School is back and so is the full fall schedule. Dinners can get old and time consuming. So do you do? Try new quick and exciting recipes!!
I received a new cook book to review, Quick Start Homemade from Southern Living. I love Southern Living Cookbooks. They always have easy to follow recipes, beautiful pictures and lots of tips and tricks.
The Quick Start Homemade Cookbook has over 180 recipes using everyday staples and ingredients like pasta, salad, store-bought pizza dough, eggs and rotisserie chicken. Items you can pick up easily and put together a great dinner.
Each nutritious recipe has been triple-tested by the Southern Living test kitchen and Quick-Start Homemade includes great pasta dishes like Skillet Ziti, made in half the time of baked, and Green Bean Pasta Salad with Lemon-Thyme Vinaigrette, a 30-minute recipe with an extra tip for preparing the recipe ahead of time and freshening up before serving. The “Pastry & Pizza Dough” chapter lets fresh pizza dough, piecrust dough or puff pastry do most of the work and features inventive pizza recipes perfect for a mid-week meal, as well as savory hand pies and pot pies. In “Rotisserie Chicken,” crowd-pleasing dinners like Chicken Enchiladas and Chicken Pot Pie with Cheddar Biscuits are no-hassle, but with a homemade touch.
I looked through the book and wanted something super easy. So I picked the Breakfast Pizza.
Here’s what you need:
1 – 8 oz can refrigerated crescent rolls
1 – lb. sausage( the book calls for hot, but I used mild)
(I also used 4 slices of bacon!)
1 – 28 oz package of frozen hash browns with onions and peppers
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
4 large eggs (I used 6)
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
Preheat oven to 375. Unroll crescent rolls and place in 13 x 9 baking dish. Bake for 5 minutes
Reduce oven to 350. Cook sausage over medium heat until it crumbles and is no longer pink. Drain and sprinkle over crust. I added my bacon here as well.
Prepare hash browns as directed and spoon over sausage and bacon. Sprinkle cheese over hash browns.
Whisk together eggs, milk and salt and pepper. Pour over cheese.
Bake 350 for 30-35 minutes or until set.
I had so many more pictures from beginning to end but my card was not in my camera so all those pictures I thought I had I didn’t. So this a picture of the leftovers that we have been eating since I made this on Friday. A great dish! The extra eggs and bacon was a big plus for my family.
I’m looking forward to trying more new and easy recipes!! No more boring dinners for us!
That picture in the book really draws me in! We need quick meals for the weekends because we are so busy on Saturdays and Sundays!
I need to get my hand on a cookbook like this. I have a tendency to spend lots of time in the kitchen on meals. It would be great to try some of these quick meal ideas.
Nothing like quick homemade meals! 🙂
Those look delicious. I love southern living. My mom collects their cookbooks.
I absolutely love Souther Living cook books. They have a great chicked and dumplings recipe that every single person I have ever made it for has devoured. These recipes look really good!!
Oohhh, I’d love to learn to cook southern
I love Southern Living recipes! When I was newly married to my Southerner husband, he introduced me to the magazine and I’ve been a fan ever since. 18 years and counting!
i love how you actually made a recipe based on the book. I’ll give it a try!
I’m always looking for good breakfast recipes — looks like Ijust found one! 🙂
GAH! This recipe makes me mis sad that I no longer eat grains! #sadFace