Heart Attack Brownies

This weekend  I made heart attack brownies. Cookie dough, candy bars, Oreos, and brownies all in one. I'm not sure I've ever eaten anything like it. I took it to work today and my staff fell into a deep sugar coma.

Peanut Butter Bacon Pie

This week we watching the American Baking Competition on TV and thought we'd try our hand at Francine's Chocolate Peanut Butter Bacon Pie.

We used the recipe we found online but it proved to be full of holes and inaccurate information. We search several different discussion pages and finally found the correct recipe but we had already messed up it up with the "official" recipe that was posted on the TV website.  What we ended up with was decent but it definitely could have been better.  It looks a lot better than it tasted. One of these days we'll try it again and adjust it more to our liking.

How To Make Waffles from Scratch

Today I ran out of Bisquick and we had a craving for waffles, so what was I supposed to do?  Some would say run to the grocery store, but not me...I made them from scratch here's the recipe.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups warm milk
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, beat the eggs and then stir in the milk, butter, and vanilla. Next add the salt, flour, baking powder, and sugar.
2. Ladle the batter into a preheated waffle iron.  Cook until golden brown.

This recipe made about 5-6 waffles.

Egg Salad Sandwiches

Me: "Jason, what do you want for lunch?"
Husband: "Umm, you know, an egg salad sandwich sounds pretty good."
Me: "...."

Yep, it's a first.  I have never made an egg salad sandwich.  Last week when I was in Bellevue, I had two bites of one and couldn't finish it.  It was riddled with overpowering onions and way too much mayo. Growing up we never ate them, so I really had nothing to go off of...

Me: "Umm, what is in an egg salad sandwich exactly?"
Husband: "Mayo, mustard, and eggs."
Me: "Oh..."

So I took off to the kitchen to try my hand at this feat.  I boiled 6 eggs until the yolks were hard and combined them with mustard and mayo.  It was missing something, or rather a lot of things.  It was just TOO plain..  So I fancied it up a bit...or rather a lot...

Egg Salad Sandwiches

Ingredients:

• 6 hard boiled eggs
• 1 cup Mayonaise
• teaspoon of dill weed
• teaspoon of garlic salt
• fresh ground pepper (to your liking)
• handful of dried onion flakes (approx. 1/8 cup)
• small squirt (about 1 tablespoon) yellow mustard
• Wheat bread

Directions:

1. In a bowl, gently mix all ingredients, then apply to bread.

Very difficult recipe...I know.  This recipe yields about 4-5 sandwiches, depending on how much egg salad you want on your bread.

Glad it's only taken me 27 years to accomplish this great task...