A Sinful Breakfast!

First, I just have to post these pictures of a sinful breakfast. I'll follow with a post with a recipe. But check out these potatoes frying in bacon grease. Yum!

Then look at these beautiful cinnamon rolls. My husband is the culprit in both these tasty sinful treats.

For the cinnamon rolls he uses a basic dinner roll recipe, rolls it out, spreads a cinnamon, brown sugar, and butter mixture over the dough, rolls it up, and slices it into rolls. Then he places them in a buttered dish, covers them and lets them rise near the warm oven. And then he bakes them at 450 for 10-15 minutes.

Yumminess!

Apples, apples, apples...in muffins and hot cereal!

It is fall and that means lots and lots of delicious apples. I love 'em. Especially the Honey Crisp ones! I thought I'd share two quick apple ideas.

Last week I made some apple muffins that were delicious. I was sad to eat the last one this morning. Bye bye tasty muffin breakfasts. I used this recipe from the blog eat make read. I didn't make the drizzle for the top and I didn't have any pecans so they didn't look as cute with the nut on top. But they were tasty nonetheless!

I also have been enjoying a new hot breakfast cereal.

I love the concept of hot cereal but I just can't get into oatmeal. I grew up eating cream of wheat, which I love, but which is just too much like baby food sometimes. This cereal from Hodgson Mill is a nice balance for me with a slightly more complex texture than cream of wheat but not as much as typical oatmeal. And boy is it tasty when you mix in apples, brown sugar, and buttermilk! Did I mention that I love buttermilk on hot cereals? I do!

Sunday and strawberry crepes!

Yesterday we woke to a lovely and sunny Sunday morning. We had two morning glory blooms and a couple ripe black raspberries to nibble off the bushes. In the fridge were the last of the fresh strawberries from this week's farm share. A little birdie put the idea of pancakes in my husband's head and away he went. He stores recipes in his head like some people know their sports trivia. His crepe recipe follows the Joy of Cooking French Pancake recipe pretty closely, I believe. And he is a big fan of making sweet and savory stuffings for them. This morning it was a sweet strawberry filling that won out.

First, he made a puree of about a pint of strawberries.

Next, he mixed this with creamy goat cheese for a smooth, pink filling. After he had cooked a plateful of pancakes he started rolling them up with the strawberry cheese filling. Next it was breakfast on the back porch!