Quick Cooking: Stuffed french toast

If you can make a sandwich, you can make this. It is delicious, and you can opt the fruit for any thing else you like: chocolate chips, nuts, candies, anything.

Ingredients:
-egg
-bread
-pudding/custard mix
-fruit
-vanilla
-cinnamon (optional)

First you want to make your custard to get it out of the way. Since I made this early morning, I used a package of instant custard. It's different than pudding, it's thicker and not as sweet while being very sweet at the same time. I personally think the custard goes better.

Once you have your custard, go ahead and whip up some french toast.. take about 2 eggs and beat them in a bowl, add a little milk, vanilla, and cinnamon for a sweet delicious flavored french toast. The key to a good french toast is 1. the type of bread. and 2. how much you soak the bread. You want a sturdy bread, like sour dough or sliced Italian bread could even work. Simple store bought white bread normally doesn't hold very well. The other key part is you don't want your bread to completely soak. There is a fine line between french toast and bread pudding. Especially if you use a softer bread.

Now every sandwich has two pieces of bread, so make sure you have at least two pieces per person. You can continue to stack your "french toast sandwich" with as many layers as you like, I just used two.

Immediately after your breads are cooked, add you're custard/pudding to one slice of bread. A good spoonful or two covers it well. Add your fillings, I used strawberries because they are the fiance's favorite and I also had homemade strawberry syrup in the fridge I needed to use. Add another spoonful of custard to the top and put on the top layer. 

Add some syrup or powdered sugar and enjoy!

In my opinion it was quite delicious, we also had cheesy eggs and hashbrowns. With as sweet as the toast was, the salty sides made a perfect dish.

Enjoy =]

Quick Cooking: Tofu Pasta

I've been writing this "cook book" for a couple years now, but I'm probably never going to get it published. Procrastination and all that. But I think I can post some of the recipes here to get them out. They are fabulous for a SAHM who needs to cook for herself and little ones, or even just for a two person meal. They are quick, simple, and can be done even with minimal cooking skills.  So let's try this one first..

Tofu Pasta:

Ingredients:
- Thin spaghetti noodles
- Extra firm tofu
- Spinach
- Mushrooms
- 1 tsp diced garlic
- 1 tsp fresh Basil
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Shredded cheese

1. Bring a pot of water to boil and cook pasta according to package.

Meanwhile:

2. Slice mushrooms, dice up garlic, and cube your tofu - get all of your ingredients cut and ready.

3. Heat a saucepan on medium heat with 1 tbsp olive oil

4. Sautee garlic for 30sec before adding mushrooms

5. Sautee until lightly golden

6. Add tofu and continue to sautee for about two minutes - don't let your tofu get crunchy, just firm and gold

7. Turn down heat and add spinach

8. Add half a cup of the hot noodle water and steam your spinach

9. turn off heat and your noodles should be done.

10. Do Not Drain Noodles. Add your noodles (using tongs) straight from the pot to the sauce pan.

11. Mix together the noodles with the tofu and veggie combo

12. Sprinkle with remaining olive oil and the fresh basil

13. add to serving dish and top with whatever shredded cheese you like. I use a mixed Italian  which includes mozzarella and it is lovely having melted cheese mixed in.

delicious - happy eats!