Breakfast Scones

I'm sure we're not the only household to have had their Timmy's budget jump up since the introduction of the breakfast sandwiches. Tom is in love with those heart attack inducing yummies.

To help save us tons of cash I've found a old recipe that, well, are not the same but are in someways better.

Enter Breakfast scones

Their just simple plain scones with scrambled eggs, bacon, and cheddar cheese mixed in.

They make a great handheld meal on their own, which makes it easy for Tom to bypass Tim Hortons on his way to the train.

Ingrediants

2 cups Flour

4tsp baking powder

1tsp salt

1/4 cup butter, in chunks

2 eggs, scrambled

4 slices of bacon crispy and corsly chopped

1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese (we use old)

1/4 cup milk

1 egg

additonal milk for brushing on tops

Preheat oven to 425

Lighty grease baking sheet (put a sheet of parchment or your silpan down)

In a large bowl (or your food processer) combine dry ingredients.

By hand but butter into mix until it becomes crumbly like oatmeal.

Add the cooked eggs, bacon and cheese and toss to mix making sure everything is coated.

In a small bowl beat togther the milk and 1 egg.

Add this to the dry mix and stir together until everything comes together as a sticky dough.

Turn dough onto lightly floured surface and knead a couple times (2-3) until workable.

Pat into a 8" round. Using a sharp knife cut into 6(for huge) 8(for large) 10 (for small) trangles

and arrange them onto your baking sheet.

Brush lightly with milk and bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned on top.

Cupcake Pops

Every month my husband's work does a birthday celebration with cake for whoever's birthday was that month. They usually take turns with who brings cake or other yummies in. This month it was his turn. I decided to take the chance to make Bakerella's Cupcake Pops.

They are basically smashed up cake mixed with icing and then covered in melting chocolate.

Click here for her demonstation on how to make them.

http://bakerella.blogspot.com/2008/04/make-your-cupcakes-pop.html

I think their great. and just so cute.

Heres my first attempt at making them. I decided on blue and pink since they would be celebrating boy and girl birthdays. (how grade-school did that sound? :P)

Welcome

There is always a reason when someone starts a new blog. My reason for this blog is because of a spoon.



Seriously.



This spoon was my tasting spoon during my stage at The York Club here in Toronto. I used this spoon countless times to see what certain sauces were supposed to taste like. It allowed me to sample practically everything that was made there while I was working.



Its real silver, I think it was used for tea service. Its insanely tarnished and its worked its way into our regular utensil drawer. Usually it was always way at the bottom, but I needed it for something since most of my small spoons were dirty or in use due to lots visiting family and serving lots of tea. I pulled it out the other day and just stared at it.

This spoon means so much. Its part of my life before I became a stay at home mom. It came into my knife case during a time of great freedom. The chef at The York Club said I was definitely looking to go off in the right direction and that I would do well in the industry. Most of my chefs at college told me that as well. I had a good tasting tongue and I was creative with foods. I never had the goal to own or manage my own restaurant, I just wanted a top position on the line. That's all, I wanted the hot line with all the action and the starting role on a Friday or Saturday night.



Nowadays I cook for my husband who will in all honestly probley eat anything and two little boys. The youngest seems to be following in his fathers footsteps but considering hes only 2 that more than likely change. My 4 year old is the pickiest eater ever. I can probley name all the things he will eat that's not junk on my two hands. That helped me lose my love of cooking. Seriously who wants to cook a well detailed or planned meal when half your household refuses to eat it.



I've been doing some thinking and I still love food and am incredibly addicted to the Food Network and collecting cookbooks and food magazines. I need to get back to my passion for food and I'm hoping that with this blog I can hold myself accountable to try things again. To take the time to make good meals, to think outside the handful of foods I usually always serve. and mostly to bake more. I always want to be that mom with all the great home baked things so that when people come over there's always something waiting for them.



So this is my record of the rekindling of my passion for food.

hmmmm who knew a small spoon could do so much.