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Brunch Recipe: Bacon and Asparagus Roll-Ups

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We hope you’re ready, because this next recipe is about to soar to the top of your go-to recipes list. Bacon & Asparagus Roll-Ups are the perfect addition to any breakfast or lunch menu and even make fabulous appetizers. Our recipe makes 15-20 Bacon Roll-Ups and while that might sound like a lot, we can assure you that you won’t have very many left over – if any! Not only are Bacon & Asparagus Roll-Ups irresistibly savory and delicious, they’re the perfect simple recipe to make with your children – so pop on their chef hats and get cooking!

Bacon Roll-Ups

What you need:

  • 1 package sliced white bread
  • 1 tub of whipped Philadelphia cream cheese
  • 1 package of center-cut bacon, cooked (can also substitute sliced prosciutto)
  • 2 cans of asparagus spears
  • 1 tub of shredded parmesan cheese
  • 1/4 stick of butter, melted

How to assemble Bacon Roll-Ups:

  1. Remove the crusts from the slices of white bread
  2. Using a rolling pin, flatten out each slice
  3. Evenly smear whipped cream cheese on to each piece of bread
  4. Place one asparagus spear and one piece of cooked bacon diagonally (corner to corner) on each slice of bread and roll up like an enchilada
  5. Paint a small amount of melted butter over the top of the roll-ups and sprinkle with shredded parmesan cheese
  6. Bake on 350* until the edges of the bread turn a light golden brown.
  7. Serve warm!

 

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Simple Sweet Muffins Recipe

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With Easter only about a week away it’s high time to start planning a delicious menu for family and friends. Over the next 10 days we’re going to share a number of awesome springtime breakfast, lunch and brunch recipes so you can pick and choose from your favorites to design the perfect meal for your loved ones. This first recipe for simple sweet muffins is the cornerstone of any good breakfast, brunch, tea party, wedding shower…. you name it! Put your own spin on them by adding cranberries, blueberries, apples, dates, or nuts and serve these hot cakes warm!

Simple Sweet Muffins

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 large egg
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 12 thin slices of butter

8 Easy Steps to Delicious Simple Sweet Muffins:

  1. Preheat oven to 400*
  2. Combine dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt) in a large bowl and mix thoroughly
  3. In a separate bowl mix milk, oil and egg until blended
  4. Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture and stir until moistened
  5. Optional: Drop in 3/4 cup of your favorite fruit or nuts and mix well
  6. Using an ice cream scoop, evenly distribute batter into muffin cups and fill two-thirds full
  7. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes and remove from pan immediately
  8. Top still warm muffins with a slice of butter and serve.

Extra Tips!

For delicious Apple Muffins add 3/4 cup peeled and chopped apple, 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon and 1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg during step 5.

For irresistible Date-Nut Muffins fold in 1/2 cup chopped dates and 1/2 cup chopped pecans during step 5.

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Three Delicious Life Hack Breakfast Recipes

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Welcome to the second installment of Passanante’s Home Food Service’s “Life Hack Recipe” series which provides easy DIY recipes for some of your favorite meals at popular restaurants. We hope you enjoy these three popular breakfast recipes for IHOP buttermilk pancakes, Denny’s french toast, and Cracker Barrel breakfast casserole. Grab the ingredients, gather the kids and make a memory preparing a delicious breakfast feast and start the day off on the right foot.

Pancakes

IHOP Buttermilk Pancakes

  • 1 Egg
  • 1 1/4 Cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 Cups buttermilk
  • 1/4 Cup granulated sugar
  • 1 Teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 Teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 Cup cooking oil
  • 1 Pinch of salt
  1. Preheat skillet over medium heat.
  2. In a mixing bowl, combine all ingredients together. Have a sweet tooth that won’t stop? Feel free to add in peanut butter or chocolate chips. 🙂
  3. Melt a small amount of butter in the pan and pour batter by spoonfuls into the hot pan, forming 5-inch circles.
  4. When the edges firm up, flip the pancakes.
  5. Remove pancakes from heat once both sides are light golden brown.
  6. Serve with your choice of butter, powdered sugar, syrup, peanut butter or any other delicious topping and enjoy!

Denny’s French Toast

  • 4 Eggs
  • 2/3 Cup whole milk
  • 1/3 Cup flour
  • 1/3 Cup sugar
  • 1/2 Teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/4 Teaspoon salt
  • 1/8 Teaspoon cinnamon
  • 3 Tablespoons butter
  • 6 Slices Texas toast (thick bread)
  • Lots of powdered sugar
  • Plenty of syrup
  1. In a medium sized bowl, mix eggs, milk, flour, sugar, vanilla, salt and cinnamon to create the batter.
  2. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and once hot, add 1 tablespoon of butter. Make sure the skillet isn’t so hot that it burns the butter.
  3. Dip each slice of thick-cut bread into the batter until saturated. Let the excess batter drip off and place the bread on the skillet.
  4. Cook each slice of bread for about 1.5 minutes on each side until both sides are golden brown. You may need to add more butter to the skillet to prepare all 6 slices of toast.
  5. Dust each slice of french toast with powdered sugar, and serve with butter and hot syrup.
  6. Need a little whipped cream in your life? Check out this guide to making it at home!

