Breakfast Skillet

We enjoy this breakfast most weekend mornings as of late. This is an easy recipe to substitute other items if you are missing something or want to try something else.

 Here's what you need:

2-3 large potatoes

1 pound breakfast sausage

3 eggs

1/2 cup green peppers

1/2 cup spinach

olive oil

coconut oil

cheese

salsa

milk

salt and pepper

onion powder

ground turmeric

Here's what you do:

Begin by washing and dicing your potatoes. Turn on your burners and begin melting your coconut oil (or whatever you choose to cook your potatoes in). Cook potatoes in first skillet. I like to season mine with salt, pepper, and ground turmeric. 

Brown your choice of breakfast sausage in separate skillet. 

Once sausage is browned, set aside in bowl covered with tin foil to keep warm. Next scramble your eggs. I like to add about 1/3 cup of milk to keep my eggs nice and fluffy. I also added salt, pepper, and onion powder. 

Once your potatoes and eggs are cooked, add eggs, sausage and vegetables to potato skillet. Cook about five minutes or until vegetables have softened. Top with cheese or salsa as desired.
Matt also likes to turn his into breakfast burritos. Feel free to fill tortillas with these as well. He also warms them in the skillet to make them a little bit crispier.

We have also used other peppers in our skillet and gone without the spinach. I think grape tomatoes would also be a great add in! This is very simple and easy to change up as needed. We have made this without potatoes for a little less carbs. You could easily try bacon or ham instead or even go meatless. Enjoy your new breakfast skillet!

Grilled Skillet Burritos

I pulled out one of my Southern Living cookbooks and found this delicious recipe. Also it was unbelievably simple!

What you need:

2 cups chopped cooked chicken breast

1 (15 oz.) can black beans, drained and rinsed

1 (15 oz.) can of corn

1 cup cheddar cheese

creamy cilantro-jalapeno sauce (see below)

8 tortillas

salsa

What you do:

1. Toss together first four ingredients and 1/2 cup Creamy Cilantro-Jalapeno Sauce. Spread 3/4 cup chicken mixture just below center of each tortilla. Fold opposite sides of tortillas over filling, and roll up. 

2. Coat hot griddle or skillet with cooking spray. Cook burritos, in bathes, on hot griddle over medium heat, pressing gently with a spatula, 3 to 4 minutes on each side or until golden brown and cheese is melted. Serve with salsa and remaining Creamy Cilantro-Jalapeno Sauce.

Creamy Cilantro-Jalapeno Sauce

1 cup light sour cream

1/2 cup loosely packed cilantro leaves, chopped

2 T. diced (pickled) jalapeno peppers

2 t. chopped yellow onion

2 t. Dijon mustard

1 t. lime zest

1. Stir together all the ingredients in a small bowl. Cover and chill 30 minutes. Store in an airtight container up to two days.

Makes 8 servings.

Christmas Review

Welcome to 2015! I thought I catch you up on the end of our 2014. We had LOTS of Christmas celebrations.

The weekend before Christmas we flew up to Denver to see Matt's family. Saturday we stayed at his aunt and uncle's along with his family. Sunday we headed up to Greeley for his extended family Christmas. He told me there would about 50 people there. Even though I heard him say that, I think I was only expecting about 18 people. So it came as a shock when there were more than 50 people there! Santa even stopped by for a visit.

I haven't had a picture with Santa for a long time.

He came with lots of presents for the little ones!

Luckily it wasn't too cold while we were there. It was another short trip (that's kind of what we do these days). We headed for the airport on Sunday night to fly back to Phoenix with my parents. 

Monday was Matt's birthday. He chose to do lunch at Chik-fil-a.

We even got a nice glimpse of the cow.

After lunch the boys went to TopGolf and had a total blast. The girls stayed home to make Christmas cookies.

Someone maybe missed the baking gene...(just kidding...kind of)

As if we didn't have enough baked goods, we also went and got some cupcakes to celebrate Matt's birthday.

There's the birthday boy!

That night we took my family to A Christmas Carol at a local theater.

I really enjoyed it. As we were walking out they had fake snow falling with Christmas lights everywhere. I was really getting into the Christmas spirit.

We headed to dinner at Oregano's for some yummy pizza.

and even more delicious dessert for the birthday boy!

Tuesday Jadyn headed off to work with me while the rest of the family finished Christmas shopping.

Twinning!

My dad decided to take over as pool boy while he was here.

We met them for lunch at the Cheesecake Factory and enjoyed more dessert!

Christmas Eve morning I made a Christmas brunch.

We enjoyed punch, monkey bread, chocolate dipped fruit and a breakfast casserole.

Then we headed down the street for a quick little game of basketball.

Again, Jadyn and I dressed like twins!

We were hosting Christmas Eve that night so everyone got to work.

Whew! I was getting pretty tired by this point. But it was time for the celebration to start!

Always love our pew selfies!

We came back for appetizers and soup with my grandparents and great aunt and uncle.

I think I made enough appetizers for 50 people (there was 11 of us!). Matt and I have been filling up on leftovers, but I think everything from Christmas is now gone...We are still eating turkey from Thanksgiving!

After everyone left, we opened a few presents. Matt opened his birthday gift and everyone else got to open one gift.

We gave Nolan his favorite gift!!! ;)

He was pretty excited!

I think my dad liked his too!

Christmas morning we woke up for Santa gifts and finished opening the rest from everyone else. Remember when you used to take a picture of all your gifts you got for Christmas?? I don't think I should probably do that anymore, but I was really excited for all of mine! Christmas day we headed down to my grandma and grandpa's for lunch. Again we had our fill of yummy food!

The day after Christmas we headed to Maricopa for another meal with some more family members. After lunch us kids headed over for some more basketball.

We played a nice little round of "LLAMA" and "on the line."

These two enjoyed some quality time with aunt Daisy.

That night Matt built a nice fire for us to enjoy.

Saturday the boys took us over to their new favorite place, TopGolf. Apparently everyone else figured out it was their favorite place too-it was packed!. We didn't end up playing. Guess we know what we will be doing next time they come!

We still had time for pictures!

That afternoon we loaded up and took them back to the airport. 

We were a little squished!

We had a great time! Hopefully our first visitors come back and see us again soon!

P.S. Happy Bachelor Monday!!!

Super Potatoes

Hi friends! We had a busy weekend, and I spent most of yesterday getting things back on track. I created this recipe when we had some leftovers to use up. Our potatoes were almost done for so I decided we needed to use a lot of them, fast! 

Here's what you need:

4 potatoes

~3 T. olive oil

seasoned salt

~1 c. shredded chicken (or whatever leftover meat you have, pork works well too! I bet ground beef would also be good.)

~2 cups cheese

Here's what you do:

Preheat oven to 425°. Grease 9 x 13 pan or cookie sheet. I put aluminum foil down and spray it with Pam-it makes clean up a breeze! Slice potatoes thinly into chips.The thinner you slice them, the faster they will cook. Arrange potatoes onto pan. Drizzle olive oil onto potatoes. Cover potatoes with seasoned salt as desired. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until potatoes begin to feel soft and are easily cut. Remove from oven and add shredded chicken. Cover with cheese. Bake an additional 10 minutes or until cheese melts. 

Enjoy as a meal on its own or pair it with another fruit or veggie! Another super simple Tasty Tuesday recipe for you. We love it for an easy weekend meal. Join me tomorrow as I tell you all about our whirlwind weekend! See you then :)