Daily Loaf

Attention bachelors and bachelorettes! I have discovered a fast, tasty alternative to Ramen and microwaved frozen food. And all you need is a toaster oven.

The toaster oven is the intersection between the tastiness of oven-cooked food and the speed of a microwave. It cooks like an oven, with temperatures and broiling settings, but there’s none of that annoying pre-heating business. I don’t know about you, beautiful reader, but I hate having to wait. The toaster oven fulfills my laziness since the only steps are: 1: put food in oven, 2: set the temperature, 3: come back. And like a microwave, you can just set the timer and come back when it dings. Unlike a microwave, it doesn’t zap the flavor. Toaster oven food just tastes right.

My specialty is pizza bagels. And they are amazingly easy to make–all you need are bagels, pizza sauce, and cheese (recipe after the jump.) Read the rest of this entry »

Mmmmm, caramelized onions, sweet like candy. Ok, so maybe not candy, cause I know I don’t crave caramelized onions when I am P.M.S ‘ing. But they are sweet as far as onions go.

I used to have an aversion to cooking them, I suppose from burning them one too many times. They require pot stalking and it’s kind hard to stalk a pot with 2 young kids. You get the, “Mom, I need help”; “Mom, she’s looking at me”; “Mom, I spilled my juice”; “Mom, come wipe my butt.” (Yeah, I still have young kids that need my help in the bathroom — oh the joys of parenthood!) Ok, so you get the point. They need constant attention.

So just stick them in the oven (the onions, not the kids). Trust me, this way they require much less stalking.

Th How-To is after the break. Oh, and I swear this is not a photo of earthworms I dug up in the back yard! LOL

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We don’t eat spuds that often in my house, quite frankly because my hips don’t like them.  I have food willpower issues, so I just avoid them like the plague! But on the rare occasion that I do make them, I don’t want mashed (even though I make MEAN mashed potatoes) and I don’t want boring old baked, cause those are no good without a whole stick of butter in them (again, not very ass friendly).
So, one night, I whipped these up. They are so very comforting, loaded with flavor and I don’t have to undo my pants button after eating them!
My measurements are usually done by sight, so I tried my best to duplicate it for you.
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