Breakfast

Easy- check. Tasty - check. Use of cute egg cup - check. Favorite breakfast treat = soft boiled egg.

Fancy Oatmeal

I'm on an oatmeal kick and it's not even the middle of winter!

Creme Brulee Oatmeal at Simply Crepes

Bananas Foster Oatmeal at Flour City Diner. I like my oatmeal fancy.

Danish pancakes at the beach

Aaron has been doing his share of cooking and baking at the beach.

Memorial Day Weekend

We had a great Memorial Day weekend. We slept in every morning and had breakfast at our favorite places...

We had the new Starbuck's breakfast sandwiches (good), Jim's Restaurant coffee cake, and Public Market breakfast tacos.

We had iced coffee everyday. Aaron broke down and got one of the double walled cups too, only Venti sized.

Aaron tore down a wall in the basement and started our basement improvement project.

Outside, I planted our window boxes, herbs and then we planted our garden.

A lot of work but we also saw "I Love You Man", "Terminator Salvation", "Night at the Museum" and watched "The Happening" on Netflix.

And we didn't turn the TV on once this weekend!

Pre Valentine's Day brunch

I can't wait until Valentine's Day. We had brunch last sunday with all my heart themed accoutrements.

I tried to get fancy with Aaron's coffee and draw a heart in the foam. Ehhh. I could use one of these machines!

And Aaron made heart shaped scones with pink sugar on top. We had them with cream and strawberry preserves. Sooo gooood.

Holiday Brunch

Today we had a holiday brunch for Chuck, Tina, Shruti and Vishal. Oh,and Lauren too.

Aaron made his signature Dutch Baby... really wowed the crowd.

Brunch panorama.

After we ate we exchanged presents. Oscar and Stewie were very helpful in the unwrapping process.

"Hurry up kid! I want my catnip mouse."

picnic breakfast
Originally uploaded by ljc@flickr

We had a picnic breakfast in the back yard this morning. Aaron made a dutch baby.

As demonstrated here... Dutch Babies are pretty easy to make. But I thought I should point out that Williams Sonoma sells an organic Dutch Baby mix now.

I like mine with berries and cream, but the apples look good too.

Lookit this breakfast Aaron made this morning.

Dutch baby! This is the first time he's made it in the cast iron skillet my mom found for us.

It think it makes the Dutch Baby super poofy which is the cool thing about Dutch
Babies.

Oh and the song I like to sing when we have one... (to the tune of Beach Boys "Beach Baby")

*Dutch Baby, Dutch Baby hot in the pan, Gonna taste so good with powdered sugar!*

Here is the Dutch Baby recipe...
4 eggs
1 cup flour
1 cup milk
1/8 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons butter

Cut butter into a cast iron pan and heat in a 400 degree oven until the butter melts. While butter is melting, mix other ingredients together. Pull the pan out of oven, pour batter into it and return to the oven. Bake until puffy and browned, about twenty minutes.