Pretty Breakfast

This is what I made for breakfast yesterday morning.  I saw it on the Cooking Channel with Rachel Khoo's 'Little Paris Kitchen'.   They were her take on some sort of French classic dish. 

I didn't follow her recipe exactly because it just seemed like it would be so very simple to do.  This one really is.

I think her recipe had a cheese sauce mine has apple smoked cheddar (oh baby that's good stuff!).

An absolutely gorgeous easy breakfast that even my kids can make and you can choose how many you need to do.

A Pretty Breakfast

adapted from Rachel Khoo 

White bread

Thin Ham slices

Eggs

Shredded Cheese

Melted Butter

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Cut the crusts off the bread and use a rolling pin to make them thinner (like a pita bread) brush melted butter on each side of the bread.  Tuck the bread into ramekin dishes or large muffin tins, add ham on top of the bread.  I sort of tucked the ham around the edges so that the center was still totally open.  Crack an egg into the middle of the ham and bread.  Top with cheese of your choice something with a good strong flavor is a great choice.  Bake for 20 to 30 minutes depending on how well done you like your eggs.  Let set for a few minutes after you pull them out of the oven.   

National Pancake Day

Ah yes National Pancake Day one of the great holidays of the year in our house...  A much anticipated day in the midst of crappy gray weather and slush.  This year we moved a bit out of the box and tossed away the sweet pancakes and decided to go a more savory route with Bacon and Green Onion Corn Cakes.  To be honest this was not well received by the little people in my house they felt it was blasphemy to take a beloved day of sweet dinner and make it well... not sweet.  Jeff and I much enjoyed this deviant treat and we hope you will also. 

remember save your bacon fat!

Bacon Green Onion Corn Cakes

1 1/2 C. Cornmeal

1 C flour (I did a mix of WW and AP)

1 tsp salt

1 Tbsp sugar

5 strips of bacon cooked and chopped

2 green onions sliced

1 C of cheddar cheese grated (although small chunks would also be nice)

1 egg beaten

4 Tbsp of melted butter 

1 Tbsp of bacon fat

2 C milk (or more to get the desired consistency)

eggs for fryin'

Warm up your griddle or fry pan.  Okay this is totally simple mix all these ingredients together except the extra eggs for frying.  I found a drop biscuit like consistency worked really nicely so add milk as needed.  Place on your griddle (grease it if you need to) cook until the edges start to get cooked looking also and flip to the other side.  Cook your extra eggs how you love them I love a good runny yolked egg (dippy eggs as my nephew calls them) the kids had fried egg whites.  Place on top of your corn cake and enjoy with a quick crack of fresh black pepper.