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Sausage Gravy Breakfast Enchiladas

Sausage Gravy Breakfast Enchiladas-  Hearty breakfast enchiladas with a Southern spin on a favorite Mexican dish, your whole family will thank you in advance. Breakfast Enchilada Casserole If you're a breakfast casserole fan, you'll love these Breakfast Enchiladas with Sausage Gravy. Not only are the enchiladas delicious and a little unique, but they are also easy to make and can be prepared the night before for brunch or a family breakfast the next morning. Get all the ingredients ready and assemble the breakfast enchiladas the night before.  Make the sausage gravy the next morning, then pop it in the oven. For the ingredients, I used hot sausage, white sharp cheddar cheese, and shredded hash browns.  I softly scramble the eggs because they will cook some more in the enchiladas. If you prefer to change the ingredients to your taste, feel free to do so, but I recommend the white sharp cheddar cheese in these Breakfast Enchiladas.  It just makes them super delici...

King Ranch Chicken {The Perfect Casserole}

King Ranch Chicken, tortillas, chicken, peppers, creamy sauce layered together in this Classic Southern casserole.  You might say King Ranch Chicken is the perfect casserole! King Ranch Chicken is a family favorite.  It's probably the best combination of Mexican flavors in a casserole of all time.   My family adores this casserole.  My recipe for King Ranch Chicken is one of those recipes that feed an army.  You can make two pans.  Most of the time, if I am making a casserole and going to the trouble of chopping and mixing.   Why not make two?

Weeknight Family Supper Meal: #6 Hobo Dinners

The Weeknight Family Supper Meal is an inspiration for a meal that can be enjoyed any night of the week, offering ideas on how to prepare part of the meal ahead, how to freeze leftovers, and how to repurpose them into a new meal.    Hobo Dinners are the perfect meal to make on a busy weeknight.  The hamburger, potatoes, carrots, celery, and onions are all cooked in a foil packet, making clean up virtually nonexistent. To change things up, sometimes I add a wedge of cabbage.  Season each layer of vegetables to keep the whole meal flavorful.  The Hobo Dinner can be made the night before and placed in the refrigerator. Set it out an hour before cooking. The Hobo Dinners are a meal all by themselves, but I like to serve them alongside crusty bread or perhaps some Red Pepper Flake Seasoned Crackers. These Red Pepper Flake Seasoned Crackers add a spicy flair and help enhance the flavor of all the food on your fork.  The crackers can be made a day or two ahea...

New Potatoes and Peas in a White Sauce

Old Fashioned  New Potatoes and Peas , sometimes called Southern New Potatoes in White Sauce, tender new potatoes and English peas smothered in a rich, creamy white sauce.    SOUTHERN NEW POTATOES IN WHITE SAUCE There is one thing for sure about this recipe for New Potatoes, and English Peas has been around for ages.  My Mother passed it down to me, and her Mother passed it down to her, a tried and true recipe. The first vegetables I want to eat in the spring from our garden growing up are new potatoes and fresh English peas. Mother would wash and scrap the new potatoes, slice them, or you can also quarter them if you like a chunkier potato.  While the potatoes are cooking, she makes the white sauce.

Weeknight Family Supper Meal: #5 Spaghetti Pie

The Weeknight Family Supper Meal is an inspiration for a meal that can be enjoyed any night of the week, offering ideas on how to prepare part of the meal ahead, how to freeze leftovers, and how to repurpose them into a new meal. With Valentine's Day next Wednesday, I thought you might like a meal for the special occasion.   When my children were small, we chose to celebrate the moment with them at the family table instead of a quiet, romantic meal just my husband and me.   I would set the table with fine china, crystal tea glasses, real cloth napkins, and, well, the silverware was our everyday fare. I would serve a one-pot dish, such as Shrimp Creole over buttered rice, accompanied by a green salad. For dessert, we would have chocolate cake.   Oh, the memories are flooding in.  sniff sniff!

