A quick breakfast, for your consideration

Here’s a little something we put together one morning at the coast last week. We were working strictly with ingredients on hand and managed to come up with a quite tasty breakfast of warm pastries & fruit salad.

This is how it all came together:

Jam & cream cheese filled pastries
ingredients
- 1 sheet puff pastry dough, thawed & cut into 9 equal squares
- 2 T. butter, melted
- 4 oz. cream cheese, at room temperature
- 2 T. sour cream
- 2 T. ricotta cheese
- 1 t. vanilla
- 1/3 c. powdered sugar
- 6 T. of your favorite jam

directions
- Place pastry dough squares onto greased cookie sheet and brush lightly with melted butter. Either pinch the sides of the squares up to form little cups (as shown) or place squares in greased cupcake pan instead of cookie sheet.
- Combine the cream cheese, sour cream, ricotta cheese, vanilla, and powdered sugar until well mixed.
- Place a healthy spoon full of the cheese mixture into each pastry cup.
- Add a dollop of jam on top of the cheese.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes, or until dough is golden brown and “done”-looking.

note: I used reduced-fat varieties of the cream cheese, sour cream, & ricotta cheese and they worked just fine

Fruit Salad
ingredients
- 1 pt. strawberries, sliced
- 1 pt. blueberries
- 1 T. sugar

directions
- Rinse the fruit and toss in bowl with sugar. Plain & simple.

Enjoy!