Breakfast Skillet

 

We mixed it up a bit the other morning and decided to throw all of our breakfast ingredients together in one pan. All of our usual morning ingredients were present - eggs, hash browns, meat of some kind (in this case bacon),shredded cheese and fresh herbs. You can use different meats. If you want to make it a little healthier, you can use turkey bacon or turkey sausage. You may just have to add more vegetable oil for your hash browns.


This makes enough for 2 people, so adjust as necessary.


Here's what you need:
4 eggs
4 strips of bacon
1-2 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 or 2 cups of hash browns (basically enough to cover the bottom of a 10" skillet)
Handful of fresh herbs (we used Italian parsley here)
1/4-1/2 cup shredded cheese
Kosher Salt
Black pepper


Here's what you do:
Heat your high-walled skillet over medium heat and crisp up the bacon first.

Once bacon is nice and crispy, remove from the pan, and add just a touch of vegetable oil, probably only 1 or 2 tablespoons. The amount of veg oil depends on how much fat rendered out of your bacon as well

Pour in your hash browns so that they cover the bottom of the skillet.

Let those hang out and brown. Meanwhile, beat 4 eggs.

Chop a handful of fresh herbs, and add it to the eggs.

Finally, shred some cheese into the eggs. Give that a good mix and set aside until the hash browns have crisped.

Chop your bacon into bits and set aside.

Once you have some nice browning on your hash browns, pour the eggs into the skillet.

Let that set up for about a minute a bit, then add the bacon.

Fold the mixture together to combine the bacon into the skillet.

Once the eggs are added, it should only take a few minutes for them to cook through.


Divide in half and serve.

Enjoy!

Grown-Up Grilled Cheese

 

We're going to be honest - lunch is not a very exciting meal in our house. We make a lot of sandwiches or have left-over soup. Sometimes, we just have a late breakfast and skip lunch altogether. When we do make lunch, however, one of our favorites is grilled cheese. There's no real recipe, and our "grown-up" ingredients change based on what we have available.


Here's what you need:
Bread (2 slices per sandwich)
2 different cheeses - we used cheddar and Monterrey Jack this time
Italian Seasoning - We actually prefer to use fresh basil, but we were out.
Tomato - again, we prefer a Roma or Vine tomato, but we only had grape tomatoes, so we made due


Here's what you do:
Start by shredding both cheeses into a bowl.

Sprinkle in about a teaspoon of Italian seasoning. If you're using fresh herbs, just layer on later.

Butter the backs of the bread. Lay butter side down on a cutting board.

If you have fresh herbs, lay those down first, so that the cheese is in the middle of your ingredients. If not, just pile on the cheese.

Next, top with the tomatoes.

Put the other half of your bread on, and put either in a hot skillet, or in our case, a panini press. 

Let that cook for a couple minutes, then flip. We turn ours on the panini press too, so we get this cool waffle pattern on the bread. 

Slice and serve. See, even grilled cheese can be fun!


Enjoy!