Showing posts with label breakfast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breakfast. Show all posts

Thursday, July 26, 2012

The Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich

With a new grand-baby here, I have been visiting our son and daughter in law to help with their 3 year old.  One morning our son Hyrum made breakfast for us and I knew
 I needed to share the recipe!
 Now, just to let you know right up front, you can make this sandwich with Turkey bacon and saute the onions in olive oil.  You can also use low calorie cream cheese and 
the cheese and bread of your choice. 
We used Pork bacon, sauteed the onions in the bacon grease and used regular cream cheese and Gouda cheese and placed it all on whole grain bread  LOL! I had to have something healthy in there!  
(something funny about this picture....if you look closely at the half of sandwich on the left, you will see that the tip of it is gone.  After we got it all set up to take a picture, Hyrum and I both went to get our cameras and when we turned back around my 3 year old grandson was taking a bite! 
 I knew then that it was a master piece!)

For one sandwich

1/8-1/4 of an onion, sliced
2 slices of bacon or turkey bacon or ham
2 eggs
1 teaspoon butter
1 slice of  your favorite cheese
Cream cheese or light cream cheese
strawberry jam
bread of your choice, toasted (bread, bagel or English muffin)
black pepper

Slice onion and set aside.

Cut bacon in half 


 Hyrum says that it is important to cook the bacon on medium heat.  
This way you don't set the smoke alarm off.

Add bacon to hot skillet and season with pepper.


fry until golden brown on first side, then turn over, add pepper and fry until the second side is golden brown.



Remove from pan and drain on a paper towel and set aside.

Add onion slices to bacon grease and cook until tender crisp.  Or you can use olive oil or baking spray.

Remove onion from pan and drain on a paper towel.  Set aside.

crack eggs into a bowl and beat until foamy.






Heat a flat bottom skillet, add butter, (or baking spray) let it melt and spread it around the bottom of the pan.


carefully pour the eggs into the pan making sure that it covers the bottom of the pan evenly.


As the eggs begin to set, take a hold of the pan handle and give it a gentle swirling motion so the egg will continue to spread out and cook evenly.  Season with pepper.







When the egg is almost all set (cooked), slip a wide spatula under one side and flip it over to finish cooking the other side. it will only need about 1-2 more minutes to finish cooking.




Remove from heat and fold egg around the cheese slice.  


First lay the cheese in the middle of the egg,

 Fold over one side, bringing the edge to the middle.

 gently pat it down to keep it in place.

 Fold over second side


 Fold ends over

gently press and hold to keep ends in place 
making a perfect egg bundle. 



Toast the bread of your choice.


Now lets make a sandwich!
Spread cream cheese on one side of each of the toast.


Add egg bundle to one half of toast
( Its not your eyes, the picture is out of focus)

Now add the bacon and onions


Spread strawberry jam on the other piece of toast and 
place on top of sandwich.  We used strawberry freezer jam. the recipe is found at this link on this blog...http://nrappleye.blogspot.com/2012/02/strawberry-freezer-jam.html


Cut sandwich in half and serve with fruit and a glass of milk or juice



Thanks Hyrum for an ultimate breakfast party on the taste buds!  

© Nancy Rappleye 2012

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Dutch Baby Pancakes


I have fixed this dish for breakfast and dinner many times!! I love to top it with jam or maple syrup and you can serve fruit  with it also.
If you make this in a 9x13 pan make sure to melt your butter in a small pan or in the oven in the 9x13.  Years ago I placed my glass 9x13 on the stove top to melt the butter and it broke into several pieces!  Lesson learned and message passed on!!
This recipe is easy to half too!
Dutch Baby Pancake

1 cube butter (you can adjust to your desire)
12 eggs
2 c. flour
2 c. milk
Pinch of salt
Melt butter and place in a 9x13 pan or 12 inch cast iron skillet.


Place eggs, flour, milk and salt in a blender and blend till thick and creamy.




Pour egg mixture into pan
and bake at 450 degrees ( it is very important the oven is very hot) for 20 minutes.


It will bubble up and be browned on top but will fall a little when taken out of the oven.



Cut in large squares or pie wedges and serve with  jam or maple syrup and powdered sugar.


Good morning!


© Nancy Rappleye 2011