Air Fryer Donuts

The kids were super excited when I said we would be having donuts for breakfast and then confused when I said we weren't going to the store to pick them up.  These are ridiculously easy and so tasty!  I'm sure the tastiness factor increases with the level of butter used to help the cinnamon sugar stick - we tried to go a little on the lighter side.

Haley came in while I was working on this post.  She saw the picture and said with glee "Do-Nut!"  She sure loves donuts.  We celebrated Emily's birthday this last week with donuts and everyone was in hog heaven.

This recipe comes from Eating On A Dime - one of my very favorites websites.  

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Preheat at 360 for 5 minutes

Open one can of refrigerator biscuits (8 per can)

To cut out the center donut hole - I used the inside piece of my yellow lemon juicer (a picture of it is included in the picture below.)

Air fry the donuts for 4 minutes

Donut holes for 2 minutes

While the donuts are "frying", melt some butter to dip the donuts in once they are fully cooked and then roll them in some cinnamon sugar.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you give this a try - it's a great one!

Instant Pot Speedy Mexican Rice

This is a spin off the recipe back in April 2018 using the instant pot.  The recipe stays pretty close to the same but the rice to broth ratio is adjusted to account for using regular rice and not instant minute rice this time.  It took a couple tries because I didn't have enough broth the first time.  If at first you don't succeed... make more rice.  :)

Here's the lineup:
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon cumin (I used half this amount)
1 teaspoon salt
8 oz can tomato sauce (no salt added because we are adding salt separately)
2 cans chicken broth
2 cups long grain white rice

                                    Start by warming up the oil, garlic powder, cumin and salt

Add the tomato sauce, chicken broth and rice

I cooked it in the Instant Pot "rice" using the setting for 10 minutes.  

This recipe is a winner.  Hope you have a great day.  

Pinwheels - Take 2

and BOOM! Another opportunity presented itself to use the second pizza dough that I had in the fridge using leftover fully cooked shredded beef.  These were really good too.  I followed the same directions and baking instructions as the Sausage Pizza Pinwheels from July 31, 2021 and just played with the stuffing. 

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This time we did leftover fully cooked shredded beef that was cooked in taco type seasonings, cheddar cheese and diced green chiles (after using a paper towel to drain off as much of the extra liquid as possible.)

All ready to be rolled up

Heading in the oven

The blue string is what I used to "cut" the pinwheels.  I had to go slower for it to slice through this and used a new string every couple slices.  The same string worked the whole time for the Pizza Sausage Pinwheels.

Hot out of the oven

I love it when the cheese falls through and gets all crispy and delicious!

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Sausage Pizza Pinwheels

I grabbed pizza dough at the grocery store because pinwheels sounded really good and we hadn't made them for a while.  Pinwheels are awesome because of their versatility and the flavor combinations can be played with in so many ways.  

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Preheat oven to 375

Ingredients:

Pizza dough

Whatever pizza toppings you would like - we just did sausage today

Mozzarella cheese (I like to add a little cheddar too)

Pizza sauce

I normally purchase the Pillsbury dough but today opted for something else because it looked good.  

Instructions:

Spread out your dough and layer your toppings. I like to use just a little sauce so the pinwheels don't get soggy.  But hey - You Do You Boo!

Then roll the dough into a log.

I like to use string to cut the pinwheel slices.  Whenever I use a knife, if seems like the dough gets squished and it is hard to see the layers of the pinwheel.  To use string - I decide the thickness of the slice and then position the string under it - then I cross the string like I am knotting it - and then pull it through.  You can actually knot it each time if you want to.  

Bake for 25 minutes  

I started with 20 minutes and it didn't seem like enough so I did an extra 5 minutes and it was perfect.

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you have a great day.

Fruit Dump Cake

 I remember making this for the first time shortly after I had graduated from high school and living in my first rental house with a close friend.  It is ridiculously easy and so darn delicious.

There are so many different flavor combinations and I've always been the biggest fan of this classic cherry and pineapple combo.  

Let's Get Crafty!

Preheat the oven to 350

Ingredients:

1 can cherry pie filling -21 oz

1 can crushed pineapple - 20 oz 

1 box yellow cake mix

1/2 cup melted butter

Mix together the cherry pie filling and crushed pineapple.  I do this right in the dish that I'll be using to bake this bad boy.  

Evenly distribute the cake mix over the top.

Drizzle with the melted butter.  I have finally found my microwave's sweet spot for melting butter.  It is  at 30% power for 45 seconds.  I probably still always cover it - just in case.

Bake at 350 for 30 to 40 minutes.  Our oven seems to cook pretty fast and I'm generally on the shorter end of bake times.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a great day.

BBQ Cups

These were really good paired with a salad for a quick and easy dinner.   The kids gobbled them up and asked to have them again really soon.  We halved the recipe the first time we made it and only made 8 BBQ cups.  It was such a hit that we'll need to do the full recipe next time.

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Ingredients:

1 pound hamburger

1/2 onion, diced

1 cup BBQ sauce

1 tablespoon brown sugar

1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded

2 packages biscuit dough (8 biscuits each)

Preheat oven to 400

Brown the ground beef and the onion until the hamburger is cooked through.

Add the BBQ sauce and brown sugar and cook until heated through.

Flatten each of the biscuits before putting each one in the muffin tin that has been sprayed with nonstick spray.

Add about two tablespoons of the BBQ mixture to each little cup and top with cheddar cheese.

Bake for 12-15 minutes until the top is a beautiful golden brown.

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you have a great day.

Deconstructed Tamale Pie

So... what does this mean?  It means that we have a little one that doesn't like it when Mom cooks at the end of the day.  That means that throwing together a tamale pie is a hard sell.  If you do have the time - I highly recommend the recipe in this link Tamale Pie.  

On this day - I made some boxed cornbread and we topped it with the things that would generally go along with a tamale pie and it was great.  Everyone loved it and requested that it be put in their cookbooks! That is a win in my book!

Let's Get Crafty!

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

We used two boxes of the Jiffy cornbread mix and cooked it as follows:

Baked cornbread for 17 minutes and used two boxes with 2/3 cup milk and 2 eggs

Cook up your taco meat like you normally do for tacos and then each person can layer up their "tamale pie".  What I did is pictured above. Connor did extra cheese with no olives or tomatoes.  Emily did no cheese and no olives with extra tomatoes.  Haley did... All. The. Things. along with extra sliced olives in the end.  

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you had a wonderful day.