Weeknight Family Supper Meal: #4 Salmon Croquettes

Weeknight Family Supper Meal is  an inspiration for a meal one night of the week, offering ideas on how to prepare part of the meal ahead, how to freeze any leftovers, or how to repurpose leftovers into a new meal.    Most people don't know how easy it is to make salmon croquettes.  Mix up a few ingredients, mince the onions, egg, and seasoning in a bowl.  Roll them into small balls, then roll them in saltine cracker crumbs and fry in oil.  Voila, salmon croquettes.   See how easy, and oh! so delicious.   Perfect for a weeknight meal.

Weeknight Family Supper Meal: #3 Chicken Terrific

Weeknight Family Supper Meal is  an inspiration for a meal one night of the week, offering ideas on how to prepare part of the meal ahead, how to freeze any leftovers, or how to repurpose leftovers into a new meal.    Casseroles are a favorite at our house, especially those that can be made ahead, stored in the fridge, and then popped in the oven when it's time to cook supper.   If a buttery topping is sprinkled on top, as this casserole has, leave it to sprinkle just before baking.  Look out for the leftovers.   We love this casserole almost better the next day.  It is scrumptious.   Did I say it is not like your typical casseroles?  The ingredients may surprise you.

Weeknight Family Supper Meal: #2 Leftover Ham with Bowtie Pasta and English Peas

Weeknight Family Supper Meal , an inspiration for a meal one night of the week that may include ideas how to make part of the meal ahead, how to freeze any leftovers or how to make leftovers into a makeover for another meal.   After Christmas, we always have plenty of ham leftover.  This Christmas was no different.  I usually buy a whole ham for Thanksgiving and a spiral ham for Christmas. I love to dice leftover spiral ham.  The cuts are all uniform and the perfect thickness.  They look pretty in ham salad or a pasta dish like Leftover Ham and Bowtie Pasta.

Grilled Apple Cider Glazed Pork Chops

Grilled Apple Cider Glazed Pork Chops, using up some leftover apple cider to marinate and coat with a maple syrup thick boneless pork chops, will dramatically amp up the flavor, savory, and a bit of sweetness.   Pork chops are a favorite around our house. Cook them anyway.   The boneless pork chops grilled tend to be tough and dry at times, so we like to brine them before cooking them or coat them in a super delicious glaze while cooking them.  

Weeknight Family Supper Meal: #1 Smothered Burritos Casserole Using Store Bought Frozen Burritos

Weeknight Family Supper Meal , an inspiration for a meal one night of the week that may include ideas how to make part of the meal ahead, how to freeze any leftovers or how to make leftovers into makeovers for another meal.   The main dish is Smothered Burrito Casserole using premade frozen burritos.    For the perfect accompaniment, a tasty recipe for Mexican Salad that goes all the way back to the 1960's.  Sometimes we add a side dish of whole kernel corn, Mexican Rice, and chips and hot sauce. Dessert is a simple layer of crescent rolls blanketed around a fluf fy cream cheese mixture known as Sopopia Cheesecake.

Roasted Sweet Potato Cobb Salad with Walden Farm's Honey Dijon Salad Dressing

Roasted Sweet Potato Cobb Salad, golden roasted sweet potatoes, chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, purple onions and avocados on a layer of fresh collard green ribbons and arugula salad greens and drizzled with honey dijon salad dressing.  I'm keeping it Southern! Do you ever have a few sweet potatoes needing to cook before they go bad?  Well, that is where I am, and two sweet potatoes are not enough to make a pie.   Now I could put them in a casserole or bake them, but that means lots of butter and cinnamon and sugar.  That's how I like my baked sweet potatoes, so I opted for a healthy version, roasted sweet potatoes. 

Homemade Individual Serve Applesauce

Homemade Individual Serve Applesauce is a delicious, healthy homemade applesauce with no added sugar.  With apple season in full swing, I wanted to make a batch of applesauce.  But not just any applesauce.  An applesauce that is wholesome and delicious at the same time using only four ingredients served in individual portion control containers.

Roasted Bacon and Sage Wrapped Peaches ~ Celebrating the End of Peach Season

Roasted Bacon and Sage Wrapped Peaches, a delightful appetizer or snack that will wow your Southern guest.  There are only four ingredients, bacon, sage, and luscious peaches drizzled with a balsamic honey vinegar.  The perfect dish to celebrate the end of the peach season. I have been wanting to make these roasted peaches for some time and never wanted to heat the oven long enough for them to cook.   The days here in Texas are beginning to cool down, and the peaches are getting fewer in number at the grocery stores, but the stores have started stocking fresh sage.  Now that is the end of one season and the beginning of another, summer and fall.

