Breakfast Yummy Recipe

CRACKED EGG BREAKFAST PIES - www.williams-sonoma.com

** Substitue Potato flour to make Gluten Free. **Substitue AGED cheddar cheese to lower dairy content. 

Ingredients:

• 18 bacon slices, cooked until crispy
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 Tbs. sugar
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 8 Tbs. (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/4-inch cubes
• 3 Tbs. ice water, plus more as needed
• 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
• 8 eggs
• Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
• 1 Tbs. finely chopped fresh chives

Directions:

Place 2 bacon slices in a food processor and pulse until coarsely chopped. Add the flour, sugar and salt and pulse until combined, about 5 pulses. Add the butter and process until the mixture resembles coarse meal, about 10 pulses. Add the 3 Tbs. ice water and pulse 2 or 3 times. The dough should hold together when squeezed with your fingers but should not be sticky. If it is crumbly, add more water 1 tsp. at a time, pulsing twice after each addition. Turn the dough out onto a work surface and shape into a disk. Wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or up to overnight.

Heat oven to 400 degrees. 

Let the dough stand at room temperature for 5 minutes. On a floured surface, roll out the dough into a round 1/8 inch thick. Using the larger side of the circle cutter, cut out 8 rounds, rerolling the scraps as needed. Flour both sides of the dough rounds and prick the dough with a fork. Transfer to the prepared baking sheet.


Flour the muffin tin wells. Place 1 dough round in each well.  Push the dough down into the wells to form the bottom crust. Bake until the crust is golden brown, about 5 minutes. Remove from oven. Sprinkle 1 Tbs. cheese over each crust and crack 1 egg into each one. Cook until the eggs are set, 8 to 10 minutes. Using a nonstick heatproof spatula or a mini-pie lifter, carefully transfer the pies to a wire rack.

Repeat the process with the remaining dough rounds, cheese and eggs. Season the pies with salt and pepper and garnish with the chives. Serve each pie with 2 bacon slices. Serves 8.

Deadlines vs. Goals

I recently read that most Bloggers have a self-imposed deadline within their Blog. This little snippet of possible truth has thrown me into a whirlwind of concern. How can I create a deadline in regards to restaurant reviews? Make a goal to eat at one new place a week? A bit unreasonable I think! Eat at one new place a month? Even more unreasonable. It's hard to define a realistic deadline when it comes to opinions on food and food experiences.  So I'm setting a GOAL not a deadline. Those are two very different words.  Look them up if you need clarification.

MY GOAL IS to write about my eating experiences whether dining in or out or at a friends' home.  I'm thinking that using a "bloat meter" is something that's relevant to me and maybe to someone else who deals with oddball food issues. Granted, that's assuming there's life in the void of cyberspace. If I'm the only one who gets sucked into this particular void then what a great food diary for myself! Lame, I know.  Especially since I've never been good at keeping a food diary. Every diet I've ever been on has pounded this on me to no avail. Although I did gain weight on Jenny, NutriSystem and Weight Watchers. Who wants to keep track of that? Yes, I'd love to keep a diary of my weight gain. How inspiring! So motivating! Not!!!

My snobbery is intact and I shall not make this a weight loss, or gain, blog.  It's about food, where to eat it, what to eat and how it affects my gut health. That's my non-bloated goal.

In the beginning...there was me and food.

Here I go starting a blog about food and the restaurants around Indy. Keep in my mind this is quite a feat for me, not the writing but the food.  I must avoid chicken, grains, gluten, rice, corn and soy like the plague! The vast majority of processed foods is out too.  Bright side? Is there one? Yes!  I can have some dairy products.  So all culinary delights are not lost.  Even with all these 'restrictions' (which to me are 'freedoms' from sickness), I manage to eat yummy flavorful food while dining out. It can be done and I will prove it. Maybe one day I should add a "Bloat Meter" to each review. For now, let's just see how it goes.