Italian Breakfast Scramble

Tuscan cheese curds. In my eggs? Delicious? You don't say. Well, you don't, because you don't know. You. Don't. Even. Know. But I do. And it rocked. Om nom nom. So I started with some fresh chopped red onion (a staple in the fridge) and sliced grape tomatoes from the Aurora Farmer's Market (also a staple in the fridge). Let it heat up in a pan. The add 3 egg whites, and let that cook up for a bit. Mix it up, top it with the Tuscan cheese curds, and garnish (yes, I said garnish) it with a fresh chiffonade of basil and voila! Breakfast is served.

The cheese curds, obviously from The Cheese People of Beloit, purchased at the aforementioned market...yum yum yum. Have you ever cooked relatively fresh cheese curds? Still freaking squeakin' in my dang mouth. Holy delightfulness, Batman!

I've had some pretty great breakfasts this past week, but haven't had time to log them all. Let's just say that the cheese and I are gettin' pretty creative in the kitchen. And I'm sure that you'll hear all about some of my tasty treats eventually when I remake/perfect them. *drool*

In other news, yesterday's breakfast was a homage to McDonald's Monopoly, which of course, I'm not too thrilled with...they changed the game on me. and there were kinks in the system. and it was un-fun. But last year, I won a $50 gas card to Shell...so I'll keep playing. Gotta get my SASE ready for mailin'! In case you're wondering, here is the list of breakfast items to get your grubby little hands on game pieces:

medium drink
McCafe bevs (smoothies and frappes, but not coffee!)
Egg McMuffin
Sausage McMuffin with Egg
Hashbrowns (2 for $1.49, people)
Oatmeal

I'm thrilled that I don't have to get any of the strange breakfast sandwiches and I can enjoy a less than terrible for me egg McMuffin of joy.

Breakfast Wrap

Last night, headed to dinner with V. So this morning, I had a bunch of leftover Flat Top food...the girl gave us a ton of roti bread to take home with our entree (apparently, you can take the food home for an extra couple of bucks (like $2.50 more than the unlimited trips price). That's a $2.50 lunch. sweet.

Clearly, I love turning my leftovers into amazing breakfast concoctions. It's one of my favorite ways to get creative with my breakfast. There are very few things that aren't improved upon with cheese or eggs. Very few. By the way, just wait until one day I tell you about my White Castle breakfast scramble. It's a heart attack on your plate but MAN is it good! One day, my friends. One day.

So, for breakfast, I took one of the roti breads, nuked it for 30 seconds with a little bit of water so it doesn't dry out. Then I topped it with my egg scramble. The egg scramble consisted of Mom's homemade giardinara (which by the way is a little like a spicy muffaletta with peppers, olives, celery, carrots, olive oil, and spices), turkey ham and 1 egg. The flavor combination was outstanding. I wrapped the scramble into the roti and ate the delightful breakfast like an Asian-Italian taco (talk about fusion cuisine!)

Overall, it was a really delicious breakfast, and I highly recommend you try something to the likeness of this joyous breakfast combination. More tasty early morning meals to come!

Have a great day, kids!

Grilled Cheese and Eggs

Imagine for a second this delightful menu item:

Gruyere, aged cheddar, mozzarella, Brie, roasted tomato concassé, fried
shallots, candied bacon confetti melted in parmesan crusted sourdough

Now imagine it open face with an egg on top. Yep. Pretty f*ing delicious. Excuse my language, but it was truly that delicious. Last night we ventured to Lady Gregory's for an awesome dinner and drinks. You can check my review at Yelp for the tasty experience that it was.

So this morning, I nuked it (got the cheese all melty and the bread all soft) and topped it with the aforementioned egg for an amazing breakfast.

Yesterday's breakfast was an Irish breakfast, as I spent the morning watching my first Irish football game at Gaelic Park with the bf and fam. This game is intense, btw. It's like football and soccer and rugby combined...hardcore fans and unpaid athletes. That's dedication!

Anyways...breakfast....eggs, potatoes, bacon, bangers, black pudding, white pudding, and Irish soda bread. I only nibbled on the bf's breakfast (basically, at the meaty stuff), as I had a baby shower to attend, but man it was good. For those of you who don't know...

