Warm Breakfasts to Soothe the Winter Blues
Breakfast is well known as the most important meal of the day. That being said, you may not have that thought in mind when you stumble from bed on a cold winter's morning. It can sometimes be tough to resist the lazy impulse to simply pop some bread in the toaster and settle for buttered toast, rather than cook up something hardy and filling. For mornings like this, you need something warm that doesn't require a great deal of preparation (especially important for the non-early bird types!). This article has some great breakfast recipes that are tasty whether you prepare them fresh in the morning or the day before.
Fruit Scones
2 cups All-Purpose Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/3 cup Sugar
1 Egg
8 tablespoons Crisco (or frozen butter)
1/2 cup Raisins, Sultanas, Dates, Cherries—whatever you like
1/2 cup Sour Cream
In a bowl, mix together the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder and soda, salt, sugar). When this is mixed, grate the frozen butter or drop small clumps of Crisco into the mixture. Start working it in with your fingers until the mix resembles coarse meal. Add raisins/fruit. In another bowl, whisk the sour cream and egg together. Add sour cream mixture to the "meal" and blend with a fork—this will make the mixture clump up. Using your fingers as a cup, scoop a bit of the mixture and knead it against the bowl until the moisture spreads through the dough ball. On a floured surface, mold the mass into the desired shape (round, triangular, rectangular, etc.). Do the same with the rest of the mixture, placing the scones on a Cookie Sheet lined with parchment paper. Leave about an inch of room between scones. Bake at 400 degrees F for about 15 minutes. Let them cool slightly before serving, or place in an air-tight container to be enjoyed the following morning.
Biscuits and Sausage Gravy
1 can of ready-to-bake Biscuits
1 cup Maple-Flavored Ground Sausage
White Pepper Gravy (as thick or thin as you usually make it)
This one is super-easy! Pre-heat the oven to the temperature directed on the biscuits package and put the biscuits in the oven. In a skillet, fully cook the sausage meat, adding salt and pepper if desired. Drain the excess grease from the meat. Make the white pepper gravy per the instructions on the package (make any necessary adjustments to obtain your preferred thickness). Add the sausage to the gravy. When the biscuits are done, serve open-faced with a nice ladle-full of gravy. Enjoy!
Fruit Oatmeal a La Crock Pot
2 cups Raw Oats
2 cups Chopped Apple
1/2 cup Chopped Pecans
1/2 cup Almonds (slivered works best)
1 tablespoon Cinnamon (ground)
1 teaspoon Allspice
1 cup Milk
3 cups Water
2 teaspoons Butter
Mix all of the ingredients in the slow cooker and set it on "low" heat. Let it cook for a minimum of eight hours—overnight is best!
All of these recipes can easily be prepared the day before and are ready to eat (re-heated or not) in the morning. So you see you don't have to settle for toast when you can have something toasty warm and long-lasting to jump start your energy. You may even find that a nice morning meal can work wonders in helping you brave the wintry season!
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Electric Range Blue Spark?
The front left element on my range top is sending out a blue spark when I turn it on. Well not just when I turn it on but when I sit any skillet/pot on it. Once I actually felt a littlte jolt when the skillet had a metal handle.
Is there a way to fix this problem or is it just time to get a new stove.
It is an electric Whirlpool by the way.
Thanks
UNPLUG THIS stove. (DON'T EVEN FOOL WITH IT PLUGGED IN!) You may want a pair of dishwashing gloves. This area can get pretty nasty, with old grease, etc, that spills accidentally out of the Cooking Utensil. I don't use 'em, but I gotta' admit, sometimes I wish I had! Lift up on that element a little, then pull straight out.
If the connector it's plugged into starts to come with it, hold the connector. Lift the top of the stove up. It should have a hinge in the back. Not all stoves do, but a lot of them do. Take a flashlight,and look at the connection, and the wires going to the connection. Make sure none of the wire connections to the connector, (Where the element plugs into), are loose. Make sure the connector is screwed down tight to the stove top. At this point it would be nice to have something small to insert into each round connection in the connector to clean them. A small rolled up piece of fine sandpaper works pretty good. I would look this stove up online, and see about a replacement element. Compare the price, plus tx, and shipping, to what you may get one for around close to you.
WHATEVER you do, get this fixed!! Your electric stove uses 220 volts, and if you're wet, and touch this, you could get dead, instead of just a tingly shock!
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