Oatmeal- Banana Power muffins

photo credit: Life,marriageandmotherhood.blogspot.com

I have been trying out new recipes in the kitchen lately. Love this breakfast muffin and wanted to share it with y'all. Here it is. 

Oatmeal-Banana Power Muffins

Ingredients:

• 2.5 Cups Old Fashioned Oats
• 2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 Cup plain or vanilla greek yogurt
• 1 tsp Baking soda
• 1 tsp Vanilla 
• 2 eggs
• 2 Tbsp ground Flax Seed (Flax Seed Meal)
• 2 ripe Bananas
• 1/2 Cup Honey
• optional: walnuts or chocolate chips for topping muffins

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees
Yields 12 muffins

1. Place Oats in food processor and pulse for 10 seconds
2. Add remaining ingredients
3. process until all ingredients are well incorporated and smooth
4. Divide among 12 liners and add any topping
5. Bake 19-21 mins
6. pull out and let cool on a wire rack
7. ENJOY! 

These came out so moist and made my kitchen smell SO good. Next time might try adding a scoop of protein powder to make them great for breakfast on the go or after a workout.

Great tip: When your bananas are ripe but you are not ready to use them, peel, and pop in the freezer and they will keep till you are ready to bust out some yummy muffins or banana bread!

The Best Taco Soup EVER!

This recipe is one I have been making for the last few months and we love it in my house. It's a very simple "dump" meal where most of the ingredients are not needing to be measured and you just dump them into the pot. This provides that as you make this yummy meal it will probably develop into a unique meal for your family. Hope you enjoy!   

Taco Soup

Ingredients needed:

1 can sweet corn        ​1 can cream corn

1 can black beans        ​1 can pinto beans

2 sm cans Rotel​1 lb cooked chicken or ground beef

1 packet taco seasoning              1 packet powdered ranch mix

​(also needed but not to be added during cooking: Sour cream, shredded cheese, and corn chips)

Cook:
         ~ Combine all ingredients into a large stock pot on stove

~ Cook on medium-high heat for 1 hour

~ Serve in bowls

~ Top with shredded cheese, sour cream and corn-chips

~ ENJOY!

This meal can also be accomplished by cooking in Crockpot on low all day (at least 2 hours) to be ready for dinner after a full day of work.

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Homemade Chocolate Chip granola bars

Lunch Box worthy!

I love cooking and if I can find a way to make something 
cheaper than buying it in the store, Why Not?! 
As I am always on the hunt for lunch counterparts and fillers, 
thought I'd take a swing at granola bars. 
I found this recipe on mommysavers.com and they could not have been easier.

Here's the recipe:
 
Easy Four-Ingredient Homemade Granola Bars 
2 C. quick oats

1/2 C. honey
1/2 C. brown sugar
1 stick butter or margarine, softened but not melted
 Chocolate chips (optional)                   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Thoroughly mix all ingredients in large bowl. 
Line a 9x13 baking pan with parchment paper and then dump in mixture.
Press in and smooth out until mixture is even and level. 
Bake for 10-11 minutes 
Allow to cool slightly and then cut into bars. Let bars sit until completely cooled off. 
Then brake apart the rest of the way.
I wrapped mine individually in plastic wrap to be lunch box friendly.  

yields about 12 bars (depending how thick you want them to be)

These were so inexpensive and easy to make. Definitely going to make these a weekly addition to our brown bag lunches for work. They taste better than store bought and I know every ingredient I put in mine which I really like.
Happy snacking!

Merry Christmas to all!

       Merry Chirstmas! Hope it was a wonderful time of baking, family and all around a great time :)

My hubby and I had a yummy Christmas Eve lunch. I made a small sliced ham and mashed potatoes, green beans, homemade rolls, and cranberry jelly sauce. It was nice, even just the two of us, to eat a Christmas meal together in our new home. First christmas together as Mr. And Mrs. and last Christmas  with out kids. Crazy how time flies and now I'm married and pregnant with my first child. 

       Well continuing, I had to work Christmas morning so after I got off we went and had Chirstmas dinner with a family from our church and went home and finally opened our presents to each other. I have the best husband ever, because he bought me a cast iron skillet and all three of the Pioneer Woman cookbooks! I am so excited! My first cookbooks ever :) Can't wait to start cooking!