Breakfast Burritos

I must confess: hubby is a big guy and needs a big guy breakfast. Nothing is ever enough, and he's usually hungry by 10:30 for lunch. This doesn't work when we don't have dinner until 6pm. I found a recipe on Pinterest for a breakfast burrito and decided to give it a try. They were a big success and I wanted to share what I did, because I did deviate from the original recipe, based on hubby's requests.

First the ingredients:

frozen hash browns

dozen eggs

tortilla shells

cheese

green peppers

scallions

precooked bacon

 

I start out by cooking half of the 26oz bag of hash browns that I bought. This takes forever so while that's cooking I have hubby chop peppers and scallions. 

Once the hash browns start turning brown and crispy I add the 12 eggs that I've prescrambled with a little milk salt and pepper. And start cooking them together. This helps keep them in one solid mass instead of crumbling out of the burrito.

 

And yes that is a Storm Trooper spatula courtesy of Williams Sonoma. Hubby is a big geek too. 

Once the egg/hash brown mixture is cooked, I lay out the tortillas and put cheese on the bottom, we used a taco blend this time. And I start layering, egg/hash brown, bacon and veggies.

Then we roll them up and freeze them and he takes two a day and sticks them in the microwave for 2 minutes.

 

They keep him full enough until lunch time which is good because then he can he a smaller lunch later in the day and doesn't come home starving for dinner.

Happy Cooking!

Wendy

Basil Burger Awesomeness

I must confess: I love a good burger. Duh, who doesn't, I know. I found this recipe on the food network and HAD to try it! Having a fresh basil plant around doesn't hurt either.

The recipe can be found here:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/melissa-darabian/perfect-summer-basil-burger-recipe/index.html

What I did was the following:

First I threw two burgers on the grill. I didn't add my usual onion powder soup mix or ranch mix, because I wanted the basil sauce to stand on its own and see how much flavor it really had.

But I did add some mozzarella cheese on top once I flipped them.

In the meantime, I mixed: mayo, sour cream, garlic, basil, Worcester and salt and pepper and put them in my mini-processor, which I didn't even know I had until the other day! Yay!

While the burgers were cooking I mixed this all up. Until creamy. 

I toasted English muffins for burger buns, because they have less bread and you get more of the burger taste instead of a mouth full of bread. 

They turned out AMAZING!!! Hubby loved them and I will be making this again! Another thought I had was to freeze whatever was left over, then I could make in batches and use when needed.

Happy Cooking!

Wendy

Pizza Class!

I must confess: I love pizza, but really who doesn't? Yesterday Eric and I had an opportunity to attend a Couples Pizza Class at the Apron Cooking school located inside a Publix grocery store. What a blast, we had a class with lots of other fun couples, made and ate some gooooood pizza! What a treat! Who knew my husband could cook! Or at least make pizza. Per some friends requests I'm posting the pizza dough recipe and by far my favoritest pizza from last night. Hope you enjoy it at much as I did, I would have never put any of these things together! 

Happy cooking!

Wendy