A Lot of Cooking and A Yummy Cake

Hi friends! Happy Monday 😀

I feel like my entire weekend was spent cooking! I got up Saturday morning 

and made some breakfast tacos. 

I love to cook a big breakfast for David and I on Saturdays and 

usually we will eat while watching one of the couples we follow, 

who live on narrowboats in the U.K.

I can imagine that sounds like a strange thing to do while eating breakfast, but

it's something we enjoy watching together and they are all fun and lighthearted,

which seems a good way to start the weekend.

As I shared on Instagram on Saturday...making breakfast tacos is a great way

to fill your freezer.

Brown your breakfast sausage, cook the hash browns, scramble the eggs, 

then add some shredded cheese.

Mix in a big bowl and divide onto tortillas.

I wrap each taco individually and put them in a freezer bag for breakfast during the week.

Each morning I unwrap the taco, stick it on a plate and heat from frozen for 1 minute. 

It comes out just as fresh as they were the first day.

This is how I like to make freezer meals.

I make a little extra of whatever we are already eating and 

I put a portion in the freezer

for another day. 

Later I made a big pot of chili, which we would be eating on Sunday,

after church.

We normally have our family dinners during the week, 

but all the kids were busy last week and Sunday

was the one day we could all get together,

so Sunday it was!

I also took some tamales out of the freezer, which

I would heat in the crock pot while we were at church.

While I was on a roll, I made some homemade ranch dressing, which

is so yummy!

I got the recipe HERE

The recipe is for the homemade Ranch Mix, but at the bottom of the recipe, 

she offers the instructions for a Ranch Dip or Ranch Dressing.

I keep a small jar of the Mix in my fridge.

You only need a 1/4 cup of the mix to make the dressing or dip, but

you can also use the mix on anything you would normally use a Ranch packet for.

But you know what's in it, because you put it all together!

It's so easy to make (mayo, sour cream, milk and the Ranch mix).

Lastly, I made this cake for Sunday's lunch with the kids. It would be Collin and Morgan's 2nd anniversary and since we were all having lunch together, I wanted to make them a treat.

The mix was from King Arthur's Baking Co., as was the buttercream frosting mix. I never knew that buttercream frosting took almost 3 sticks of butter! No wonder it's so amazingly delicious! 

Needless to say, by Saturday evening I was tired 😓 That's a lot to cook in one day and my feet were telling me to sit!

But it was worth it, because Sunday I put the tamales in the crock pot before we left for church, so they were piping hot when we got back. I took the chili out of the fridge and heated it up on the stove and we nibbled on homemade salsa that Alex made while we waited on the chili to heat. 

Then, of course, it was time for coffee and cake. 

Our two grandsons, born 5 months apart.

Calem (3 months) and Asa Miller (8 months)

And time for this...💙 

That's the best part of family dinner (or lunch), is the family time, with everyone in the living room or kitchen, moving around, asking for drinks or toys or saying they want to go for a jeep ride with PawPaw. 

It's noisy and chaotic, but I wouldn't trade it for anything!

And...we have leftovers, so I'm not cooking tonight! 

I hope your weekend was full and happy 😀

Until Next Time...

Blessings!