Friday Funny

 

Cooking Thursday

 Today's recipe is for an egg bake that I made when the girls stayed overnight.  It was easy to prepare the night before, and then I just popped it into the oven when we woke up.  One hour later, we had a yummy breakfast.  This is a very flexible recipe, you can add whatever veggies and meat you would like.

Overnight Egg Bake

2 cups shredded Colby-Monterey Jack cheese blend

2 tablespoons butter 

1/3 cup sliced green onions, optional

1/2 medium red bell pepper, chopped

1 jar (4.5 oz) sliced mushrooms, drained, optional

Crumbled bacon, cooked sausage or diced ham - your choice!

8 eggs

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1 3/4 cups milk 

Chopped red bell pepper, if desired

Chopped fresh parsley, if desired     

Spray 7x11 pan with cooking spray.

Sprinkle half of cheese into pan.

Melt butter in skillet.  Add veggies of choice and cook until tender.

Arange over cheese in pan, then sprinkle your choice of meat over veggies.

Sprinkle remaining cheese over meat.

Beat eggs in large bowl. Whisk in flour and milk.

Pour egg mix over other ingredients in pan, cover and refrigerate overnight.

The next morning, heat oven to 350 degrees and bake for one hour or until lightly browned on top.

Let stand 10 minutes before serving.  Garnish with red pepper or parsley if desired.

            

One more celebration

 My girls wanted to do something fun for my birthday.  Originally we talked about going away for a weekend.  But Heather is pregnant, the timing was bad with it falling around Thanksgiving and we all said, it's not the prettiest time to get away.

So, we decided we would just stay at a hotel in town, and do a little shopping around here.  Then covid struck again, things were being closed down., and we knew that wouldn't work well either.

So, they decided to have a sleep over at our house!  Laura planned some activities and picked up food for supper and some yummy treats for later in the evening.

They both arrived around 5 and we started by having some really good supper from one of our favorite places.

Then it was time for some crafting.

Laura had gotten supplies and instructions to make farmhouse style ornaments using wooden beads, twine, wooden disks...

Here's Heather hard at work.

And Laura giving me the - "quit taking pictures Mom" look.  :)      (funny - I get that same look from her daughters!)

Here Laura tried something a little different and it didn't work.  We did a lot of laughing!

Here's the finished products!

Then it was time for some dessert.  It was so good, but we were soooo full!

The next part of the evening involved pampering.  We had manicure gloves, pedicure socks and facial masks.  There may have been a photo taken of me with a mask on, but it was too bad!  There was a lot of laughter during this process too, especially when we all traipsed in on Bob to show him what we were up too.

Then we stayed up for a while, talked, laughed some more, watched HGTV and went to bed around midnight.

We had a nice breakfast together and Laura left about 10:30, Heather hung around because Andrew came over to work on the crib again.

It was a special time, and I really think this was better than staying at a hotel or taking a weekend trip.  Time together with just the two of them is not easily done and I enjoyed every minute of it!