A Morning Well Spent

I spent the morning in the kitchen.   I planned to make some freezer meals yesterday and realized I didn't have all the ingredients I needed.  I did make sausage balls.   Here is the before cooking picture.

My family likes to eat these for breakfast.  I am not a morning person.  If I don't have something frozen that can be heated for breakfast, breakfast is cold cereal and milk.   Correction, I will make oatmeal in the microwave.   That is all you are getting out of me in the morning.

I went to the grocery store this morning after dropping my daughter off from school.   It was quiet and empty!   Apparently, it was too cold for the "little old lady" crowd I normally see there.   I get it.  I'll be a little old lady one day and I probably won't venture out unless the temperature rises somewhere above 50 degrees. I made it through the grocery store in record time and came home to start cooking.  
I wanted something tasty to sip while I was working.   Brayden and I had some Hibiscus tea.

First, I made tonight's dinner.   Think tacos gone greek.   I used Cavender's Greek Seasoning, good stuff!

Super easy and done in about 20 minutes.   Next I started on pancakes.

I then flash froze them so I could bag them.  I had a helper for a while.  

While the pancakes were going, I made my spaghetti sauce.   After the sauce was done, I made baked spaghetti.  I used the recipe from here.  My husband made spaghetti earlier in the week and cooked 3 times as much spaghetti noodles as we needed.   We've already have spaghetti with chicken, spaghetti with ground beef.   I used the final amount for baked spaghetti.   I'm done with spaghetti for a least a month after tomorrow's dinner.  On the upside, I had enough sauce left over to use for homemade pizzas this weekend.

After I finished the baked spaghetti and pancakes, I made burritos.   I used the recipe I found here.  I like making these because I get 16.  I individually freeze and use them as needed.   These are great for the nights we are running out the door for kids choir.   Although, my kids would love it if they ate chicken nuggets all day, every day.   My husband will also take the burritos for his lunch at work in lieu of a sandwich.

After all the kitchen clean up was done, I tackled taking down the Christmas tree and putting it in its box.   I took off the ornaments, garland, and lights and stored them in the attic yesterday.   The Christmas tree box will have to wait for Jason.   It lives on a high shelf in the garage.   While I have been working out, I'm not Superwoman.

My house is officially de-Christmased...it only took me to the middle of January.