Witches Morning Gruel #SundaySupper

Green is good.

How would you like a morning meal that takes minutes to make and is healthy? That is what I have been looking for since I started training for a half marathon. In order to get longer runs in I have had to get up early a few Saturdays and have little time for fuel. This has left me dragging through my runs. At a recent running clinic the girls and I discovered an amazing new way to enjoy oatmeal.

Since my husband works late hours a lot I take the girls with me almost everywhere. Recently they attended a fitness and nutrition running clinic sponsored by our local grocery store. I set the girls up with fruit from the salad bar and a movie. They ate the fruit and ignored the movie. Fortunately the dietitians know us and were very accommodating. When Audrey begged for more to eat they started making a recipe they call Swiss Oatmeal. Mo helped and both girls devoured their helpings.

For the upcoming holiday we adapted the amazing dish to make it festive.

Witches Morning Gruel

• 1 to 1 1/2 cups Minute Oats
• 1 cup yogurt 
• 1 small can crushed pineapple in juice
• 1/4 cup chopped nuts
• 4 tbsp spinach puree

Mix all ingredients in a medium bowl. No need to heat or do anything but stir. If using plain yogurt I like to add a little honey to sweeten, 2 tbsp is plenty.

Those of you who do not make green monsters  might be a little unsure about the spinach puree. Spinach is an amazing puree to use because it is almost completely tasteless when cold. We use it to make green eggs.

Do yourself a favor and make a batch of gruel for quick fuel so you can be ready for whatever your week brings.

A simple meal.

Adding the green.

The #SundaySupper Team has decided to do Halloween up for us and share all of their cool recipes. Check them all out because they look amazing.

On the menu for our Trick-or-Treat #SundaySupper Halloween Party:

Bewitching Brews

• Shrunken Heads in Cider - Girlichef
• Candy Corn Martini - The Messy Baker Blog
• Trick-or-Treat Wine Pairings for Halloween - ENOFYLZ

Ghoulish Gruel: 

• Steak Bites with Bloody Mary Dipping Sauce - I Run for Wine
• Eggs in Purgatory - My Catholic Kitchen
• Mini Jack-o'-Lantern Sloppy Joe Pies - Small Wallet Big Appetite
• Baked Mummy Cheese Dogs - In the Kitchen with KP
• Meat Head - Ruffles & Truffles 
• Goblin Eggs - Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen
• Mummy Hot Dogs - Damn Delicious
• Spooky Kid Pizzas - Sustainable Dad
• Pumpkin Chili, Pumpkin Dip, & Wicken Witch's Brew - Daddy Knows Less
• Monster Mash - Cindy's Recipes & Writings
• Sloppy Worm Sandwiches - La Cocina de Leslie 

Haunted Snacks: 

• Gory Green Monster Eyeball Dip - Shockingly Delicious
• Marinated Mozzarella Eyeballs - Comfy Cuisine
• Deviled Eyes - Mangiamo! 
• Eyeball Pinwheels - Home Cooking Memories 

Spooky Sweets: 

• Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Biscoff Cream - The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen
• Spooky Ogre Eye Cookies - The Realistic Nutritionist
• Jack O' Lantern Cookies - Magnolia Days
• Spooky Good Popcorn Snack Mix - The Weekend Gourment
• White Chocolate & Coconut Dipped Strawberry Ghosts - Sue's Nutrition Buzz
• Monster Bites - Cravings of a Lunatic
• Vegan Halloween Sugar Cookies - Hezzi-D's Books & Cooks
• Monster Cookies - Dinners, Dishes, and Desserts
• Tunnel of Doom Cake - That Skinny Chick Can Bake
• Candy-Stuffed Rice Crispy Treat Pumpkins - Chocolate Moosey 
• Crispy Graham Bones - The Meltaways
• Dulce de Leche Bat Cookies - Crispy Bits & Burnt Ends
• Witch's Fingers - Noshing with The Nolands
• Sweet Intestines with Broken Glass - The Little Ferraro Kitchen 
• Graveyard Brownies - The Wimpy Vegetarian 
• Boo Candy Corn & Chocolate Chip Cookies - Hip Foodie Mom
• Bleeding Devil Cakes - Momma's Meals
• Pumpkin Halloween Munch - Big Bear's Wife
• Halloween Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Cake Pops - Juanita's Cocina
• Jack-O-Lantern Carrot Cake - Galactosemia in PDX
• Ghostly Chocolate Orange Tarts - Happy Baking Days
• The Wicken Bao - The Urban Mrs 
• Messy Monster Cookies - MarocMama
• Bewitchingly Delicious Butterscotch Broomstick Cake Pops - Mama.Mommy.Mom.
• Halloween Popcorn Cake - Pippis in the Kitchen Again
• Witches Morning Gruel - In the Kitchen with Audrey
• White Chocolate & Dulce de Leche Ghosts - Vintage Kitchen Notes 
• Peanut Butter Candy Bar Cookies - The Cookie A Day Challenge
• Monster Cookie Revel Bars - Baker Street 
• Halloween Cereal Bars - Basic N Delicious
• Ossi di Morti (Bones of the Dead Cookies) - Webicurean
• Pumpkin Pie Pinwheels - Midlife Road Trip

