Granola

Jan 23rd, 2012 by

I wore my rain boots today.  After I got home, I left them by the door.  This is what happened…

My boots were as tall as her legs are long.  She only fell over a few times before giving up on wearing the boots.  She did, however, stand still long enough for me to snap a picture!

All the time she was doing this, she was asking for the granola that we had for breakfast as a snack tonight.  Since this recipe is kid approved, I figured that you guys should be the recipients of it!  I love finding recipes that my kiddos love!

 

Granola

-3 cups oats

-1 teaspoon cinnamon

-1/4 cup brown sugar

-3 Tablespoons vegetable oil (or canola oil)

-3 Tablespoons Agave nectar (or honey or maple syrup)

-1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Mix oats and cinnamon in a bowl.

In a separate bowl, mix brown sugar,  oil, agave nectar, and vanilla until combined.

Add the wet ingredients to the white ingredients.  Make sure that your oats get coated with the mixture.

Spread out on a parchment lined cookie sheet and bake for 20 minutes.  Rotate pan halfway through cooking.

Remove from oven and put in a bowl to let finish cooling.

 

What you are left with is some really, really, really good granola.  This was like eating an oatmeal cookie.  SO good.  I can hardly keep my hands out of it!

 

And the best part is that if you want to add things to this, you can totally do that.  Add in nuts, raisins, dried fruit, chocolate chips..whatever your heart decides.

This stuff is just full of clusters of goodness!

 

And it’s kid approved!

Do you make your own granola?  What is your favorite granola add in??

I hope you had a great Monday!  Today was a busy day, but was a great day!  I had one of those days that flew by and when it was over I was in a great mood!

 

 

 

 

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Baked Eggs…

Jan 22nd, 2012 by

Good morning!  I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend!

We have had a pretty low key weekend so far.  We went to lunch yesterday at Old Chicago where I ordered the Chicago Beef sandwich with fries!!!

Very tasty!

We ran errands and got groceries after lunch and then we headed home to relax in front of the fire and catch up with our DVR for the evening!

It has been so nice to not have to rush around like crazy people all weekend long!

What did you do this weekend?

This morning it was time to make baked eggs for breakfast!

I have never made these before, but I was ready for something different besides just omelets, scrambled eggs, or over easy eggs.

Baked Eggs

-ramekins

-eggs

-spinach

-green peppers

-olive oil

-cheese

-hot sauce

-whatever other veggies, meats, etc. that you would like to add!

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

While the oven is preheating, add peppers and a small amount of olive oil to a small frying pan and saute until cooked through.

Chop spinach into small pieces and add to ramekin.

Add other veggies and cheese on top of spinach base.

I then added a few splashes of Frank’s hot sauce on top of this.

Crack eggs on top of this mixture.

Break the yolks with something sharp.  I just used a small knife.

Bake for 15 minutes.

And then you have baked eggs!

These were delicious!  I will definitely be adding these into our weekend breakfast rotation.  And I’ll be adding some bacon to them.  :)  We didn’t have any, so I couldn’t do it today!

 

Have you ever made baked eggs?

The little people in our house decided they wanted to have cereal, toast and yogurt smoothies for breakfast.

As you can see they are having a very relaxing breakfast sitting around in their robes and being waited on by their parents as they kept asking for additions to their breakfast!

Today is all about writing lesson plans, doing laundry, baking, and mopping the floors.  I’m looking forward to the lesson plans and baking, but am not excited about the laundry and mopping.  Yuck!

What is the chore that you dislike the most?

Mopping and laundry are two of my least favorite things to have to do around the house.  I’d rather clean the bathrooms.  :)

I hope you have a wonderful Sunday!

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Chicken Fried ‘Rice’

Jan 18th, 2012 by

Alright, I am going to post about cauliflower one more time then I will keep my cauliflower love to myself for at least a few days!  I’m just having a hard time keeping it to myself after I have found a way to like cauliflower after not liking it for my entire 30 years of existence!

After all of the cauliflower pizza crust we have made, we had some riced cauliflower left over, so I figured I needed to do something with it to use it up!

I decided that I was going to make fried rice out of my riced cauliflower!

Chicken Fried ‘Rice’

-2 chicken breasts cubed

-1 bag frozen broccoli florets (I screwed up and just bought cut broccoli.  I’m not a fan of the stems.:()

-1 cup carrots, chopped up

-2-3 cloves diced garlic

-4 eggs

-2 cups riced cauliflower

-1 Tablespoon olive oil

-2 teaspoons rice vinegar

-low sodium soy sauce

Set stove burner to medium heat.  Heat olive oil in a pan and add chicken chunks.  Cook until chicken is cooked through.  Take chicken out of pan and set aside.  Add broccoli, carrots, and garlic to pan with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Cook until vegetables are cooked through.  While veggies are cooking in the pan, crack your eggs in a bowl and mix up well.

When vegetables are done, add riced cauliflower to the pan.  Add chicken back to the pan and stir.

Add rice vinegar and soy sauce to pan.  Use enough soy sauce to make you happy.  I tend to add more soy sauce than people like to dishes because I LOVE the stuff. Start with two tablespoons and add more as you like.

After everything is added, you have your eggs left.  Make a well in the middle of your pan.  Dump eggs into the well.  Wait a minute or until they start bubbling and then mix them into everything that is sitting in the pan.  Your ingredients will end up covered in egg!  Cook until there is no runniness to your eggs anymore!

Eat!

This was good.  Like, really good.  I’ll be making this again soon.

The reason I really liked this dish is because I got the great flavors of fried rice, but I didn’t have the heavy feeling afterwards!  We’ll be making this quick, easy meal again soon!

Now, I’ll hop off of my cauliflower rant.

In other news….I have finally created a facebook page for Good Eats Girl!

Click here and like Good Eats Girl and you’ll be able to see new recipes pop up in your facebook feed!

I hope you had a wonderful Wednesday!  What’s on tv tonight???

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