Cobb Salad

I was on vacation for awhile and missed my kitchen while I was away.  It was nice to get back home and start making homemade meals again.  Although I didn't miss doing the dishes.  We have a ton of lettuce in our garden so I decided to make a cobb salad.  I found THIS RECIPE in my Taste of Home magazine.  The dressing was so delicious and this was fresh and yummy.  A favorite for summer, that's for sure.  Recommended!

Pioneer Woman's Eggs Florentine Casserole

This Eggs Florentine Casserole was the perfect menu item for Mother's Day brunch.  My mom doesn't like bacon or sausage, so I used cut up ham slices and I think it was delightful that way!  I may have used more cheese than was called for - because extra cheese makes everything better.  I've made this recipe twice now -- and ham is better than sausage on it.  It's really easy and fast to make, too.  Crowd pleaser!

Crockpot Hash Brown Breakfast Casserole

This couldn't get easier.  I just threw everything in the crockpot before I went to bed and by morning it was perfectly ready.  I think the reason it turned out so delicious was because I used a spicy cheese (hot pepper blend).  DEFINITELY USE A SPICY-ISH CHEESE!  It wouldn't be as flavorful otherwise.  We ate it plain, with ketchup and some people used Cholula on it.  Easy peasy.

HERE IS THE RECIPE.  This is perfect to throw in on a Friday night at midnight- to have a hot breakfast with no  fuss on a weekend morning.

Cheese and Trees Mini Quiches

I threw a baby shower over the weekend and will be posting a few "party foods" this week.  These mini quiches are so cute and easy.  I loved them!  You could add whatever you wanted to them too and they'd still turn out great- bacon, little ham pieces, etc.  I kept it simple and followed the recipe exactly - but I doubled it so I could make 24.

This is a Martha Stewart recipe.

Delicious, easy, finger food.  These get my recommendation for a party/brunch..

Eggs-in-a-Hole

I think I'm a late jumper on to this bandwagon.  I wanted to use up some french bread I bought before we went out of town and so I looked in my handy-dandy PW cookbook and found Eggs-in-a-Hole.

This was perhaps the easiest breakfast I've ever made and it was so incredibly yummy.  My husband says he had it growing up and I think people make this all the time.  But guess what? I'd never had it or heard of it until now.  Bread soaked in butter can't be wrong - but the egg/salt/pepper makes it doubly good.  I don't think it would be quite as good with thin, regular bread - I think I will make it with thick, artisan-type breads every time I make it.  

Delicious!  Here is the "recipe" - four ingredients!