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Mudhorn Eggs

I first discovered this recipe on Foodwishes.com's YouTube channel , which slated them as Turkish eggs.  However, I'm pretty sure that recipe's an adaptation of authentic Turkish eggs, and since my recipe is an adaptation of that recipe ... yeah.  Not gonna claim it's Turkish until someone tells me I can.  Like someone from Turkey, not just any random yahoo. That said, this is arguably my favorite way to eat eggs, so good that I'm not even ashamed to admit that I licked my plate clean and scurried upstairs to work out after I ate it, just so I could burn off what I'd just eaten and eat it again.  Gonna be making this a LOT on nights I get home and need dinner NOW, which is pretty cool, because it's shockingly good for you -- low in butter (you need VERY little to get the flavor), has eggs and wheat toast in it, and a generous serving of yogurt.  Everything the body needs! Mudhorn Eggs Ingredients For the yogurt sauce   7-8 oz plain yogurt, the th...

Yogurt's Pumpkin Pie Yoda

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It ain't green but it's Yogurt and really, Yogurt > Yoda every day of the week, fight me. ... and may the schwartz be with you! Yogurt's Pumpkin Pie Yoda Ingredients 6 oz plain, unsweetened yogurt ---> 18 oz tripled 1/4 cup plain pumpkin puree ---> 3/4 cup tripled 1/4 tsp cinnamon ---> 3/4 tsp tripled 1/4 tsp pumpkin pie spice* 3/4 tsp ---> tripled 1 Tbsp maple syrup ---> 3 Tbsp tripled Instructions Combine all of the above. Whisk to combine. Yeah, that's really it.   A few items of interest: This recipe makes two servings. I use a yogurt maker and make my own yogurt.  It's freakin' awesome.  Much nicer for the environment, too, since we're buying far fewer plastic yogurt containers, while still eating a tonne of yogurt. I can triple this recipe and get it all to fit into an old yogurt container, which means I don't have to measure every time, and at the end of a work day bookended by a bike commute?  That...

Flightsuit Orange & Banana Glaze

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I was looking for a recipe for an orange-cinnamon glaze for fish and ended up with a recipe for topping for waffles that beats all other toppings forever (and we'd tried a lot of different toppings: maple syrup, honey butter, yogurt, you get the idea).  For the order of operations, I think I'd make the batter for the waffles and start the waffle iron heating, then start the glaze, and make the waffles while the sauce reduces, but this was definitely a science experiment that worked out so well that I'm now trying to reverse-engineer it into something replicable. Also, Mark Hamill looks adorable in bright orange, don't let anybody ever tell you any different. <3 Flightsuit Orange & Banana Glaze Ingredients 2 Tbsp butter, melted 2 Tbsp sugar 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 cup orange juice 2 bananas, sliced 1/2-3/4" thick Instructions In a 9" skillet over medium heat, melt butter. Add sugar and cinnamon and whisk to combine. Add the orange ...

Regular-ass Waffles

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Read the ingredient list and the title'll make way more sense. Procured this recipe from this delightful site and made it for my mother-in-law.  She liked it far more than she usually likes healthy cooking.  I like maple syrup yogurt as a topping for mine, though one can never go amiss with butter and maple syrup . TOP THEM WITH FLIGHTSUIT ORANGE & BANANA GLAZE OMG IT'S SO GOOD. <cough> Oh, and if you make them in a Star Wars  waffle iron, they're good for you and  fun. WHIMSY.   Regular-ass Waffles Ingredients 1/2 cup rye flour 1/2 cup whole wheat flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp cinnamon Dash salt 2 Tbsp brown sugar  OR 2 Tbsp white sugar + 1/4 tsp molasses 1 cup milk (I used whole cow milk, but any milk should be fine) 1 tsp vanilla 1 egg OR 1/4 cup pack puree pumpkin 2 Tbsp oil (I used olive oil) Instructions In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. In a 2-cup liquid mea...

