How to become a morning person...
- Jonathan Sindler
- Mar 27, 2022
- 1 min read
Want to be more of a morning person? The solution is simple. Stay here on a Saturday night and I'll recreate these dishes for you on Sunday morning. I promise you, you'll leave tire marks to get out of bed and down to the kitchen when you smell these in the oven!
First up today, I made a Cheesy Ham-Tot Hot Dish. I started by sautéing onions and garlic in butter. Once softened, I added some flour to make a roux followed by milk to make a béchamel sauce.
Then I added several pounds of cubed maple ham steak and 2 cups of cheddar cheese before pouring it into a baking dish. Looks good already, right? Not even close to finished yet!
Then I topped the entire casserole dish with frozen tots and into the oven it went! Still not done with building flavors fyi.
Halfway through cooking, I spread a layer of pecorino-Romano cheese, some freshly chopped chives, and some runny eggs for serving.
This was one HAPPY bowl!
But we definitely needed something sweet to follow up so I whipped up a batch of Maple Cinnamon Sticky Buns. These are very easy to make. Store-bought puff pastry is a huge time saver. Simply roll one out, brush with butter, dust with brown sugar, maple sugar, cinnamon, and raisins, roll it up, trim the edges, and slice it up. Underneath each roll is a maple brown sugar butter that I made and added some chopped pecans so that when I turned them out later, the pecans would be on top.
Smelling these at ANY hour of the morning will make you into a morning person, guaranteed!
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