Breakfast - Humorous Homemaking

Let’s Make Homemade Waffles!

Barry, my kids, and I all love homemade waffles! It’s one of their favorite meals – and they’ll enjoy them any time of day. I have a really large double-side waffle maker. It’s a Waring Pro. But then I found this cute, smaller one for four waffles. I only paid $15 for it and I know it’s not the best quality, but I’ve had so much fun with it! So…let’s make waffles!

Whenever I make waffles, I either make the Lemon Honey Flax Waffles from Jessica Fisher’s cookbook or I modify the waffle recipe from the red Breadbeckers cookbook. I have practically all their cookbooks, but I love the recipes from the little red book. I modify one called Basic Pancake recipe and convert it to waffles. The only real change between pancake and waffle batter is that you add more oil to the waffles.

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Best Ever Blueberry Muffins: An Ode to Tammy’s Recipes

Years ago, there was an awesome blog called Tammy’s Recipes. She had the absolute best ever blueberry muffins recipe on there. Seriously, best EVER. Sadly, Tammy is no longer blogging and her blog has gone away (sadness).
Honestly, her blog’s disappearance has given me some kind of Recipe PTSD. Friends, this is EXACTLY why you should print ALL recipes that you find online…the ones that you enjoy, anyway.

You never know when recipe Armageddon will occur and they’re all be gone in a flash. I once had an AMAZING recipe for ciabatta bread. It was my fave…and then POOF! See – Recipe PTSD. It will NOT happen with these blueberry muffins!

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The Solution to Your Breakfast Woes

I previously shared with you my 10 easy go-to breakfast recipes and today I want to share another helpful breakfast idea. For a while now, our family has been using a method that has really revolutionized life for us. It just might be the solution to your breakfast woes!

You all know I love to cook. More than anything, I love to cook breakfast. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. I love me some breakfast, girl!

Butter, syrup, butter, muffins, butter, coffee, butter, butter in coffee. My first thought in the morning is – I’m so glad it’s almost breakfast time!

I’m definitely not one of those people who’s like, “Rats, I just forgot to eat breakfast today!”

Or you guys that wake up and say, “No thanks, I don’t eat breakfast.” I don’t understand you. I mean, we can be friends, but I don’t understand you.

My kids are the same way – they want to know all about what they’re gonna have for breakfast the next day as they climb into bed.

For those of you who are breakfast people (and those of you who wish you were) – I’ve got the solution to your breakfast woes.

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The 13 Best Muffin Recipes of all Time

Let’s be honest here. Muffins are just a way to get more butter into our bodies. We can’t just sit around eating spoonfuls of butter without looking like lunatics. But, smear that butter on a muffin? Totally acceptable!

I love a GOOD muffin. I make muffins at least once a week for breakfast and sometimes more often so that I can offer them as snacks to the kids. If you follow me on Instagram, you know that they top my baking list and show up often. I like to use Trina Holden’s hashtag #buttervehicle as much as humanly possible.

Notice my emphasis on GOOD. Nasty muffins are just…nasty. Not even worth the butter you might waste on them. Boycott nasty muffins! [Read more…]

Postpartum Freezer Meals List

My friend Erinn from Embracing Everything asked for a list of the freezer meals that I used after this pregnancy, so I thought it might be helpful to a few other people as well. Why kill two birds with one stone when there are eggs in your bush that you shouldn’t count?

I started too late preparing for Eli Benjamin. I felt like doo-doo for most of the pregnancy, so I blame it on that. In all honesty, you should start prepping freezer meals in the middle of your second trimester. Most meals and foods will be fine for 6 months in the freezer. Even starting late, I managed to get quite a bit put away. I used a lot of meal components this time so I would be able to throw a meal together quickly instead of making a vast amount of fully cooked meals.

Also, 4 weeks before my due date, I made a HUGE shopping trip and stocked up on everything I might need: snacks, condiments, nuts, butter, etc. After my babies are born, I don’t get out much…I usually take a 2 month hiatus from shopping and gallivanting around the countryside. My mom went with me on this trip and I literally filled the car up with supplies and groceries. [Read more…]

50 Healthy Smoothie Combos

I’ve been working on this post for a few months. I like variety, and I got it into my head that I could make up 50 smoothie combos that were fast and easy…because, ain’t nobody got time for smoothies that take a bunch of prep work – isn’t that the point of a smoothie? To blend and go? Preach it – that was spiritual.

So, here is my list of 50 smoothie combos that are actually good for you – I put it together with my own geniousness and the help of my sister and Barry. You’ll find that they don’t call for any hard-to-find ingredients or stuff you can’t pronounce. [Read more…]

Snickers Oatmeal

This was another one of my acts of culinary genius – mostly out of desperation one morning for breakfast. As you know, I love oatmeal and we eat a lot of it around here…but some mornings, a girl needs to get her chocolate on. So, Snickers Oatmeal was born.

Did you know that I love Snickers bars? Mostly those little miniature ones you get at holidays. That way I can eat a couple and not feel any guilt – unlike if you eat a WHOLE bar and then you’re like, “Whoa, what just happened here?” Eating mini ones means, “I only ate a few of those little ones.” And you can’t tell me I’m the ONLY person that does that. Don’t lie to me. [Read more…]

Oatmeal Raisin Breakfast Cookies

These might be one of the best things that have come from my kitchen. I realize that the more I say that, the more I lose my credibility. Maybe it’s just because I love food so much – so everything is goooooooooooooooooooood to me. But, I’ve even tried this recipe on a few friends and it passes the test every time. One of my very good friends has to freeze half the batch so she doesn’t eat them all herself – I would have that same problem if I didn’t have two little ones with sticky fingers. 😉

These are full of great, nutritious foods that will start your day off right. And what’s better than saying “Come on kids! I made cookies for breakfast!” This batch makes four large cookies – which will feed me and my two youngsters. However, I do serve them with smoothies and fruit. If I didn’t, I know I WOULD eat all four. Feel free to make the cookies smaller – I just like big cookies. Go big or go home. [Read more…]

Basic Baked Steel Cut Oats

I’ve been a little busy lately, so I haven’t had any time to work on the Cooking Through Stacy’s Stash series – so I think I’m gonna put that on hold. Instead, over the next few weeks I would like to share with you some recipes I’ve been working on that our family (and other families) really love. Specifically today, I’m going to tell you how to cook steel cut oats and how to make them a bunch of different ways.

One of the most popular recipes here is my Basic Baked Overnight Oatmeal. It’s been a family favorite here for years and I’m glad that you all love it just as much as we do. Using that basic recipe, you can make approximately 1.5 million tweaks and make it different almost every time! I love variety. 🙂 [Read more…]

Oatmeal – 50 Ways to Eat It

It should come as no surprise that I love oats. Hardly a day passes where I don’t have it in some shape or fashion, be it in traditional oatmeal, smoothies, or granola. Speaking of “passes,” ahem – you should be eating it more often if you’re having problems with “passes.” Hahahahahaha!

I announced last week that I’m working on a new cookbook – one all about oatmeal. Because, as I already mentioned…I love it. It’s so versatile. I’ve already posted a ton of oatmeal recipes here, but really – is there such a thing as too many oatmeal recipes? I think not! I even have oatmeal as its own Pinterest board. [Read more…]