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Cook and Tell: Chocolate Chip Zucchini French Toast

15 Mar

Have you ever made more bread than you knew what to do with? Well, I did. A few days ago, I shared a Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread that I baked. I followed the recipe, so I ended up with two loaves. You have to admit, after a little while, you get bored eating the same old bread. I decided to switch things up just a little bit.

I was browsing through a few blogs that I follow and came upon a great idea from Brian @ A Thought for Food. He baked banana bread and than turned it into Banana Bread French Toast. I thought it was a fabulous idea. Here I was with left over Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread and this was the perfect way to switch things up.

I decided to incorporate Brian’s idea with certain changes. First, of course, was the fact that I had Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread and not Banana Bread. Second, I didn’t fry the french toast slices, but baked them. I also didn’t use butter.

Chocolate Chip French Toast

Ingredients:
1/2 Loaf Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread (That’s all I had left)
1 egg
Splash of milk
Splash of vanilla extract
Pam cooking spray
Confectioners’ sugar (optional)

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. I greased a cookie sheet with Pam cooking spray. Beat egg, add milk and vanilla extract, and beat until well combined. Slice Chocolate Chip Zucchini bread. Coat each slice in the egg mixture and place on the cookie sheet. Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes or until egg is fully cooked. Serve with a bit of confectioner’s sugar.

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Cook and Tell: Breakfast Sandwich

02 Mar

A few years ago I spent a year in New York. New York has tons of culinary options for your taste buds. Today however, I wanted to share something simple that I enjoyed on an average workday morning but which brightened my day.

Every Friday morning, on my way into the office, I stopped off at a cafe that was conveniently located on the first floor of my building. There in that cafe, every morning, one could order a bagel breakfast sandwich, made to order, right in front of the customer. My order was simple, plain toasted bagel, with egg and cheese. The hot fried egg and warm toasted bagel would make the cheese melt in the wrapper. By the time I was at my desk, unwrapping the bagel, I would have a delicious, warm breakfast sandwich with egg and melted cheese. I know this might sound strange, but I have fond memories of those Friday mornings and the tasty breakfast sandwiches.

I decided to recreate a version of the breakfast sandwich that I so much enjoyed. You can definitely play around with the kinds of ingredients you include in this sandwich. After all, anything goes with a bagel.

Breakfast Sandwich:

Thomas’ Plain Bagel thin (less calories than a regular bagel)
1 Egg
Salt and Pepper
A little bit of non-fat milk
1 slice Havarti cheese
1 slice mortadella
4 cucumber slices, extra slices for garnish
Pam Cooking spray for frying

Toast the bagel to your liking. While the bagel is toasting, beat the egg with milk. Add salt and pepper to taste and beat until fully combined. Fry the egg mixture on a skillet coated with cooking spray. Place bottom side of the bagel on a plate and layer with a slice of Havarti, fried egg, mortadella and cucumber slices, finishing off with the top side of the bagel.

That’s all there is to a very tasty start to any morning…

Breakfast Sandwich

What goes on your bagel?

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Sunday Breakfast Series – Breakfast Pizza

23 Mar

If you follow Smitten Kitchen, (as if I may be so lucky to share some of the same fans) you probably read the breakfast pizza post that was featured by of Smitten Kitchen.

As I commented on that post and said that I will definitely be trying out the recipe, I had to keep true to my word. So what better way to use this great recipe idea, than to include it into my Sunday Breakfast Series. With that, welcome to the second installment of the series with the Breakfast Pizza.

To prepare the dough I followed Deb’s directions. The day before the actual breakfast, I mixed in yeast to a bowl filled with 1/3 cup of water. Added the flour and added the salt and used my hand held, electric mixer to mix the ingredients, increasing the speed every couple of minutes until the mixture took on dough consistency. I sprinkled additional flour onto my wooden cutting board, turned the dough out of the bowl on the floured cutting board and divided into two portions. Once that was all done, I put the board with the dough into a plastic grocery bag and refrigerated it until the following morning.

Breakfast-Pizza_Dough-&-Top

When the morning arrived I was very excited about the dough waiting for me in the fridge and the prospect of making pizza for the first time ever. For my toppings I used the following:

Slices of Turkey kielbasa
Sliced Red Onion
Mozzarella Cheese
Eggs
Scallions
Cilantro (my all time favorite herb)

Breakfast-Pizza_Raw

I tried doing the cool, twisting of the dough thing, by putting the dough over my fists, however, I failed miserably. Therefore, my pizza took on the shape of my rectangular cookie sheet that I baked it in (I do not own a pizza stone). I heated the oven to 500 degrees Fahrenheit, laid out the dough on the cookie sheet, covered the dough with mozzarella cheese, turkey kielbasa, slices of red onion and raw eggs. I put the pizza in the oven for approximately 10 minutes and…VOILA!

Breakfast-Pizza_Final

A fabulous breakfast, A (the husband) raved about it for at least a couple of days. I won’t lie, I was pretty proud of myself, even though the pizza wasn’t actually round.

Thanks Deb for sharing this great recipe! I look forward to trying out more of your recipes.

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Sunday Breakfast Series – Smoked Salmon Breakfast

14 Mar

Over a relatively short period of time I accumulated what I would consider to be a large collection of recipes. Whether it be from cookbooks, cooking magazines, the internet or from family members, I now have a drawer full of recipes.

Since it’s only truly on Sundays that we could allow ourselves a lazy morning, A (the hubby) and I, thought it would be great to have a new breakfast dish every Sunday.

Last Sunday was the first day of our Sunday Breakfasts. We started with a very simple dish, small smoked salmon canapes.

Salmon-Breakfast

To add this to your Sunday morning table here is what you will need:

Smoked Salmon
Cream Cheese
Sliced bread
Dried Dill Weed
Red onions

Toast the bread and cut off the crust to create bread squares. Spread each bread square with cream cheese top with slices of smoked salmon and sprinkle with dried dill weed. Peel a red onion and cut in half. Cut one of the halves cross wise. Arrange on a plate and serve.

These canapes are a great option for a light Sunday breakfast.

Keep coming back because there are great breakfasts coming soon in the Sunday Breakfast Series!

P.S. I wanted to give a shout out to my great friend V of VandJ Photography, who gave me some great photo editing tips!!! Thanks V, you’re the best!

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Breakfast of Champions

20 Dec

This morning I decided to treat myself to a late breakfast. What was my breakfast of choice you ask? Berry smoothie and mini blueberry pancakes.

Breakfast-of-Champions

I cheated on this one, as I made the pancakes from a pancake mix and just added water and frozen blueberries. So if you have a favorite pancake mix just add some fresh or frozen blueberries and you’re good to go. For the smoothie, I blended frozen blueberries, raspberries and fresh blackberries with ice and soy milk.

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