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{Recipe} Bacon and Cheese Strata

Mon, 19 May 2014 21:30:34 +0000

I love this bacon and cheese strata recipe because you can easily add and alter the ingredients to suit your personal tastes and the kids love helping to make it!!

Bacon and Cheese Strata

The kids can do most of this by themselves with just supervision and some directions.

Ingredients:

½ cup milk

½ cup cream

6 slices of bread

1 cup of grated cheese (I use mozzarella)

4 bacon rashors

8 eggs

Shallots

Salt and Pepper

*Additional/alternative ingredients can include: mushrooms, tomato, spinach, other vegetables, etc.

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 180°^C.
Grease tray/muffin tins (we use tray at home and muffin tins for school lunches)
Crack eggs into bowl. Add milk, cream, salt and pepper. Whisk together.
Cut shallots and slice bacon into strips. Add to egg mix.

Tear bread into pieces.
Add bread and cheese to mix. Soak the bread in the egg.
Pour mix into tray/muffin tins and add a sprinkle of cheese over the top.

Bake for approx. 30 minutes or until egg is cooked. *Every oven is different to please adjust accordingly.
Sit strata for 5 minutes and then enjoy!!

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Delicious and Easy School Lunches + IGA GIVEAWAY

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 03:06:56 +0000

With school starting back this week it’s time to start thinking about getting organised and getting a head start on lunches. I like to have a stock pile of goodies in the freezer ready for the boys lunches and having a range of options already prepared makes lunch different and exciting each day. I started doing this so I didn’t have to put too much thought (or effort) into packing the kids lunches during the week and having the options in the freezer means I only have to add the basics to their lunchboxes. There are lots of great options that are suitable for morning tea, lunches and even afternoon tea.

I make sure there are always a few staples ready to go and these are usually chocolate chip cookies, banana muffins and double chocolate chip muffins (shown below). What I love about these recipes is that are easily adjustable to suit your taste and nutritional needs. Your local IGA caters to most dietary needs which I found out when my sister was diagnosed with a gluten intolerance. IGA has a huge range of gluten free, lactose free and even culture specific foods which can be used as alternate ingredients in my recipes. Click over to their facebook and Instagram pages to check out local stories, inspiration and ideas. I am also running a giveaway for IGA Australia to help you get organised for getting back to routine which you can enter here!

Dietary Specific Food

I want to share with you my personal favourite Double Chocolate Chip Muffin recipe so you too can get a head start on keeping the kids’ lunches exciting and delicious with minimal effort required. I love this recipe because it is so easy to make and the muffins are always moist and delicious!

Delicious Double Chocolate Chip Muffins

Print recipe

Serves	18
Prep time	5 minutes
Cook time	15 minutes
Total time	20 minutes
Meal type	Dessert, Lunch, Snack
Misc	Child Friendly, Freezable, Pre-preparable
Occasion	Birthday Party, Casual Party, Christmas, Easter, Valentines day
Website	Mad Mummas

These muffins are so moist, so chocolatey and so damn delicious! You will have to hide them from the kids if you want to have any. Great for school lunches, can be frozen, great all rounder!

Now is the time to get organised and the kids can even help with this recipe. Don’t forget to enter the IGA GIVEAWAY here!

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post but all opinions are my own.

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Zucchini Slice Recipe – Easy and Delicious

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:00:00 +0000

Zucchini Slice Recipe. There are so many to choose from but this recipe is such a simple one to make that even the most kitchen challenged person could make it. It is absolutely delicious and as an added bonus it hides all the vegetables from fussy eaters!!

It can be easily altered to add shallots, herbs, etc. however it is tasty enough on its own.

Zucchini Slice Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup self raising flour (sifted)

5 eggs

1 zucchini (grated)

1 carrot (grated)

4 middle rashers bacon (chopped)

1 onion (diced)

1 cup grated cheese

60ml vegetable oil

Method

1. Preheat oven to 170°C.

2. Add eggs to flour and beat until smooth and well mixed.

3. Add zucchini, carrot, bacon, onion, oil and cheese to mix.

4. Stir until combined.

5. Pour into baking tray/pan and bake in oven for 30 minutes or until cooked.

Enjoy your Zucchini Slice!

This zucchini slice recipe is perfect for morning tea, lunch, kids lunch, dinner, side dish, etc. It is very versatile and very tasty.

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Garlic Herb Meatballs with Sundried Tomato Couscous

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:00:00 +0000

Garlic Herb Meatballs with Sundried Tomato Couscous. This garlic herb meatball recipe is full of flavour and will make the most ordinary cook look like they know what they are doing.

Garlic Herb Meatballs on Sundried Tomato Couscous

Ingredients

1 onion – diced (½ for mince & ½ for the couscous)

500g mince

5 bacon rashers – thinly sliced (½ for mince & ½ for sauce)

Fresh herbs *thyme, rosemary, etc – finely chopped. Enough to your liking. Dried mixed herbs work just as well.

