French Toast Bake (made with canned cinnamon rolls!)

My husband, Sam, is obsessed with french toast. I am not so much of a fan. But I do love cinnamon rolls. I found a recipe on Pillsbury's website for a cinnamon french toast bake using their cinnamon rolls. I changed it up a little bit to make it easier and not as sweet.

Ingredients:
2 cans of refrigerated cinnamon rolls (the regular size, not the jumbo ones)
1 tbsp. butter (melted)
5 eggs
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
2 tsp. vanilla
1/3 cup of milk
Maple Syrup

Directions:
1. Coat 13 x 9 baking pan with non-stick spray.

2. Open both cans of cinnamon rolls and set aside the icing for later.

3. Cut each cinnamon roll into 8 bite sized pieces and put into baking pan.

4. Combine eggs, milk, melted butter, cinnamon and vanilla into a bowl and mix until well blended.

5. Pour mixture over cinnamon roll pieces and drizzle with maple syrup.

6. Bake for 30 mins at 375 degrees. Let cool for 5 minutes and top with icing from cinnamon roll cans.

Serve and enjoy! My husband usually adds peanut butter, powdered sugar and more syrup as toppings. I eat it just as it is, your choice. I hope you like it =)

Oh... and sorry for going a little overboard with the pictures. I got a new camera as an anniversary gift and I have been practicing!

Easy Menu Board

With my new baby brain, I find it hard to remember what I am going to make for dinner everyday. I was writing down our weekly menu on a piece of paper and putting on the fridge. But, that wasn't very cute and I was wasting paper. I thought about buying marker board paint and making my own menu board. Then I checked out how much marker board paint was (yikes! expensive!) and decided to go a different route.
You may laugh at this craft idea because it is too easy and took me a whole 3 minutes to make. But hey, it works and I love it!

All you need is:
Picture Frame
White sheet of paper
Dry erase marker

And this is what you get...

I have been using it for about a month now and it has been a life saver! Not only do we not diverge from the menu (which saves us from going out to eat last minute), I actually remember what I am suppose to make! Oh and just to clarify, Papa Johns was a mystery shop and Maggianos is frozen left overs... so we didn't go out to eat.

Buffalo Chicken Stromboli

Hello there blogging world! Well I haven't posted since January... yikes.
I made Buffalo Chicken Stromboli last night for dinner and it was DE-LICIOUS! I figured I would post the recipe so that you could try it too. I wasn't planning on making a blog entry out of it, so there isn't a lot of pictures to show the process. I only have the final product picture.

Ingredients:
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 tbsp. Olive Oil
1/3 cup Ranch Dressing
1/2 cup Franks Red Hot
8 oz. Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
4 oz. Shredded Colby or Cheddar Cheese
Salt and Pepper
Pizza Crust
(note: I added a small can of mushrooms to mine, but that is totally optional)

1. Cube chicken breasts and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cook in olive oil on stove top until done.
2. Once chicken is done, add 1/4 cup of Franks to the chicken and let simmer for a couple minutes.

3. Make your pizza crust or use a store bought one. Roll out into rectangle shape.
4. Top crust with ranch and remaining Franks Red Hot.
5. Add the cooked chicken and top the chicken with both cheeses.

6. Roll the crust into a log shape. Make sure that you pinch the ends so that the insides don't ooze out during cooking.
7. Place stromboli on a piece of parchment paper on a cookie sheet.
8. Bake for 25-30 minutes at 400 degrees.

Finished product: