The Recipe Box

My sin has been making those strange combination: This bread and nutella and fish: This is bread and peanut butter, jam and apple Have a great day!

By now, you will have find out that I love bread Here is another new favorite of mine. Egg-enriched White Loaf   (I have included the measurements for a bigger loaf in parenthesis) 1 Egg plus enough water to make 1 1/3 cup  (2 eggs plus enough water for 1 7/8 cup or 15 fl oz or 430ml) 2 tsp sugar (1 tbsp sugar) 1 tsp salt (1 1/2 salt) 2 Tbsp butter or margarine 4 1/2 cup flour (6 cups) 1 tsp yeast (1 1/2 tsp) Add everything to breadmaker, basic setting and voila. I have been making the dough in the bread machine though, and baking it in a bread pan. It is delicious! I also have substituted some whole wheat flour for some white flour. Enjoy!

Monday Breakfast: Ham and Chese panini Dinner: Paella Tuesday: Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Dinner: Leftover Wednesday: Breakfast: Oatmeal Dinner: Steak  (cut out from a roast previously cut at home) and mashed potatoes Thursday: Breakfast: Pancakes Dinner: Chicken paprikaish Friday: Breakfast: Omelet Dinner: Spanish Couscous Saturday: Breakfast: Monkey Bread Dinner: Ribs and beans with homemade fries (we are having a go away party for some friends) Sunday: Breakfast: cereals Dinner: Roast beef (potluck at church) Have a great week

Blueberry Lemon Coffee Cake 2/3 cup butter, softened 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 2 eggs 1 tbsp vanilla Gratted rind of 2 lemons 3 cups all-purpose flour 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp baking soda 1 cup milk 1/2 cup yogurt or sour cream 1 1/2 cups frozen or fresh blueberries Preheat oven to 350 degree. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy; beat in eggs, 1 at a time. Beat in vanilla and lemon ring. In separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir milk with yogurt and stir into eggs mixture alternately with flour mixture, making 3 additions of dry ingredients and 2 of wet. Spoon half the batter into a greased bundt pan or 9x13 inch pan. Sprinkle with blueberries. Spoon the remaining batter over top, smoothing gently. Bake for about 60 min for bundt pan and 45min for the 9x13 pan. Let cool 10 min. before removing from pan. Enjoy!

Here are some of my favorite coffee cake recipes: Sunday Coffee Cake Strawberry Coffee Cake Sue's Coffee Cake Blueberry Apple Coffee Cake 1 cup of butter (softened) 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs 1 1/2 cups milk 1/2 cup sour cream 1 tsp vanilla 5 cups all purpose flour 1 tbsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries 1 cup diced unpeeled apple 2 tbsp grated lemon peel Preheat oven to 350 degrees In a large bowl cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add milk, sour cream and vanilla. Gently stir in flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Fold in the fruits and lemon peel. Spoon batter evenly into 2 greased 9"x5" loaf pans. Bake for 60-65 min. Allow to cool for 15 min before removing from pan. The recipe can easily be halved. You can add a crumb topping made of 2 tbsp flour, 1tbsp sugar, 1 tbsp butter and 1/2 tsp lemon peel. You can also substitute raspberries for blueberries. Enjoy!

Here are some of my cherished breakfast recipes: Copycat Cinnabon for the Bread machine Oatmeal Cookie Pancake Monkey Bread 1/2 cup milk 2 tbs. water 1 large egg 1 Tbs. butter 1/2 tsp. salt 2 1/4 cups of flour 1 1/2 tsp. yeast 1/3 cup brown sugar 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 2-4 tbsp melted butter Put the first 7 ingredients in bread machine on the dough setting. Once done, separate the dough in balls (about 20). Dips the balls generously in 2-4 tbsp of melted butter, then in the sugar-cinnamon mixture. Arrange the balls in a greased oven proof ring mold, or a bundt pan, in two overlapping layers.  Cover and let rise until doubled in size (30-45 min). Bake at 375 for 25-30 min.