1 tbs minced garlic

2 eggs

Breadcrumbs – just enough to make the mince mix hold together.

Sundried tomatoes – finely sliced

2 cups couscous

500ml chicken stock

Tomato pasta sauce – homemade or jar is fine. We use Dolmio Basil

1 tsp sugar – *this prevents tomato based meals from going bitter!

1tbs butter

Salt and pepper – to taste

Method

Meatballs & Sauce

1. Add mince, onion, herbs, bacon, garlic and eggs into a bowl.

2. Mix together and add breadcrumbs to combine.

3. Roll them into desired size balls.

4. Brown off the balls in a pan, add the rest of the bacon, sauce and sugar.

5. Turn down to a simmer.

6. Add a little water to sauce to thin it out a little.

Couscous

Add 2 cups chicken stock into pot and bring to the boil.

1. Remove from heat – add the couscous, onion, sundried tomatoes to the stock.

2. Cover and stand for 3 minutes.

3. Add 1 tbs butter and heat on low for a further 3 minutes whilst stirring.

SERVE & ENJOY!

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Italian Beef Pasta Recipe

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:00:00 +0000

Italian Beef Pasta Recipe.

This delicious Italian beef pasta recipe recipe is great for kids, families and the budget! Oh yeah and it is so quick and easy too which is an added bonus.

Italian Beef Pasta Recipe

Ingredients

500g beef mince

1 onion, chopped

1 tomato, chopped

1 tsp curry powder

1.5 tbs mixed herbs

1/3 cup mixed vegetables

1 tin tomato soup

250g pasta (whichever you prefer)

Method

1. Brown the mince in large saucepan. Add in the rest of the ingredients (except the pasta).

2. Simmer gently until mince and vegetables are cooked through.

3. While the mince is cooking, cook the pasta until just cooked. Drain.

4. Serve mince mix over pasta.

You can add some cheese to finish it off or eat as it is.

ENJOY!!

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We created – Pom Poms!

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:00:00 +0000

This is probably about as crafty as I will be ever be and the kids are pretty happy with that. On Saturday the boys and I made POM-POMS!! We had so much fun that I wanted to share it with you all. I hadn’t made them since I was in primary school and it was my boys first time.

How to make Pom-Poms!!

1. Use a compass or trace something circular onto cardboard – say around 5 cm diameters.

2. Next draw a smaller circle in the centre of the large ones.

3. Cut the circles out and you should be left with 2 donut shaped rings.

4. Hold onto the end of the wool and start feeding it in and around the cardboard until you can no longer fit it through the hole.

5. If you start a new colour or new piece of wool you don’t need to tie it on, just ensure the end is sticking out like the starting piece.

6. The tricky bit is next – When it is full of wool, cut the wool around the edges between the pieces of cardboard.

7. Pass a piece of wool between the 2 pieces of board and around all the wool. Tie together tightly.

8. You can now remove the board.

9. Tidy it up by trimming the wool.

10. Enjoy your creation!!

I hope you and your kids (probably more your kids) have a lot of fun making these!! Mine did.

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Tomato, Bacon and Basil Soup Recipe

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:50:00 +0000

This Tomato, Bacon and Basil Soup recipe is so quick and easy to make. Best of all it tastes delicious while being extremely budget friendly!

Let me just say that my youngest loathes tomato and I mean to the point of he will find/taste the tiniest piece hiding and pull/spit it out. He loved this soup!!

*It can be made with canned tomato (whole peeled, crushed, pureed, etc) or fresh peeled tomato. Both taste as good as each other!

Tomato, Bacon and Basil Soup Recipe with Garlic Ciabatta

Serves 6

Ingredients

*3x 400g canned tomato or 2kg fresh peeled tomato

1x onion roughly chopped

4x bacon rashers roughly chopped

1x tsp garlic

2x tsp Gourmet Gardens basil

1-1.5x cups of water

1x tsp sugar (prevents the tomato going bitter)

Salt and Pepper to taste

Ciabatta: butter, garlic, ciabatta bread

Method

1. Roughly chop bacon and garlic and fry.

2. Preheat oven to 200 degrees (for ciabatta).

3. Add garlic and basil, stir through. C

4. Cook off until the aroma is strong.

5. Add tomato and heat on low-medium. Stirring.

6. Add sugar and season to taste.

7. Let simmer on low for 10 mins.

8. Mix garlic and butter and spread onto ciabatta bread.

9. Place in oven, turn once when required.

10.Blend ingredients.

11.Serve with delicious ciabatta.

**This can be made creamy by adding approx. ¼ cup of cream during the simmer stage.

ENJOY this delicious winter warmer!!

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Have you tried my Tomato, Bacon and Basil Soup Recipe? What did you think?

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