Fun Saturday Eggs in a Bag

Here's a fun and easy recipe to do with the kids one morning. Let the kids even build their own omelet.

To start use a ziploc baggie, if you are doing a lot at once get the freezer bag ones that let you write on the bag so you know who's eggs are whose.

So now everyone has their bags in hand. Crack open 2 eggs per bag, you can shake them up a little before adding in the "extras" or you can do it all at once.

Now add your favorite omelet ingredients like:

• Ham
• Green Peppers
• Tomato
• Shredded Cheese
• Onion
• Red Pepper
• Chicken
• Turkey
• Pre-Cooked Ground Sausage

Whatever strikes your fancy and whatever you like.

Once you have all of your toppings in you can add a couple of dashes of salt & pepper to taste, zip up the bag and smoosh everything together until well mixed.

Next add the bag to a pot of boiling water and boil until cook through. Now the cooking times I have seen listed range from 5 minute all the way to 13 minutes so I tend to average the times and it works the best so cooking for about 8-9 mins works the best for me.

This is also a great camping dish to make!

Try it & Enjoy!

Orange Cranberry Sauce

Growing up I never really cared for the gelatinous canned looking mass of supposed "cranberry sauce" that was sitting on the table during Thanksgiving. It did not taste anything like the jello it looked like.

But as I got older I thought I'd try some cranberry sauces, but homemade. My first homemade cranberry sauce was a bitter disaster. Blech. The Food Network recipes weren't completely working for me and I could never get it sweet enough. It seemed like a waste of sugar to me.

So I tossed the idea out the window.

Then a few Thanksgivings back I saw a recipe I think from Paula Dean that used canned whole cranberry sauce. At first I was amazed that canned cranberry sauce could have the berries in them too! LOL

So I tried the recipe and we fell in love with cranberry sauce for the first time ever!

I've tweaked it and modified it to our likings but it really is a great addition to the Thanksgiving table, when it tastes good.

Semi-Homemade Cranberry Sauce

*For best results make one day a head so it can marinate.*

1 can Whole Cranberry Sauce.
1 Large Orange (seedless preferablely)
¼ C finely chopped Walnuts *optional*
1 tsp Cinnamon
½ tsp ground clove


In a bowl empty the can of cranberry sauce. Break up with a fork.

Cut the orange in half. Take one half of the orange and squeeze all of the juice you can from it into the cranberry sauce. Take the other half and cut off all of the rind. Don't peel it because you want to get to all of the juice pouches you can. Once the rind is cut off chop the orange into small pieces and add to the cranberry sauce mix.

Add the finely chopped walnuts, cinnamon, ground cloves, and the pinch of ginger. (You can add more or less of the spices you want to taste)

Mix together well.

Cover and chill for 6-12 hours (18-24 hours is best) so the sauce can marinate and absorbe all of the flavors.

Remove from fridge and either let it reach room temp or serve chilled with your Thanksgiving dinner.

Yummy!