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Coffee Cake

A giant CHEAT recipe! Carbs 49.5g  Protein 3.8g 9 servings You can be a star without making everything from scratch.  You guys loved the coffee cake yesterday so here it is.  Please don't laugh. I know this is so crazy easy.  It's the Half and Half that makes everyone love my coffee cake so much.  Sometimes I make a coffee cake from scratch, but really I can have this in the oven in five minutes without pulling out 10 ingredients and more clean up than I want in the morning. My carb and protein counts are based on the brand of coffee cake mix I buy.  I tagged the brand on my Instagram. Ingredients Cinnamon Crumb topping coffee cake mix as natural as possible Half and Half egg Irish butter Directions Preheat oven to 350 I bake mine using convection so the crumb topping is more crunchy. Follow directions for your coffee cake mix.  Instead of water use half and half.  Use Irish butter in your crumb topping, it has a richer...

Meatball Stroganoff

My take is a bit different from your regular  stroganoff however it's a cheat recipe so you will have this on the table fast. Your family will love it even the picky eaters.  I made this after a long day of working, myself and the kids were tired. Pasta is our comfort food so I whipped this up fast so everyone could rest. Especially me. Very little clean up  made it even better.  One package portobello mushrooms  Half medium red onion  1 tsp  chicken soup base  1 cup cooking sherry  1 jar of preservative free Alfredo sauce 2 lbs organic meatballs ( mine are frozen)  Pepper to taste  2 tbsp butter  1 package fettuccine nido  1. Slice onion and mushrooms  2. Place in sauce pan and cook with butter on medium. Until liquid from mushrooms is starting to thicken a little.   3. Add soup base and mix into liquid. 4.  Add sherry and meatballs let simmer five minutes.  5. Add cream sauce, simmer on low 10 minutes...