White Bean Bruschetta

This is fresh.  You're going to love it.

 It's also easy... I don't tend to make recipes that are time-consuming.

I whipped out my mini-ninja chopper for this recipe and it made it so quick and effortless.

Ingredients:

1 can white beans ($0.67 at Harris Teeter!)

3 regular tomatoes, or a container of cherry tomatoes is what I used

1 red onion

2 cloves garlic

Fresh or freeze-dried basil (I used freeze-dried)

4 Tbsp. olive oil

Salt and pepper 

1 french baguette

Toss your tomatoes, your garlic, and 1/3 of your red onion into your chopper and chop them right up.  Drain and rinse your can of beans.  Put chopped vegetables, beans, and basil (however much you like) in a bowl, and add 3 tbsp. olive oil.  Add salt and pepper to taste.

Slice a few pieces of bread, and drizzle them with olive oil.  Broil them in the oven, about 3 inches beneath the broiler, for 1 - 2 minutes.

Top your crispy bread with your fresh, white bean bruschetta and enjoy your lovely lunch!

Monkey Bread

My mom tore this recipe from a magazine and requested that my sister and I make it...

Ooey-gooey, warm, cinnamon-sugary monkey bread?  Haven't had that since we used to have it for Sunday brunch back in the day!  Don't mind if I do!

So on this gorgeous March afternoon, my sister and I put on some happy music and started baking!

Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott's MONKEY BREAD

Serves 10 to 12

4 (7.5-oz.) cans refrigerated biscuits

2 cups sugar, divided

3 tbsp. cinnamon, divided

1½ sticks butter or margarine

1. Preheat oven to 350.

2. Combine 1 cup sugar and 2 tbsp. cinnamon in a zip-top bag.

 We used half white sugar and half sucanat, which is the brown whole cane sugar.

3. Cut biscuits into quarters, add to bag and shake until coated.

Cutting up this biscuit dough was definitely the most fun part.  (Sarah P- I thought of you...)

5. Melt remaining butter, add remaining sugar and cinnamon, and bring to a boil.

Pour over biscuits and bake until biscuits are puffed and liquid is caramelized, 35 to 40 minutes. 

It puffed up huge in the oven.  I now recommend putting it on a tray in the oven because the cinnamon sugar boiled over!

6. Remove from oven and cool completely.

7. Invert onto a plate and serve whole, allowing people to pull apart. 

This is almost too delicious.  Every bite has all that gooey cinnamon that can only be found in the center of a cinnamon roll.  Here's the link to the recipe: Monkey Bread recipe on People.com

Hope you make this!  Happy Springtime!