A - Amish Breakfast Puffs

I'm joining the A-Z Challenge this month. Come back to grab a new recipe each day!

These breakfast muffins have a delicate cinnamon-sugar taste and have been my kid's favorite.  You can find mace, an unusual ingredient, in your grocery store, but if you don't want to purchase a new spice, you can substitute with nutmeg. I think it's better with mace, however.

Amish Breakfast Puffs

Ingredients:

1 ½ C flour
1 ½ t. baking powder
½ t salt
¼ t mace (or nutmeg)
½ C sugar
1/3 C vegetable oil
1 egg
1 t. vanilla
½ C milk

½ C sugar, 1 t. cinnamon
6 T. melted butter

Stir together flour, baking powder, salt and mace, set aside. In a bowl, beat together sugar, oil, egg and vanilla on med. for 30 sec. Add the flour mixture and ½ C milk alternatively to egg mixture. Beat on low after each addition just until mixed. Fill 10-12 greased muffin cups (do not use paper) 2/3 full. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 min or until lightly brown. In another bowl, combine sugar and cinnamon. Remove muffins while hot, roll in melted butter and then in cinn/sugar mix. Serve immediately.

Recipe Given By: Sofia Valenzuela

Secrets Until April

Uh, there's something you should know about me.

I HATE keeping secrets.

I'm terrible at it.

I can keep them, but just barely.

I don't like waiting when I think someone else will enjoy a surprise.

I just want it to happen NOW.

I want to tell them how great it will be, but then...I can't.

Ugh!

I decided that for each corresponding day in March I would prep my April A-Z Challenge posts so I won't be caught off guard next month. Tonight I sat down to plan my "C" posts.

You know, the whole plan ahead thing.

Something else I don't often like to do.

But since I figured I will struggle writing 52 posts in one month (26 each blog), I figured some prior planning would be a good idea. I made a micro-spreadsheet to keep track of what my plans are. I've written down the topic of each post and some details I want to be sure to include. And guess what?
I hate not being able to tell you what I'm planning. It's a secret! Ahhh!

It's killing me and I'm only on "C."

It's going to be a LONG month, I think. :)

Have you joined the Challenge? There's still time!

A-Z Challenge

I will be joining the A-Z Challenge in April and sharing 26 new recipes! How fun will that be!

I've not given Angie's Home Cooking too much attention over the last year so I'm hoping this challenge will give some new energy to my cooking and sharing via the blog. Thank goodness, I have March to do some prior planning! 

I'm looking forward to exercising my creativity! What am I going to cook for X? Who knows! Should be interesting.

BTW, I'm also going to participate in the challenge on my home blog, Angie's Ad Lib, as well. Looking forward to a fun month.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

Recommendation: Crispy Crowns!

My kid's don't like tater tots.

Sigh.

Anytime I want to have potatoes, I make them from scratch, which is never quick and easy. I like happy kids...generally.

I grew up on tater tots and enjoy them, so every once in awhile I'll buy them and make the children "suffer." They like Ore-Ida's fast food fries and we'll have them every once in a great while, but when you want a tater tot, nothing else can replace it.

Around our move to the farm a couple weeks ago, I ran across

Ore-Ida Crispy Crowns!

Yum! Lo, and behold, even the kids liked them. They get very crunchy because of their small size. I think we've had a package of them every week for the past three weeks.

We had them for dinner tonight with sloppy joes and when Rhett gobbled the last one, he said, "There's just never enough."

If you're a tater tot fan, you've got to give these a try. They've made believers out of some very unfriendly tater tot kids!

Broiled Angel Food Cake

Last Christmas I purchased the Taste of Home Simple and Delicious Cookbook at Target for my mother. It looked so good I purchased one for myself. Now when we try a recipe we can let each other know if we think the other would enjoy the recipe. This is a great idea for a newly married daughter and mom! (Why didn't I buy three copies?)

This is an easy dessert to make! It would be fun at the end of a BBQ with friends.  There is something remincient about a toasted marshmellow when you eat this angel food cake.  We made it twice this week (they boys loved it!) and on the second go around we tried caramel topping with vanilla ice cream. It was our favorite version.  Let me know if you give it a try!

Butterscotch Angel Cake

Ingredients:

8 slices angel food cake
3/4 cup butter, melted, divided
1 cup packed brown sugar, divided
8 scoops butter brickle or butter pecan ice cream
Butterscotch ice cream topping

Place cake slices on a greased baking sheet. Brush with 6 tablespoons butter; press 1 tablespoon brown sugar onto each slice. Broil 5-6 in. from the heat for 1-2 minutes or until bubbly.

Turn slices over; brush with remaining butter and sprinkle with remaining brown sugar. Broil 1-2 minutes longer or until bubbly. Cool for 2-3 minutes. Serve with ice cream; drizzle with butterscotch topping.

Serving: 8
Recipe Given By: Taste of Home

Pizza Burgers

Tuesday night I had a work meeting, but my family wasn't going to be home in time to eat dinner all together.  I put together this "pizza-joe" and left it on the stove top covered. (There was about a 10 minute disparity between my departure and their arrival.)  I wrote out the final instructions and the gang finished up the recipe with no problem.  They even snapped a picture for me to share!  It was delicious!  Check out the Taste of Home link below for nutritional and freezer info, plus, other great recipes.

Open-faced Pizza Burgers

Ingredients:

1-1/2 pounds ground beef
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 can (15 ounces) pizza sauce
1 can (4 ounces) mushroom stems and pieces, drained
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
6 hamburger buns, split and toasted
1-1/2 cups (6 ounces) shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese

In a large skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat until the meat is no longer pink; drain. Stir in the pizza sauce, mushrooms, sugar and oregano; mix well. Spoon onto buns; sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.

Place on ungreased baking sheets. Broil 4 in. from the heat for 2 minutes or until cheese is melted.

To freeze for quick lunches later, place the split and toasted buns on a baking sheet. Spoon the meat mixture onto buns; freeze for 1 hour. Transfer to heavy-duty resealable plastic bags or airtight containers.

Serves: 12
Recipe Given By: Taste of Home