Stuffed cresents...brown 1-lb each, Italian sausage and regular breakfast sausage. Drain. Stir in one pkg. cream cheese. Once all meted and mixed together, place in fridge to cool. You can do this the night before or whenever - just give the meat mixture time to cool. Once cool, separate a roll of refigerator cresent rolls. Put a couple of tablespoons of the meat mixture on wide end and roll them up as usual. Bake according to cresent roll directions.
Another one we like is something I came up with from looking at two other recipes and wanting part of one and part of another, as well as a crust. Scramble some eggs, on LOW heat until pretty soft set. On a lightly floured surface, roll out two rolls of cresent rolls (I just take the whole thing out and roll the tube shape out until about 1/4 of an inch thick. (Don't forget to check the eggs often.) Sprinkle cubed, shredded or sliced ham (or whatever meat you prefer) over one rolled out roll of cresent rolls. Spread eggs over ham evenly. Sprinkle cheese to your taste over top. Cover with other rolled out roll of cresent rolls, pinch closed. Bake as directed on cresent roll (plus 5-10 minutes) on lightly greased cookie sheet.
*Note, if you are not familiar with rolling out dough, this will take you a bit longer, but as you get more adept at it your prep time will decrease. The first time I did this it took me over an hour from start to table. The next time it was only about 30-40 minutes. About half of that time was oven time. Even my EXTREMELY finicky daughter likes both of these recipes.

As I sat down tonight to read everyone's posts - I'm just thrilled with the great ideas. I can't wait to try them! I'll just say a big thank you to all of you for your great recipes!

We do a lot of omelettes, stir fry/fried rice, breakfast food, etc. too. I've stopped buying pasta, so that's another challenging element I've added for myself. That used to be our constant "quick meal" option.

Blessings,
Michele
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Sigh... my hubby loves the stuff and he'll be so disappointed. And I need to find a replacement. I'll probably switch over to Herbamare (I know it's ingredients are safe), but it's just not as good. Does anyone else have a brand they use that it really tasty?

Put a 13x9 inch baking dish in the oven with a lump of butter (couple of tablespoons) and a can of pears (in their own juices, not in syrup), drained. I use the pear halves (the big can) but you could use chunks. Turn the oven on to 400 degrees and the pears and butter will heat as the oven warms up.

In the blender put 1 1/2 cups milk, 6 eggs, 1 cup of flour (I use whole wheat), 1 tsp vanilla, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp cinnamon and 3 tablespoons of sugar (I use Rapadura but I'm sure anything would work). Blend well.

Pull pan out of oven when it is sizzling, but before the butter browns. Immediately pour the batter over and put back in oven for about 18-20 minutes until puffed and slightly browned. Slice and serve with a tiny sprinkle of powdered sugar if desired. We eat this with a big salad. I literally make this once a week and everyone loves it.

1) Breakfast for supper. Blueberry pancakes or waffles, scrambled eggs and fresh fruit.
2) Black bean quesadillas. Partially mash 2 cups (or so) black beans (we like texture, but it needs to stick). Mix with some salsa and shredded cheese (cheddar or Mexican blend, Monterrey Jack, whatever we have on hand!). Sometimes I have time to dice and cook a chicken breast to add to the mixture. Spread mixture on 1/2 of a tortilla, fold, warm on a skillet. Serve with more salsa, cheese, and sour cream.
3) Black bean nachos -- I'll add black beans to stretch our leftover taco meat mixture (which already has black beans in it... we love black beans!). Crumble the mixture over "healthy" tortilla chips, add shredded cheese and heat. Lettuce, tomato, sour cream on top.
4) Smoothies!!!!! We make them every which way in the summer. I just tried a new one yesterday. Had some leftover canned pumpkin ... added vanilla yogurt, frozen bananas, Cinnamon Plus (pampered chef) milk, and ice. It smelled so good! Tasted good, too.