Sunny Side Eggs

Eggs are one of my favorite foods. And while I could not partake in Greg's wonderful breakfast due to a tomato allergy, I sure could enjoy the presentation.

For breakfast, Greg slow cooked 4 whole eggs sunny side up in butter and spiced it up with sea salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder. He topped the eggs with fresh tomatoes and Fagee yogurt.

Yummy bread with dinner!!

Yep - we had bread with dinner tonight and what yummy bread it was! We got this recipe from OEvolve and decided to give it a try. It was very simple and easy to make. And I'm proud to say that the only ingredient NOT in our pantry was the buttermilk.

I highly recommend trying this recipe. It really is very very good!

Dry Ingredients:

1 cup flax seed meal
1 cup almond flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
3 packets Splenda (or 1-1/2 packets Truvia) (Just a note- if you don't want a sweet bread, I would skip the Splenda/Truvia; or if you wish to make more of a desert bread - add more! We added Truvia and it was a bit too sweet for our dinner.)

Wet Ingredients:

5 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
3 tbsp coconut oil

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a large sheet pan (mine is 13 x 18) with buttered parchment paper. Mix ingredients together and let sit for 5 minutes. Pour mix onto parchment paper lined sheet pan and spread evenly and out almost to the edges of the pan. Bake for 20 minutes. Set oven to broil then open oven door a bit and watch bread closely. Remove pan when top of bread must begins to brown. After a couple of minutes, pickup ends of parchment paper and flip bread out onto large cutting board. Carefully peel parchment paper from bottom of bread. Slice to desired size and put slices on cooling rack.

For dinner, we decided to use the bread as chicken, salmon, 1/2 avocado, olive tepanade, olive oil and balsamic, homemade brucshetta, and cheese on slices of our newly baked bread. We thought we would build little sandwiches, but we mainly dipped the bread in the olive oil and balsamic vinegrete mixture.

If I had known I was going to blog on our meal I would have taken a better picture ;)

Eggs n' Sausage

This is Greg's dish. Looks like he panfried eggs and threw in some sausage. I see a glass of wine in the picture so it must not have been breakfast -- or maybe it was a rough morning ;)

Greg doesn't particularly like the taste of Ghee - so he would have either used butter or bacon grease that he collects after making bacon.

Cajon Shrimp Fest!!

Simple, Easy and Yummy!!

This is a dinner we enjoyed at Bubba Gumps in San Francisco and have had several times since then. We use a creole shrimp/crab boil to boil 2-4 lbs of unpeeled shrimp w/ lemon slices. Follow the directions on the boil. It's supposed to be spicy but we always add more spice. Drain the water, add 1/2 stick butter and add more seasoning to taste.


Grab a couple beers, lots of napkins and Enjoy!

Eggs as Late Night Snack

Looking for a late night snack? Instead of grabbing for a bag of chips or peanuts, or any of the other crappy high carb alternatives -- try this yummy, nutritious, low calorie, high protein filling alternative late-night snack. Plus, it goes great with a nice glass of red wine :)



Recipe:

1 TBSP Ghee
2 whole eggs - breaking and spreading out yoke through whites
thinly sliced onions
salt n' pepper to taste
whatever small sliced veggies or meat you crave

Fry it up - then flip it until it's done. Slice avocados adds some good flavor.

Enjoy!

The Results are In for Mayo Experiment

I like Mary Eades mayo better! It's a little sweeter - so I'll add less Splenda or Stevia in the future. The Omega 3 had too much flax oil. Perhaps I'll try this recipe again -- just using more olive oil, and a little less flax oil -- perhaps 3/4 c olive oil and 1/4 c flax oil.

What mayonnaise do you like best?

Ghee and Blackened Shrimp and Steak

For lunch, Greg and I made blackened shrimp and steak with veggies using Zataran's blackened seasoning and Ghee!



This meal was really easy, quick and yummy. Recipe:

1 steak or 1-2 servings shrimp
1/2 onion
squash, zucchini - amount determined by you
1 TBSP Ghee
Zataran's to taste

Steak: Sprinkle steak with Zataran's. Heat pan with ghee. Toss in steak for just a minute or 2 on each side. Done! Greg cooked his veggies in the pan after taking his steak out - and switched to using regular butter, not ghee.

Shrimp: I tossed shrimp in pan with ghee and veggies and let them sit in the pan for about 7 minutes. I added more Zatarans - the spicier the better!

About the ingredients:

We've recently started using ghee (clarified butter) for our sauteeing. Ghee has the more stable saturated bonds (i.e., lacks double bonds easily damaged by heat) it is not as likely to form dangerous "Free radicals" when cooking.



Zatarain's is a company who has some fun spices we've recently enjoyed. Today, we purchased Zatarain's Blackened Seasoning. It's really good but I had to use a lot of it to get the kick I wanted from this meal.