Saturday, July 23, 2011

Mini Italian Club Sandwiches

An Italian friend of mine made these for brunch and they were irresistible. I loved everything about all the flavors! I made them myself for a wine tasting/picnic my boyfriend and I decided to go on and they were just as good! Highly recommend giving them a try.

Mini Italian Club Sandwiches

Recipe courtesy Giada De Laurentiis

Prep Time:
15 min
Inactive Prep Time:
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Cook Time:
18 min
Level:
Easy
Serves:
6 servings

Ingredients

  • 3 large eggs
  • 2 tablespoons whipping cream
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon (about) unsalted butter
  • 10 slices bacon
  • 2 (8-ounce) round loaves focaccia bread (7-inch diameter)
  • 1 cup purchased pesto
  • 8 ounces thinly sliced turkey
  • 4 ounces thinly sliced provolone cheese

Directions

Whisk the eggs, cream, salt, and pepper in a medium bowl until well blended. Heat a 6-inch-diameter nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Brush the skillet with some butter. Pour 1/4 cup of the egg mixture into the pan, swirling to coat the bottom of the pan evenly. Cover and cook until the egg crepe is just set, about 1 minute and 30 seconds. Invert the skillet over a plate, and allow the egg crepe to drop onto the plate. Repeat to make 4 crepes total, brushing the skillet with melted butter as needed and stacking crepes on the plate.

Cook the bacon in a heavy large frying pan until crisp. Transfer the bacon to paper towels to drain.

Preheat a griddle or grill over medium-high heat. Cut the focaccia horizontally in half. Place the focaccia cut side down on the griddle and cook until the focaccia is heated through and golden brown on the bottom, about 2 minutes. Spread the pesto over the toasted sides of each halved focaccia. Cover the bottom halves of the focaccia with the egg crepes, turkey, provolone, and bacon, dividing equally. Cover with the top halves of focaccia, pesto side down. Cut the sandwich into bite-size wedges. Arrange the sandwiches on a platter and serve.

Friday, July 22, 2011

Double Chocolate Chip Frappacino

In celebration of my new macbook, I decided to treat myself to a delectable treat -

Since there is not a Starbucks or Baskin Robbins within a 100 mile radius of me, I decided to test the following recipe:


1/2 cup Vanilla Silk Light
1 cup Ice
3 tsp Starbucks mocha powder
2 tsp Nestle Toll house semi-sweet mini-topper morsels

Blend 5 minutes-ish

I'm giving myself 3.5 stars because it wasn't bad, but could use a bit more blend time.
Additionally, I think it may be much more tasty with chocolate syrup instead of powder....

Next time, I think I am going to combine equal parts Starbucks mocha powder with warm water to create the syrup. I'll keep you posted.

If you're craving something chocolatey without too many calories and you are nowhere near a Starbucks, try it out! Let us know what you think!

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Rules: Recipes Rate & Rant

There are so many recipe blogs available online, we've started something new. We were raised with our mother cooking the same 5 dishes on a rotating basis, and unfortunately we've fallen into the same trap, which doesn't please our significant other or our taste buds.

We've started a recipe blog where we and our SO (Significant Others) rate the dishes 1-5 stars, 5 being the best. Now, this is supposed to be used as a constructive criticism platform and to help us learn what tastes good and what doesn't. Hopefully we'll share some insightful recipes and what worked, and didn't work, and what we'll do next time to reach the ultimate goal, 5 stars.

You'll find a plethora of options as I'm a strict protein eater, and my sister is a pescatarian. We both love to host so we'll have appetizers, and we wouldn't be true to our hormones if we didn't add desserts!

Feel free to read along, comment on what you think we could do to make it better, and we'll try it out and share our ratings.

Looking forward to opening up our cooking horizons and snapping out of our boring routine.

Stay Tunned!