French Toast with Cinnamon Apple

Ingredients:

• 2 TBSP butter
• 1 apple, cored and sliced
• cinnamon
• sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup milk
• 3 slices of wheat bread

Directions:

1) Melt the butter.
2) Cook the apple over medium heat for a minute or two.








3) Add the cinnamon and sugar and cook until it is soft. Then remove.
4) Mix the eggs and the milk.
5) Dip the bread into the egg and milk mixture (both sides).
6) Add to the same pan that the apples were in and cook until crispy, then flip.
7) Cook until crispy on the other side.

Japanese Cucumber

Too vinegary on toast for me, but good with pasta.

Ingredients:

• 1 cucumber
• vinegar
• soy sauce
• 1 TBSP sesame oil
• 1 TBSP sesame seeds
• 3 slices of ginger
• 3 cloves of garlic, smashed once with a knife (unnecessary to cut into pieces)
• pasta, noodles, toast, rice

Directions:

1) Cut the cucumber into chunks.
2) Place into a container you can keep it in overnight or for a few days.
3) Add 2 parts soy sauce for every 3 parts vinegar (I estimated with my eyes).
4) Add the sesame oil, sesame seeds, ginger and garlic.
5) Serve with pasta, noodles, toast or rice.

Garlic Parsley Toast

Pretty simple, but sometimes I don't think of a recipe until I see it, so I think other people must do the same thing.

I added more parsley than the original recipe called for because I just found out it's SUPER healthy. Better than kale healthy.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 TBSP olive oil
• 2 garlic cloves, smashed
• 1 TBSP parsley, chopped
• pinch of red pepper flakes
• pinch of salt
• 2 slices of wheat bread

Directions:

1) Mix the oil, garlic, parsley, red pepper and salt.
2) Put the bread in a pan until it is toasted on one side.
3) Flip and spread the oil mixture.
4) Allow to toast on the other side.






Of course, if you have a toaster oven or oven you can toast the bread at 450 F to your liking.

Homemade Mayo and Two Sandwiches to go with it

I've been told that mayo in Korea is really terrible, even by websites in Korea, so I decided to make my own--with a recipe from an English language Korean website!

Ingredients for the mayo:

• 1 egg yolk
• 1/2 tsp mustard
• 1 clove of garlic, diced
• 1/2 cup + 1 TBSP olive oil
• juice of 1/2 a lemon
• salt and pepper

Directions:

1) Mix the egg yolk, mustard and garlic together.









2) Add the 1/2 cup of olive oil, a few drops at a time at first, and then once it seems more incorporated you can add it in a steady stream.
3) Add the lemon juice, salt and pepper.
4) Add the extra TBSP of olive oil if necessary





5) Store in an air-tight container.











2 good sandwich ideas:

Ingredients:

• 2 slices of bread
• cucumber, sliced
• tomato, sliced
• red onion, diced
• mayo
• lemon juice

OR

• 1 slice of bread
• 1 sunny side up egg

I liked the second one far better.

Easy Egg Sandwich

Recipe taken from here where they call it a fried egg sandwich. I wouldn't call this a fried egg; its more like an omelet that you put on bread to eat on the go.

Ingredients:

• 1 piece of bread (or 2, I left mine open faced)
• 1 tsp vegetable oil
• 2 eggs
• salt and pepper
• 1 slice of mozzarella cheese
• 3 green onions

Directions:

1) Toast the bread.
2) Put the oil in the pan and heat.
3)Put the eggs with the salt and pepper in a glass and mix with a fork.
4) Poor the eggs into the pan and heat until stiff.





5) Put the cheese and green onions on top.
6) Cook for 1 minute.
7) Fold the egg over the cheese like a 3 fold letter, and then the sides in.
8) Place on top of the toast.

Baigan Choka (Eggplant finished with hot oil)

Baigan is another word for Eggplant and Choka is a Hindi word meaning to finish a dish with hot flavored oil. The recipe was taken from here and cut in 1/3 as I only had 1 eggplant left. The other recipe says to grill everything, but I don't have that option so everything was put into a pan until it was charred slightly and heated through.

Ingredients:

• 1 eggplant, charred and cooled
• 8 plum tomatoes, charred and cooled
• 1/4 onion, charred and cooled
• 3 cloves of garlic, charred and cooled
• 1 jalapeno
• 4 TBSP olive oil
• 3 cloves of garlic

Directions:

1)Trim the stems off the eggplant and chop it.
2) Mash the eggplant and the tomatoes together.








3) Add the garlic, onion and, jalapeno and mix.
4) Heat the olive oil in a pan.








5) Add the fresh garlic and let it simmer for 15 seconds.









6) Serve with naan or other bread.

Grilled Cheese with Tomatoes and Garlic Mushroom Kale

 I wanted to try kale again, since I didn't get much of it in the Spanish Tortilla with Kale and had never had it at another time. I also saw grilled cheese with tomato in a store earlier so I made that as well to go with it.

Ingredients:

• Grilled Cheese
• butter
• 2 pieces of bread
• 1/2 cup shredded cheese, such as cheddar jack
• 2 slices of tomato
• Garlic Mushroom Kale
• 2 TBSP olive oil
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1/2 cup mushrooms
• 1/2 cup kale, stems removed and chopped

Directions:

1) Place a pan on medium heat and add some butter.
2) Assemble the grilled cheese and place it in the pan.
3) Heat the oil in another pan and add the garlic.
4) Once it starts simmering, add the mushrooms and saute for 5 minutes.
5) Turn over the grilled cheese.





6) Add the kale to the mushrooms and cook for 3 minutes, or until wilted.
7) Both should be done.

Gazpacho

So many tomatoes....

And I can't find the recipe I used again so I have to remember it using the pictures...pretty simple recipe though

Ingredients:

• 6 tomatoes, or what you think would be the equilivent of 6, if some are very very large
• 1 cucumber
• 1 green bell pepper
• 1 piece of bread (and more to eat with if desired)
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• dash of vinegar
• handful of basil
• a few hot peppers (optional)
• salt and pepper to taste

 Directions:

1) Chop all the veg and rip the bread









2) Add the tomatoes, cucumber, bell pepper, bread, oil and vinegar to a food processor (this may need to be done in batches, as mine was)
3)  Add the basil, hot peppers and salt and pepper to taste.

 

Before basil and hot peppers....

 ...After basil and hot peppers

Ricotta Stuffed Crispbreads

From: BBC Good Food 101 Veggie Dishes

Ingredients:

•  2 slices bread, crusts removed
• butter
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1 TBSP olive oil
• 1/2 bell pepper (I used red and orange), seeded and chopped
• 2 oz lettuce or cabbage
• 2 oz cherry tomatoes, halved
• Dash of  white wine vinegar
• "60 g" ricotta cheese...I just spread it on the bread
• handful of basil

Directions:

1) Preheat the oven to 200C.
2) Roll out each slice of bread until flattened.
3) Spread with butter.
4) Chop the garlic and add it on top.






5) Bake for 10 minutes until crisp (I only took them out after doing everything else).








6) Heat the oil in a pan.
7) Add the peppers and cook for a few minutes, until lightly charred.
8) Add the lettuce or cabbage and cook for 2-3 minutes.






9)  Remove from heat.
10) Add tomatoes, vinegar, seasoning.
11) Spread the ricotta on the bread.
12) Place some torn basil on top.
13) Place the cooked mixture on top.
14) Top with the other bread and more basil.