Breakfast to go! Lil'omlette cups~

I get pretty bored with weekday breakfast pretty quickly. I mean, how much SpecialK and plain oatmeal can one gal eat?!? So I love making these from time to time to mix it up a bit and have a yummy portable egg breakfast that is also low in calories and easy to heat & enjoy!

My favorite way to do this is make a batch on Sunday evening, then have 2 of these little pups for breakfast 3 days the following week...



Makes 6 lil'egg-muffins
5 eggs
1/4 cup non-fat milk
1 piece non-fat cheese
1/2 c frozen chopped spinach
1/3 c frozen diced onion
3 frozen veggie sausage patties- thawed and chopped into bits
Dash of hot sauce
Pinch of salt & pepper to taste

Spray a 6-muffin-tin with non-stick cooking spray.
Whisk the eggs, milk and hot sauce. Then add the onions and spinach, and stir in the chopped up veggie patties until all mixed up. Use a ladle to fill each muffin cup almost to the top (they do rise just a bit). Tear the cheese into 6 equal pieces and float a piece on top of each egg-cup.

Bake at 375 for about 45 minutes (the egg will appear totally cooked and look a bit golden when finished).




Serve with MORE hot sauce!! (the above mix ins are just one of a zillion ways to make these,use veggie bacon, a little dollop of goat cheese, fresh herbs- anything you can think of!

Diet Soda Cupcakes~

I've been dying to try the diet-soda cake idea, so curious!! Well it was Nate's Ma's b-day this weekend so I went for it! I was afraid to make a cake because I wanted to be able to taste what I was taking, so I went with the cupcakes.
For this recipe I used

1 Box Devils Food Cake Mix
1 Can Hansens Diet Cherry Soda
1 Egg white
Dark Chocolate frosting & Cream cheese frosting





They were moist and fabulous! I can't wait to try some of the other suggested combos!

Mix/Soda
Chocolate/Diet Coke
Vanilla/Diet Root beer
Chocolate/Diet Orange
Lemon/Diet 7Up
Chocolate/Diet Dr. Pepper

I know there is a frosting recipe too, but I haven't tried that just yet...