Cracker Barrel Breakfast Casserole

  • Slices of sourdough bread, no crust
  • 4 to 5 Eggs, beaten (1 cup of eggs)
  • 1/4 Cup evaporated milk
  • 1/4 Teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 Teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1/2 Cup shredded mild cheddar cheese
  • 1/3 Cup lean cooked diced ham
  1. Coat casserole dish with non-stick spray and place sourdough bread on the bottom of the dish.
  2. Add salt, pepper and evaporated milk to the beaten eggs and mix thoroughly.
  3. Pour egg mixture over the bread.
  4. Sprinkle diced ham and shredded cheese over egg mixture and cover with plastic wrap or casserole dish lid.
  5. Refrigerate the casserole overnight.
  6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  7. Bake 20 to 22 minutes, depending on how deep the casserole dish is. The casserole is done when the eggs do not wiggle when the dish is shaken lightly.
  8. Serve with your other breakfast favorites and enjoy!

Check out other Life Hack Recipes:

Chick-Fil-A sandwich & Texas Roadhouse honey butter

Chunky Guacamole: Guacamole Picado

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If you’re looking for a simple, refreshing, and crowd-pleasing favorite, this recipe for chunky guacamole is a festive go-to with a kick. Scoop it over Chicken Taco Casserole, Easy Green Chile Enchiladas, or just devour it with tortilla chips – this recipe is easy easy to prepare and ingredients can be doubled, tripled or even quadrupled if you’re throwing a party!

Chunky Guacamole

What you’ll need for Guacamole Picado:

  • 1/2 Small onion, very finely chopped
  • 2 to 3 Serranos or 1 to 2 jalapeños, stemmed, seeded and very finely chopped
  • 1 Ripe, medium-large tomato, cored and very finely chopped
  • 1 Clove garlic, peeled and very finely chopped
  • 10 Sprigs fresh cilantro, chopped
  • 3 Ripe, medium-size avocados
  • 1/2 Teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 Lime, juiced
  • Additional chopped onion, cilantro, radish slices or roses, and a little crumbled Mexican queso fresco or other fresh cheese like feta or farmer’s cheese for garnish.

In a medium-size bowl, mix the finely chopped onion and chiles with the tomato, garlic, and cilantro.

Just before you’re ready to serve, halve the avocados lengthwise by cutting from the stem to the flower ends, around the pits. Twist the avocado halves in opposite directions to loosen the meat from the pits, then scoop out the pits, and reserve. Scrape the avocado pulp from the skins and add it to the bowl.

Using your hand or a spoon, roughly mash the avocado while mixing in the other ingredients, making a coarse, thick mass. Flavor with salt, then enough lime juice to add a little zing. Return the pits to the guacamole and cover with a sheet of plastic wrap pressed directly onto the surface of the mixture. Set aside for a few minutes to let flavors blend.

The guacamole is very attractive in a pottery bowl or Mexican mortar, a sprinkle with chopped onion, cilantro, radish slices and/or queso fresco (cheese); radish roses really dress it up!

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Life Hack Recipes!

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Picture this:

It’s 12:30 on a Sunday afternoon. You’re starting to think about what sounds good for lunch and only one thing comes to mind… Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwich. You hop in the car and just as you back out of the drive way you realize, Chick-Fil-A is closed on Sunday!

We’ve all been there before. There are tons of delicious foods we all wish we had access to whenever we want. Luckily Passanante’s Home Food Service has you covered with our new “Life Hack Recipes” series available here on our blog once a month! We hope you enjoy our first installment featuring Chick-Fil-A sandwiches and Texas Roadhouse Honey Butter!

Chick-Fil-A Sandwich

Total prep time: 1 hour and 10 minutes

Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwich

Photo Courtesy: SeriousEats.com

What you need to make your very own Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwich:

  • 2 thin chicken breasts
  • 1/4 cup pickle juice
  • 1 egg
  • 1/8 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon celery salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon basil
  • 1/4 cup peanut oil
  • 2 buns
  • Salt and pepper

How to prepare homemade Chick-Fil-A goodness (makes 2 sandwiches):

  1. Put the chicken breasts in a plastic bag of pickle juice and let it marinate for an hour
  2. Beat together an egg and milk
  3. In a separate containers mix together the flour, sugar, garlic powder, celery salt, basil, salt and pepper
  4. Heat the oil in a skillet on medium-high heat
  5. Coat each chicken piece in the egg mixture. Coat again with the flour mixture
  6. Fry each piece for 3-4 minutes per side until the chicken is that delicious familiar golden-brown color
  7. Pat the oil off the chicken using paper towels
  8. Butter the sandwich buns and give them a spin in the still hot skillet to toast the edges
  9. Add a couple pickles and your favorite condiments
  10. Most delicious when enjoyed on a Sunday!

Texas Roadhouse Honey Butter

Texas Roadhouse Honey Butter

Photo Courtesy: Cupcake Diaries Blog

Whip together the following ingredients and enjoy spread over warm rolls, waffles, pancakes, french toast, or melt over hot rice cereal or oatmeal. YUM!

  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, very softened
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 cup honey
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon