Breakfast bagel

We'd picked up some bagels at Costco, onion with 7 grain for the hubby and parmesan for me. I split the bagels and lightly toasted them under the broiler. I cooked up some prosciutto and scrambled eggs and then topped the bagels with them. For hubby I sprinkled on shredded medium cheddar cheese and on mine I put semi-firm goat cheese and put them under the broiler to melt the cheese:

Serious YUM!!!! The prosciutto added a nice lightly salty flavor, the goat cheese a nice sharper flavor and the whole thing was delish.

Beef fajita with spinach and sheep's milk feta

A simple dinner can be had with beef and a seasoning packet. Here I used a fajita packet, beef and added several handfuls of fresh spinach for extra flavor. Served in a flour tortilla and topped with feta made of sheep's milk.

YUM!

Humus

Hubby has been craving humus of late, so I decided to make it from scratch (I'd been buying the powdered, just add oil and water humus from Winco's bulk section) and have decided I am going to make sure we keep plenty of canned chickpeas in the pantry for a quick snack

2 15 oz cans chickpeas, drained
1/4 cup lime or lemon juice
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 tsp salt
2 heaping tablespoons tahini or peanut butter
2 tablespoons roasted sesame oil

Put all ingredients into your food processor and blend until smooth (or if you prefer chunkier, pulse until it is to your taste). Turn out into a bowl and cover with plastic and let sit in the fridge to let the flavor meld.

Pull out of fridge and allow it to come to room temp and serve with pita bread, baguettes, chips or warm flour tortillas. The possibilities are endless.

The one nice thing about this recipe is you can adjust the ingredients to suit your taste.

Cornish Pasties

Lasagna

Chocolate zucchini bread

I decided I needed to bake something and since I had shredded zucchini in the deep freeze, I would try zucchini bread. I found a recipe on one of my cooking lists hat sounded yummy that had chocolate in it. What can be more perfect!

I changed the recipe slightly, instead of the 2 squares of melted unsweetened chocolate I used 3 HEAPING table spoons of dutch processed cocoa.

OH YUM!!!!!!!!!!


Chocolate Zucchini Bread

3 eggs
1 cup oil
2 cups brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups grated zucchini
2 sqs. unsweetened chocolate, melted
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup nuts, chopped

Beat eggs well, add oil and brown sugar, mixing thoroughly. Add
vanilla, zucchini, and melted chocolate and beat well.

Mix dry ingredients together, then add to zucchini mixture by
spoonfuls, mixing well after each addition. Add nuts.

Bake in 2 8x4-inch loaf pans at 350 for 40-60 minutes. Cool bread in pans until it can be removed (10-15 min), then cool on rack.

Huckleberry muffins

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is blueberry muffins for Christmas morning breakfast. I'd planned on them for this year, but discovered the night before the blueberries I had stashed in the deep freeze were dead. So it was Christmas Eve, the stores were closed and I had no blueberries.

So I decided to change tactics and go with some huckleberry jam in the middle. I made the muffins from scratch and then added the jam and then baked. I think I have a new tradition for next year.

Sweet Muffins:

1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup cooking oil or melted shortening
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 40oF

Beat egg slightly with fork and stir in milk and oil. Sift the dry ingredients together and add to the liquid. Stir until moist, batter will be lumpy.

Put some batter into cup of muffin tin, add a dollop of jam and then more batter. Batter should fill cup 2/3 cup full. Bake for 20 minutes.