Pizza For Breakfast?!? Of Course!!

I know what you're thinking. "I already eat pizza for breakfast. There's nothing better than pizza the next day." Well, that is of course true, and as much as I love cold, left over, stuffed crust pizza for breakfast, I wanted to make something that was more breakfast and less last night's dinner.
I had made quiche for a friend's baby shower the weekend before and mini pizzas for dinner a few days earlier and I had extra ingredients for both. So I thought, what the heck, I was going to combine them. I was so happy that it turned out amazing. It was just what I was craving!!
It is definitely different, and you have to keep an open mind when you try it. I loved it and I hope you do too.

Pizza Quiche

What You Need:
1 9" pie crust (store bought is fine)
8 large eggs
1/8 cup milk
salt to taste
black pepper to taste
8 - 12 Tbsp pizza sauce
1 1/2 - 2 cups ground (and browned) hot Italian sausage
1 1/2 - 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
1 large green bell pepper (I used a purple bell pepper) diced

What To Do:
1. Preheat oven to 375
2. Spray a pie dish with nonstick spray
3. Place pie crust in pie dish
4. Spread pizza sauce evenly on pie crust
5. Put sausage, peppers and cheese evenly in pie crust
6. Beat together eggs, milk, salt and pepper
7. Pour eggs over filling
8. Bake for 30 - 40 minutes until crust is golden and quiche is firm
9. Enjoy

Note:
You can use any pizza toppings you like as filling. This just happened to be what I had on hand.

A Quick Trip To The Farm

Now that I'm a parent, I love taking my boys to places I used to visit when I was growing up. There is something very nostalgic and magical about reliving childhood memories through the eyes of your own kids. One of the many blessings of staying in the town I grew up in is that I get to take my kids to places like this frequently.
One of my favorite local places to take the boys for a quick breath of fresh air and a mini adventure is Underwood Family Farms in Moorpark, CA. It wasn't always called by that name though. When I was younger, it was known as Pony Pals. It was a great little place, amongst the other little mom and pop Moorpark farms, where you could see different farm animals and ride ponies. It was always very fun. I don't really remember if they had a farm stand or not (though I'm sure they did at one point or another), but it was just like being on a real farm for me.
It had been several years since I had spent a day at the farm, when we took our oldest son there for the first time, almost a year ago. The name had changed and the property had expanded, but it was still the same country charm in the middle of suburbia that I had always remembered. Of course, they still had ponies and farm animals of all kinds. My son loved them and seeing his eyes light up made my heart melt. They have an array of rides and other attractions as well (I will have so many more farm stories to share about all the fun in store in the future), but their top billed attraction is their Pick Your Own Produce.
Needless to say, Underwood Family Farms has so much to offer for fresh family fun and our family has taken full advantage of their frequent visit punch card. We go there not just to play, but also to get our weekly produce. There is nothing better than picking your own fresh from the earth fruits and veggies. Plus, my boys get to play outside for a little while and help with choosing what yummy treats we take home that week. So, when I needed some veggies for a salad today, guess where we went? I packed my boys up and off we went to the farm!
My oldest son is a strawberry fiend and this is the perfect time of the year to pick buckets of beautiful red strawberries. In addition to the two boxes of strawberries we picked (plus the ten or so that Moo ate in the field), we brought home a cucumber, a few beets, a couple heads of lettuce and several purple bell peppers. Now that I had all of the veggies I needed, my lunch was going to be complete with the salad I had been craving all week. I'm not going to lie, it was yummy!
Today was just a quick veggie run and a mini adventure. We will have many, many more adventures at Underwood Family Farms. We love this place and I can't recommend it more!
xoxox

Hello! Let Me Introduce Myself!

My life is exactly what it says ... MooNoodled! My world is centered around my two crazy, lovable, amazing little boys, Moo and Noodle.
I am a Stay At Home Mom in Southern California and I LOVE IT! Since leaving the working world behind me to spend more time with my growing family, I have truly discovered my passion in life. Nothing makes me happier than waking up to a kiss from my 2 year old, a smile from my 6 month old and a cuddle from my husband every day. Well, there is a close second. CUPCAKES!!!
While becoming a domestic goddess was never my reason for staying home with my family, instead of enduring the endless grind of the 9-5 world, it has become something that I treasure and have taken pride in cultivating.
I have always loved cooking and baking, but never really had the time. Juggling a full-time job and starting a family never really left me time to enjoy the finer culinary experiences that one can create in their own kitchen. I never was a bad cook and I could follow a recipe pretty well, but I rarely was brave enough to make up my own recipes. Especially when it came to baking.  Baking is a science, or so I was always told, so I had always been too intimidated to stray from the best laid paths of other amazing chefs who had kindly shared their creations with the rest of the world. That was until my world started to change and my family added one more member.
Already having one child, I found myself pregnant again in March of 2011. Yay!! I was beyond thrilled. About half way through my pregnancy, I had to go out on disability. I was finally going to get a taste of what being a Stay At Home Mom would be like. I went back to work when my first son was born, so I never got to enjoy that freedom of being able to play all day with him and care for my house and family like I had always wanted to. Now was my chance.
We went to the park all the time, occasionally traveled to nearby attractions (Disneyland is our FAVORITE place), cuddled and played at home and did more arts and crafts than I had room on my walls to display. I loved spending more time with my little man before our new little guy was going to be here. It was what I had always dreamed of. I did the majority of the cooking now and my hubby was getting spoiled. I would find something online and I was making it the next night. It was like a Food Network show in our kitchen every night. And then I started BAKING and it was down hill from there.
In December, 2011 I had my second little boy. What a blessing. Now my life was just a tiny bit crazier, but it was even more wonderful. I knew it was time to begin a new career. My dream job was now in my reach. I could finally be the mom and wife I had always wanted to be. My adventures were now with two awesome little men in tow and my baking time had become my ME time. I just couldn't get enough of my new hobby and it was becoming a way of life. Baking is like breathing to me. I just can't live with out it.
I started experimenting with recipes from some of my favorite sites and blogs (I will be sharing all of those, they are all my inspiration for starting to share my journey and my stories as well).  Anything that sounded good I made. My guilty pleasure was, and will always be cupcakes! Soon, I was buying cupcake decorating kits, fancy wrappers and even the cutest apron I had ever seen and I was taking on the world of sweet yumminess one baked good at a time. After lots of positive feedback and a few cupcake catered events under my apron strings, I was ready to try my own recipes. I started making them up as I got a craving for one ingredient or another and here we are today.
So, welcome to my moonoodled life! Here's a peek into my adventures in motherhood, cooking and BAKING! xoxox