The JMB Family

My most favorite breakfast next to pancakes!!! Ingredients: For the biscuits: ▪ 2 cups flour ▪ 1 tablespoon baking powder ▪ 1 teaspoon salt ▪ 1 stick cold salted butter, cut into ½-inch slices ▪ ¾ cup cold 2% milk For the gravy: ▪ 1 pound bulk breakfast sausage or links with casing removed ▪ ½ cup flour ▪ 4 cups 2% milk ▪ ¼ teaspoon salt ▪ ⅛teaspoon pepper ▪ Cayenne (optional) Step 1 First prepare the biscuits. Heat the oven to 400°. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Use a pastry blender* or two butter knives to cut the butter into the mixture until it has a coarse, pea-size texture. Add the milk and stir the mixture until it forms into a shaggy dough. Step 2 Turn the dough out onto a floured surface. Use your fingers to gently flatten it into a %-inch-thick rectangle. Fold the dough over itself and flatten it once more. Repeat three or four times, working quickly so that the butter remains solid. Step 3 Flatten the do...

Here is another recipe from Carrie's Sweet Life that I look forward to trying! Yummy!!! I am not a big enchilada fan, I LOVE Mexican food but do not like enchiladas, except these, OMG yummy. The cream cheese in them really matches it out and makes it delicious. I prepped all the filling the night before so the night of I just had to stuff and roll my tortillas and bake. It saved on time a lot. Cream Cheese Enchiladas (From: Cassie Craves ) 1 pkg cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup sour cream 2 cups prepared salsa 1 cup shredded colby cheese 1 cup shredded chipotle cheddar cheese 2 cups cooked shredded chicken 1 cup frozen corn kernels, thawed 1/2 teaspoon chili powder 1/4 teaspoon cumin Salt and pepper 8 8-inch flour tortillas Preheat oven 325 degrees. In a medium bowl cream together cream cheese and sour cream. Stir in 1/2 cup salsa. Stir in 1/2 cup of each type of cheese. In a second bowl toss together the chicken, corn, cumin, chili powder, salt, and pepper.Add t...

It's a little early for a New Years Resolution so instead I am naming it my 2012 Goal! For every day in 2012 I am going to try to take one photo of each of my children. This means I need to see them every single day and I know that wont happen due to sleepovers BUT for every day that they are home, my camera will have one picture of each of them! Boy my camera is going to get a workout!

Today has been a very loongg day.. It is also the one-year anniversary of my grandpa's passing. And the one-year anniversary that J landed his new job. And one year since my N2 first rolled over.. Last night I had my neighbor ladies over for a night of wrapping gifts, eating brownies, and a drink (or two) ;) That was very very nice!! I really enjoy my neighbors! This morning I wake up at 3am sick as can be.. Thinking its the flu that my parents house has been going through.. Thankfully by 5:30am I was able to go back to bed and sleep a little bit.. woke up at 7:40 and flipped because the recycle wasnt out and that meant it got missed because the recycle driver goes by around 7:15am! Then while still in bed half alseep I realize its not garbage day just yet and try to stop J before he went out with the trash.. Ooops! Then it was off to 9:30 mass at school with K! I was doing really good until I took communion. Then I immediately started praying that I not get sick again until I ...

What can I say?! I am finally spending a little bit of time on the blog! Phew! I gave it a fresh new look and even made a few posts! <3 and I went back to an unblocked version but will gladly change it back if there are any issues.

I got this from Carrie's Sweet Life and have yet to try it. So before I completely forget about it I thought I should post it on my blog so I can reference back to it! It looks and sounds heavenly! White Cheddar Chicken Pasta (From: Homemade By Holman ) For the chicken: 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, trimmed and cut into 1 inch pieces 1 tsp dry mustard 1 T fresh thyme 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp pepper 1 T olive oil Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Mix together mustard, thyme, salt and pepper and sprinkle over chicken pieces. When pan is hot, add chicken and brown about 3 minutes per side until cooked through. Remove to a plate and cover with foil. For the pasta: 1 pound rotini or other short cut pasta 2 T butter 2 T flour 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 small onion, finely diced 1/4 cup dry white wine 1 T Dijon mustard 8 oz sharp white cheddar cheese, grated 2 1/2 cups heavy cream Parmesan cheese to taste Heat water to boil in a large s...

This sounds amazing and is from Annie Eats: I know I’ve been on kind of a mac and cheese kick lately but really, can you blame me?  It’s total comfort food and the chilly weather and fading daylight make me yearn for it.  Not to mention the fact that I brought home a bunch of amazing varieties of cheddar from our Vermont trip.  I have different things in mind to do with each of them but this recipe needed to be made immediately.  It was taking shape in my head throughout the trip and within 48 hours of arriving home, we had this for dinner. This recipe was inspired by the garlic cheddar that I bought in Grafton, and it was a great way to make use of it.  I actually had grand plans for a dish similar to this last fall, but unfortunately my attempts never really turned out quite as I was hoping.  This time I was just playing around and ended up with exactly what I had hoped for last year.  Better late then never!  Of course I realize that garlic cheddar may not be available to everyo...

These pork chops are in my crockpot right now. We have never tried them before and hope they turn out as good as they sound. I am very hesitant to try new recipes even if someone else experimented first and loved it. I tend to be a terrible cook so I stick to the recipes I know my family likes. I have done quite a bit of baking lately too! We made cut-out sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies, brownies (not from a box), and a couple of other things. I feel like I have gained back the 10 pounds I lost over the past few months! Oops! And I am NOT a baker! But because I got a $400 professional stand mixer for free, I opted to give it a try! I have done well so far! Can you believe that Christmas is just a few short days away?! I can't! I am ready, but I am not ready at the same time! Gifts are all bought and wrapped but we are missing the snow. Honestly I don't mind but it doesn't feel like Christmas without it. And I learned yesterday that my favorite Christmas song statio...