Baked French Toast

 Having houseguests?  This is a delicious make-ahead breakfast idea.  I got the recipe from The Pioneer Woman website.

Baked French Toast

1 loaf French Bread

8 eggs

2 cups whole milk 

1/2 cup heavy cream

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 Tablespoons Vanilla

Fresh Blueberries

Syrup

Topping

1/2 cup flour

!/2 cup packed brown sugar

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 cup cold butter, cut in cubes

Grease a 13 x9 pan.  Tear the bread into chunks and evenly distribute in the pan.

In a large bowl, crack in the eggs.  Add the milk, cream, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla.  Whisk together.  Pour over the bread.  Cover the pan with foil and store in the fridge until ready to bake (overnight or even just an hour or so)

Heat oven to 350

In a separate bowl, use a fork to stir together the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt.  Add the butter chunks and use your hands to mix together until it forms a ball.  Sprinkle the topping evenly over the bread mixture.  Bake for 45 minutes - 1 hour, depending if you want it soft or crisper.

Serve in scoops with butter and syrup and blueberries atop.

Easy Homemade Salsa

 This is an easy, delicious, eat it right now recipe for salsa.  We love it.  I try to keep some in the fridge all the time.

Easy Homemade Salsa

3 small cans diced tomatoes

1 onion, cut in 1/4ths

Large spoonful of minced garlic

1- 3 Jalapeno peppers, to taste

Juice of 1 lime

cilantro leaves, to taste

Salt to taste

In a blender, put two of the cans of tomatoes, the onion, garlic jalapenos, lime juice, and cilantro leaves.  Blend.  Pour into a large bowl and add the other can of tomatoes.  Stir and taste and add salt as desired.  

When you serve it, you can add chopped green onions, green peppers, another chopped jalapeno, and chopped tomatoes if desired.  Serve over Mexican dishes, eggs, with tortilla chips- however you like salsa!  So good!  Store in fridge.