Get me out of bed egg sandwich

Yummy!:) this is what I crave every morning. This will get you out of bed and asking for seconds! Very easy to make if you learn when to flip the egg at the right time.

Fried egg breakfast sandwich

Serves 1

Total time: about ten min.

1 bread roll ( I will post the recipe we live by)

1 egg ( we use our own fresh eggs)

Sprinkle of salt



Enough oil to coat the bottom of your pan

Optional any kind of cheese for topping

1. Using a skillet pour your oil, just enough to coat the bottom of the pan. Put on Med. Heat and allow to heat.

2. Crack your egg into the pan and sprinkle with salt. If your skillet gets to hot and your egg starts to pop turn down your heat.

3. Tilt the pan so some of the oil runs to the other side and place your bread roll, cut in half, on the oil. Make sure your bread continues to have oil underneath them so they don't burn.

4. Flip your egg when it is not so see through on the top and looks set. Take the egg off of the skillet when the yoke has reached the firmness you like.

5. Take the bread off when it is toasted to your liking.

6. Place your egg on your bread and top with cheese or salsa. (optionals)

7. Sit back and congratulate yourself for getting out of bed:)

T.T.F.N. -Becca

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Daring cooks challenge: January

Uuugggg!!! So maybe my mom and me shouldn't have decided to be so creative this month. The challenge was TAMALES!! My favorite especially because we are Mexican and it brings good memories. But my mom had never really made them with a recipe she liked. So we decided we were not going to follow the recipe and instead do our own. Big mistake. Because the store masa hurts my mom and me ( we have problems with most modified foods and latex)  we wanted to make our own. My mom grew up a good portion of her life in Mexico and remembers a lady she was staying with making them from scratch with fresh corn. So she wanted to copy the same recipe. We borrowed Mexican cooking for dummies from our library and found our recipe. It had everything my mom remembered except for, hominy grits. She decided not to put those in but instead put a little corn meal in. The first batch we made had no baking powder in it( because I forgot)  and so when we made them they were corn Smoothies with Cheddar cheese and jalepenos. Yuck. We tried again but this time with baking powder. We made a small tamale and stuck it in the microwave. It seemed to cook so we made a second batch and hoped for the best. Mind you this was our dinner. When it came time for dinner everyone opened there tamales, and guess what? 1..2..3... CORN SMOOTHIES!!

Sandwiches for dinner anyone??

T.T.F.N. -Becca

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Daring cooks challenge: December

I'm too lazy to write out the whole recipe but you can find it at daringkitchen.com. The challenge was BBQ pork stuffed buns but I chose the meatless version instead stuffed with mushrooms. They were delicious! Licking your fingers eating two good! Make sure to try it out for yourself.

T.T.F.N. -Becca

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Daring cooks challenge: november

The November challenge was exciting to me because of the ingredients in the challenge,and I had all the ingredients on hand! Cheapy me I didn't have to go to the store:) all in all the recipe was easy, came out beautifully, and tasted like boiled eggs only prettier;)

Chinese boiled eggs

6 eggs

1 t.salt

2 t. Chinese five spice

4 tea bags

Water

First stick your eggs in enough water to cover them and boil for twelve minutes with a t. Of salt.

Then take eggs out and make cracks all over the eggshell with a spoon. Do this to all the eggs. Then stick back in the water with your remaining ingredients and crack a lid for an hour to three hours depending on how dark you want them to be. Then peel carefully.

ENJOY:-) TILL NEXT MONTH!!

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The gross sandwich

Ok I really only tried this as sort of a dare, but I soon fell in love! And you will too. The crunchyness and the peanutbutter taste mixed with the tomato which kinda acts like jelly just not as sweet is delish!

Tomato and peanutbutter sandwich

One slice toasted whole weat bread
one T. crunchy peanutbutter
Four thin slices of tomato
Black pepper

Toast your bread as much as you want.
Spread the peanutbutter then top with tomatoes and sprinkle with pepper.

If you want you can top with Another slice of toasted bread. (possibly with peanutbutter:) )

And not only is this a delicious breakfast, snack, meal, its also only 120 calories! (calories for open faced sandwich)

Healthy eating!

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The Daring cook challenge: no. 1 moo shu pork

So my first challenge eep! Exciting! I decided to drag my aunt (my tia) along with me, so she will be making these too. I will post her picks also. I had no problem making this recipe, and neither did she. It was so easy and delicious. The only thing I did different was I used my mom's homemade flour tortillas instead of making the thin pancakes, and I did not use black fungus (because I couldn't find them), I also could not find rice wine so I used rice vinegar. Oh, and I almost forgot I had to use crunchy peanutbutter in the hoisin sauce because I didn't have regular! (embarrassing) but I still liked the extra crunch it gave the dish.In the words of my six year old cousin sofia; "these are chinese burritos!". They are just like a breakfast burrito and just as easy to make.

Hoisin Sauce

4 T. soy sauce
2 T. peanut butter or black bean paste
1 T. honey or molasses
2 t. white vinegar
1/8 t. garlic powder
2 t. sesame seed oil
20 drops chinese style hot sauce (optional)
1/8 t. black pepper

Mix all ingredients by hand with A sturdy spoon. At first it looks like it won't mix together but keep going and it will.

Moo Shu pork

2/3 c. dried black fungus (' wood ears')
1/2 lb. pork loin or butt
3/4 c. bamboo shoots, thinly cut
3 c. chinese (napa) cabbage, thinly cut
3 large eggs
1 t. salt
4 T. oil
2 scallions
1 T. soy sauce
2 t. rice wine
A few drops of sesame oil
12 tortillas to serve

Directions:

1) soak Fungus in warm water 10-15 min drain and remove any hard stalks, shred.
2) thinly cut the pork, bamboo, and cabbage into match stick pieces. Chop scallions.
3) lightly beat eggs with a pinch of salt.
4) scramble eggs in a preheated skillet with 1 T. oil until set but not too hard and set to the side.
5) heat remaining oil. Stirfry the remaining pork for about one min. Or until it changes color.
6) add veggies and stir another 2-3 min.
7) add your wet ingredients and stir another 2 min.
8) add scrambled eggs and mix them in while breaking them into pieces.
9) to serve put 2 T. of mix into the middle of the tortilla and top with hoisin sauce. Wrap like a burrito.

I also included my tia's pic of her food. Happy eating!:)

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Nooooooo! _the defeat chronicles

Groan..no!..I won't admit it! I killed my first batch of biscuits. :( there I said it! Now you can laugh at my loss. They were horrible! What was promised as a flaky, fluffy, strawberry biscuit by cozy kitchen, turned into a sticky, flat, raw looking, dull purple, bland, gravy tasting biscuit. I think I am mostly to blame. I do not think I let my strawberries dehydrate long enough, so it turned sticky...repeat prior descriptive words. I'm not blaming cozy kitchen. I'm blaming myself. Hey, what's life without experiences, right?

-If you are tired of hearing the, "try harder next time" pep talk, go buy yourself some pillsbury:)