Happy Birthday to Meeee!!!

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Whew. Busy. School is in full swing and I have too many hobbies haha. So my birthday! It was fun and I am now 36! 36 is a good number because it is evenly divisible by 3, my absolute favorite of all of the numbers, so it will be an awesome year.

I made buttermilk pancakes for breakfast…

And hooked up some grannies…

Pink and green makes me smile.

And then there was dinner. See that pasta there on the table? It is the BEST! Nobody makes noodles like my mom!

Italian Rum Cake. NOM! Have you had this? It is such an amazing combination of cake and pudding and rum and frosting and candied almonds….yum. This one was from Sweetsboro Pastry Shoppe which is the best bakery in South Jersey. Maybe even on Planet Earth.

A rare self-portrait. Yes, I leave the house without makeup. Routinely.

I love this picture of my mom, she’s so pretty! Even when she’s giving Lukester the side-eye.

(It’s amazing how that kid manages to sneak into EVERY photo.)

Fruit flowers!

Rocky Mountain Toast, Girled Up

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

I am a lucky girl. My guy made a breakfast for me that I had never even heard of before, and it was awesome.

Naturally I had to play around with it a bit.

If you haven’t had Rocky Mountain Toast, you need to try it. Your taste buds will thank you. Your spouse/SO will cheer. Your kids will spontaneously mop the floors and dust the furniture. And your pets will wipe their paws before coming inside. You may even win the lottery.*

All because of this recipe that I am about to share with you.

Punch a hole in a piece of bread (this works great if the bread is frozen!).

Rocky Mountain Toast

Play with your food.

Rocky Mountain Toast

Give the bread dudes to your kid.

Feet first.

Annoy your kid by taking a ridiculous number of pictures of him. Stop when he is properly exasperated.

Seriously, mom.

Butter both sides of the bread, put butter in a pan that has been heated to egg-frying temperature, and place the bread in the pan. This is not health food, people.

Rocky Mountain Toast

Crack one egg into the toast hole. Is it me or does it look like this dude is pregnant with a yolk baby?

Rocky Mountain Toast

Make like you’re frying an egg. Flip it when the egg is mostly cooked through.

Rocky Mountain Toast

After you’ve flipped it, sprinkle some Mrs. Dash on top of the egg. Have you heard of Mrs. Dash? This was also a new thing for me and now it goes in everything. Pasta gravy, soup, oatmeal…whatever. It is The Spice of the Gods. Then put a slice of cheese on top.

Rocky Mountain Toast

But that square is just so…square. And you can’t see the little egg dude! So use your cookie cutter for the next piece of cheese. Or make a cheese swimsuit and a hat and sunglasses.

Rocky Mountain Toast

Finally! Time to eat it! You can cook the egg way more than I did, I just like runny yolks.

Rocky Mountain Toast

*Results not guaranteed. But good luck!