Bethy's Breakfast Burritos

Bethy’s Breakfast Burritos
Makes 7 unless you fill your tortillas really full

2 strips of bacon cut into smallish pieces
8 eggs
a bunch of salsa
7 small tortillas
dallopes of sour cream (two for each burrito)

Fry the bacon. Add the eggs and scramble. When the eggs are done frying, put in salsa to taste. Fill your tortillas with the eggs, and put two dallopes of sour cream on each. Enjoy!

Potato Pancakes

This is a very good side dish. They went fast here!!

1 lb. baking potatoes , about two medium 2 T. all-purpose flour
1/2 small chopped onion 3/4 t. salt
3 egg whites 1/4 t. pepper
oil, for skillet

Peel potatoes; cut into chunks. Combine potatoes, onion, egg whites, flour, salt and pepper in food processor or blender ; (I used a blender, and it worked well) process until almost smooth. (mixture will appear grainy)

Heat large nonstick skillet 1 minute over medium heat. Add oil to the skillet. Spoon about 1 1/2 tablespoons batter per patty into skillet. Cook the patties 3 minutes per side, or until golden brown. Repeat with remaining batter, adding oil with each batch.

I made 20 patties out of this recipe. It all depends on how much batter you spoon out per patty.

~Britta

Chocolate chip oatmeal muffins

This recipe is a favorite around here. Usually they do not last that long. :)

1 egg 3/4 c. milk 1/2 c. oil 1 c. flour 1/3 c. sugar
1 T. baking powder 1 t. cinnamon 1 c. rolled oats
1/2 c. chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 400*. Grease a muffin tin, or place baking cups into a muffin tin.

Stir all of the ingredients together in a large bowl. (I usually start with all of the wet ingredients, then add the dry ones) Spoon into muffin tin/cups. (you need to fill the tin/cups two-thirds full. Do NOT fill any further, as it is very hard to get them out when they are any fuller than that.)

Bake for fifteen minutes, or until muffins are golden brown. (I usually let the muffins cool for about 10-15 minutes before gettin them out of the pan. If you try any sooner, they fall apart.)

This recipes yields about 12 muffins. Do NOT double the recipe, the recipe ends up sour due to the excessive amount of baking soda. If you wish to bake 24 or more, just remake the batter for the desired amount of muffins.

~Britta

Bread (For in a Bread Machine)

After flopping a few batches of bread in the bread machine, I found this recipe which works REALLY well...

12 oz. liquid (Potato water, water, ect.)
2 TBS. butter/margarine
4 C. flour
2 TBS. sweeting (Honey, sugar, ect.)
2 tsp. salt
3 tsp. yeast

Put all the ingredients in the bread machine 'bowl' in this order: liquid, butter/margarine, flour, sweeting, salt, yeast. The loaf size setting should be 1 1/2.
For sweeter bread, add 1/2 C. sugar.
Works well for dough, too..
Can be used for things like cinnamon rolls ;)

Chewy Brownie Cookies

These are probably my favorite cookies after chocolate chip cookies.

Chewy Brownie Cookies

1 1/2 c. firmly packed light brown sugar
2/3 c. vegetable shortening
1 T. water
1 t. vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1/3 c. unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 t. salt
1/4 t. baking soda
2 c. (one bag) semisweet choc. chips

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees.

2.Place brown sugar, shortening, water, and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Add eggs; beat well.

3. In a small bowl combine flour, cocoa, salt, and baking soda. Add to shortening mixture; beat at low speed just until blended. Stir in choc. chips.

4. Drop dough by rounded tablespoons 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet.

5. Bake one baking sheet at a time at 375 for 7-9 minutes or until cookies are set. Do Not Overbake. (cookies will still look and feel squishy but I promise they will harden!) Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove cookies to cookie rack or foil to cool.
makes about 3 dozen

~Britta

Baked Oatmeal

This is really good for breakfast! It is much better than normal oatmeal.

Baked Oatmeal

6 cups quick oats (You can use regular oats, too)
2 cup milk
1 cup oil
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon cinnamon

Mix everything together and pour into a greased 9 X 13 pan. Bake 20 minutes at 350*.

Hummus

Hummus is really nice for dinner on a hot day...

Hummus
Makes about 3 cups

2 cups cooked or canned garbanzo beans, drained
2/3 cups tahini (sesame paste)
3/4 cups lemon juice
2 cloves garlic, peeled
Sat and pepper to taste

Place the garbanzo beans, tahini, lemon juice, garlic, salt, and pepper in a food processor and blend until smooth. Pile into bowl and garnish with parsley leaves (optional). Serve with pita bread or corn chips