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Easy Cheeseburger Casserole

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I’ve shared a version of this Easy Cheeseburger Casserole here. But this is an even easier variety I’ve started to make, and I encourage you to give this a try!

This casserole is as easy as browning meat, then stirring in the other ingredients. Make it the night before, then bake it at dinnertime when you need it.

Two of my boys helped me make this recently, and took such pride in everyone loving their creation!

A little tip: Instead of topping my casseroles with cheese, I have learned to stir the shredded cheese right into the casserole with all the other ingredients. This makes the entire casserole cheesy, plus it prevents the cheese from sticking to the foil.

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Easy Cheeseburger Casserole
 
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Serves: 8-10 servings
Ingredients
  • 2 pounds ground beef
  • 6 cups frozen shredded hashbrown potatoes
  • 2 cups ketchup
  • 2 Tablespoons mustard
  • 2 cups French fried onions
  • 2 cups shredded cheese (I use Colby jack)
  • Sea salt to taste
Instructions
  1. Brown hamburger meat until no longer pink.
  2. Stir cooked meat and remaining ingredients together in a large casserole dish.
  3. Cover dish with foil.
  4. Bake in a 350 degree oven for one hour.

Another tip: I like to set out some Bacon Bits for people to stir in if they want to. Then it becomes Bacon Cheeseburger Casserole – even better!!

Tip number three: Aldi carries a variety of Organic French Fried Onions that are inexpensive and super tasty!

Do I double this recipe and make a giant sized Cheeseburger Casserole for our family? Of course I do. The leftovers (if there are any) are great!

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Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos

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Here’s how to put together Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos!

I used to make Breakfast Burritos like this – with Homemade Tortillas and Homemade Turkey Sausage. Wow. I was ambitious and I was able to use my time differently then.

Now, with a houseful of kids with special needs, food prep looks a lot different. Here’s the fastest way I’ve found to put together a large amount of Breakfast Burritos, and I highly recommend doing this! These go together fast, can be frozen if needed, and reheat easily in an air fryer or oven.

Here’s how I put together Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos

Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos
 
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Serves: 12-24 burritos
Ingredients
  • 1-pound ground sausage
  • 12-18 eggs
  • 2 cups shredded cheese
  • Sea salt and/or to taste
  • 24 small tortillas or 12 large
Instructions
  1. In a large skillet, brown sausage until no longer pink.
  2. Crack eggs directly into the skillet with cooked meat.
  3. Season as desired.
  4. Scramble eggs with the meat until fully cooked.
  5. Stir in shredded cheese until melted.
  6. Spoon mixture into tortillas and roll into burritos.
  7. Eat right away or refrigerate/freeze in freezer bags to warm up another time.

 

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  • I make our Breakfast Burritos as simple as can be with eggs, sausage, and cheese. This is because we have a wide variety of specific food preferences at our house. Having just basic ingredients in our burritos allows each person to eat it as-is, add in extras, or dip their burrito in salsa or another dip if they want.
  • Any meat will work in these burritos. Sub sausage for bacon or ham for a great variation.
  • Use your favorite shredded cheese in these. Our favorite is Colby Jack – but cheddar, pepper jack, or even mozzarella would be good.
  • Use any size tortilla! I use small tortillas because we have small kids. The adults in our home easily eat three or four of these. Use larger tortillas for bigger appetites.
  • Some great add-ins for these burritos would be: tomatoes, onions, peppers, avocado, black beans, or salsa.

 

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Grab and Go: Pancake Sausage Muffins

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You’ll love these Pancake Sausage Muffins for a quick grab and go breakfast option!

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You may recall my original recipe for these posted way back in 2010. Goodness, a lot of life has happened since then!

Fourteen years, seven more kids, and two daughters-in-law later, I’m re-sharing this recipe with a slight improvement to make these muffins 100% transportable without any mess. Instead of sitting at a table and drizzling maple syrup on top of these muffins, we are adding the syrup into the muffin before baking. Now it’s all ready to go on the way to work or school or on a trip – without a sticky mess!

