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{Recipe} Bacon and Cheese Strata

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I love this bacon and cheese strata recipe because you can easily add and alter the ingredients to suit your personal tastes and the kids love helping to make it!!

Bacon and Cheese Strata

The kids can do most of this by themselves with just supervision and some directions.

Ingredients:

½ cup milk

½ cup cream

6 slices of bread

1 cup of grated cheese (I use mozzarella)

4 bacon rashors

8 eggs

Shallots

Salt and Pepper

*Additional/alternative ingredients can include: mushrooms, tomato, spinach, other vegetables, etc.

 Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
  2. Grease tray/muffin tins (we use tray at home and muffin tins for school lunches)
  3. Crack eggs into bowl. Add milk, cream, salt and pepper. Whisk together.
  4. Cut shallots and slice bacon into strips. Add to egg mix.
  1. Tear bread into pieces.
  2. Add bread and cheese to mix. Soak the bread in the egg.
  3. Pour mix into tray/muffin tins and add a sprinkle of cheese over the top.
  1. Bake for approx. 30 minutes or until egg is cooked. *Every oven is different to please adjust accordingly.
  2. Sit strata for 5 minutes and then enjoy!!

 

Bacon Stuffed Potato Skins {Recipe}

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This stuffed potato skins recipe can be made as a main meal, side dish or entrée/starter. Just adjust the quantity to suit.

Bacon stuffed potato skins

Ingredients:

4x Med-large potatoes
2x Bacon rashers (approx. half per potato)
1 tbs x Sour cream
1.5 tbs x Butter/margarine
2-3 tbs x Cream (depending on your taste)
A sprinkle of mozzarella cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
Optional – additional sour cream for presentation
Shallots

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180˚.
2. Cut potatoes in half with flatter sides to be used as bases.
3. Brush with oil and bake for approx. 30 minutes or until cooked. (I microwave mine for roughly 10 minutes and they are usually cooked right through)
4. Once cooked scoop out centre of potato (put this into a bowl as we will use this for the filling) and leave just a thin amount of potato on the skin. Put skins back in the oven to crisp up. This takes approx. 20 minutes.
4. While potatoes are cooking, dice bacon and fry off.
5. Add bacon to bowl of potato centres. Add the butter, sour cream, cream, salt and pepper. Mash together.
6. Remove the skins from the oven and fill with mash mix. Top with a sprinkle of cheese and place back into oven until cheese has melted and browned slightly.
7. Add a little sour cream and shallots prior to serving.

ENJOY!

Zucchini Slice Recipe – Easy and Delicious

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Zucchini Slice Recipe. There are so many to choose from but this recipe is such a simple one to make that even the most kitchen challenged person could make it. It is absolutely delicious and as an added bonus it hides all the vegetables from fussy eaters!!
It can be easily altered to add shallots, herbs, etc. however it is tasty enough on its own.

Zucchini Slice Recipe

Ingredients
1 cup self raising flour (sifted)
5 eggs
1 zucchini (grated)
1 carrot (grated)
4 middle rashers bacon (chopped)
1 onion (diced)
1 cup grated cheese
60ml vegetable oil
Method
1.    Preheat oven to 170°C.
2.    Add eggs to flour and beat until smooth and well mixed.
3.    Add zucchini, carrot, bacon, onion, oil and cheese to mix.
4.    Stir until combined.
5.    Pour into baking tray/pan and bake in oven for 30 minutes or until cooked.

Enjoy your Zucchini Slice!

This zucchini slice recipe is perfect for morning tea, lunch, kids lunch, dinner, side dish, etc. It is very versatile and very tasty.

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Make the Time – Its worth It!

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Girls Day Out With Mr 3!

As you can probably tell by the lack of posts lately that I have been absolutely run off my feet, between studying for exams, assignments, looking after the kids, keeping the house semi-organised from being a complete shambles, organising dinners, the kids’ homework, sorting out our house, our holiday, etc. I have had no time for anything ‘fun’!

I decided as K (3) and I haven’t really had time to do anything alone recently I’d forget about all the shit I ‘need’ to do and just spend time with the little guy. We got a day that D was at school and C was at work where he should beand we took advantage of it. We had the ultimate girls day (yes I realise he is a boy) but we had so much fun.

He got a haircut (he loves getting it cut and spiked up); we bought him a new pair of shoes ($15 Slazenger sneakers from Spendless Shoes or something like that. What a BARGAIN!! And to top it off we went to an actual real café for lunch.

We dined at Cino’s in East Maitland – Greenhills.

The service was fantastic, food was great and the coffee was delicious.

I ordered a big breaky – Don’t be judging me I was freaking starving! – $17.90

K got chicken nuggets and chips – $7.90 which I might add was a waste of money. K was only interested in helping me devour my meal. I did find the prices a bit high but I think that’s the chef coming out in me (I know roughly what everything costs and how much profit they would have made). However the atmosphere was good and best of all it was kid friendly. K and I talked about loads of different things and he got really excited, I just loved the look he had in his eyes.

He was having fun and so was I!

This is something I am going to have to make time to do on a regular basis with the family, whether it is all of us at once or just one on one. It was almost therapeutic to actually sit, relax and just talk (yes I am aware I was talking to a 3 year old but gee has he got some interesting stories to tell)  ;p

Do you have regular dates with your husband/wife/partner? Kids?

What do you do to mix things up?  

Tomato, Bacon and Basil Soup Recipe

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This Tomato, Bacon and Basil Soup recipe is so quick and easy to make. Best of all it tastes delicious while being extremely budget friendly!
Let me just say that my youngest loathes tomato and I mean to the point of he will find/taste the tiniest piece hiding and pull/spit it out. He loved this soup!!

 

*It can be made with canned tomato (whole peeled, crushed, pureed, etc) or fresh peeled tomato. Both taste as good as each other!

Tomato, Bacon and Basil Soup Recipe with Garlic Ciabatta

 Serves 6
 Ingredients
*3x 400g canned tomato or 2kg fresh peeled tomato
1x onion roughly chopped
4x bacon rashers roughly chopped
1x tsp garlic
2x tsp Gourmet Gardens basil
1-1.5x cups of water
1x tsp sugar (prevents the tomato going bitter)
Salt and Pepper to taste
Ciabatta: butter, garlic, ciabatta bread

 

Method
 1.    Roughly chop bacon and garlic and fry.
2.    Preheat oven to 200 degrees (for ciabatta).
3.    Add garlic and basil, stir through. C
4.    Cook off until the aroma is strong.
5.    Add tomato and heat on low-medium. Stirring.
6.    Add sugar and season to taste.
7.    Let simmer on low for 10 mins.
8.    Mix garlic and butter and spread onto ciabatta bread.
9.    Place in oven, turn once when required.
10.Blend ingredients.
11.Serve with delicious ciabatta.

 

**This can be made creamy by adding approx. ¼ cup of cream during the simmer stage.
ENJOY this delicious winter warmer!!

 

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