Chocolate Brioche French Toast

So this recipe is AMAZING! I bought chocolate brioche bread yesterday at the Farmer's Market and decided to develop a french toast recipe.

I dipped 5 slices of the brioche bread in an egg mixture with cinnamon and vanilla. I found that these basic french toast ingredients brought out the flavor and richness of the bread. Since the bread already had chocolate in it, it seemed almost too decadent for breakfast, though then I reconsidered and decided it would be a perfect way to surprise someone on an anniversary or a birthday in the morning:

1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp cinnamon
3 eggs
1 tbsp butter
1/2 a loaf of chocolate brioche bread

Homemade Chicken Nuggets

So it appears that I have already managed to become a slacker with this food blog, but nevertheless, I am posting now. My first recipe! I made homemade chicken nuggets with breadcrumbs, basil, and garlic salt. I cooked them in oil and they turned out wonderfully.

Below is the recipe:

I took chicken breasts and dipped them in eggs before coating them in the breadcrumbs, basil, and garlic salt. I cooked them for 10-15 minutes in a half of inch of vegetable oil and then blotted off the excess oil before eating them.

All in all, a really simple recipe that was somewhat inspired (though mostly made up by me) by a recipe on the Food Channel Network website.

Salsa in the Summer

For my 1st new recipe I decided to try something I have never made before: homemade salsa. Originally I intended to make a peach salsa, but my plans changed when I realized the peaches I bought were not ripe at all. So instead I decided to throw a few things together based on a few recipes I have seen in the past. Overall, I just kinda improvised and the end result was great. Here were the ingredients I used:

1 can diced tomatoes
2 fresh tomatoes, diced
1 clove garlic
juice of 1 lime
1 red pepper
1 red onion
cilantro (I just added as much as I felt would be enough...)
jalapeños (I used the canned type)
salt

I chopped everything up, mixed it all together, and let it sit overnight. It was really good last night but had a lot more flavor when I tasted it today. I even used some of it to make Spanish rice and it turned out to be delicious. Since I don't have a food processor, it ended up being a very "chunky" salsa, almost like a pico de gallo. I may try to blend it in the future so that it is more like a regular salsa. Overall, I feel like my 1st attempt at salsa was a success! Now back to studying for anatomy...

~*Jessica*~

New Blog!

Hello new readers! I hope you like to cook or at least read about cooking. My sister Jessica and I decided to start a blog about cooking. The reason to have a blog is to share something between the two of us and to add new recipes to our cookbooks. There are so many recipes out in cyberspace and in thousands of cookbooks, which makes it difficult to know whether a recipe is actually good and worth making. Therefore, we will blog about 1) what we like about the dish 2) whether it is worth making again 3) if the dish ought to be for a special occasion 4) any variations that may enhance the recipe. We have a few simple rules in place for how it will work. We will each will cook one main dish and one dessert every week and report our findings to this blog. We will post a picture of each food item to include in the blog and will post the recipe as well. Also, it is important to know where the recipe came from, so we will also cite our sources about where we found the recipes.