Grab and Go: Pancake Sausage Muffins

Grab and Go: Pancake Sausage Muffins
 
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Serves: 24
Ingredients
  • 2 cups whole grain flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • 2 cups milk
  • 3 eggs
  • ½ cup real maple syrup
  • ½ cup melted butter or coconut oil
  • 1 pound cooked sausage crumbles
Instructions
  1. Mix dry ingredients together.
  2. Add milk, eggs, syrup, and melted butter.
  3. Stir in cooked sausage crumbles.
  4. Spoon batter into 24 prepared muffin tins (regular paper liners don't work well for these but I've discovered that If you Care parchment paper liners work well)
  5. Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes or until the muffins are lightly browned.
  6. These freeze well and can be rewarmed quickly to eat on the go.

Prepare these for the freezer by removing the paper liners then wrapping one or two in foil.

Place your wrapped muffins in a freezer bag and freeze. Thaw and rewarm in the oven or air fryer as needed. If you are warming up just one or two packages at a time, the air fryer works great and has them ready to go in just 4-5 minutes. If you need multiple packages, put them into a 350 degree oven to warm up for 8-10 minutes.

Other great grab-and-go breakfast ideas include:

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Simple Egg Casserole with Hashbrowns

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This Simple Egg Casserole with Hashbrowns is the breakfast casserole that I’ve found to be the easiest and best tasting!

Fun (or relatively boring) fact: I’m a rebel when it comes to putting bread in Egg Casseroles. I just don’t like soggy bread. :)

But hashbrowns? Oooh, yes. Now we’re talking. I keep either the Mr. Dell’s shredded hashbrowns on hand (I find them at Walmart and they are 100% potatoes without added ingredients). Or better, I buy a bulk box of Organic Frozen Cubed Potatoes from Azure Standard. Having these on hand means I can easily put together this casserole.

You’ve likely read and maybe even used this Easy Breakfast Casserole that I’ve had on my site for years. I realized recently that the original recipe I posted has quite a few variations. This is great because you can put it together in whatever way that works for your family!

But through the years, I find that I’ve landed very solidly on some specifics for how I put together this recipe and this is how we like it best. So, to make it easier for all of us, I’m re-writing the recipe here. Use either one, they are very similar and both are easy and delicious!

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Simple Egg Casserole with Hashbrowns
 
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Serves: 15 servings
Ingredients
  • 12 eggs
  • ⅔ cup heavy whipping cream
  • 3 cups frozen shredded or cubed hashbrowns
  • 3 Tablespoons dry minced onion
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1½ cups cooked meat (diced ham, sausage crumbles, or bacon bits)
  • 2 cups shredded cheese
Instructions
  1. Crack eggs directly into a 9x13 inch baking pan.
  2. Add remaining ingredients.
  3. Use a fork to mix everything together.
  4. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
  5. TO MAKE AHEAD:
  6. Make as directed, but cover and refrigerate (or freeze) before baking. When you are ready to serve the casserole, bake as directed.

This recipe is so basic and good that I used it recently to teach our 8-year old more about reading a recipe, measuring, and putting together a casserole. She is very new at all of this and she figured it out quickly. We refrigerated her casserole overnight and baked it for breakfast the next morning. It was awesome! She was so proud. :)

Great items to serve with your Simple Egg Casserole with Hashbrowns:

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Busy Day Baked Chicken

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Bring on the Busy Day Baked Chicken!

Every day is a busy day! (Though it’s important that we are intentional about taking time to slow down and find restful days too!)

But for those extra-busy days – I am loving this idea for Busy-Day Baked Chicken!

This idea came from Anne, a cherished HeavenlyHomemakers.com reader. She says:

Laura, I have a favorite recipe idea to share! It was a lifesaver for me when I was a working mother (now retired). We call it “Wishbone Chicken.”

Wash and trim the fat on a whole chicken and place it in a pan. Sprinkle it with Lawry’s Seasoned Salt and slather it with Wishbone Italian Dressing. That’s it. Bake about an  hour at 350 degrees. Smells divine! Easy peasy!

