Breakfast for dinner :)

I love having breakfast for dinner but we hadn't done it in a while. The menu was homemade pigs-in-a-blanket, fancy scrambled eggs, roasted potatoes, and fruit. Yum!!! Everything had so much flavor! 

Let's start with the bread part of the pigs-in-a-blanket. I made the dough in my bread maker! Love my bread maker! I just used my dinner roll recipe instead of expensive store bought dough. 

Dinner Rolls
1 c water

2 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
1 egg
3 1/4 c bread flour
1/4 c sugar
1 tsp salt
3 tsp bread machine yeast
2 tbsp melted butter

1. Place ingredients (except melted butter) in your bread machine according to the manufacturer's instructions.

2. Run dough cycle (1.5 hours to complete). When complete, remove dough from machine and rest on a lightly floured surface. Cover with a clean kitchen towel and let sit for 10 minutes.

3. Lightly grease a 9 x 13 glass baking dish. Divide dough into 15 equal pieces and roll into balls. Place balls in glass baking dish. Cover and place in a warm place to rise for about 40 minutes, or until doubled.

4. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Bake rolls for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown. Brush tops with melted butter. 

I flattened and cut the dough to work for the little smookies and cooked it about the same time I do my dinner rolls. I also use this same dough for cinnamon rolls. Yum!

For the eggs I used this recipe:

Ingredients: 4 eggs, 3/4 c. milk, 1/2 small onion, 1/4 - 1/2 c. bell pepper, 1/2 tsp. Lawry's Seasoned Salt, 1/2 tsp. garlic powder, salt & pepper to taste, butter (melted)

Mix together eggs, milk, seasoned salt, garlic powder. Chop and dice onion and bell pepper and add to egg mixture. Melt butter in pan, add egg mixture, and scramble.

For the roasted potatoes:

3 medium round red or white potatoes (1 lb), cut into eighths, or 10 to 12 tiny new potatoes (1 lb.), halved

2 tbsp. olive oil or butter or margarine, melted

½ tsp. onion powder

¼ tsp. garlic salt

¼ tsp. black pepper

1/8 tsp. paprika

Place potatoes in a greased 9x9x2-inch baking pan. Combine oil, onion powder, garlic salt, pepper, and paprika; drizzle over potatoes, tossing to coat. Roast potatoes in a 450 degree oven about 25 minutes, stirring occasionally. 

Except I used fingerling potatoes (the orange kind that is sweet like a sweet potato). Yum! Check it out...

 It was so good. Tonight beef enchiladas are on the menu with fresh tortillas from Vinicio's. Love this recipe from Robin Jones! It is the best! Thanks Robin! The best part is that I finished putting it together at 830 this morning. I love getting dinner and dishes done in the morning and have the rest of the day to play with the boys. I used 6 tortillas for tonight and froze the other 6 beef enchiladas for another day I don't want to cook. Yea for frozen meals! I am glad I had that done because we went on a walk around the neighborhood and spend the rest of the day outsides watching the construction next door. The boys absolutely love trucks and any construction work! Here are some pictures of the morning...

the skid steer doing a bunch of dirt work...

Luke in the skid steer...

 Noah is the skid steer...

 The boys in the dump truck...

 They were in little boy heaven!

They even saw the train go by! How fun! Now they are sleeping hard and I am enjoying my afternoon showering, blogging, and reading instead of cooking dinner. Ahhh, mommy time!