Black Bean Veggie Casserole

Quick, easy, and delicious dinner!

Black Bean Veggie Casserole
Recipe slightly adapted from Keep'n The Faith

1/2 zucchini, diced small
1/2 red bell peppper, diced small
1 can black beans
1 can tomatoes
1 tsp cumin
2 TBSP cilantro
9 corn tortillas (give or take a few; depends on how you layer it)
1 cup grated cheese

Cook vegies in pan for a few minutes. Mix in beans, tomatoes, cumin, and cilantro. Layer tortillas, veggie mixture, and cheese in 8" square pan. Bake at 350 until cheese is bubbly. Serve with sour cream.

Nutella and Banana Oatmeal

So I'm pretty sure I could find a use for Nutella in just about anything. Okay, maybe not dinner, but give me some time and I'm sure I could figure it out! :)

This isn't really a recipe so much as a fantastic breakfast idea. Make yourself a bowl of oatmeal and top it with about 1 TBSP of Nutella and some banana slices. You can either eat it by taking a bit of Nutella with each bite or mix it up and enjoy a chocolatey bowl of oatmeal. Come on... you know you want to try it!

Have a great Wednesday!!!

TWD: Tarte Fine

Dessert doesn't get much easier than this. 4 ingredients (I skipped the apricot jam glaze)- Puff pastry, apples, egg wash, and a little bit of sugar on top. Bake, eat, enjoy!

Thanks to Leslie of Lethally Delicious for hosting this week. The recipe can be found at her blog or on page 315 of Baking:From My Home To Yours.

Daring Bakers: Decorated Sugar Cookies

The Daring Bakers were challenged to make and decorate sugar cookies this month. If you have read this blog for a while, you know that I make sugar cookies often and love doing so. Every year for my children's birthdays I make a number cookie (the number being their age that year) and a cookie that goes along with the theme of the party.

Part of this challenge was to make cookies that represented September. It could be whatever September means to us. My birthday (along with about a million other family/friend birthdays!) is in September, so I decided to go with cupcake cookies.

Of course, I didn't get a picture with the full cookie (OOPS!), but you can look here, here, and here for other cookies I have done.

The September 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Mandy of “What the Fruitcake?!” Mandy challenged everyone to make Decorated Sugar Cookies based on recipes from Peggy Porschen and The Joy of Baking.

Apple Pie Oatmeal

The weather is cooling (well, at breakfast it is in the 70s... no need to pay attention that it is still hitting 90 later in the day!) so that means it is time for oatmeal! I love to play around with different flavors in my oatmeal and these apples were the perfect topping!

This is a delicious way to start your fall days, so break out the apples and oatmeal and enjoy!

Apple Pie Oatmeal

Oatmeal (cooked to your liking)

1 TBSP butter
1 apple, diced
2 TBSP brown sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
Grated fresh ginger
Pinch cinnamon
Pinch nutmeg

Saute apples in butter until softened. Add remaining ingredients. Serve over apples.