As a working mom, I’d buy 3 or 4 whole chickens when on sale. I’d lay each cleaned chicken in foil and cover with the salt and dressing. Then I’d wrap each tightly in the foil and put in the freezer. On a work day, I’d take one out before I left for work, unwrap it, place in a pan, and put it in the oven (frozen). I’d set the oven to come on at 2:00 pm at 325 degrees. The chicken would be partly thawed when the oven came on. The kids and I came home from school around 3:30. We’d walk into a luscious smelling house and a delicious homemade dinner was all ready for us! – Anne

I’ve taken Anne’s great idea and we love it so much! I especially love the idea of buying the chickens on sale and making several ahead of time to freeze, then pull out and bake as needed!

This chicken is delicious and ridiculously easy!!

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Busy Day Baked Chicken
 
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Serves: 4-6 servings
Ingredients
  • Whole chicken
  • Seasoning Salt
  • 1½ cups Italian Dressing
Instructions
  1. Place a whole chicken on a rack, placed on a baking sheet.
  2. Sprinkle liberally with seasoning salt.
  3. Drizzle Italian Dressing over the chicken.
  4. Cover and bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees.

This is my favorite Seasoning Salt. And here’s our great and easy recipe for Homemade Italian Dressing if you’d like!

Do yourself a favor and make this chicken! Serve it with a salad and steamed veggie and you have the easiest meal in the world that is extremely delicious and nourishing.

Thank you, Anne!

Psssst! Everyone be sure to grab our Simple Real Food Recipes cookbook full of amazingly tasty and simple real food recipes like this one!

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Simple Make-Ahead Parmesan Burgers

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I’m not sure if you’re keeping track or not, but this is the third variation I’ve shared in two weeks using the exact same recipe. Woohoo for easy versatility! Today we’re taking our Simple Make-Ahead Parmesan Meatball recipe and basically smashing the mixture into Simple Make-Ahead Parmesan Burgers. Are we smart or are we smart?

The idea came to me as I was working ahead to make a bunch of Parmesan Meatballs for the freezer. Either I got tired of scooping out meatballs, or I got a brilliant idea. It might have been both. After scooping out about 2 1/2 pounds of meatballs, I decided to abort my meatball endeavor. I took my remaining mixture and formed it into burger patties. I froze them, then we pulled them out to fry another day.

Fantabulous!

Might I recommend that you make these Simple Make-Ahead Parmesan Burgers with a side of Sweet Potato Fries or Simple Seasoned Potato Wedges?

Simple Make-Ahead Parmesan Burgers

Simple Make-Ahead Parmesan Burgers
 
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Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • 2 pounds ground beef or turkey
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 Tablespoons dried minced onion
  • ½ cup shredded (or grated) parmesan cheese
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • ¼ teaspoon ground pepper
  • ½ teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
  1. Mix all ingredients together until well combined.
  2. Press together burger-sized patties.
  3. Fry in a skillet or on a grill for 8-12 minutes or until the meat is no longer pink.
  4. Serve right away, or refrigerate or freeze cooked burgers to easily reheat for a meal later.
  5. OR, freeze the prepared raw burgers, thaw as needed, and fry as directed.

Want Parmesan Meatballs instead? Or would you prefer Saucy Parmesan Meatballs? Nothing like getting 3-meal-varieties from one recipe!

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How to Make Healthier Corndogs for the Freezer

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Of all the recipes I share, this one is not the healthiest. Just whatever though, because corndogs taste amazing. (With a salad. And fruit. And digestive enzymes.) I’m providing a homemade option so that at least we’ll know these are better than store-bought.

Homemade Corndogs

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First – try to find hotdogs that are nitrite free. Also, beef. Always beef hotdogs. Fine, turkey is okay too. Just try to avoid the hotdogs that are only pretending to be meat. I can’t even believe I’m still trying to convince myself that any form of a hotdog is healthy. But for real, at least try to find some that aren’t terrible. Why I like hotdogs is beyond me.