Bangers= Irish breakfast sausage. Creamier than your standard breakfast sausage. Super yum.
Black pudding= Blood sausage that's been deep fried.
White pudding= Oatmeal sausage.

All of them are delicious and you should try them at least once.

Tastes Like Potato Pancakes!

The fine Cheese People of Beloit have yet again brought me another delicious cheesy breakfast concoction. Actually two.

On Wednesday, I made a delightful ham and baby Amish Swiss (of course from those brilliant cheesemongers of Wisconsin) egg white scramble. It was fast easy and undeniable delish. plus, with my light cran-raspberry juice, breakfast was only 6 points on the Weight Watchers scale. (Three egg whites is a whopping one whole point!)

Yesterday was cold pizza for breakfast, which doesn't have quite as much of a healthy eating ring to it, but cold pizza for breakfast rocks! I've been eating cold pizza as breakfast food since high school...and it's always there in all of its delicious glory. Dad and I had Roundheads the night before, so it was tasty pizza. The only prob was that there were a few too many onions and I had to swipe those puppies off due to my unnatural fear of botulism, which can be caused by eating leftover onions. (Usually only once they've been left sitting out, reheated, yadda yadda yadda...but I don't care about the fine print. Hence UNNATURAL fear.)

This morning was the best , though. With another delightful cheese from the Cheese People (a caraway seed gouda), I created a breakfast treat that I'm still day dreaming about. Frozen hash brown potatoes, a little ham, this amazing cheese, and 3 egg whites made an awesome potatoe-y scramble that seriously tasted like cheesy potato pancakes with eggs on top. YUM-O.  I was incredibly happy with my breakfast choice, and I highly recommend you check these guys out.

How to Reheat Restaurant Pancakes

yeah, sounds simple enough, but really...you don't even know. Our waitress at Honey Jam suggested that we make PB and J sandwiches out of them instead of trying to reheat...It sounded pretty tasty...Cute...if I were 10...As an adult, I want pancakes. With syrup. And Butter.

So here I am, in all of my breakfast glory, to tell you how to properly reheat restaurant pancakes for a fast and easy delicious breakfast of JOY.

Step 1: Butter. Layer the pancakes with a couple shavings of real butter (none of that fake crap).

Step 2: Syrup. You can use real or light...though the real is going to offer you a more decadent pancake. I'm just saying. layer that as well. You want the pancakes to soak in this delish sticky stuff.

Step 3: Nuker. Pup that baby in the microwave until the butter melts. Usually between 45 seconds and a minute for perfectly hot and soft pancakes.

My breakfast rocked. Left over Honey Jam Pancakes.

Saturday was another yummy Honey Jam experience with best friend, TBC.
Sunday was a Yelp-worthy experience that you can read about here. Let's just say disappointment at breakfast time sucks.

Apricot Brie and Egg White Omelet

This morning, yet another well-timed, perfectly made omelet of joy. I'm getting really good at this. (I remember when I was a kid and would try to make an omelet and end up with eggs EVERYWHERE from trying to flip the damn thing over in the pan. I now realize that the trick to making a perfect omelet is letting it cook mostly through before flipping and adding ingredients...In order to do that without burning the egg part, you have to let the uncooked egg slide under the cooked part, thus never crisping the outer egg. Then flip. Then add ingredients. Then fold. It's that simple.)

I use egg whites when I make omelets, because why use the extra cholesterol, when I'm not really going to taste the yolky goodness anyways. I reserve my yolk eating for when its runny and delicious. :D

So the cheese obviously came from my friends at The Cheese People of Beloit (where I buy my cheese at the Aurora Farmer's Market on Saturday mornings--YUM!) A tasty brie layered with a light hint of apricot (and I believe almonds). Awesome happy goodness.

The rest of the week was tamale from the farmer's market, Honey Jam, Juicy-O, BK, and McDs....yeah it's been one of those breakfast weeks.

Southwest Scrambled Eggs

3 egg whites, some fresh cilantro, red onion, and texochili cheddar from The Cheese People of Beloit (my favorites!) made up my delicious breakfast this morning. I garnished it, as you can see with some ripe on the vine tomato slices, avocado, black pepper, and sea salt. Yummy happy eggy breakfasty goodness. You know you love eggs as much as me...so try this one out. Is delightful.