCormick Ground Ginger
• McCormick Pure Vanilla Extract
• McCormick Pure Lemon Extract

Sleep overs call for yummy breakfast treats. Easy yummy treats.

I planned on making homemade cinnamon rolls, but I forgot to thaw out my cinnamon roll dough that I made a couple of months ago. But you know when you get something in your head to make, you are completely on a mission.

I remembered I had some Pillsbury Crescent rolls in the fridge and thought, “yeah, they will do.”

Easy and delicious I tell you. The kids LOVED LOVED LOVED them…and so did the grownups.

Unroll your Crescent Rolls

Spread your cinnamon butter over the dough

ummmm, YUM

Roll em’ up

Bake, remove from oven and drizzle with glaze!

Ready for the easiness?

New Years Eve was great. My husband decided he wanted to have a party last minute. And by last minute, I mean the day before. Gotta love em’.
If you read this post, you know that none of my clothes fit me, so I began stressing out on what I was going to wear for the party. I mean, people usually get all fancied up for New Years.
So I decided to make our New Years party a PAJAMA  party! Everyone had to come in the P.J’s. Sure, I still put on some make up, but let me tell you how comfy I was!!!!
I had too much to drink…doesn’t happen often, but when it does….good lord.  Diet Coke and Cherry Flavored Vodka is VERY easy to chug down.
I was dancing all night long. One low point was, dancing to Beastie Boys- Brass Monkey with my dog under one arm and a wooden spoon in the other hand as a microphone.
I had fun

I am wishing each and everyone of you a Happy 2012.
I can’t thank you all enough for continually stopping by my blog and reading what I have to say. You all are very much appreciated. You make doing what I do worth every calorie!!!!

So onto my top 10 recipe/posts of 2011 (according to Google Analytics)

#10 Rustic Love Bird Wedding Cake

For the more photos of this beautiful wedding cake I made..click over to this post.

#9 Filet Mignon

For tips on how to cook the perfect Filet Mignon click here

#8 Sugar Cookie Tips and Icing Tips

For my Sugar Cookie and Icing tips head on over to here.

#7 Rice Pudding from Left Over Rice
This has been in the top 10 every year. This post was when my blog was only 3 months old!

Click here for the Rice Pudding Recipe

#6 Lemon Bars

Click here for the Lemon Bar Recipe

#5 Pretzel Rolo Turtles

For the recipe for the Pretzel Rolo Turtles click here.

#4 Ice Cream Bread

Ice Cream Bread Recipe is here

#3 Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal

The ever popular Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal recipe is here

#2 Antipasto Kabobs

Antipasto Kabobs are here

#1 Nutella Hot Chocolate- Sooooooooo Addictive and delicious. My Nutella Hot Chocolate was ALLLL over the web!

Nutella Hot Chocolate recipe lives HERE

If it was acceptable to live on these for the rest of my life, I totally would.
I mean seriously, what is not to love? You have crispy hashbrowns,cheddar cheese, bacon, sour cream and chives, all the things that make the perfect loaded baked potato.
I used the uber convenient Hungry Jack Hashbrowns to make these.

And the winners of my Hungry Jack “Use Up The Box” giveaway are

Congratulation ladies. Please contact me within 72 business hours to claim your prize.

August 29, 2011

“Another oatmeal recipe?” you say. Yup, sure nuf is. Oatmeal totally fills me up in the morning like nothing else. You can do a billion things to it. So we had, Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal and now Peanut Butter and Jelly Oatmeal. It’s scrumptious I tell you, scrumptious.

August 22, 2011

Oh yeah, fall is in the air. Pfffttt, yeah right..not here in Tampa. It won’t feel like fall, well until about February, when it starts to get “cold”. But I am seeing pumpkin pop up everywhere on the net, so I thought I would jump on the band wagon.

I am an oatmeal lover. As a kid, I ate the “Rolled Oats”. But as an adult, I have grown to appreciate a more “toothier” oatmeal. One with more substance and flavor. So I moved onto Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal. Since it takes about 30 minutes to cook, I would make a big batch at night and reheat it in the morning. Kind of a P.I.A.

Que, COACH’S OATS. The fine folks at Coach’s Oats were one of our sponsors at the infamous RockHer Bash I co-hosted with Susan and Brandi. I had never had their product prior to then. Actually, never even heard of it.
When I got home, I cooked some oatmeal from a sample pack they provided for our attendees. One bite and I was hooked. It only took 5 minutes to cook and it had a wonderful nutty flavor. I am all about saving some time.

Sooo, I am a convert. No more 30 minute oatmeal for me. Coach’s Oats rocks my taste-buds.

*Review was my own opinion, I was not monetarily compensated.

CRANBERRY CRUMB CAKE
Tates’s Bake Shop


Topping:
1/2 cup firmly packed dark or light brown sugar
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon5 tablespoons salted butter, cut into tablespoons
1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts

Batter:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking pwder
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup sour cream
2 large eggs
1/4 cup walnut oil * (you can use vegetable oil if that is all you have)
1 teaspoon grated zest, from one orange
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 and 1/2 cups cranberries, coarsely chopped (frozen is fine)

Method:
Preheat oven to 350* F
Grease a 9-inch square baking pan with pan spray or butter

To make the topping:  Combine all topping ingredients –except walnuts– in a medium bowl. Mix with your fingertips or pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add walnuts and toss all together. Set mixture asie in the refrigerator (this can be done the night before.)

To make the batter: 

In a small bowl, toss the cranberries with 2 tablespoons of sugar and set the mixture aside.  

In a medium bowl, combine the flour, 1/2 cup of the sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.

In a large bowl beat the sour cream, eggs, oil, orange zest and vanilla until combined. Add flour mixture to the sour cream mixture and stir until combined. Fold in the cranberries.

Spoon the batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle the topping evenly over the batter.  Bake cake for 45 minutes or until a cake tester/toothpick comes out clean.