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Recipe of the Week – Ed’s Breakfast Pizza
(From the Misc Collection at emealsforyou.com)
Ed's Breakfast Pizza
With the holidays coming one struggle is to find new and different dishes to serve. On a recent trip to NJ we made a side stop at a cousin’s house for a much needed relaxing brunch. Pat and Ed served this wonderful breakfast pizza. Beyond the great presentation, this pizza is overflowing with flavor.
The next time you are looking for something a little outside of the box to serve give this special pizza a try.
Ed’s Breakfast Pizza
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Misc |
| Meal: | other (General) |
| 1 | large | pizza crust, pre-baked |
| 3 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 1 | large | onions, sliced |
| 2 | medium | tomatoes, fresh |
| 1 | medium | zucchini |
| 1 | cup | cheese, mozzarella, shredded |
| 4 | large | egg |
| 0.5 | cup | bacon |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
Thinly slice the onions, zucchini and tomatoes. Cut the bacon in 1/2 inch pieces, lightly brown, set aside. Heat oil in a pan, reserving 1 Tb, add the onions and zucchini, saute until tender, about 5 minutes. Spread the tomatoes, zucchini and onions evenly over the pre-baked pizza crust, leaving 1/2 inch border. Top with the mozzarella, spread the bacon evenly on top. Make 4 pockets in the toppings, break eggs into the pockets. Drizzle with the remaining 1 Tb of oil, bake at 350 degrees for 10 – 15 minutes until the eggs are done. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Note: Great addition to a brunch.
More breakfast ideas at emealsforyou.com.
Recipe of the Week – Aunt Joanie’s Blueberry Muffins
(From the Breads Collection at www.emealsforyou.com)
Aunt Joanie's Blueberry Muffins
Still snowing in Cincy, for those of you keeping score this is the snowiest (is that a word?) February in history; and we are only at the 16th of the month. Over the weekend my phone beeped, my neighbor and friend was calling to see if he could stop by with some homemade blueberry muffins. Now this is a guy who prides himself a grill master but claims no skills at all in the kitchen. Long story short, he shows up with a basket full of steaming hot blueberry muffins.
Just looking at the muffins you could immediately tell they were not the standard mix the ingredients from a box muffins. Moist, full of berries, these breakfast treats will warm your bellies and your spirits on a cold, snowy morning. They wouldn’t be bad mid-summer either. Mark suggests using wild blueberries, he is from Vermont, and coarse sugar on top, but they are really great no matter where you got your berries. Mark claims they are his aunt Joanie’s recipe; wonder if he is holding back on any other of his aunt’s recipes?
Aunt Joanie’s Blueberry Muffins
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Breads |
| Meal: | N/A |
| 2 | large | egg |
| 1 | cup | sugar, white |
| 1 | cup | milk, whole |
| 3 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 3 | cup | flour |
| 4 | tsp | baking powder |
| 1 | cup | blueberries |
| 1 | spritz | PAM |
| 1 | Tb | sugar, white, optional |
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat eggs and sugar together until thickened. Melt butter and add to milk and then to the egg mixture. Reserve 2 Tb of the flour, mix remaining flour and baking powder together. Fold into batter, Mix reserved flour with the berries and fold into the batter. Spray muffin tins with PAM and spoon batter into muffin tins. Sprinkle tops with sugar ( preferably course). Bake for 25 minutes. Makes 1 dozen muffins.
Planning Breakfast – Company Breakfast Made Easy
(From the Misc Collection at emealsforyou.com)
Mary N's Baked French Toast
With the holidays rapidly approaching we find ourselves thinking about company coming to town to enjoy a visit and immediately our brains turn to food. What to feed them? The dinner meals are usually pretty straight forward; large extravaganzas with turkeys, hams or roasts taking center stage. Fill in around these and you are all set.
It’s the other meals that drive us up a wall. Beyond juice and coffee what to serve for breakfast. You know that meal first thing in the morning that you usually skip save for a cup of coffee. Company changes all that. Bagels and doughnuts only go so far, and besides you what them to think you care about starting the day off right, right? The answer may lie in make ahead breakfast casseroles. Do all the work ahead when you have the time. Company morning get up, turn the coffee pot on and preheat the oven. Pop in your pre-made casserole and let the aroma drift through the house. Chances are everyone will show up with a smile on their face and exclaim, “boy, I can’t believe you got up early and made breakfast for us!”
This recipe comes to us via my wife’s aunt Mary. She brought some cream cheese brownies to a family function recently and this recipe was a bonus recipe from her. Both recipes are on the emealsforyou.com website. This recipe is somewhere between French Toast and OMG Sticky Buns. You can’t beat the French toast for the ease of preparing it and it is certain to become a new family favorite.
Mary N’s Baked French Toast Casserole
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Misc |
| Meal: | Other (General) |
| 1 | large | bread, french |
| 1 | Tb | butter, unsalted |
| 8 | large | egg |
| 2 | cup | cream, half and half |
| 1 | cup | milk, whole |
| 2 | Tb | sugar, white |
| 1 | tsp | vanilla |
| 0.25 | tsp | cinnamon. ground |
| 0.25 | tsp | nutmeg, ground |
| 1 | pinch | salt, table |
| 16 | Tb | butter, unsalted |
| 1 | cup | sugar, brown, light |
| 1 | cup | pecans, chopped |
| 2 | Tb | corn syrup, light |
| 0.5 | tsp | cinnamon. ground |
| 0.5 | tsp | nutmeg, ground |
Slice French bread into 1-inch slices. Butter a 9 X 13 baking dish. Place slices in 2 overlapping rows. Mix the eggs, half-and-half, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt ion a large bowl until just mixed. Pour over the bread, making sure to get mixture between and all over bread slices. Cover with foil and refrigerate over night.
For the Praline Topping: Combine butter, brown sugar, pecans, light corn syrup, cinnamon and nutmeg in a bowl, mix and allow to sit covered on a countertop over night.
Baking instructions: Spread the praline topping evenly over the casserole. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees; bake casserole for 40 minutes, until puffed and lightly golden. Serve with maple syrup.
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