Smoked Sausage and Rice One Skillet Meal

Who does not like a quick and easy one pot meal.  If the quick and easy doesn't grab you the one pot will.  This is a great meal for those nights when you don't have a lot of time and don't want to spend long on clean up too.  You can use whatever kind of smoked sausage you like.  I know some people like to use turkey sausage.  Also I used brown rice in this instead of white but use whatever you have.  You could probably use quinoa too but you would have to cook that first.

I love the broccoli in this recipe.

Keep these ingredients in your freezer/pantry for those nights you need something quick.

Melt 1 Tablespoon butter into some olive oil in a skillet.

Now the onion wasn't in the original recipe but who doesn't love onions.

Slice the smoked sausage. Sauté the sausage and onions.

Chop up the broccoli a little bit.

Add the broccoli to the pot.

Cook for a few minutes.

The recipe said to cover the skillet and let the broccoli steam for a few minutes.  If you do not have a lid for your skillet just put a cookie sheet on top.

Cook you rice You need about 1 1/2 cups of cooked rice.

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon onion salt

Add the rice to the broccoli mixture.

Stir well.  Add salt and pepper to taste.

Top with some grated cheese.

Let that melt.

And serve.

Smoked Sausage and Rice One Skillet Meal Recipe

olive oil
1 Tablespoons butter
sausage
broccoli- thawed
1 1/2 cups cooked brown rice
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion salt
1/4 pepper
salt
1 cup cheese

Butterscotch Blondies

A couple of weeks ago it was Butterscotch Blondies Day and I really wanted to bake some but did not have enough butterscotch chips.  So the next time I went to the store I made sure that I had them on my list.  These are a great little treat to whip up for company or for dinner. 

This recipe makes a 9x9 but can easily be doubled for a 9x13 pan.

Make sure you keep some butterscotch chips in your pantry so you can make these.  You won't be disappointed.

Soften one stick butter.

Add 1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar  Mix well.

Look at my pretty egg.  These are farm fresh, free range, Grant Mountain raised, eggs.  They are huge.  So if you need some eggs call my little egg men, Ben and Luke Martin and they will hook you up with some great eggs.

Look how pretty that yolk is.

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup all purpose flour

1/2 cup butterscotch chips

Spray your 9x9 pan.  Spread the batter out evenly.  Place in a preheated 350 oven.  Bake for 30-35 minutes.

This smells so good when it comes out of the oven. When school starts back, I know it just got out, these would be great lunchbox treats for special occasions.

Butterscotch Blondies Recipe

1 stick softened butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup butterscotch chips

Preheat oven to 350.  Bake for 30-35 minutes.

Pork Chop and Veggies Sheet Pan Dinner

Sheet Pan meals are very popular right now.  In fact I just checked out a Sheet Pan cookbook from the library.  This meal didn't come from it but from Pinterest I guess.  These are great because everything is done at the same time so no trying to juggle everything to be ready at the same time.  Little cleanup.  Can't go wrong with that.

The corn of course was a bonus.  Nothing like oven roasted green beans.

Pork Chops, green beans and potatoes.  Now you can use any vegetables you like

Coat the sheet pan with olive oil.

Cut and clean the green beans.  Lay them out on the pan.

Then add the pork chops.  These are a little thicker than the recipe calls for so I cooked the longer. Salt and pepper the chops and add whatever kind of seasoning that you like.

Salt and pepper the green beans too.

I cut the potatoes in half.  I put them on the tray with the pork chops because I thought they both needed to cook a little longer.  Place in a preheated 425 oven and bake for 25-30 minutes.  I put the pork chops and potatoes in for 10 minutes longer, then added the green beans.

Don't they look really good?

Everything was done at the same time and was nice and golden brown.

I know you think the green beans are charged but they are so good roasted.

I added the fresh corn on the cob and we had a great meal.

Pork Chop and Veggie Sheet Pan Dinner Recipe

olive oil
3-4 cups small potatoes or chopped potatoes
3-4 cups green beans trimmed and cleaned
kosher salt
black pepper
2 lbs boneless thin cut pork chops
favorite seasonings.

Preheat oven to 425.  Bake for 25-30 minutes.

Banana Split Dump Cake

Dump cakes are all the rage right now.  They are so easy to make and they don't take long to make either.  This one is a fun one for summertime.  In this recipe the actual dump cake taste really good by itself but there's some sprucing up to it when it is time to serve that takes it up a notch.

We had this Memorial Day.  This one has only a half a cherry on top because it was for the stingy cherry person, the rest of us got whole cherries.  If you don't know what I am talking about go back and read the pear salad post.

I had bought a couple of these purely simple cake mixes.  They work really well for this kind of recipe.

Start with a  9x13 pan.  Spread out the can of strawberry pie filling.

On top of the strawberries add a 20 oz can of crushed pineapple.  Do not drain the pineapple.  It is a little hard to spread it out.  It's okay if they mix a little.

Then sprinkle a white cake mix on top.  Make sure you cover all the fruit.

Then slice up the stick of butter and spread it out on top.  Some recipes call for melting the butter but this one didn't.  You probably could.  I also put a few broken pieces of pecan on top.  Place in a preheated 325 oven for 60-75 minutes.  Mine took the whole amount of time.  I checked it at 60 though.

You can serve it warm or cold but I didn't want mine warm. Now you could use ice cream instead of the whipped cream and warm would be really good.

Now comes the fun part.  You get to add the banana split part.

Dip up the cake.

Add some sliced banana on top.  I was told there wasn't enough banana when I served it.

Sprinkle some coconut on top.  If you don't like coconut don't add it.

Add some nuts.  I added walnuts for something different.

Now a squirt of whipped cream.

Add chocolate sauce and a cherry.  I also added some colored sprinkles.  You can add whatever you like on top.

Banana Split Dump Cake

1 white cake mix
strawberry pie filling
20 oz can of crushed pineapple

Bake 60-75 minutes at 325.

Then assorted toppings of your choosing.