Spice up boring pancakes!

So who here isn't a morning person?

...

exactly ... and unless it's the weekend who wants to be up at 6am cooking a 3 course breakfast meal for your kids or husband or even yourself? With that said however we all know breakfast is in fact the most important meal of the day, so how can we make breakfast easy, but still good and not boring. 

one word PANCAKES

it's so simple! 

now you can be like me and just get a box and add water =) 

bad culinary kid I know but I cut corners in the morning what can I say

A great way to add a little something extra (plus extra nutrients) to pancakes is fruit.

The other morning I made blueberry pancakes for James and I, they were amazing!

other variations that would be great are strawberries, raspberries ... really any berry or fruit. you could also add cinnamon or a little nutmeg, which would be great for fall, for a different flavor. 

Now in addition to all of this pancakes are great to freeze, so you could even make them from scratch on Sunday cook 2 batches and freeze a batch and re-heat them for your kids or whomever throughout the week!

On a side note, the garden is doing AMAZING! the morning glories are everywhere! Which is to be expected and I've been picking 2 or 3 tomatoes a day! Yesterday we picked our first cucumber and there's a few more that are getting pretty big and now out of no where the strawberries are producing fruit.

Here's a shot I took of the kitchen window above the sink.

The coffee cup planter in the middle has a cactus or two that you can't really see. They are growing very very slowly and i'm not really sure what's going to come of them since I've never grown them before and can't seem to keep the cat out of them =) one of these days she'll learn! 

Perfect after a long day

Okay i'm sorry for the lack posts in the past two weeks, I got a sinus infection and haven't been making anything other than frozen pizza and chicken salad. But night before last I started craving real food. 

I love eating fruit, cheese and bread. It's a great snack.

So James and I went to Kroger and picked up some things to snack on.

I also picked up a bottle of Pino Grigio and added some sliced strawberries

I love Brie but don't like the rind and apparently you can get a container of Brie (no rind) for the same price as a small thing of Brie! We also had some Munster and Cheddar in the fridge. 

Then for the sliced baguette, strawberries and blueberries! 

Also! Minus the wine this makes a great breakfast for those of us who aren't morning people! 

Vegetable Omelet

For some unknown reason I was dying for breakfast yesterday ... usually breakfast for me consists of coffee .. then another cup of coffee.

So since I was actually hungry I figured id make it special

Vegetarian Omelet!

You can always substitute the eggs for an egg substitute. My beau's parents have a farm and we're lucky enough to get eggs and some veggies from them from time to time.

I used some broccoli, mushrooms, and tomatoes 

then added the eggs, i used 3 and had left overs for later

make sure you grease your pan well!! Using oil and butter will raise your smoking temperature so your omelet will be less likely to burn.

as an afterthought I added some Munster cheese

Use a spatula and pull at the sides of the omelet, this helps the egg cook thoroughly 

Flip to the side and enjoy!!

Vegetable Quiche

So quiche is very simple and super versatile you can customize it however you want! 

So using the pie crusts we prepared yesterday I rolled it out and put it in the pie dish.
I docked the dough and put it in the oven (not necessary i just like crispy crust)

While the crust par cooked in the oven I cut up some veggies

We used, mushrooms, onion, broccoli and spinach and saute the vegetables 

Now in a separate bowl mix up some eggs and milk

I was lazy and didn't do anything fancy with my crust (this is all before i brewed coffee haha)
Put the vegetables in then add the egg mixture (we also added cheese)

and bake! 

Bake until the filling is set

It's ugly but it tastes sooo good!!! 

Not being a morning person I should have made this the night before but oh well. Next time