on-the-go breakfast

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I'm not sure if I agree with that but it's definitely my favorite. I could eat breakfast for every meal. However, my busy life as a senior in college doesn't leave me much time to enjoy too many sit down meals. Good thing I spend my spare time thinking of food!

Here's one of my favorite things to make for breakfast, which actually ends up getting consumed on my way to school.

Breakfast Sandwich

Ingredients:

• 1 egg
• 1 piece of toast
• 1 Tbs butter
• Cooking spray
• Salt
• Pepper
• Cooked sausage (about 4 oz)
• Cheese (sliced or shredded)

Directions:

This all happens really fast, which is appropriate given that I typically spend my mornings like a chicken running around with it's head cut off. This may seem like "Breakfast for Dumbies" but follow closely for best results:

Preheat 6 inch skillet on medium high heat.

Place bread in toaster.

Crack egg and whip untill frothy. Add salt and pepper to taste. (Sometimes I'll add old bay :))

Cut sausage into small pieces.

Spray cooking spray into preheated pan, reduce heat to medium. 

Add frothy eggs to hot pan and ensure eggs coat pan.

Stir eggs thoroughly until eggs start to become solid, entire pan should be spread with egg mixture. 

Distribute sausage into the still soft eggs and press down.

Let egg and sausage sit for about 3 mintues.

Butter toast.

Using a spatula, flip egg. Contiune to cook until completely solid, about 2 more mintues.

Transfer egg to toast, top with cheese if desired. 

Serve with juice/coffee, or wrap in a paper towel to eat on the go.

Try it tomorrow for breakfast! Or whatever :)

For more breakfast ideas, checkout this HUGE list of TONS of breakfast ideas at Mr. Breakfast's Website.

hmm smores pie..

Every once in a while my family expects dessert. So a lot of times we have a bunch of ingredients that go together even if I don't know what I'm going to do with them. A few of those things are chocolate chips, marshmallow fluff, and graham cracker crusts.






And honestly, who doesn't think of smores when you have all 3 of those ingredients staring at you in your pantry.




So here's one of my family's favorite:

Smore's Pie
(Note: this is the mini version, you could multiply everything by 8 if you had an 8'' or 9'' graham cracker pie shell, but this night I made just two mini pies, so everything here is per pie)

Ingredients:
- 4oz chocolate chips (or about a handful)
- 1/3c marshmallow cream/fluff
- 1 mini graham cracker pie shell

Directions:

Preheat broiler in oven.





Melt chocolate in microwave in 30 second intervals. Spoon chocolate into pie shells.

Fill plastic bag with fluff. I've found it's easiest to place the plastic bag in a cup and spoon in the marshmallow. Cut 1/2 inch piece off the tip of the bag to pipe fluff out.

Fill the chocolate lined pie shells with fluff.

Place under broiler with oven open. The pies will be in the oven for no longer than 3 minutes. DO NOT WALK AWAY. Watch the pies until the tops turn light brown, or until they've achieved desired brownness.

 

So see, even if you don't have a lot of ingredients or time, you can still have a delicious dessert!

Enjoy!

Chels :)