Only the Good Notes

Our top 10 favorite (modified-for-us) recipes of 2011

cartoon by Hugh MacLeod

Todd and I looked back over the year and all the recipes we’ve made…about half of the recipes we’ve discovered this year, and the rest we’d made before.

These are listed in no particular order (it would be impossible to rank them!) — more than half are vegetarian, and all of them are gluten-free as I’ve posted them or notated.

Enjoy!!

Roasted vegetable lasagna (v)

Tater tot breakfast casserole

Spinach pie (v)

Stephanie’s taboule (v)

Paula’s world-famous football dip

Homemade hamburger helper

Taco soup

Asparagus risotto (v)

Christmas fettuccine (v) *be sure to use a gluten-free pasta if needed! we use New Harvest linguini, which is made from quinoa.

Roasted parmesan broccoli (v)

Scrumptious tater tot breakfast casserole

This morning we were REALLY hungry…so I made this:

Ingredients:

1 lb bacon, diced, cooked and drained
14 eggs (you can sub egg whites for half if you want)
1/2 cup milk
2/3 of a 32 oz bag of onion tater tots
3 cups cheddar cheese, shredded
1 pinch salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper

Directions:

Place cooked bacon in the bottom of a 13 x 9 pan.
Cover with tater tots.
Beat eggs, milk, salt and pepper. Pour over tater tots.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Top with the shredded cheese and bake for another 15 minutes..

I added onion powder, garlic powder, and a little cayenne pepper (red pepper flakes) to the egg mixture to give it a little more flavor. Delicious!