Go-To: french toast

I follow Jo at A Cup of Jo she a series that she puts on almost weekly called the best of a food that you;ll ever have.

I found this french toast recipe and it is AMAZING!

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You really should go check it out

 Do you have any go-to/ favorite recipes?

Go to: Best cheescake.. hands down

Cheesecake use to scare me, lets be honest its a little intimidating with its spiffy pan and weird cooling and ehating directions and tub of water.. yeah very complicated.. WELL ITS NOT!

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For people that know me, know that I LOVE DESSERT.

(Not just a I like dessert and eat it every once in awhile and could do without, I NEED dessert and crave it daily, yeah I am that type of person)

I can not find the exact recipe I used, but this one is double what I did for the cake portion and crust is the same..

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Below is my adjusted receipe:

Cake

2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese

1 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 (16 ounce) containers sour cream
1 teaspoons vanilla

Crust

2 packages of crushed grahm crackers
2 teaspoons softened butter
2 teaspoons sugar

- Warm oven to 315 degrees.

- In a bowl mix grahmn crackers, butter and sugar together. In a greased (I used butter) spring form pan evenly place this mixture on the bottom and around the sides and place in the refrigerator to set while mixing the cake portion.
- Mix cream cheese until smooth. Add eggs one at a time. Once smooth add sugar and vanilla. Add sour cream last and mix until smooth. Do not over beat cream cheese it will get fluffy (you dont want fluffy)
- Put into cooled grahmn craker crust.
- I cooked mine for 55 minutes or until middle is no longer jiggly (side usually crack too).
- Let rest on cooling rack for 30-45, than place in refrigerator for 6 hours before serving.

(please excuse my horrible picture, my last slice got squished from the tupperware in my lunch.. oops. It lookedreally pretty before hand)

All done! That wasn't hard, now was it?

 

the incredible edible egg

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In what seems like forever ago, I found how to make the best friend egg sandwhich on Pinterest

Here is the same article but on the Hufington Post instead

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/small-kitchen-college/how-to-evolve-your-egg-sandwich_b_1386723.html

 

It goes through the qualities that makes the perfect egg sandwhich such as bread, how to fry your egg, and toppings to put on it, etc.

Well I took this in my hands and have been playing with it for a few months.

I think I have found it..
MY PERFECT EGG SANDWHICH

- Strawberry jam

- Bread (I prefer fresh from the bakey but its sometimes hard to find here) toasted

- Egg with cheddar cheese

- Alphapha sprouts

- Avocado

yum! What is your favorite egg sandwhich?

Party preview {sneek peak}

Just a quick sneek peak on what I have been working on.

Go-To: chip dips

So, for a party I have 2 dips I go to and are always a crowd pleaser

1. Chili dip (2 ingredients)

- chili ( I usually get it wih beans and vegetarian to be safe with our friends that don't eat meat)

- cream cheese (I usually get low fat)

Heat in a saucepan

Until cream cheese melts.. and THATS IT!!

easy, right?

2. Corn Salsa

- 1 can of sweet whole kernel corn

- onion

-cilantro

-jalapeno

Chop everything up and drain corn and mix

Ta-DA! done.

I had them as sides with a burger and they were delicious.

What are your go-to dips?

Try it Tuesday: White Cheddar mac & cheese

So who doesn't like mac & cheese? Well, frankly I LOVE it.

I actually love all pasta, add cheese and I am in heaven.

I found this receipe on pinterest and had to try it.

I had most of the incredients already so I just used what I had.

I didn't use velveta ( I don't care for the stuff)

Instead, I used goat cheese, mozzerella and sharp cheddar cheeses

I also used whole grain pasta and didn't need to add the broth/wine

The end product was amazing and wonderful.

You have to try this recipe

Try it Tuesday: Bacon, Beer & Cheese Risotto

These weeks have been flying by.

Last week during my cooking phase (it comes in phases)

So yuou should know, risotta is one of my warm and fuzzy comfort foods.

