Good Morning! I hope y’all are experiencing the first signs of spring wherever you are. If not, I hope you have at least set aside a little room for Springtime in your kitchen. We can always “force spring” by making some of our favorite sunshiney dishes!
Today I’m bringing you a video of a brunch I hosted at my mother’s house, as part of the fun I’m having being one of the five Velveeta Kitchenistas! I’m also bringing you a great recipe for Velveeta Cheesy Bacon Hash Brown Bake (say that five times really fast!).
I’ll be posting the recipe for my Americanized version of Devonshire Cream (featured in the video as well) coming up on Southern Plate at a later date, but later today I’ll be emailing that recipe as well as Granny’s Jordan’s English Pea Pimento Salad recipe to all of my email subscribers so be sure and subscribe if you’d like to receive both of those a little early!
I hope you enjoy the video, the recipe is below!
The recipe for Pecan Pie Muffins we served at the brunch can be found by clicking here.
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Special Thanks to my guests: Mama, Aunt Sue, Grandmama Lucille, Granny Davis, Miss Millie, and Sister in Law Stacey! Also in attendance (but who disappeared when the camera came out) : Daddy, Uncle Jerry, and Katy Rose.
- 8 slices of bacon
- 2 Cups frozen shredded hash browns, thawed
- 1 red and 1 green bell pepper, chopped (can use frozen!)
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 12 eggs
- ⅓ C sour cream
- ¾ pound Velveeta, thinly sliced
- Cook bacon in skillet and set aside to drain on paper towel lined plate.
- Add onions and bell peppers to skillet and saute in bacon drippings until tender, about ten minutes.
- Spray a 9×13 inch pan with cooking spray and spread pepper and onion mixture into the bottom. Spread hash browns over the top.
- Crack the twelve eggs into a large mixing bowl and beat well. Add sour cream and beat that into the eggs until smooth and creamy. Pour eggs over the vegetables and hash browns in the pan.
- Crumble bacon and sprinkle over the top of eggs.
- Place slices of Velveeta over the top and bake at 350 for 40 minutes or until center is set.
- Allow to cool for ten minutes before serving.
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Elaine Raye is a dedicated contributor to our Give A Penny Page on Southern Plate. Today, I couldn’t choose just one quote and so I’m going to bring you two of hers. I think these two are worthy of writing down and taping up somewhere – that’s just what I plan on doing! Thank you, Elaine!
Write it on your heart that everyday is the best day of the year.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect-
It means you’ve decided to see beyond the imperfections.
~Source unknown
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HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY TO YOU!
I have fun with my family on April Fool’s Day but haven’t pulled my prank on them just yet! Once, I iced two layers of meatloaf with mashed potatoes, decorated the top by piping potatoes through an icing tip and adorning with with cherry tomatoes, and then served that first with a cookie pizza for dessert to several of Bradybug’s friends. I also told them we were having water to drink (which is very odd in my neck of the woods) and served them clear Kool Aid instead.
Back when my mother was a little girl my great aunt Myrtle made two cake pans of cornbread and took them to a local bakery where they iced them just like a birthday cake. Everyone was pretty surprised when they cut into that cake. Mama said they all giggled and took turns cutting into it to see how hard it was!
Tell me your favorite April Fool’s pranks (family friendly only, please) in the comments below and we can all get inspiration and ideas for what we’re gonna do later today!
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When our kids were a bit smaller (and we could lift them) we picked them up from their beds while they were asleep and moved them each to a different bed. Very funny when they woke up in a sibling’s bed!
Hi, Christy! Just watched the video and have read through the recipe. Sounds HORRIBLE!!!!!
Just kidding…APRIL FOOL’S!!!!!!!! I have not had breakfast yet, and boy does that dish have my mouth drooling! I will have to give it a try soon! Thanks for all of the WONDERFUL recipes!