Please be sure you join us on Twitter throughout the day, this Sunday (October 28th) during #SundaySupper.  We’ll be meeting up at 7:00 pm (Eastern) for our weekly #SundaySupper live chat where we’ll talk about all things Halloween.  All you have to do is follow the #SundaySupper hashtag, or you can follow us through TweetChat.

We’d also love to feature your favorite Halloween recipes on our #SundaySupper Pinterest board and share them with all of our followers, too.

Mini Quiches #SundaySupper #BakeForACure

A meal fit for a princess.

We are back. It was a lot of fun but it is so good to be home and back in my own kitchen. The girls and I have done a little cooking that we hope we can share with you soon. It is all a matter of finding the time to write the posts. 

One post I can always find time to write is the one for #SundaySupper. We love to cook and eat together as a family and that is what the #SundaySupper team is all about!

This week they are supporting #BakeForACure and sharing some amazing recipes. We decided to bake some Mini Quiches to enjoy for a simple supper and freeze a few extra for busy mornings. These are crust-less quiches because we needed something that would travel easy for our busy mornings.

Please forgive the pictures, they were taking with my phone because my camera is still packed away. Eventually I will get everything unpacked and put away!

I helped the girls gather and chop ingredients to add to our mini quiches so that each could have her own version. They picked the meat and cheese and avoided the yummy veggies but this was our first time making these this way so I am going to try again with different yummy veggies. Please feel free to put a wide variety out so your gang will have a lot to select from.

Arranging potatoes.

Measuring milk.

Mixing!

Mini Quiches

• 8 eggs
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• salt and pepper
• your favorite ingredients

Add eggs, milk, flour, and seasoning to a medium bowl and mix well. Pour into baking molds. We like to use muffin cups, brownie pans, and muffin tins for mini versions but feel free to use a larger cooking vessel.

We put together a selection of the additions we enjoy and simply added them to the cooking dishes before pouring over the egg mixture.

Bake for 20-25 minutes for smaller items and 30-45 for larger pans.

Serve with potatoes cut thin, brushed with a little oil, and baked with the quiches. We bake our potatoes for 10 minutes longer than the quiches so we like to get them in first.

Check out what the rest of the #SundaySupper team brought to the table this week.

These #SundaySupper Contributors, were given a beautiful Easy As Pie Dish by Chantal Cookware.  They have created these beautiful recipes to brighten someone’s day.  The Sunday Supper team was in agreement, we loved the Easy As Pie Dish! The patented design simplifies the art of baking the perfect pie. Designed for ease, the interior ridges conveniently hold the dough in place and provide an even, uniform mold for the outer crust.  A raised rim on the outside of the dish allows for precise trimming of excess dough. 9″ interior Diameter. And the best part, it is microwave, Oven, Freezer and Dishwasher safe.

Check out these gorgeous Sunday Supper Recipes:

• Pecan Pie by The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen
• Nana’s 3LB Deep Dish Apple Pie by I Run For Wine
• Upside-down Apple Pie by Comfy Cuisine
• Coconut Pie by Basic N Delicious
• Italian Chicken Pie by Momma’s Meals
• German Apple Pie by Mrs. Mama Hen
• Funny Cake by Cindy’s Recipes and Writings
• Sweet Potato Pie with Gingersnap Crust by Webicurean
• Crustless Pumpkin Pie with Maple Whipped Cream by The Meltaways
• Lemon Meringue Pie by The Messy Baker Blog
• Ham and Spinach Quiche by Magnolia Days
• Pink Salmon Quiche by My Catholic Kitchen
• Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Streusel Topping by Juanita’s Cocina
• Grilled Eggplant Moussaka With Greek Yogurt White Sauce by Sue’s Nutrition Buzz
• Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie by Big Bears Wife
• Pumpkin Maple Pie by Mama’s Blissful Bites
• Spiced Pumpkin Pie with a Cinnamon Roll Crust by Daily Dish Recipes
• Pasteis de Nata ~ Portuguese Custard Tart by Family Foodie
• Chocolate Pie by Diabetic Foodie
• Fancified Shepard’s Pie by Crispy Bits & Burnt Ends
• Pink Lady Pie by From Fast Food to Fresh Food
As you may have noticed, when the #SundaySupper Team does something, we come together and do it with a bang.   Check out these additional recipes, perfect to take to someone who you want to make feel special this month.
• Butterscotch Pudding Triple Chip Cookies by Dinners, Dishes and Desserts
• Hazelnut Milk Chocolate Pie by Vintage Kitchen Notes
• Flatbread with Grapes, Gruyere, Rosemary and Red Onions by Shockingly Delicious
• Salted Caramel Filled Chocolate Chip Cookie by Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
• Candy Bar Pie by That Skinny Chick Can Bake
• Mini Quiches by In the Kitchen with Audrey
• Apple Cranberry Slab Pie by Generation Y Foodie
• Gratin of Potatoes, Onions & Leeks by An Appealing Plan
• Garlic rosemary yeast rolls by Gotta Get Baked
• Italian Tomato Tart by She likes ruffles, he likes truffles
• Impossible cheeseburger pie by In the Kitchen with KP
• 10 Grain Muffins by Mangiamo!
• Deep Dish Caramel Apple Pie by Mama Mommy Mom
• Date Crumb Pie by girlichef
• Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Doughnuts by What Smells So Good?

