Tip of the day

This might be the number one over looked cooking tip of all time. Are you ready for it?!

Here it is...

When you are frying or sauteing anything, use a frying pan with high sides.
This will prevent the oil from splattering your counter tops and hands so much.
Not only will this help in cleanup, maybe you won't be so afraid to fry things
if you aren't constantly burning your hands in the process like I did
when I was first starting out!

Hope this helps, or if it doesn't I hope you learned sooner than I did!

Cheers.

Demanding roommates

"I want tacos, and chips and salsa, and ice cream for lunch. Pleeeeeeeease!"
- Michelle Knopf.

Can't wait to live with this cookie monster! I love you, but you're crazy. Well anyway, she came over for lunch today, and like a good human, I gave in to her demands and cooked her a glorious Mexican feast.

I made fresh salsa and ground beef tacos. I wasn't about to make ice cream though, so she sat and ate Ben & Jerry's while I cooked. What a good helper.

Homemade Salsa:

4 tomatoes
1/2 jalapeno (I left the seeds in but if you can't handle the heat leave them out!)
1/4 white onion
handful of fresh cilantro
salt & pepper

Throw all of this into the food processor and vuala, fresh salsa! Yum!



I was going to blog how to make the tacos, but I'm tired haha. I think the key to this recipe was the fresh salsa, and frying the taco shells myself... so much better than those packaged taco shells!

Hope you enjoy!

Breakfast Burritos- The breakfast of champions.

I LOVE BREAKFAST BURRITOS! Don't you?!

I really love breakfast burritos though. To the point that I struggle to order anything else whenever I go to a new breakfast joint. I am on the endless search for the perfect breakfast burrito. The current champ is at BC Burrito in Hawaii, it is God sent I think, or maybe Pedro sent, I'm not sure.

The point is, I can't make a breakfast burrito that delicious. But I can make a runner up...


Ingredients:

2 eggs
2 strips of bacon
1 flour tortilla
grated cheddar cheese
salsa
1 peeled potato
salt & pepper
seasoned salt
Oil- I used Extra Virgin Olive Oil, but any will do.


Cooking Instructions:


First, poke holes in the potato with a fork and stick in the microwave for 1:20 seconds.

Use two separate frying pans for this dish, One little and one medium sized.
In the medium sized pan, cook the bacon over medium heat until crispy. In the smaller pan, add the 2 eggs beaten together with salt and pepper. Cook over medium heat and scramble until well cooked, 3-4 minutes. Remove both bacon and eggs from heat, and place both in a bowl together, breaking up the bacon into small bits.

Chop up the potato into 1/2 inch pieces and add to a pan with a little oil. Add seasoned salt and cook over medium high heat for 2-4 minutes, or until the potatoes are a slightly browned. Remove from heat.

Using the medium size skillet over medium heat, place the tortilla inside filled with a little cheddar cheese. Once the cheese starts to melt, mix the eggs, potatoes and bacon together and throw it on the the tortilla. Add salsa on top and fold the tortilla over to form a burrito.


Dear followers, enjoy!