Now that we’ve covered the sacred topic of the hotdogs, allow me to share another compromise I make. This. We bought this fun corndog maker for one of our sons a few years ago as a gift because he is the ultimate corndog lover. (I have no idea where he gets this.) I think having dozens of appliances that only do one task each is fairly ridiculous. But shucks if having a corndog maker isn’t a lot of fun, so there. We’ve used it for more than just corndogs (like muffins and cookies – who knew?!) so hallelujah for an appliance that is actually multi-functional.

I will tell you that this machine makes the effort of creating homemade corndogs so easy and mess free that a few days ago, I made 48 corndogs in less than an hour – while I was making tomato sauce, French toast, and frozen yogurt. The corndog maker allows me to multitask while making food for my freezer. And here you thought that appliance was pointless.

Anyway….

The long and short of making homemade corndogs is that you simply use your favorite cornbread recipe, add a bit of extra milk so the batter will coat the dogs, then you either fry them in oil or bake them in the above mentioned corndog maker.

What about sticks?

Life is too short to poke sticks into hotdogs. Do the stick poking if you must, but as for me and my house, we will skip the sticks and just eat the dogs.

How to Make Healthier Corndogs (in Bulk) for the Freezer

How to Make Healthier Corndogs for the Freezer
 
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Serves: 24-48
Ingredients
  • 2⅔ cup Homemade Jiffy Cornbread Mix*
  • 2 eggs
  • 1½ cups milk
  • 4 Tablespoons melted butter
  • 24 hot dogs
Instructions
  1. In a mixing bowl, whisk together cornbread mix, eggs, milk, and butter.
  2. If using a corndog maker, cut hotdogs in half.
  3. Dip hotdogs in batter to coat thoroughly.
  4. Fry until golden brown, or cook in a Corndog Maker**
  5. Serve right away, or cool and freeze in freezer bags.
  6. Rewarm corndogs by placing them on a baking sheet in a 350 degree oven for 10-15 minutes or until heated through.

*Homemade Jiffy Cornbread Mix recipe

I put these homemade cornbread mixes together and have them on hand for convenience. I highly recommend this!

** I cut my hotdogs in half, then cook my corndogs in this fun Corndog Maker. It saves a lot of time and mess!

Homemade Corndogs for the Freezer

If you make these to freeze, all you have to do at mealtime is pull them out and warm them up while you’re getting out all the actual nutritious parts of the meal (fruits, veggies, and more veggies with a side of another vegetable).

‘Fess up. Do ya like hotdogs?

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Easy Make-Ahead Stuffing Muffins

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Of all the dishes that must be included in a holiday meal, stuffing is the one I always try to avoid making if possible. If I’m hosting the meal, when people ask what they can bring, I almost always ask them to bring the stuffing so I don’t have to make it. (Nice, huh?)

Why had stuffing always been such a hard one for me? I just hadn’t found a stuffing recipe I love. I look at stuffing recipes and get completely overwhelmed. After all, there are usually no fewer than 28 steps to take to go from bread to stuffing.

Until now.

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Oh look. We made toasted bread.
It wasn’t even hard.

Homemade Stuffing Made Easy

Once I finally wrapped my brain around all the instructions in all the recipes I looked at, I realized that I didn’t need to perform 28 steps. I could simplify everything and cut it down to four:

1. Cube and toast bread.
2. Brown sausage with onion and sage.
3. Stir everything together with a few other ingredients.
4. Bake.

What? That’s it? Yes.

Some may prefer their stuffing with additional spices. Many like celery. But this turned out plenty flavorful for us with very few ingredients. Plus, not one of the six of us likes celery. So I skipped it.

This recipe can be made ahead of time. You can make this stuffing spread into a dish or as scooped into muffin tins. I may actually make this more than twice a year for holiday meals. After all, when I was was testing driving this recipe to make it as easy as possible, my family dug in and kept going back for more. Even if I did burn the first batch.