Do you want to get your own Easy as Pie Dish?  Chantal is offering  will be 20% OFF of ALL Chantal Pie dishes on www.chantal.com. BAKE4CURE must be entered at checkout to receive the pie dish discount. The coupon discount code is active October 16, 2012 through October 30, 2012.

The Sunday Supper Team and Chantal Cookware, would be honored to have you join us for this special #BakeForACure event Around the Family Table this week.

Join us on Twitter throughout the day during #SundaySupper.  We’ll be meeting up at 7:00 pm(Eastern) for our weekly #SundaySupper  live chat.

All you have to do is follow the #SundaySupper hashtag or you can follow us through TweetChat.

We’d also love to feature your easy go to recipes on our #SundaySupper Pinterest board and share them with all of our followers, too.

Keep up with the latest from Chantal on their website, twitter, facebook, and Pinterest !

Sweet Potato Pancakes #SundaySupper

All things orange.

The wedding is a week from today. We leave Thursday for the park (Devil's Den) and will return the following Wednesday. Most everything is finished and we are just carrying on with our lives. Our lives are a little different these days now that I have started running. A typical Saturday used to involve a park or the library. Now it looks like this:

We are Color Runners.

Saturday the girls and I completed the Lawrence Color Run, the Happiest 5k on the planet. It really is. I brought the jogger and plenty of blankets for the girls to hide under but they had other ideas. Mo ran most of the second half and Audrey kept asking for more color. It helped that several of their own age friends attended and one ran the entire run.

The girls and friends.

When planning for a run of any kind, whether timed or just for fun, like the Color Run, it is best to fuel up. Complex carbs are fabulous and we recommend Sweet Potato Pancakes. They are easy to make and fun to eat. I wish we had made two batches because the girls and daddy ate most of this batch.

Sweet Potato Pancakes

• 2 cups shredded sweet potato
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 tbsp flour
• 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
• oil for the pan

Squeeze potatoes after you shred them to remove the extra water. Add to a medium bowl with the three eggs, beaten. Stir in flour and salt. Meanwhile, heat a skillet over medium heat and add 1/4 inch of oil (we used vegetable but Canola would work great as well). Place rounded tablespoon of batter in the skillet and flatten. Cook for 2-4 minutes on each side or until crispy. Place on a towel-lined plate to drain while you cook the rest of the batter. Serve with applesauce and sour cream.

Looking beautiful while shredding.

She had seconds.

I think this recipe is a keeper.

The #SundaySupper Team decided to embrace Color as well and put together a menu of All Things Orange. Go check out them out!

Sunrise  (Breakfast and Brunch)

Paula from Vintage Kitchen Notes is bringing her Orange Ricotta Pancakes

Erin from Dinners Dishes and Desserts is baking up some Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

Heather from Girlichef is bringing Pumpkin Doughnuts with Spiced Buttermilk Glaze

Nicole from Daily Dish Recipes is making Pumpkin Donut Puffs

Patti from Comfy Cuisine is bringing  Classic Orange Marmalade

Sunithi from Sue’s Nutrition Buzz is making Spiced Pumpkin Ricotta Muffins with Craisins and Walnuts

Wendy from The Weekend Gourmet is cooking up some Pumpkin Maple Oatmeal

Jamie from Mama Mommy Mom is bringing Butternut Squash Butter

Chelsea from Chelsea’s Culinary Indulgence is bringing Pumpkin Spiced Donuts with Chai Icing

Kris from In The Kitchen With Audrey and Maureen made Sweet Potato Pancakes 

High Noon (Soups, Salads and Sandwiches)