Every year (for about the past 20), my best friend and I have attempted to outdo each other on April 1 to see which one could APRIL FOOL the other one first–and worst! The year that is most memorable to me was when she and her husband went out to eat with us, then came back home to watch a movie afterwards. She had been very nice (or so I thought!) to bake a yummy lemon meringue pie for our after dinner dessert. Well, before we sat down to watch the movie, she suggested that we go to the kitchen and all have a piece of pie (I should have caught on then, because her eyes were sparkling and she was just giddy!). Her pie crust looked perfect (so pretty and perfect all around the top) and the meringue was toasted to a golden brown, just like it came from a pie shop. I couldn’t wait to dig in and have a piece. I asked her to cut it, but she INSISTED that I do the honors. (Again, I should have caught on by then!) As I tried to pull the knife through the meringue, it kept hanging into the inside filling—which I discovered happened to be white polyester FIBERFILL!! She had baked the crust, then placed weights in the bottom to make it feel like a full pie, stuffed it with fiberfill, topped it with meringue, browned the meringue so it was nice and toasty and appetizing, then presented it to me as an after dinner dessert! She began falling apart laughing about the time my knife got stuck in the middle of the pie and she was in tears by the time I looked up, realizing what she had done to me! It was one year that she really got me good with an “APRIL FOOL”!! Last year, I didn’t do anything to her, because she was in treatment (chemo/radiation) for mouth cancer, but not this year! No mercy! She collects Cardinals—loves them, and I often give her Cardinal ornaments or other items during the year as token gifts. Today, I plan to give her a gawdy, squawking (supposedly chirpping), Cardinal in a cage that someone gave me as a joke last Christmas. She deserves it!
Thank you for using my quotes on today’s post. I always think of you and my Southern Plate neighbors when I find a good one. You know , I seldom do April Fool’s kjokes as I had a bad experience when I was about in second grade. I wanted to fool my mom so I came home from school and took off my eyeglasses and stuck them in my pocket and proceeded to tell my mom I had broken them on the playground. Before I had a chance to tell her April Fool she burst into tears which was unheard of for my mom. She later explained that money was so tight with five kids to raise and that she had really been struggling with bills and expenses that day and one more calamity was just more than she could take. I felt so bad that I had saddened and upset her and at that point it sure was no longer funny. I know your pranks are harmless so have fun with them! That story happened about 56 years ago so isn’t it odd how what lessons we learn in childhood remain with us.
Christy, I love, love your kitchen canisters!
Are those family-heirlooms?
Love your recipes, too!
christy is absolutely amazing! She’s got two young kids, and she still has time to create this great site. I absolutely love some of her great recipes. Keep up the good work Christy!!
My story is similar to Patricia’s, but with a little twist. A former boss was absolutely crazy about the cakes baked by another coworker (they were THE BOMB!!) Little known to my boss, this lady was a real peach and enjoyed a practical joke as much as we did. She was older, very sweet, and very religious, so the boss figured her for a complete straight-shooter. For purposes here, I’ll call her “Jo.” Well, Jo got two, 9″ diameter, round pieces of foam rubber and iced them up just like her famous chocolate cake. She even decorated the edge with a piping bag and put a cherry right in the middle. Right after lunchtime, Jo brought out the “cake” and a cake cutter for our “dessert.” My boss was so excited and grabbed the cutter (as we knew he would) and tried so hard to cut slices. He kept turning and turning the cake to try to get a purchase. He sure didn’t want to hurt Jo’s feelings. He finally figured it out when we all couldn’t STAND it any longer and just about peed our pants laughing.
Luckily the boss was a notorious practical joker and a fabulous sport. When HE finally stopped laughing, Jo brought out the real cake she baked just so we all wouldn’t be disappointed. Those were some really great times.
It’s been quite a few years ago. My husband used to milk cows and also raised sheep and it was his custom to go out to do the chores and then come in for a man sized breakfast before continuing his days’ work. I set the table and brought him his cup of “coffee” – he didn’t realize it, but I’d mixed molasses in hot water – after the second sip, he knew he’d been had and we had a good laugh! You know what, he fell for it the next year, too!! (He never did have a very good sense of smell!!)
OOOOOMG!!!! Either I love you or I loathe you…not sure which yet. hehe Reason i say that is because that Velveeta hash brown bake sounds SOOOOOO delicious!!! So I’m either going to love you for how good it is or curse you for bringing something so evil into my life that I will have to eat so much I balloon up into a blueberry. lol!
In all seriousness, these all sound incredible!! I can’t wait to try a couple of them out when I get home.