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Indeed, my pictures feature over-baked Stuffing Muffins. It’s because I was baking them while having unfortunate cat drama. It was day 2 of baby kitties and Wiggams wasn’t sure she was cut out for the mama business. (WHAT?!) I told her she didn’t have a choice, that sometimes we all have hard days, and that she needed to get over it at go try to keep her last baby alive (yes, we’re down to only one). She ignored me. So I was trying to keep the last kitten alive by holding it to warm it up and by giving it milk from a dropper. This is when my muffins burned. I am not cut out to be the mother of a kitten.

Other bloggers would have started over in an effort to take better pictures. Me? I just took pictures of my burned muffins. There just are not enough hours in the day, okay? I get overwhelmed easily. It was either burned pictures or no pictures. At least we saved the kitten.

Easy Stuffing Muffins

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Easy Make-Ahead Stuffing Muffins
 
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Serves: 18 muffins
Ingredients
  • 6-8 slices of whole wheat bread
  • 1 pound ground sausage
  • 2 Tablespoons butter or oil
  • ½ cup yellow onion, chopped or 3 Tablespoons dried minced onion
  • 1 teaspoon ground sage
  • ¾ cup chicken broth
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • ½ cup Parmesan cheese (optional)
  • 2 eggs
Instructions
  1. Cut bread into ½ inch cubes.
  2. Lay cubes on a cookie sheet and bake in a 300° oven for 10 minutes to toast.
  3. In the meantime, brown sausage with onion and sage.
  4. In a large bowl, stir toasted bread cubes, cooked sausage mixture, and the remaining ingredients together.
  5. Scoop mixture into 18 muffin tins or spread it into a 9x13 inch baking dish.
  6. Bake in a 400° oven for 25-40 minutes or until golden brown.

Recipe links you might find helpful:

To Freeze Stuffing Muffins

Allow muffins to cool completely. Place them in a freezer bag and seal, air tight. Freeze for up to one month.

To reheat: Thaw and warm muffins in a 250° oven in a covered dish for 10-15 minutes.

Easy Stuffing Muffins

You should know that saying Stuffing Muffins most often comes out of my mouth as Muffing Stuffers or Stuffern Muffings. It can’t be helped.

And now for some adorable cat pictures. I mean, if I’m going to show you burned muffins, I should at least show you the reasons they burned:

With assistance from our neighbor, some much needed help from a friend, and now some persistent work with Wiggams, I think we’ll be able to keep one little kitten alive. Wiggams seems to be getting the mama thing figured out, finally. If this isn’t the sweetest…

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Look at this little one’s face. See why we named it Lionel? (I mean, besides the fact that we named it after Lionel Messi. He just looks like a Lionel.) Look at his little lion cub face. We are in love.

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And that is why my muffins burned. 

Holiday Make-Ahead Tip:

Getting Ahead for the Holidays

If you are in charge of stuffing for this year’s holiday festivities, I suggest you make these Stuffing Muffins at least two weeks in advance. Freeze them until the night before your meal. Thaw in the fridge. Rewarm just before serving. These are great drenched in turkey gravy (recipe coming up during this series).

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Easy (Make-Ahead) Baked Potato and Bacon Casserole

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It’s a Potato and Bacon Casserole. Life is good.

Bacon Baked Potato Casserole

This is so easy we can hardly call it a recipe. I’m pretty sure my family will be having this every other week for the rest of our lives for the following reasons:

  1. Bacon. Of course. And also, cheese.
  2. We can slather it with Spicy Ranch Dressing, which tastes so good I believe I shall become addicted to it.
  3. I can make several of these casseroles at once and freeze them for later, making this easy meal even easier.

This “casserole” is basically baked potatoes cut up in a dish with bacon and cheese all over it. I’m sorry that I can’t make it more complicated for all of you who would rather spend many more minutes sauteing, braising, and broiling. This time, you’ll have to get your steeping and zesting fix elsewhere.

Everyone else: I lovingly suggest that you go scrub some potatoes. You’re having this for dinner tonight.