Roasted Ratatouille Vegetables Recipe

Roasted Ratatouille Vegetables,  roasted summer vegetables, eggplant, bell pepper, zucchini, and onion with a whole garlic into a delightful side dish. The recipe is healthy and comforting at the same time--pure deliciousness! I grew up with traditional cooking methods, and they are hard to change, but the older I get, the more I make changes to easier methods. As is with this Ratatouille recipe.   While traditional Ratatouille is made by sauteeing vegetables separately before combining them, I decided to roast the vegetables.

The Best Old Fashioned Meatloaf

The Best Old Fashioned is just like the classic meatloaf that Grandma used to make—tender and juicy, topped with the perfect tomato glaze.  Meatloaf Recipe Cooked In An Iron Skillet My Mother-in-law's old fashioned meatloaf recipe is moist and tender but not too loose for slicing leftover meatloaf sandwiches. She taught me early on to cook my meatloaf in a cast-iron skillet, which has never changed. She also taught me not to forget to save the tripping for delicious tomato gravy. She would form her meatloaf in a bun and cook it with enough water about a third way up in the skillet. All those delicious juices make a wonderful gravy.   She believed that a good meatloaf recipe has a good fat ratio in the hamburger.

Pimento Cheese Deviled Eggs

Pimento Cheese Deviled Eggs, two southern favorites come together to make an everyday dish at your next gathering into extraordinary.   You might say a double dose of southern hospitality all in one bite! Deviled eggs are classy all by themselves when served on a table at the holidays, at a bridal shower, a brunch, to even a spring picnic.

Sweet Potato Spoonbread

Sweet Potato Spoonbread,  a spin on an old Southern classic, corn pudding, is simple to make and can be served sweet or savory.  Such a delicious side dish to whip up throughout the year.    Southern Roasted Sweet Potato Spoonbread Southern Sweet Potato Spoonbread brings two southern favorites, sweet potatoes and corn pudding, together in a delicious casserole.  Perfect for family gatherings, potlucks, and holiday feasts.   We are such fans of  spoonbreads .   We have it at all our family gatherings.  The grandchildren absolutely adore it.   It is the perfect side dish to serve with roasted chicken as well as beef or pork roast.

Weeknight Supper Meal: Quick Flat Roast Chicken

Weeknight Supper Meal, an inspiration for one of your meals for the week including a quick roasted chicken, vegetable casserole, simple salad, and a classic Southern dessert.   Flat Roasted Chicken,  cutting the cooking time in half bringing a crispy, moist  chicken .  One of my favorite go-to meals that stretch our dollars and makes my  meal planning  a lot friendlier.     

Cauliflower Rice Coleslaw ~ Makeover Leftovers

Cauliflower Rice Coleslaw , beautiful and healthy salad made with cauliflower crumbles, coleslaw mix, and a sweet, tangy dressing.  The perfect salad to celebrate the coming of the end of summer.   We love a Sunday family style dinner when we have our children join us for lunch.   Especially like this past Sunday, on the table, Sunday Pot Roast , Light Bread and Gravy, Long Grain Rice, Lima Beans, Sliced Tomatoes and Onions, and Cauliflower Rice Coleslaw.

Curry Rice Salad

Curry Rice Salad , fluffy white rice, yellow curry powder, and bright English peas are the perfect dish to use up leftover rice.     Curry Rice Salad Using Leftover Rice The joy of this recipe is how simple it is to make.  Using leftover rice is always a plus when needing to get a meal on the table in minutes.  If you have no rice cooked, cook it the night before and heat it to make the salad. When I have leftover rice, one of the first things I think about is making this cold rice salad. Leftover Makeover is now a new label on the blog.  I will add recipes in this tab featuring leftovers from prepared dishes, ingredients from recipes, and leftover holiday meats.  Leftovers are more than reheating last night's dinner for lunch.  Leftovers can include ingredients leftover from recipes that are unused and stored in the fridge or pantry.  I detest wasting food.