I love risotta, its creamy and fulfilling and carb loaded; what's not to love abotu it.

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I found this recipe on pinterest and had to try it

I mean really can you resist those ingredients?

I couldn't.

Would you make this receipe again? YES

I loved it, but i would add more bacon and less broth. I thought with the beer and the broth it was almost soupy. I also thought it might need more flavor.

Do you like risotta?

What have you tried this week?

Go-to: banana bread

Do you have a got to recipe?

This is a recipe that my friend sent to me and now is a monthly  go to.

The Recipe comes from none other than Martha Stewart

Found here

(You see a theme this week, Martha and Food, oh yea!)

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature, plus more for pan
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups unbleached flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup mashed very ripe bananas
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pan; set aside. In an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, and beat to incorporate.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. Add to the butter mixture, and mix until just combined. Add bananas, sour cream, and vanilla; mix to combine. Stir in nuts, and pour into prepared pan.
3. Bake until a cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Let rest in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a rack to cool.
   
   
   What is your go-to banana bread recipe?

Try-it Tuesday: Green Onions

Here is a new-ish series I am trying.

Pin it, Try it, and Tell me about it.

1. You never have to buy green onions EVER AGAIN!

2. IT IS SO EAY!

(Yes i am actually so excited I am yelling this at you.

So I found this on Pinterest from this site

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You buy onions, cut them use them. put them in water

and ta-da! They go crazy (this is after 2 weeks)

Let me preface this with I can't grow jack.

I was really surprised how easy this was. 

Have you tried this or something like it?

New Recipe.. Week #8

This is #7 of 10 in 10.. eek. 

Almost there I can taste it.

(I know you dont care but I never finish anything)

This week recipe is inspired by one of the things I miss about California

It is of course a food item

That item is from a restaurant called BJs

See I told you I loved Chicago before i knew it was meant to be

They have an item called a pazooki

which is a cookie baked in a small (depends what size you get) pizza pan and served warm out of the oven with ice cream..

It is ooey gooey love

Well, I was inspired. My favorite is oatmeal rasin

I found this recipe on pinterest, halved it and cooked it in a 6 in spring form pan.

I greased the pan with butter and it worked out well.

I cut into to slices (to not over indulge) and served with ice cream..

delicious.

What have you tried this week?

This Post will be linking up this week.. for a list see above

Christmas baking..

Its weird, but I am back again today.. 

It has become a tradition to bake cookies for christmas and this has been the second year in a row that I got to bake with my mom using my kitchen aid mixer as talked about here.

I talked about baking briefly in this post earlier today.

This year I picked a few recipes on pininterest and went at it ALL DAY!

1. Sugar cookie pinwheels

With the recipe found here:  ouritaliankitchen.blogspot.com

(This recipe did not work for me for whatever reason and I used this sugar cookie recipe instead, split the batches in two, froze for 1 hour, rolled using wax paper than rolled in sprinkles, froze for another hour than thinly sliced and baked accoring to the sugar cookie recipe)

 2. Cherry Cookie Kisses

With the recipe found here:sixsistersstuff.blogspot.com

(This recipe I didn't personally like. The dough was very sticky and we put in the refrigerator for 2 hours which helped but I did not like the texture with the end product)

3. Pecan Pie truffles

With the recipe found here: growingupveg.blogspot.com

These are OMG delicious and super super easy. 

I used walnuts (because pecans are freakin expensive) but they still turned out AMA-ZING!

* side not: these were the favorite of the bunch this year*

4. OREO Truffles

With the recipe found here: chef-n-training.blogspot.com

These were delicious as well and super duper easy. 3 ingredients and no bake.

5. MY FAVE.. Ginger Spice cookies

You already know these are my favorite from this post

Recipe found here: http://www.ourbestbites.com/2008/10/ginger-spice-cookies/

What did you make this year? Try anything new?