As for April Fools….well, I never was much of a fooler but I have often been the fool! lol The last time that I really remember something getting me really good was when my 17yo daughter called me up (I was away on a trip) crying and told me she was pregnant. I was gullible enough to believe it. She should be an actress! hehe I felt silly. Maybe not funny right away but after a bit I laughed my butt off! hehe
I LOVE to April Fools folks!
Today, I told my third grade students who had worked so hard on their standardized tests that we had done the wrong section and that we had to erase all the work and re-take the right test. They were stunned for just about 4 seconds before someone said “April Fools!”
Another favorite was when we were having a teacher in-service day for training about some new stuff. All the teachers had been drinking coffee as we listened to the trainer for a couple of hours. Just before the scheduled break, I snuck out and put ‘out of order’ signs on all the restrooms. You have never heard such moaning and groaning and wailing and gnashing of teeth!
Oh, my!
As for your pea salad recipe, my mother made something similar for picnics (frozen peas, cubes of colby cheese, diced onions and mayo with crumbles of bacon all mixed together). I have a friend who runs in fancier circle than I do who loves to take this to high-browed events where people think it is the most EXOTIC thing they ever ate!
While it isn’t an April fools joke, I have one April Fool’s story … and one ‘neat food’ story (complete with a link to a photograph).
When I was in high school, I was not an early riser. As I believe it is every teenager’s job, I lived to sleep in. I waited until the last minute to get up, and Mom knew this. Each morning she had a cup of tea (or hot chocolate) and buttered toast ready for me. [I was not much of a breakfast person.]
One morning I came downstairs, and she was having … uhm … intestinal difficulties that day. She was in the bathroom. I munched my toast, and drank my tea. As I was putting my cup in the sink for washing, I glanced out the kitchen window. It was a foggy morning, but there was an odd shape 3/4 of the way through the yard.
There was a horse. An honest to goodness horse. Standing there … eating the rosebushes. I called in to Mom, who promptly told me that she knew what day it was, and that I was NOT going to fool her. Until that moment, I had not realized that it was indeed April 1.
After much discussion through the door, she finally emerged. I made her go outside w/ me to check out the area. Where there’s a horse, there’s got to be … horse leavings, right? Nope. None. BUT, there were horseshoe prints through the yard. To which she answered that I had taken my horseshoe game, and PLACED the footprints there –nevermind that throwing horse shoes are even too big for the Clydesdales! 😉
As we were headed back into the house, one of the …uhm … shall we say .. ‘in the know’ neighbors (aka busybody), came out of her house saying “Did the horse do much damage to the bush?” Mom thought for sure I had called the neighbor to get her in on the joke. 😉 It was a couple days later when a friend mentioned that one of the new neighbors had their horse get loose … and back … that Mom even began to think I had not created some elaborate joke. 😉 Joke was on her. 🙂
NOW … for the food ….
Go to the Cowgirl BBQ in Santa Fe, NM and get their Baked Potato Ice Cream ..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilively/529836267/
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Vanilla ice cream rolled in hot chocolate.
Sour cream is whipped cream
Chives are colored walnuts
Butter is buttercraem icing/frosting
Great photo!! Man this is something else would love to make this and pull off a joke…haha.. Is the ice cream rolled in actual hot chocolate or hot chocolate powder? Surely if it’s hot chocolate it would melt…
This was really neat, thanks for sharing….
Hope everyone has a Happy Easter and God Bless you all!!!
You’re just so dern cute!! I love your website too. I’m from LA (lower alabama) actually it’s florida just on the line of Brewton AL but it’s all the same down there. Anyway I was wondering if you have a recipe for cornbread dressing? My mother makes it…I make it too but like a true southerner she doesn’t measure ANYTHING so mine NEVER tastes like hers. By the way I don’t put hard boiled eggs in it EWWW. Also are you familiar with File’ Gumbo? She also makes that but can only generalize the ingredients like a pinch or just pore sum in till it tastes right! ERRGGG
thanks in advance.
Sounds yummy. Cristy I love reading your blog.(It’s my favorite) I am really getting into freezer meals. I cook on the week-end and put the meals in the freezer and then we have home cooked meals all week long. Some books say you don’t have to cook for a month. This sure helps when you work all week.
I found houseparty from this page on your website and decided to join. I have already hosted two parties with them. ( digiorno pizza and ball canning). Thanks for the lead! I love your site and all your recipes!