Sweet n' Savory Eggs

These eggs are yummy for breakfast or lunch! I made up the recipe one morning when I didn't know if I wanted a sweet breakfast or a savory one!
Serves 3

1 sweet potato diced
1/2 large yellow onion
5 cloves garlic
1 apple diced (I like fuji)
6 eggs
Olive oil or Coconut Oil (approx 3-4 T)
Sharp Cheddar Cheese (I like Tillamook vintage white)
Fresh Cilantro (or any favorite herb) approx 1/2 cup chopped
large frypan (I use a cast iron skillet)
Salt and Pepper to taste

1) Heat pan on med-low heat and add oil and sweet potato. Cook until browned and almost completely soft.
2) Add onions cook until carmelized and a little browned.
3) Add apples, garlic and cilantro and cook 1 min and then add eggs.
4) If you are not using a non-stick pan (to be healthier) you can mush all ingredients to one side of the pan and add some water to the other side.
5) When the eggs are firm to the touch. Remove from heat and add cheese to melt on the top.
6) Add salt and pepper to taste.
7) Serve and enjoy.

Stuffed Garlic Turkey Burgers!

Ingredients:

2 lbs Ground Turkey 

1 Head Garlic (or less depending on how much your like Garlic) 

8 Kalamata Olives (opt) 

1/4 t Red Pepper Flakes 

2 t Dried Minced Onion

Italian Seasoning (or whatever your favorite seasoning is)

1 egg + plus 2-3 to fry and put on top patties

Ground Pepper to Taste

Monterey Jack Cheese (or any favorite cheese)

Olive Oil for frying 

medium frying pan

tomatoes (opt)

lettuce (opt)

sliced yellow onion (opt)

Peel garlic, I am a big fan of the smash technique. I just lightly smash each clove with the flat side of my knife which loosens the skin making it easier to peel or hit it harder to break up the garlic into chunks.

 

1) Heat up a frying pan with olive oil at medium low heat and add the chunks of garlic. Roughly chop some Kalamata Olives and add them along with some of the juice from their container (approx 1 T) and let cook for 1-2 mins take off stove before the garlic starts to brown.

2) Pour Ground Turkey into a mixing bowl and add, red pepper, dried minced onion, half of 1 beaten egg, Italian Seasoning, black pepper. 

3) Divide turkey into 4 (for 2 burgers) or 6 (for 3 burgers) balls depending on how large you like your patties to be.

4) Flatten each patty and set aside half of them. Take 5-8 chunks of garlic out of the oil and olives mixture and place them evenly on top the flattened patties .

5) Lay 1 of the patties from those set aside on top of each the patties that have garlic on them . And sandwich them together, squishing the outer edges together and re molding into a patty shape really well to keep them from falling apart while frying. 

6) Heat oil to medium heat and place your burgers in it to begin frying. Cook until there is no longer any pink meat. 

7)When they are almost finished cooking, fry eggs to put on top you can add the left over olives & garlic to them or pour them on top after they are cooked, slice some cheese, onions & tomato and lettuce.

8) Assemble with Mayo, Ketchup on your favorite kind of buns, and add all the fixings as you desire!

Enjoy

Tamari Garlic Green Beans

Be a lazy cook, & still impress with this yummy side dish! This was actually what I served to my fiance along with an entree, the very first time I EVER cooked for him! He was so impressed! He thought for sure I had some amazing & complicated secret on how to make them! But I didn't! Take took me a total of 15 mins to cook! He kept taking a little bit, then coming back for more & more of them. *Note: This was when we first started dating aka pre-vegetable loving days ;)

Ingredients:

Tamari (very similar to Soy Sauce with less sodium) or Soy Sauce  approx 2 Tbl

Garlic freshly minced  approx 4 cloves

Olive Oil approx 1/4 cup

Green Beans (fresh or frozen) approx 5 cups or 1/2 bag frozen
Chili Flakes to taste if desired

How to make it:

1) Heat frying pan with olive oil.

2) Add minced garlic cook approx 30 secs.

3) Add beans and Tamari (& Chili Flakes if spiciness desired)

4) Cook until warm but still firm approx 5 mins and probably 10 mins for frozen.

Great paired with Red Wine & Beef Stroganoff! See my recipe here

Make Your Own Pesto!

You gotta love Italy for coming up with Pesto YUM! Pesto just makes so many things taste better! And the premade kind you get from the store doesn't even taste like pesto in comparison to fresh pesto. But don't worry it turns out that it is actually pretty easy to make yourself!

Ingredients:

1 bunch Fresh basil

3 Tbl Pine nuts

4 cloves Garlic

1/2 cup Olive oil

2 oz Parmesan or Romano cheese grated

How to make it:

1)Rinse basil & toast pine nuts in a dry pan until light brown spots appear.

2) Mash all ingredients except olive oil and cheese by hand for a chunky result, or puree in a food processor.

3) Add olive oil & cheese.

4) Keeps in a closed container in the fridge. Check on it in 3-4 days and if the olive oil hasn't risen to the top add some more to create a protective barrier or freeze in an ice cube tray.

*Use it in sandwiches, pasta, pizza, potatoes, fish, chicken, vegetable dishes you name it!

"Make Him Fall for You" Beef Stroganoff

Serve this to your prospect and watch his heart melt! ;)

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Unsalted butter

3 cloves Garlic minced

1 cup chopped onion

2 small cans or 1 big can mushrooms (of course fresh is always best but I like to cheat on this recipe)

2 lbs sirloin or round steak cut into bite-size pieces

1 cup Sourcream

Salt & Pepper to taste

1Tsp Kitchen Bouquet

2Tsp Worchestershire Sauce

3 Tbl Flour

2 Beef boullion cubes

Brown Rice or Pasta

Fry pan

Baking dish


How to make it:

PREHEAT oven 350 degrees

1) Cook pasta or Rice


2) Melt butter into fry pan and brown the steak "well" in it.


3) Add garlic, onion & mushrooms & cook until soft.


4) Add sourcream, Kitchen Bouquet & Worchestershire.


5) Mix 3 Tbl of flour into 1 cup boullion (2 bouillion cubes in 1 cup hot water) and add to everything else.


6) Pour into baking dish, cover & bake.

*Best to bake 20 mins at 350 degrees then 300 degrees for 1 hr (or longer) but just 1 hr at 350 degrees will work just fine!