Tortilla Española With Blistered Cherry Tomato Romesco

 Inspired by Rick Martinez

Mother's Day Brunch Souffle - originally posted on May 19/12

I invited my mom for Mother's Day brunch.  My brother and niece came from out of town for the day to help celebrate.  I knew I wanted to make cheese souffle.  It has been one of mom's favourite things that I make for a long time and I haven't made it for years.  Pain au chocolat has been on my list of things I want to make for a while.  The last time I made my own puff pastry was in cooking school.  It was a group project and we had machines to roll out the dough.  I didn't get a chance to get hands on experience as much as I would have liked, so I'm going to say I've never made it before.  It is time consuming, but not at all difficult.  It's probably because Julie made the instructions so simple.  They turned out wonderfully!

Quiche

I don’t have a recipe as such, but here’s what I’ve got;

I love putting weird stuff in scrambled eggs

Today's concoction; leftover broccoli and rice

Here's what I did;
I made my little fry pan sorta medium hot, then added a little bloop of bacon fat. Let it melt and get hot. Put 2 eggs and a smidge of yogurt in a bowl and beat it all up. Throw it on the bacon fat and stir it around a bit.
Threw my leftover broccoli and rice, stirred it some more. When the eggs were just about set, I tossed some cream cheese into the pan, gave it one good last stir, then on a plate.
This is fantastic.

Footnote
How I cooked my broccoli the other night;
Hot pan + olive oil
3 smallish or medium stalks of broccoli cut into bite sized pieces
Toss around for a while, add a couple of cloves of crushed garlic and a smattering of red pepper flakes. Throw on some salt and some black pepper if you want. Keep tossing it around, but every now and then let it sit-it's really good if you have some blackened bits on the edges of the broccoli flowers.

I know some of you really hate it when I do this non-recipe recipe thing, but I'd really like to encourage you to be fearless. This kind of food doesn't cost the world and the more you experiment the more you will know what works.
Just Cook It!

Clean out the fridge frittata

It's a couple of days before pay day and some of the veggies are getting a little tired. So I decided a frittata was in order. For the most part-this is not a science. Take what's in your fridge and make dinner. Or brunch.