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Gingerbread Mug Cake (Egg-less)

On the 10th day of Christmas, I ran out of eggs. I had planned to make gingerbread whoopie pies and/or egg nog cupcakes, but the no-egg situation proved devastating to my plans. Luckily a quick Google search revealed a number of fun egg-free dessert ideas, including a few eggless mug cakes. So, I quickly scrapped my original plans, cobbled together a few different recipes, and came up with something delicious, easy, and totally egg-free: Gingerbread Mug Cake. It’s kind of mind-blowing, but from start to finish this cake took only 5 minutes to cook, and all I needed was a mug, some basic ingredients, and a microwave. And before you say that nothing delicious can possibly be produced with such ease, let me assure...

Mini Bagel Sandwiches with Turkey, Lettuce, and Tomato

In law school, when I was short on cash (almost always), or on a health kick (every time my jeans felt too tight), I would decide to be good and pack myself lunch everyday. I ate the same thing every single day — turkey sandwich on wheat — but I never got bored of eating it, because I always loaded it down with my favorite fixings. Avocado, lots of leafy greens, cream cheese, bacon, onions…mmm! That’s the best thing about making your own sandwiches, you know — you get to put whatever you want on it, and nobody can charge you extra for anything. Of all the lunches I brought to school, it was my bagel sandwiches that elicited the most looks of envy...

I woke up this morning with the most intense craving for a gigantic blueberry muffin. You know, one of those sugar-crusted monstrosities from Costco that’s packed to bursting with fat blueberries. Those things are so bad for you, but they’re so delicious! They’re really just dessert masquerading as breakfast. (Which is fine by me — my parents used to let me eat cake and pie and ice cream for breakfast all the time.) These days, my metabolism really can’t handle actual desserts or an entire Costco muffin for breakfast anymore, but I can certainly put away a whole bunch of these equally yummy, normal-sized muffins. There is less than a cup of sugar in the whole batch, and two cups of fresh, juicy berries...

I think it’s safe to say that the zucchinis have won. Dan and I are officially sick of the stuff — we’ve eaten zucchini in some form or another every single day this week. Roasted, mainly, but also sauteed, mixed in with scrambled eggs, and cut into strips for fries. These zucchini cakes were a last ditch effort to keep the fruits of last weekend’s labor from going to waste, but there’s still one gigantic squash left. Thankfully, my parents were happy to take that off our hands before it started festering in a dark corner of my fridge. Tired as I am of zucchini, these cakes were still pretty tasty. Kind of like crab cakes, only filled with zucchini instead of crab meat....

Happy St. Patty’s Day, everyone! Are you wearing green? I’m not. I don’t really own anything green; it’s not a great color for me. Thank god no one at work is fanatical about the whole wear-green-on-St. Patty’s Day-or-get-pinched thing. That would have sucked! Elementary school bus rides really traumatized me on that front. Anyway, I’ve been thinking long and hard about what to do for my St. Patty’s Day post. Something green? Something with Guiness or whiskey? Something super Irish? I did the first two last year, so I decided to go Irish this year. What do Irish people eat? Shepherd’s pie…corned beef…soda bread…potatoes! Gotta have potatoes. The Simply Recipes blog had a post on Colcannon earlier this week that looked pretty tasty, and...

Sushi — Unagi Rolls and California Rolls

Hello, all. I’d like to introduce everyone to my third guest blogger — my good friend Christina Feng. We were near inseparable in our first two years of college, but the only time I ever saw her in the kitchen was the time we made fortune cookies for our friend Jimmy’s birthday. Turns out she was hiding secret cooking powers from me! But now the cat is out of the bag, and she’s here today to share a recipe with us. I’m ghost-writing the blog entry, but all pictures are courtesy of Christina. Thanks, Stina! So Christina’s boyfriend’s parents are in town this weekend, and like the good girlfriend-in-law that she is, she decided to treat them to a delicious home-cooked meal. Miso soup...

Pan Seared Tilapia with Avgolemono Sauce

I’ve been in kind of a cooking rut lately. I haven’t been reading as many cooking blogs, and no recipes have been particularly eye-catching or inspiring. So, we’ve been eating a lot of delivery — Chinese food, Domino’s…the usual junky suspects. And lets not forget the long weekend in Colorado, where we gorged ourselves on birthday cake, lasagna, and tacos after braving the slopes. Yum. But, my rapidly tightening waistband has awakened me to the sad fact that I need start eating less greasy crap and start cooking healthy and delicious meals at home. And maybe exercise occasionally. Maybe. But definitely the healthy cooking thing. What could be healthier than fish? Nothing! And I just happened to have a freezer full of vacuum-sealed tilapia...

In lieu of the southern-themed dinner with the Summer Supper Club, I decided to make some fried pickles to snack on throughout the meal. I’ve only ever had fried pickles once before, but I found them to be absolutely delicious — crispy, salty, sour — and totally addictive. Like pistachios, they are impossible to stop eating once you taste one. The problem with making fried pickles is that I don’t have a fryer. I don’t even have a deep pot that I can substitute for a fryer. Plus, I’m trying to watch my girlish figure, so eating deep fried food probably isn’t a great idea anyway. Fortunately, baking is always an acceptable alternative, and Google presented me with bazillions of different oven-fried pickles recipes...

Dan (on the phone): “What are you up to?” Me: “I’m making eggs in a hole.” Dan: “…why are you in a hole?” Me: “No, I’m making eggs in a hole. Like…cooking eggs inside a piece of bread.” Dan: ”Weird.” Actually, eggs-in-a-hole aren’t weird at all! Super delicious, maybe, but not weird. And it’s really easy to make. Just take a small drinking glass, cut a hole in the middle of a slice of bread, crack an egg into the hole, and boom — instant delicious meal. I had a little bit of trouble with flipping today. Usually the egg cooks right into the bread and it’s easy to turn the whole thing over at once. But I had the pan on lower heat than...

I woke up this morning with the worst craving for eggs. Probably because it’s the weekend, and I’ve got brunch on the brain. Alas, going out for brunch was out of the question — I just got back from a spring break cruise and can’t afford to be spending any more $$$. Fortunately, eggs and spinach are cheap, so one short trip to Safeway later, I was ready for breakfast. This was my first time poaching an egg. I’ve scrambled, boiled, fried, deviled and omelette’d the suckers, but poaching always seemed beyond my culinary powers. When I finally worked up the courage to google “how to poach an egg,” I was surprised by how fast and simple it actually was. Technically Eggs Florentine =...

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Gingerbread Mug Cake (Egg-less)

Mini Bagel Sandwiches with Turkey, Lettuce, and Tomato

Blueberry Muffins

Zucchini Cakes

Colcannon

Sushi — Unagi Rolls and California Rolls

Pan Seared Tilapia with Avgolemono Sauce

Oven-Fried Pickles

Eggs-in-a-Hole

Eggs Florentine with Avocado

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