Renee from Magnolia Days is serving up some Butternut Squash Soup

Beate from Galactopdx is bringing her Carrot Ginger Soup

Jen from Juanita’s Cocina is making some Curried Sweet Potato Salad With Cranberries and Pecans

Megan from I Run For Wine is making Skinny Roasted Butternut Squash and Italian Sausage Soup

Sarah from What Smells So Good is filling our bowls with some Spicy Sweet Potato and Coconut Soup

Alice from Hip Foodie Mom is coming with her Roasted Carrot and Red Quinoa Salad

Susan from The Wimpy Vegetarian is making Cider – Spiced Sweet Potato Soup

Tora from Tora’s Real Food is bringing Butternut Squash and Tomato Soup

Melanie from From Fast Food to Fresh Food is making Monty’s Pumpkin Soup

Lyn from The Lovely Pantry is bringing Roasted Pumpkin & Coconut Soup

Kim from Cravings of a Lunatic is whipping up some Mandarin Chicken Salad

Sunset (Dinner and Main Dishes)

Sarah from Crispy Bits & Burnt Ends is offering up some Pumpkin Ravioli

Shelia from Pippis In The Kitchen Again is serving her Roasted Squash and Ricotta with Honey

Pam from The Meltaways is making Spooky Stuffed Peppers

Patsy from Famfriendsfood is bringing her Carrot Souffle

Laura from Small Wallet Big Appetite is bringing Chicken and Sweet Potato Fritters

Mehereen from Chattering Kitchen is making Sichuan Orange Glazed Chicken with Toasted Sesame Seeds

Tammi from Momma’s Meals is making Hearty Pork Stew

Kristin from Kwistin’s Favorites is making Orange Chicken

Soni from Soni’s Food For Thought is cooking up some Rigatoni with Pumpkin Ricotta Sauce

Shelby from Diabetic Foodie is cooking up some Moroccan Vegetable Stew

Dara from Generation Y Foodie is bringing Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese

Brandie from Home Cooking Memories is sharing a DIY Baked Sweet Potato Bar

Amber from Mama’s Blissful Bites  is bringing Rice and Fig Stuffed Mini Pumpkins

Valerie from Val’s Food and Or Art made Double Stuffed Roasted Acorn Squash

By The Bonfire (Sweets, Snacks and Sips)

Brie from Brie’s Bites is making Peanut Butter Pumpkin Bites

Carla from Chocolate Moosey is making Pumpkin Tiramisu with Pumpkin Butter Caramel Sauce

Heather from Hezzi D’s Books and Cooks is offering up some Pumpkin Cake Truffles

Shelia from Cooking Underwriter is bringing Sweet Potato Bacon Beet Salsa

Anne from Webicurean  is making some Drunken Pumpkin Bread

Karen from In The Kitchen With KP is making Oven Baked Sweet Potato Chips

Leslie La Cocina De Leslie is making Sweet Potato Atole

Seet Fei from My Trials in The Kitchen is bringing Sweet Potatoes Mini Balls

Tara from Noshing With The Nolands is bringing Oranges En Suprise

Susan from The Girl in The Red Kitchen is making Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Scone with Pumpkin Glaze

Conni from Mrs. Mama Hen is making Orange Glazed Poundcake

Isabel from Family Foodie is baking up Moist Pumpkin Bread

Cindy from Cindy’s Recipes and Writings is baking up a Vegan Pumpkin Orange Cake

Brenda from Meal Planning Magic is whipping up some Creamy Pumpkin Dip

Laura from Family Spice is making some Unprocessed and Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread

Kathya from Basic and Delicious is baking up Butternut Squash and Carrot Bread

Liz from That Skinny Chick Can Bake is serving up Pumpkin Roll with Cream Cheese Filling

Stephanie from The Cookie A Day Challenge is whipping up some Pumpkin Ice Cream Sandwiches

Katie from She Like Ruffles, He Likes Truffles is bringing Pumpkin Harvest Cookies

Nancy from Gotta Get Baked is baking up some Orange Macadamia Dark Chocolate Cookies

Angie from Big Bear’s Wife  is bringing Orange Soda Pumpkin Patch Cupcakes

Katy from Happy Baking Days is bringing Carrot Cake with Orange Glaze

Sandra from Midlife Road Trip is bringing Orange ya glad it’s fall! Hungarian Apricot/Walnut pastries

 Please be sure you join us on Twitter throughout the day during #SundaySupper.

We’ll be meeting up at 7:00 pm(Eastern) for our weekly #SundaySupper  live chat where we’ll talk about our favorite recipes featuring our favorite fall color.

All you have to do is follow the #SundaySupper hashtag, or you can follow us through TweetChat.

We’d also love to feature your easy go to recipes on our #SundaySupper Pinterest board and share them with all of our followers, too.