It's Sunday morning of Week Five.
Today's breakfast menu is huevo rancheros. We all LOVE these - the crispy, salty tater tots topped with creamy scrambled eggs with spicy salsa mixed in and topped with pepper jack cheese. So absolutely satisfying!
Today's dinner is also a family favorite. I found this recipe for honey baked ham because I couldn't stomach paying the high price at the Honey Baked Ham store. This recipe is just as good - if not hands down better!! It makes sweet, salty tender slices of ham with sweet slightly crispy edges.
I always call these scalloped potatoes but most people call them funeral potatoes. I know they aren't really scalloped -that's a different recipe but I'm so used to calling them that. No matter what they are called -they are so freaking good! Creamy, cheesy sauce with flavorful potatoes, onions and peppers topped with a crunchy corn flake topping. I can never get enough of these.
For dessert is an amazing (and easy cake) that is made by adding items to a cake mix. It's so good. You will never forget this cake after eating it once. It combines lemon, blueberries and cream cheese frosting. Three layers high - and so creamy.
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| Huevos Rancheros |
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| Honey Glazed Ham, Scalloped Potatoes, Asparagus and Blueberry Lemon Cake |
BREAKFAST:
1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Dump a bag of Tater tots (tater tot crowns work good for this too) onto a baking sheet. Bake according to package directions.
2. While the tater tots are cooking, grate some pepper jack cheese. (I prefer grating it myself instead of using pre-grated, for some reason it just seems like a better texture).
3. Melt a couple Tablespoons of butter in a medium-large frying pan over medium heat.
4. While the butter melts, break the number of eggs you want to use into a medium sized mixing bowl.
5. Add a little milk to the eggs and then salt and pepper. Mix well, until it is a uniform mixture.
6. Pour the mixture into the melted butter. Using a spatula or fork, scrape the cooked egg mixture from the bottom of the pan - let the runny uncooked egg mixture run into the area you clear. Keep doing this until all the eggs are cooked and fluffy.
7. Pour a generous amount of salsa in with the cooked eggs. Mix it up. Keep warm until tater tots are done.
8. Sprinkle the cooked tater tots with salt and pepper.
9. Spread some tater tots on a plate.
10. Top tater tots with some salsa scrambled eggs. Sprinkle cheese over the top.
11. ENJOY!
DINNER:
HONEY GLAZED HAM
1. Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees. Melt butter in a medium size saucepan over medium-low heat.
2. Add honey and dark corn syrup.
3. Add cloves and the seasoning packet that came with the spiral ham.
4. Open the ham - it may have several layers of packaging, like a net, foil and sealed plastic. Remove it all.
6. Brush glaze between each slice and over entire ham.
7. Wrap ham up in foil.
8. Put ham in oven. Set timer for an hour and 15 minutes (75 minutes). Brush glaze over ham every 10-15 minutes as it bakes.
9. Give it a good glazing when there is 15 minutes left on the timer and leave it uncovered to let the glaze set over the outside of the ham.
10. Remove from oven. Serve with baked glaze. ENJOY!
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees (or if cooking with ham or other meat, can use the same temperature as the meat just adjust cooking time). Place cube of butter in a 9x13 inch pan and put in oven.
2. When butter has melted, remove from oven. Pour can of cream of mushroom soup and a cup of sour cream in pan with melted butter.
3. Add cheese, then salt, pepper and add some sliced green onions. Mix it up well.
4. Stir in frozen potatoes O'Brien.
5. Sprinkle crushed corn flakes over the top.
6. Bake until warm through-out - bubbly in the middle.
7. ENJOY!!
1. Place 4 eggs in a bowl of warm water to bring to room temperature. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Pour lemon cake mix into bowl of stand mixer. Defrost blueberries and strain - if using frozen. If using fresh just rinse.
2. Add vanilla pudding mix and sour cream to bowl.
3. Add eggs.
4. Add oil and mix on low until combined. Then beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
5. Gently stir in blueberries - especially if using frozen. You don't want the batter to turn purple from the blueberry juice.
6. Grease three 8 inch cake pans. Divide batter between the pans and spread evenly.
7. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool.
8. Place one layer on the serving pan and spread cream cheese frosting on the top. Place a second layer on top of the frosting.
9. Frost the top of the second layer with cream cheese frosting. Place the third layer on top of the frosting on the second layer.
10. Frost the top of the 3rd layer and then the sides of the entire cake with cream cheese frosting.
11. ENJOY!!
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