Deep South Decorations for Christmas
Unfortunately, the deep South doesn’t get snow very often. But that doesn’t keep Southerners from going all out with decorations for Christmas. In fact, Christmas decorating in the South often starts before Halloween.
Maybe it’s the same everywhere, but here in the South you start seeing Christmas decorations in the stores not long after the back-to-school sales are over. You might even find some stores that have Halloween decorations, Thanksgiving decorations, and Christmas decorations separated only by an aisle. Yep, you can take care of all of your holiday decorating needs at one time and at one store.
A Different Green Bean Dish
Were you put in charge of the green bean dish this year? Spice it up!
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
6 cloves garlic, finely chopped
6 links spicy pork sausage, sliced
1 cup water
2 pounds frozen green beans
Seasoning salt to taste
Instructions:
Sauté the garlic and onion until tender. Add sausage to skillet and brown all over. Add 1 cup of water and bring to a boil. Now add the green beans. Cover, reduce to a simmer and let cook for about 30 minutes until green beans are ready. You may need to add a little more water about half way if it starts to get low. Season to your tastes.
Hot Breakfast On-the-Run
Many parents wish they could give their kids a hot breakfast, but often feel like they don’t have enough time due to the fast paced lives most of us lead these days, so our kids reach for a cereal bar or a bowl of sugary cereal, or even go without. But with a little planning ahead and using ingredients you probably already have on hand, you can create these hot breakfasts that you and your children can eat on the way to school and work.
Prep. Time-10 minutes or less:
Egg Roll Ups
Freeze, Heat and Go Breakfasts
Breakfast is probably the meal that is skipped the most because people are either in a hurry and don’t have time, they don’t feel like eating or don’t have an appetite early in the morning. However, as studies have shown, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Eating breakfast gets your metabolism going, supplies your energy for the day and stabilizes your blood sugar levels.
To help with the issue of not enough time to make breakfast and to give you some added motivation to encourage you to eat breakfast, here are some great tasting breakfast ideas that you can make ahead and freeze. Then all you have to do is grab them, heat up quickly in the microwave, and go!