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Easy (Make-Ahead) Baked Potato and Bacon Casserole
 
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8 medium-sized potatoes (any variety) 1 pound bacon 2 cups shredded cheddar or colby jack cheese Sour cream, chives, and/or Spicy Ranch Dressing for topping
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Ingredients
  • 8 medium-sized potatoes (any variety)
  • 1 pound bacon
  • 2 cups shredded cheddar or colby jack cheese
  • Sour cream, chives, and/or Spicy Ranch Dressing for topping
Instructions
  1. Scrub and bake potatoes by putting them into a covered dish in a 350° oven for 1½ hours.
  2. In the meantime, cut bacon into bite-sized pieces and cook thoroughly on the stove-top.
  3. Cut baked potatoes into chunks, spreading them out into a 9x13" baking dish.
  4. Sprinkle cooked bacon over the potatoes.
  5. Top with shredded cheese.
  6. Bake in a 350° oven for about 10 minutes or until the cheese has melted.

Offer sour cream, chives, and/or Spicy Ranch Dressing to complete this main course. Serve with a salad and another fruit or veggie. It is too easy. Makes 6-8 servings.

Baked Potato Bacon Casserole

To Freeze This Dish: 

Make it as directed above. Allow it to cool completely. Cover and label. Put it in the freezer.

To Reheat and Serve This Dish:

This is my favorite trick. Get the casserole out of the freezer. Cover the frozen dish with foil (somebody needs to invent a 9×13 glass cover for my pyrex dishes). Put the frozen casserole into a COLD oven. Turn the oven on to 250° allowing it to heat up along with the casserole. After one hour, turn the oven up to 350° and bake for one more hour or until the casserole is thawed, heated through, and looks like wonderful cheesy deliciousness.

Let us all add this recipe to our “Reasons to Make Extra Baked Potatoes When We’re Making Baked Potatoes Anyway” list.

7 Ways to Use Baked Potatoes

Switch out the bacon in this casserole for other cooked meats. Switch out the regular potatoes for sweet potatoes. Just whatever you do, try it with the Spicy Ranch Dressing. Ah-mazing.

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Easy Pancake Muffins – Great for the Freezer!

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Pancake Muffins? Seriously?! Why did I not think of this before?

Easy Pancake Muffins

I think I heard this idea from one of you brilliant minds a few dozen weeks or possibly even years ago. If it was you, thank you. My apologies for taking so long to try it. It’s just that...change is hard, you know? I’m so used to pouring pancake batter on a griddle, so scooping it into a muffin cup was just such a hard, hard adjustment for me.

Not really. I just never got around to trying it. Sheesh.

The thing about the traditional pancake is how long one has to stand at the griddle flipping the cakes. Yum, and all that. But it is time consuming if you must move make mountains of pancakes to fill up your people. With the muffin idea, you can scoop the very same pancake batter into muffin cups, slide them into the oven, and be on your way. And {please hold your applause} you can make extras of these and put them into your freezer, then pull them out and rewarm them without even having to think or stir or dirty up a bowl.

I may never stand at a griddle again. {standing ovation}

I no longer know how to cook in small quantities, as is evidenced by the following large-sized ingredient list. Forgive me, cut the recipe in half, or simply put your leftovers in a freezer bag and then into the freezer for a no-brainer breakfast of the future.

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Easy Pancake Muffins - Great for the Freezer!
 
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Serves: 24
Ingredients
  • 3 cups whole wheat flour (I use freshly ground white wheat - hard or soft)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • ½ cup melted butter
  • 3 eggs
  • 2½ cups milk
Instructions
  1. Whisk all ingredients together until smooth-ish.
  2. Scoop into prepared muffin cups (buttered, paper-lined, whatever you choose).
  3. Drop in berries or chocolate chips if you wish.
  4. Bake in a 350° oven for 15-20 minutes or until muffins are golden brown.

Easy Pancake Muffins - Great for the Freezer

You’d think I would have done this earlier since I’ve been making Sausage Pancake Muffins for so long.

If you want to make these a “to-go” muffin, simply add about 1/4 cup of real maple syrup to the batter before scooping and baking. Then you can skip the necessary “dip them in syrup while holding your chin over the table” step.

Ever tried this idea? Were you the one who told me about it? Love you.

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