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Lemon Ricotta Pancakes

May 11th, 2012
by erin.
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Lemon Ricotta Pancakes with blackberry sauce

Date: 4/30/2012

Recipe: http://annies-eats.com/2011/01/12/lemon-ricotta-pancakes-with-blackberry-sauce/

Modifications: None

Time to table: 30 minutes

Servings: 4 adults

Ben: Like

Erin: Love

Annie: Love (especially the blackberry sauce!)

Notes: These are probably my favorite pancakes ever – too bad I am NOT good at flipping pancakes and they somehow all got burned on the outside but not always quite done on the inside. That’s why I like waffles – my waffle maker tells me when it’s done :) These are not exactly quick pancakes since they involve beating egg whites and dirty quite a few dishes… but they are tasty. So it’s not like this is truly a “quick” breakfast for dinner meal, but I guess it’s quicker than a lot of other involved meals.

Crazy Annie with blackberry sauce

French Toast

Apr 3rd, 2012
by erin.
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French Toast

Date: 3/28/2012

Recipe: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/french_toast/

Modifications: I added a splash of vanilla to the mixture, didn’t use triple sec or orange zest.

Time to table: 20 minutes

Servings: 4 adults

Ben: Love

Erin: Love

Annie: Love

Notes: We are coming around more and more to breakfast for dinner – mainly because it’s guaranteed to be well liked by Annie and is usually really easy. This is an excellent basic french toast recipe – I’ve never actually made french toast in my life, so it was high time I start! Unsurprisingly, we all LOVED this. I used french bread, and served with sausage and strawberries. You know something is good if Annie will even eat some of it when strawberries are an option.

Cornmeal Chive Waffles with salsa and fried eggs

Mar 26th, 2012
by erin.
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Cornmeal Chive Waffles with salsa and egg

Date: 3/25/2012

Recipe: I followed the waffle recipe from here: http://www.eating-for-england.com/savoury-cheddar-chive-waffles/ and got the meal idea from here: http://annies-eats.com/2012/02/29/cornmeal-chive-waffles-with-salsa-and-eggs/

Modifications: No modifications – I went with Eating for England’s waffle recipe because it included cheese, and why wouldn’t I want that?! I forgot fresh parsley, so just used dried.

Time to table: 30 minutes

Servings: 4 adults

Ben: Like

Erin: Love

Annie: Like

Notes: I really loved how easy this meal was! Annie LOVES helping (almost too much) and especially loves helping with waffles. She greatly enjoys watching the light go from orange to green when the waffles are done. This was a super quick weeknight meal (that we made on a weekend, but every meal needs to be quick with a newborn and a toddler right now!). Great for a savory breakfast, or breakfast for dinner. We used our homemade salsa for this.

Making Cornmeal Chive Waffles

Making Cornmeal Chive Waffles

Baby frittatas

Jun 6th, 2011
by erin.
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Baby Frittatas

Date: June 5, 2011

Recipe: http://weelicious.com/2008/06/18/baby-frittatas/

Modifications:  I didn’t have any tomatoes, so I just used more asparagus. 3 eggs didn’t seem like enough, so I used 4. It would have been enough though, so just stick to 3 unless you want more than one mini-muffin pan.

Time to table: 10 minutes prep, 15 minutes to bake

Servings: 12 mini-muffin sized frittatas

Ben: Like

Erin: Like

Annie: Like

Notes: I have made it my life’s mission to get Annie to voluntarily consume asparagus. She didn’t eat much of it, but she did pick up a few bites and put them in her mouth on her own for the 2 meals when she had these. That was enough of a win for me. She might have liked them better with tomatoes in there too.We had gotten the asparagus from the farmers market the day before, and I chopped it up tiny to increase the changes of Annie eating it.

These totally stuck to the mini muffin pan, despite a liberal spraying of olive oil, so grease the heck out of them.

Annie eating frittatas

Breakfast Casserole

Jun 3rd, 2011
by erin.
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Breakfast casserole

Date: May 30, 2011

Recipe: http://weelicious.com/2010/12/09/breakfast-casserole/

Modifications:  I doubled this, since we were feeding 6 – we’ve made the original recipe twice and it is JUST enough for 4 adults and 1 toddler. We had a few leftovers. I used: red pepper, broccoli, red onion and corn for the veggies. I chopped the veggies REAL small to try to get the maximum amount hidden into each bite since Annie has the habit of picking out the egg and bread pieces and leaving the vegetables.

