Breakfast!

You may have missed last weeks post and the week before and the week before and the week before, but that is okay because they don't exist!  It has been quite awhile since my last blog post but that doesn't mean I have stopped cooking.  I have been super busy with school, but thought it would be a perfect time to start blogging again because summer is only three weeks away!  This weeks post is all about breakfast.  Since Sunday morning is a guaranteed time with family I like to cook a nice breakfast to share.  So this week I am spotlighting a few of our past Sunday breakfast favorites.

 

 

My mom's favorite meal is breakfast and one of the unique breakfast side dishes she has discovered here in Arizona is cheesy grits.  She originally was introduced to cheesy grits at LoLos Chicken and Waffles (highly recommended if you visit Arizona!) when the waiter insisted she tried them.  Here is the recipe for our homemade grits: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/grits-recipe3.html.  Also a part of this breakfast meal was our breakfast burritos.  These breakfast burritos are perfect fresh or frozen.  They are extremely convenient for a freeze and thaw breakfast on the go.  Another delicious discovery I have found in Arizona is chorizo.  It is like a spicy breakfast sausage that is perfect with eggs or in a burrito. It is also good for dinners as well.  This particular recipe is my "recipe".  All I did was prepare chorizo, cheese, green and red pepper, and shredded potatoes or hash browns in a burrito.  Then I served it with a side of sour cream and/or salsa.  My family really enjoyed it!

 

 

 

 

My second favorite food (second to potato pancakes) is biscuits and gravy.  I am not one to go for the sweet breakfast foods so I really enjoy finding new salty breakfast dishes.  One of my favorite shows on the Food Network is the Pioneer Woman.  She cooks a lot of southern meals that I really enjoy. This is one of her recipes.  Although it is only the recipe for the gravy, it is the perfect recipe.  You can choose to either make the biscuits from scratch or to buy them.  I bought the Pillsbury biscuits that you can just pop in the oven and they worked out great.  Here is the recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sausage-gravy.html.  My sister loved them so much that she asked me this morning to make them for her next week!

 

 

 Another recipe I had been dying to try is a breakfast skillet, there are so many different recipes for breakfast skillets that it all just depends on what the people you are feeding like.  Izzy really enjoys all of the recipes.  You can also scramble the eggs or leave them over easy. (They look prettier overeasy!) I believe I first found this recipe on Pinterest while searching for breakfast recipe and it looked so good that I had to try it.  It tastes as good as it looks.  Here is the recipe or the breakfast skillet: http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2014/11/25/crispy-hash-breakfast-skillet/.

 

 

 Last but not least, is today's breakfast recipe.  In search of new recipes that my family had not tried, I found this one: FRENCH TOAST.  I never have really liked French toast because I don't personally like eggs BUT with this recipe I barely even noticed there was even eggs involved.  My family loved this sooooo much, especially my mom.  Here is the recipe: http://www.justataste.com/2014/01/easy-cinnamon-french-toast-sticks-recipe/.

 

 

To go along with my breakfast recipes I thought I would share a few pictures from the Fractured Prune.  It is a delicious donut shop in Chandler.  They fry the donuts and then you are able to pick the toppings.  It is delicious! 

 

That is all of the recipes this week but I hope to continue to post throughout the next couple of weeks and the summer.  Feel free to also find me on Pinterest to follow my food boards and lookout for some of the recipes I have recently posted on this weeks blog post!  I hope you have a good week!