Fluffier than Luke's Hair Pancakes

I love pancakes, but man they do not love me back.  Probably because they're nothing but oil and sugar with a bit of processed flour, combined with an egg and fried in butter -- can't imagine  why a human stomach might look at that and say, "Uh, no.  Please and thank you no ." But hey, if you eat pancakes with a veggie-heavy smoothie, they won't kill you as much, and that's awesome because it means you get to eat pancakes, which is just how some weekend days need to go. The name comes from that scene in the original Star Wars  where Luke comes into Leia's holding cell aboard the first Death Star  and tears off his helmet, declaring in his adorably bratty way, "I'm Luke Skywalker!  I'm here to rescue you!"  It must have been humid on that set (I'm betting from the water in the trash compactor, but try not to think about that too hard) because the way his hair fluffs out all over the goddamn place as he's delivering his heroic ...

Smoothie (so good it's) Criminal

I accidentally became a vegetarian in May 2014, and where there've been many benefits to that, the best, I think, is that I eat breakfast every single morning now. Never before had I done that, ever , and now I get all cranky if I don't get to have breakfast. This breakfast, specifically. (For the record, I ate 320 of these in 2015 and 323 of these in 2016 and as of today, the 19th day in the Year of Our Lord 2017, I've eaten 19. I really, really  like this smoothie.) We have the ingredients written down on a sticky note in the kitchen because making breakfast while half-asleep is just not okay most mornings, but at request I'm putting it here. I'm not picky about my protein powders, so long as they're not wicked high in cholesterol or sugar. I tend to like vanilla the least and chocolate the best and strawberry's okay or whatever, nothing to write home about. Really it's all about the banana and oat flavor, for me, because mmm bananas and oats. ...

Perfect Chia Parfait

I love chia seed pudding. It's on-par with instant Jell-O pudding as far as "this is stupidly easy to make," but it tastes better and is better for you. This recipe was inspired by the young lady who hosts Oh She Glows , but the pudding recipe is different, and the measures are different. This recipe fits nicely into two 1-cup Ziploc containers, with the measures in (parentheses) appropriate for six 1-cup Ziploc containers. You can probably guess a) how many of us I'm trying to feed, minimum, and b) how many Ziploc containers come in a pack. It's not laziness, here, it's ... efficiency. Yep. Perfect Chia Parfait Ingredients 1/2 cup (1 1/2 cups) chia seed 3 cups (9 cups) soymilk, almond milk, rice milk, coconut milk, cow milk, etc. 3 tbsp (1/2 cup + 1 tbsp) maple syrup 1 tsp (3 tsp) vanilla 2 (6) kiwis 1 small (3 small) bananas, and you will have some leftover, so be ready to just eat the leftovers Instructions - In a mixing bowl (small if yo...

No-Bowl Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal (with cranberries 'n raisins)

I love banana bread, don't get me wrong, but oatmeal's a thing I'm supposed to eat more of, and since oatmeal is gross and bread isn't, I thought, "why not make a banana bread oatmeal that I can take to work and eat with a fork so it doesn't feel like I'm eating oatmeal?" No not really. What actually happened was three bananas went too ripe to eat and I was too lazy to turn them into banana bread. Plus, I'd just discovered that I could make  no-bowl oatmeal  that tasted really really good, so I figured why not try it with fruit that's going to go bad? No Bowl Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal (with cranberries 'n raisins) Ingredients 1 2/3 cups whole oats, which you are going to pulverize into meal 1 tsp baking powder 1/3 cup packed brown sugar Couple'a shakes cinnamon 1/3 cup peanut butter (smooth or chunky, your call) 1 cup milk or soy milk 3 very ripe bananas 1 egg 1/4 cup applesauce OR 1/2 apple, cored ...

No-Bowl Oatmeal for Hungry Cyclists (and you, too)

Breakfast has long been argued to be the most important meal of the day. I won't argue that it isn't; it probably is. However, it's also the most difficult meal of the day, for me, because a) I don't like most traditional breakfast foods, b) getting out of bed early enough to cook/eat breakfast sucks in general and REALLY sucks in the winter, and c) I'm a cyclist, so eating a big meal and then riding to work makes me want to throw up, and packing up and carting most breakfast foods is either a pain in my ass or impossible. Furthermore, oatmeal with fruit is the perfect breakfast, but it's also oatmeal, which is disgusting, so I don't make it and don't like eating it when I DO make it, so there's that. Pretty much failure all around. This recipe came about because I had half a carton of strawberries and 3/4 of a carton of blueberries threatening to spoil in my 'fridge, but I was too lazy to bother making muffins. It's kind of kissing cousi...