Blueberry Monkey Bread

Good Morning! I usually don't have time to eat breakfast, regardless, I still enjoy it! Maybe not at 8 when I wake up, sometimes I eat it on the weekend, like as we speak. I'm sitting at my desk with the windows open (it's cool outside!), a cup of coffee, and eating the monkey bread I'm posting on here. It's quite relaxing.

Look at these beautiful photos! Doesn't it look amazing? It's such a nice breakfast treat. It's not super sweet, it's not super heavy, which is how I like my breakfast. I have a tendency to get sick in the morning if I eat something too rich or heavy, my stomach can't handle it. But these are definitely a good trade off, I could eat these often! Oh, and this is called monkey bread, and I found the recipe here.

INGREDIENTS
2 - 11 oz. packages Pillsbury Thin Crust Pizza Dough
1/2 C strawberries
1/2 C blueberries
1 tbsp sugar
1 - 8 oz. package of cream cheese, room temperature
2 tablespoons sugar

DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Spray an 11-inch spring-form pan with cooking spray and set aside.

2. Place all berries, cream cheese, and 1 tablespoon of sugar into the bowl of a food processor and process until smooth (about 1 - 2minutes).

3. Lightly flour a surface, and roll out a crust and spread evenly with the berry mixture leaving a 1" border around the edges.

4. Roll the dough up like a jelly log or cinnamon roll and cut them into 1 inch pieces.

5. Place each piece of dough into the spring-form pan, placing them close together. Sprinkle dough with remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar and bake for 35 minutes or until bread is lightly golden. Serve warm.

Cinnamon Strawberry Quinoa

Good morning my adventurers! Do you know what month it is? It's national breakfast month! Woohoo! I love breakfast! I wish I had more time to eat breakfast in the mornings, but I usually get up too late for class to fix anything.

I woke up this morning feeling like major meh. I just don't feel well at ALL! But I wanted breakfast because I was hungry, but nothing too sweet or too heavy so I wouldn't regret it later. I've had this recipe pinned forever, but just never had strawberries and quinoa at the same time. That's right! Quinoa for breakfast!

Quinoa is pronounced "Keen-Wah."

So here is the cool thing abut Quinoa. It's just plain delicious. I love it. It also goes with everything. Literally everything. And this morning I mixed it with strawberries!

INGREDIENTS
1 C water
1/2 C quinoa
1/3 C almond milk
1 C fresh strawberries
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Drizzle of honey (as a topping)

DIRECTIONS
1. In a pot over high heat place your 1 cup water and bring to a boil. Once water is boiling add in your dry quinoa. Return to a boil then reduce heat and let simmer for about 15 minutes.

2. At the 15 minutes pour in your 1/3 cup milk of choice and add in your remaining ingredients and flavorings and stir together for about another 5 minutes.

3. Remove from heat and pour into your bowl, drizzle some honey on top.

Easy Fruit Cobbler

Guys. This may be the easiest and healthiest cobbler I've ever tried. Now don't get me wrong. Homemade black berry cobbler can't be beat. While this recipe has boxed cake mix, I must say I'm impressed with it.

I, once again, found this recipe on Pinterest. As you'll learn, I get a lot of things from Pinterest. It is amazing. I am not obsessed, but I am in love. 

You need 3 ingredients. That's it. Just three. This photos shoes a green Tupperware container, those are leftover frozen berries from a previous purchase. You'll need frozen berries, a box of vanilla cake mix, and 12 oz. of Sprite. I chose sugar-free cake mix and sprite zero. The neat thing about this is the berries! You can pick any kind of berries, just get the medium size bag, it's the perfect size. You could choose all strawberries, all blackberries... peaches even!

INGREDIENTS
1 package frozen berries, your choice
1 box vanilla cake mix
12 oz. Sprite

DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Using a 13" x 9" glass baking dish, pour the frozen berries into the dish. Next, sprinkle the cake mix evenly on top of the frozen berries. Last, pour the sprite over the cake mix. DO NOT MIX.

3. Bake for 45-50 minutes. Top with vanilla ice cream while it's warm.