Breakfast Stromboli

When you need a savory showstopper for your next brunch, a pound of pizza dough can be just the ticket to elevate all the ingredients of a breakfast sandwich into something beautiful and  tasty.

Ingredients:

• 1 package of pizza dough
• ⅓ cup diced peppers
• ⅓ cup diced onion
• 6 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
• 1 cup frozen hashbrowns, shredded potatoes
• 1 cup egg whites
• ½ cup reduced fat shredded cheese
• Dash of salt and pepper
• Seasoning of choice

Directions:

1. Cook your bacon, drain and set aside.
2. Spray a large frying pan with some non stick cooking spray, place on stove over medium heat.  Dice your pepper & onion and add to your pan, then add your potatoes. Add in a dash of salt & pepper. Cook for approx. 15 minutes stirring often.
3. In a separate pan,  also sprayed with some cooking spray,  cook and scramble your egg whites.
4. Place your potatoes mix & scramble egg whites in a bowl. Add in crumble bacon and seasoning of choice and mix well.
5. Preheat oven to 375F, use a large baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
6. Roll out your pizza dough so it is approximately 14x9 inches.
7. Using a pizza cutter or knife, make cuts down each side of the dough but leaving the middle uncut. Make sure your cuts line up with opposite side
8. Spoon your mixture into the middle of your dough, top with your cheese then braid your cut dough pieces over top.
9. Brush some egg whites on top of dough and bake in oven for approx 25 minutes or until golden brown.
10. Cut into 6 equal servings

Tupps Tidbits:  use your own pizza crust to make this extra special, also, when serving, it best to cut in the middle then cut each piece into 3 equal pieces

Normally we do not have a double carb breakfast, but WOW, this was pretty to serve and tasted great.  This is definately a KEEPER RECIPE at our house.

Chicken Chili Bubble Up

This chicken chili bubble up is easy to make and a satisfying meal, it was not the prettiest to photograph!

Ingredients

• 1 lb ground chicken, raw
• 1 green pepper, diced
• 1 red pepper, diced
• 1 cup diced red onion
• 1 cup frozen corn
• 2 garlic cloves, diced
• 1 can diced tomatoes, 28oz
• 1 can tomato paste, 5.5oz
• 1 Tbsp chili powder
• 1 tsp cumin
• 2 tsp oregano
• 1 7.5oz package biscuits (10 biscuits)
• ¾ cup reduced fat shredded cheese

Instructions

1. In a large pan or skillet cook your ground chicken then drain any fat.
2. Add in your diced peppers, onion, corn and garlic. Stir in canned tomatoes and tomato paste and all seasonings. Let cook over medium heat for 5 minutes, preheat oven to 350F and spray a 9x13 casserole dish.
3. Cut your 10 small biscuits into 6 pieces each.
4. Place your cut biscuits pieces into the chili mixture and gently stir.
5. Pour chili and biscuit mixture into your casserole dish, check that your biscuit pieces are evenly spread and not all clumped together.
6. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes, remove from oven and sprinkle your cheese on top then return to oven for 15 minutes longer.

TUPPS TIDBITS:   we recommend putting the cut up biscuits on the bottom of the pan first and then pour the chili mixture over

Pretty basic recipe and not a lot of flavor. This recipe was NOT A KEEPER in our house but ok to eat!

Spiced Melon Salad

This recipe calls for Mace.  When I first read it, all I thought about was "Mace" the pepper spray for self defense,  but actually  Mace is the lacy coating (called the aril) that is found on a nutmeg seed.  We did not have "mace", the spice on hand, so we did not make the recipe with it.  

We love camping from early May and mid-October and it is fun to come up with new recipes for camping. This recipe we tried in the heat of July at camp.  It offered a cool & refreshing accompaniment to our meal in the summer.

Ingredients

2 cups diced assorted melon

1/2 cup plain or vanilla low-fat or nonfat yogurt

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon mace
1/8 teaspoon clove
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
Orange zest (about 1 tablespoon) and juice (about 3 tablespoons)

Directions:    In a large bowl, mix all ingredients to combine. Serve!

Tupps Tidbits:  No need to buy "Mace" for just 1 recipe

For the "assorted melon" we only used cantaloupe.   We were wondering if we had used honeydew & watermelon it this would have tasted differently?  We also thought the spices might go better with apples instead of melons...but DEFINITELY a KEEPER recipe at our house!