So the new school year begins. And it’s back to solo lunches for me. I was debating whether to have a chicken sandwich with the usual lettuce and cucumber and tomato slices when but I decided I could be more creative. If my little experiment was successful, I could even have the kids take something…
I got the idea from the American Heart Association Cookbook that my husband bought from a book sale a couple of weeks ago. I’m a big fan of sesame seeds and the idea of combining them with butter and honey attracted me immensely. See, I’ve always associated sesame seeds with oriental cuisine. One of my…
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When we have bacon for breakfast, we usually consume a 250-gram pack. By that I mean the bacon strips are fried to a crisp and then served with eggs, sunny side up, and bread. But it’s tedious work. I have to watch the bacon lest they burn. Then, the eggs have to be fried separately….
Now, imagine that the creamy cheesy topping was a little thicker not of pouring consistency but of spreading consistency. Imagine that there were bits of smoked ham in it. Imagine split hamburger buns topped with this ham and cheese spread. Then, imagine these split buns going into a very hot oven until the topping bubbles…
I wanted toast but didn’t feel like butter and jam. I wanted something hot from the oven but was too lazy to bake muffins or scones. Too lazy even to make some pancakes. I thought I’d have a salad with croutons. But not just any croutons but something spicy and bursting with flavor. I reviewed…
While I try to figure out the newsletter problem being experienced by some Yahoo! users (I may have to get a third-party program for the newsletter), let me introduce a new category in my recipes blog breakfast. I’m not going to cook different brands of pancake mixes. No, it’s something else. We’re re-learning to appreciate…
How many ways are there to make French toast? A few, if you’re a bit on the conservative side; a lot, if you enjoy playing with different combinations of ingredients. I’ve tried mixing milk with sugar, I’ve tried stuffing the bread slices with ham and cheese, there’s the clubhouse variation of the stuffed French toast…
I often wish that we were more of breakfast people but we’re not. I suppose our taste buds are barely functional early in the morning and it takes a few hours to get them to work. The kids rarely eat breakfast so their first meal for the day is their school recess which, fortunately, is…
If you haven’t read yet, after the serious attempt to replace sugar with Splenda, we decided to ditch Splenda and all other artificial sweeteners. The final decision is to stick with things natural while, at the same time, reducing the amounts of sugar in our daily diet. Relative to baking, that means bread and muffins…
Poached eggs are cooked in simmering (not boiling) water. The shells are cracked and the eggs are allowed to cook in the water until the whites are firm but the yolk is still runny. I never poached eggs in water. I used to cook them in simmering meat broth. But because I am on a…
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