Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto

I love this stuff! It is perfect on bagel or panini sandwiches with turkey or ham or even just as a sauce on pasta. Perfect with spinach and cheese. It can be used as a sauce or a spread. If you haven't tried it you should!

Dora & Diego Let’s Cook Birds’ Nests

In honor of Easter coming up I'm posting a recipe I found. I love these, and I can eat lots of them! Oh, and my child who eats regular food loves it too. =)

Serving Size:
Makes 4 servings

Ingredients:
Nonstick cooking spray
5 cups frozen loose-packshredded-style hash brown potatoes
5 eggs
2 tablespoons butter, melted
2 tablespoons canola oil
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup shredded low-fat cheddar cheese
6 grape tomatoes, halved (optional)

Method:
Let’s make it! ¡Vámonos!

Preheat oven to 425°F. Coat a large baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray. Place potatoes in a large bowl, breaking up any large clumps.

In a small bowl, beat 1 egg, butter, oil, and salt with a fork until well combined. Add egg mixture to potatoes and toss to coat completely. Divide potato mixture into 4 equal mounds 3 to 4 inches across. With the back of a spoon create a ¼-cup sized indention in center of each mound.

Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes or until golden brown. Crack 1 of each of the remaining eggs into the mounds. Top with cheese. Bake for about 7 minutes until egg whites are set and yolk is almost cooked through, or to the doneness you’d like.
Transfer to plates and top with grape tomatoes, if you’d like.

Recipe reprinted from the book Dora & Diego Let’s Cook. Copyright © 2010. Photographs Copyright © 2010 by Greg Scheidemann and Chris Hennessey. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Roll-Out Sugar Cookies (My First Post!)

I'm sorry Kari that I didn't post this in time for Halloween knowing how much you like the chocolate version of these cookies. Better late than never. Thanks for asking about the recipe Heidi, and actually reminding me that I have this recipe on my laptop so I can post it :)

1 C butter
1 C sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 tsp baking powder
3 C flour

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. Mix baking powder and flour, add one cup at a time, mixing after each addition. The dough will be very stiff; blend last flour by hand (if too stiff and water a tsp at a time). Do not chill dough. Divide dough into two portions. On a floured surface, roll each portion into a circle approximately 12 inches in diameter and 1/8 inch thick. Dip cutters in flour before each use. Bake cookies on and ungreased cookie sheet on top rack of oven for 6-7 minutes, or until lightly browned. Makes 20-24 average-sized cookies.

For chocolate cookies, blend in three ounces melted, unsweetened chocolate.

Darcie's Note: I typically bake the cookies less than required because I love them to be super soft.

Scallion Pancakes with Crispy Turkey and Cranberry Hoisin Sauce

As I was sitting in the Dr's waiting room this past week, which I'm doing a lot of lately, I saw this yummy recipe and thought I'd share it. I'm bummed that there isn't a picture. It looked really tasty on TV and I could just smell it as they made it. I think I'm going to try it with my turkey leftovers this year. BTW, what are you all doing for Turkey day this year?

Scallion Pancakes with Crispy Turkey and Cranberry Hoisin Sauce

Baked Tomatoes

4 ripe tomatoes 1/2 c butter
2 c fresh bread crumbs
1/4 c grated Parmesan cheese
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tsp dried thyme
1/4 tsp hot pepper sauce

Heat oven to 350.
Slice stem ends off tomatoes. Cut them in half and place cut side up in a baking dish.
Melt butter in a skillet. Stir in bread crumbs, cheese, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, thyme and hot sauce. Place 2 Tbl of mixture on each tomato half.
Bake 30 min, until topping is browned.

Baked Sweet Potato Wedges

A Paula Deen recipe.

1/2 c + 2 Tbl butter
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
4 sweet potatoes, scrubbed and cut into lengthwise wedges
salt
pepper

Preheat oven to 400.
Melt butter. Remove from heat and add cinnamon. Add sweet potatoes and toss.
Season with salt and pepper.
Roast about 25 minutes until tender.

Brownies

We need some chocolate on this blog.

Need I say more? In case you were looking for an awesome brownie recipe this one is by far the best in my world. Nestle Toll House Brownies.