bacon, spinach, and mushroom egg muffins

We are almost half way through the semester, and midterms are closing in.  Things are speeding up like crazy!  I feel like I'm constantly grading and just trying to stay on top of things.  These kids hormones are raging too!  They have homecoming this weekend, and it seems like they have been pairing up all over the place.  Looking around the school and parking lot, you can see all of the imaginative ways the students have been asking one another to the dance.  They are so funny.

  With the semester moving so quickly, and the work piling up, breakfast becomes the hardest meal of the day for me.  It is hard to begin with because there are not many low-carb options for breakfast.  Secondly, those low-carb options are hard to eat on-the-go.

I know I've talked about this on the blog before, but truly, breakfast is the hardest meal to prepare when you have to be at work so early!  I've seen these floating around Pinterest and finally decided to give them a go and they are fantastic!  They are great on the go.  Just warm one up in the microwave!

Bacon, Spinach, and Mushroom Egg Muffins

Makes 12

6 eggs

1 box of frozen spinach

1 box fresh mushrooms

1/2 cup shredded colby jack cheese

1/4 cup 0% Fage yogurt

2 tbsp skim milk

2 tbsp of turkey bacon pieces

Salt and pepper to taste

Preheat to 350.

Cook the spinach and mushrooms down over the stove.  While they are cooking, mix the eggs, cheese, yogurt, milk, bacon, salt and pepper together well.  The greek yogurt can clump sometimes, so mix well.

Spray your muffin tin with cooking spray well.  You want to make sure these pop right out!  Once the spinach has cooked down, mix it into the mushrooms in the skillet.  In each of the 12 cups, put some of the spinach and mushrooms.  Then scoop the egg mixture into each of the cups.  You can fill them up almost all the way.

Bake for 25 minutes and enjoy!

apple bread

Last weekend David and I went apple picking!

We ended up with 27 apples!

And I know what you are thinking... what are you going to do with all of those!

Let me preface this by saying, this recipe is NOT healthy.

I'm sure there are substitutions that could be made,

and I did use fake butter and Splenda brown sugar,

but mostly, it is not healthy and not gluten-free.

However, I like to make David things like this every now and then because he doesn't HAVE to be on my diet and I like treating him to something special.

Now...I'm not going to tell on him, but David REALLY REALLY loves this bread!

First, I cut up 2 apples.  (I also sliced my finger open doing this,

so I strongly recommend you be careful!)

 Then I added in the bread mixture (recipe below)!

 Sprayed my pan and added some cinnamon, sugar, and brown sugar to the top.

 I baked it at 350 for an hour.

And boom! Here you have it!!!

 

What you need?

2 apples

8 tbsp butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 tbsp milk

2 cups flour

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

Dice up your apples.

Mix the rest of the ingredients.

Spray your pan.

Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

Optional things:

- Add a dash of vanilla

- Use 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup brown sugar

- Sprinkle the top with cinnamon, brown sugar, etc.

- Make muffins (bake about 20-30 minutes)

ENJOY! :)

banana pancakes? no flour? yes ma'am.

I hope you are having a great weekend!  My Dawgs beat Tennessee and my Volleydoggs came in 3rd at their region tournament!  Hard work pays off!  Now all I feel like doing is going to bed for days!

Fall break is soon enough!

I have a new AMAZING recipe to share with you!

No Flour Banana Pancakes

Do the words pancakes and gluten free go together? Nope.  And they don't taste good either.

But you know what does taste good? Banana pancakes.

What's even better?  Flour free banana pancakes.

Take 1 banana, 1 egg, and 1 egg white. (I also added a little cinnamon!)

Blend. Not too much, but enough!

Spray your skillet.

Make pancakes!

No flour! Lots of protein and potassium!

And they taste, AMAZING!!!!!

I hope you enjoy them!