Scrambled Eggs with Homemade Hashbrowns

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted a recipe, but trust me, I’ve been cooking! I’m currently obsessed with Punchfork, which is a website that pulls together all kinds of recipes from great sites. To me, it looks like Pinterest, but is significantly cooler and awesome and delicious.

Almost everything I’ve cooked over the past couple months I have found here. This time, however, I’d like to share a recipe of my own. I rarely post my own “recipes” because I don’t really consider them recipes. There’s nothing special or unique about them. I just throw stuff together and hope it’s tasty. But that’s what cooking I guess, right? So here’s what I had for breakfast yesterday.

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ingredients
3 eggs
1 avocado
1/2 to 1 Idaho or russet potato
Manchego cheese
Sriracha
salt and pepper

1. Heat oil in skillet over medium-high heat. I like sunflower or safflower oil, but whatever. Do as you please.

2. Process potato in food processor and throw into skillet. I use the side that chops it into strings, not the crescent-shaped slicer part. I’m not really sure how long I cooked them, but don’t mix them up too much or else they won’t get crunchy.

3. Meanwhile, scramble eggs and mix grated Manchego cheese. I didn’t have milk, but you could definitely add milk as well to make them fluffier. Also salt and pepper would be good here.

4. Remove hashbrowns to plate and scramble the eggs. Depending on how much oil is left in the skillet, you may not have to re-grease it.

5. Place scrambled eggs on top of hashbrowns and top them with sliced avocado and drizzled Sriracha. I also added a little salt and pepper at the end.

Super easy, super filling. Enjoy!

Russian Meatball Stroganoff

Once again, I forgot to take pictures of it, but let me tell you – I was pretty proud of it. I’ve made a couple different beef stroganoff recipes before. This time I wanted to try making it from scratch. It wasn’t difficult, and it was a success.

Also, I realized that it may be easier if I list the ingredients on my post, in addition to linking to the website. I usually also change the ingredients when I cook. So here we go!
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Cooking? What?

Don’t worry – I’m not starving to death down here. I just haven’t cooked any new, original recipes. Sometimes I just don’t feel like trying something new. I want something I already know how to cook and I know I’ll enjoy. Last week I made a huge batch of juk, and this week I’ll be making my simple chicken recipe.

Maybe next week I’ll try something new, but we’ll see!

Chicken Minestrone

SO it’s been a while. Been busy, just like the rest of you. But I’m ready to get back in the game! Especially since I got some cool cooking tools for the holidays…

As a kid I always liked minestrone. It’s simple and has macaroni. As an adult, however, I haven’t had it much. So when I searched YumSugar for soups, minestrone had not crossed my mind this winter. But crispy chickpeas and bacon sounded too good. The only problem I had is that, since I kept the soup all week, all the pasta and whatnot absorbed the broth. Still amazing and delicious.

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Chicken Apple Sausage and Spinach Quiche

Quiche is light, delicious, and surprisingly easy to make. I’ve posted my mom’s Bacon Quiche before, but this time I wanted to try something new. I recently joined Food52, an online cooking community that shares recipes and food news, and they happen to have this recipe for, you guessed it, Chicken Apple Sausage and Spinach Quiche.

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My favorite thing about these quiche recipes is the absence of a crust. It makes them less intimidating I think.

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Chicken, Mushroom, and Asparagus Bread Pudding

I found this recipe for Chicken, Mushroom, and Asparagus Bread Pudding on The Sweets Life via StumbleUpon (yay multiple forms of social media?!). I thought “What? Bread pudding?” And then I thought “This would be awesome with brussel sprouts.”

And, of course, I got really excited about the vegetables and made too many to put in the pan with the bread and chicken.

I don't know if you can tell, but the amount of veggies in the wok could entirely fill that baking pan. and then some.

But no matter. I saved the extra veggies and I’ll put them over pasta.

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Pumpkin Black Bean Soup

It’s getting a bit chilly outside here in Atlanta, which means it’s soup/stew time! I somewhat randomly stumbled upon Noble Pig’s Pumpkin Black Bean Soup. At first I thought “Pumpkin + black beans is supposed to be delicious?” But then I thought about it for a second, and then realized that yes, the two would make a deliciously perfect combination.

Also…I ate all of it without taking a picture. Instead, here’s a picture of someone rolling around in a gigantic hamster ball in a tank of water in a mall. It was a weird moment to stumble upon.

whaaaa?

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Medallions of Pork with Vegetables

Yes! I’m updating again! This time, however, I will first show you a representation of my weekend:

Is it a beer? Is it a meal? It's a root beer float!

That’s right. I went to the Wrecking Bar to kick of Oktoberfest. They’ve got some really amazing stuff on tap right now, which they brew onsite. They also brew their own delicious root beer, as you can see above. A perfect dessert.

Yesterday I tried a recipe from my Southern Living 1988 Annual Recipes cookbook: Medallions of Pork with Vegetables. I was somewhat intrigued by the tomato sauce it suggests, so I made it. It’s pretty good. It also recommends I make these special grits (for which they provide the recipe), but instead I just made grits with some parmesean cheese. Still delicious.

It may not look as appetizing as the root beer float, but still quite delectable.

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Chicken in Sour Cream Paprika Sauce

This was one of my favorite recipes in college (and still is) because it makes so much and travels really well to work. The recipe recommends you serve it over egg noodles, which is delicious, but if you get bored of that, you can also serve it over rice. And, of course, I forgot to take a picture of it. But check out these veggies I’m grilling right now!

a gigantic mountain of brussel sprouts and beets! sooo delicious.

I will being grilling almost anything I can until it’s too cold to feel my fingers.
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I BBQ for the first time

So the most exciting thing that’s happened in the past couple of weeks is that I finally tested out my new grill! It’s a small camping grill my mom’s partner got me for my birthday, and it gets the job done all tasty and such. I forgot to take a picture of us grilling the ribs, but here’s a picture of me grilling veggies and sausages:

BBQ, veggies, drink, thumbs up.

I’ve been using my grill non-stop since it’s about to get cold, and it’s much faster than cooking in an oven. I think. At least it doesn’t make my small kitchen a million degrees.

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