Time to table: 30 minutes prep, 1 hour to bake

Servings: 8 adults

Ben: Like

Erin: Love

Annie: Like

Notes: This is a really good basic breakfast casserole recipe that you can change to suit your fancy. I also baked Lemon Blueberry Scones to go with these.

Veggies

Breakfast casserole

Annie eating breakfast

Breakfast hash

May 22nd, 2011
by ben.
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Breakfast hash

Date: May 21, 2011

Recipe:

  • 4 strips bacon
  • 1 cup diced sweet potato
  • 1 small diced red potato
  • 4 diced cloves garlic
  • 1 cup shredded cheese

Dice the bacon and cook in a fry pan. Remove the bacon and set aside. Cook the sweet potato and potato in the bacon grease until nearly done. Add the garlic and the bacon for the last 1-2 minutes. Top with the shredded cheese and let it melt together.

Time to table: 30 minutes

Servings: 2 adults, 1 toddler

Ben: Love

Erin: Like

Annie: Like

Notes: I soaked up some of the bacon grease with a paper towel. This is, again, one that can be made with whatever veggies you have around. We also sometimes top the hash with a fried egg, just didn’t feel like it today. This is also a lunch item for me, easy to throw together quickly.
Breakfast hash

Spinach & potato frittata

May 13th, 2011
by ben.
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Frittata

Date: 5/12/2011

Recipe:

  • 6 eggs
  • 1.5 cups of diced sweet potato
  • 1 diced red potato
  • 4 cloves garlic, diced
  • handful of baby spinach
  • 1 cup shredded cheese
  • salt and pepper

Beat the eggs with salt, pepper, and the cheese, set aside. Sautee both kinds of potatoes in a cast iron skillet with olive oil until nearly done. Add the garlic for a minute. Add the spinach until lightly wilted. Pour the egg mixture in and stir until mixed in. Let it sit on the stove for 4-5 minutes on medium-low heat until the eggs begin to cook through.

Turn the oven broiler to low and move the skillet into the oven to broil the top of the frittata for 3-4 minutes. Take out and serve.

Time to table: 30 minutes

Modifications: You could really use any vegetables you have on hand as well as bacon or sausage.

Servings: Perfectly fed two adults and one toddler.

Erin: Like

Ben: Love

Annie: Love

Notes: Erin insisted I include the third picture of our recently cleaned house. Annie and I are clearly confused that she is taking photos instead of eating with her family. The frittata paired well with my Summit EPA. (Note from Erin: this meal was my idea, even if Ben was the one who executed it)

 

Annie eating a frittata

Dining room

Spinach and Fruit Smoothie

May 3rd, 2011
by ben.
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Smoothie time by erin.kkr
Smoothie time, a photo by erin.kkr on Flickr.

(Testing out posting directly from flickr – posted by Erin)

Recipe:
This is more of an idea than a recipe. The main components are yogurt, fruit, and spinach. Banana seems to mask the spinach best of all, so that’s always included in our smoothies.

2 bananas
1.5 cups frozen fruit (strawberries, mango, blueberries, etc – the pictured smoothie had mango)
1 cup yogurt (typically we use full fat plain greek yogurt)
1/2 cup of water/milk/half and half/apple juice – we use water
2 Tablespoons ground flaxseed
2 large handfuls baby spinach

Place all ingredients in a blending device. An immersion blender works particularly well for this. It works best to blend in spinach a little at a time.

Time to table: 5 minutes

Modifications: Again, this is not a recipe and can be modified to suit your individual tastes.

Servings: 2 adult smoothies (tall glasses) and one toddler smoothie pictured above.

Ben: Love

Erin: Love

Annie: LOVE

Notes: As you can see, Annie sucked this down like it was candy. She is normally pretty good about eating vegetables and will for sure eat fruit, but this is a GREAT way to get your kid to eat more vegetables. I’ve heard of people adding carrot and other veggies too. I’m not a huge proponent of “hiding” veggies, but hey, whatever works. A bonus of these smoothies is that I can start my day off with this and then eat like crap the rest of the day and still feel like I got a good start.