Apple Cinnamon Bread Eggs

This is a great quick yummy dinner or sunday breakfast... Recipe for 2 - double for more:

3 Eggs
2-3 pieces toast
2-3 T butter
2-4 apples (cortland, honeycrisp, brayburn or other sweet baking apples)
1/4 t cinnamon
1 T brown sugar
1 t sugar
1 t vanilla extract

Heat fry pan. Peel and cube apples. Melt butter add apples, cinnamon and sugar. Stir frequently. Fry for 5-10 minutes - depending on how soft you like your apples. Set aside.

Heat fry pan on medium, melt butter. Cut bread into 1in pieces. Toast bread in pan. Wisk eggs, add pinch cinnamon & vanilla. Pour eggs over bread. Cook till eggs are done.

Plate & pour apples over. Serve as is or with maple syrup/whipped cream.

Easy Baby Spinach Salad

Salad tip - if I'm making a salad with a ton of ingredients or for more than just me and my husband I'll throw everything in a big bowl & toss. For just the two of us, I make them right in our dinner bowls. This saves time on doing dishes after dinner and ensures that we're not overeating as well.

Baby Spinach
Chopped baby carrots
Handful of cranberries
Handful toasted walnuts (toast in toaster oven on 250 for ~ 2 minutes, also great with pecans)
Pear or apple slices (I prefer bosc and honeycrisp
Dressing: Annies Goddess Dressing or Lemon & EVOO
Optional: Cheese (e.g.blue, goat, feta or muenster) & kalamata olives

Put a few handfuls of baby spinach in the bowl. Top with other ingredients. Dress & serve.

Comfort food: Mom's Winter Soup

This is a delicious recipe that is mainly vegetables. I make it when I have pesto around & the weather is turning cold.

- Saute few cloves garlic & some leeks, shallots or white onion (whatever you have on tap) on med/low heat for about 3-5 minutes till translucent
- Add diced carrot (2-3 or two handfuls baby carrots), 2-3 stalks celery, 1-2 small/med zucchini, 1 yellow squash - stir for about 2-3 minutes
- Add 1 box/large can - about 5-6 cups veggie or chicken stock, a few heirloom or really ripe tomatoes OR a 16oz can of diced tomatoes
- Add handful orzo (or alphabet pasta for kids)
- Bring to a boil
- Lower heat simmer for 20-30 minutes
- Right at end add 3/4 container of baby spinach roughly chopped + 2-3Tbsp pesto, S&P
- Serve with grated Parmesan cheese

Simple Soba

Soba noodles - pre cooked
handful of spinach
some other veggies (I used green beans from the farmer's market)
soy-vey (or lemon juice, evoo)

Microwave or pan fry for a few mites till hot

Optional:
* sprinkle with sesamee seeds & cashew pieces
** cook with diced tofu & scallions

I was starving & couldn't even wait for Lenny's to deliver something so I whipped this up with stuff in the fridge - hit the spot!

Veggie Thai YumYum

Normally I would make this dish with rice noodles - tonight I substituted spaghetti squash instead.

Cook spaghetti squash, cooled slightly
- saute onion, shallot, wild mushrooms, zucchini in a fry pan
- add squash
- add one each lemon, lime, orange juice (reserve 1/2 + zest) - or whatever you have
- toss in 1/2 large sweet potato cold cubed, scallions (whites & light green only), & ginger
- add 1/2 can coconut milk (or light version)
- stir till warm
- serve
(optional add sliced almonds or cashew halves at end, could also add cilantro)
S&P to taste

So Soba...

Here's an example of what I made for dinner tonight:
- Soba noodles - boil the water 3 min to cook
- Stir fried some onion, garlic, shallot, baby fennel, zucchini (green & yellow), wild mushrooms in evoo
- Added a little SoyVay for flavor, added 1/2 the noodles (saved the other half for later in the week); you could also do lemon & rind or fresh ginger, scallions and coconut milk + cashews for a different flavor

Anyway - it wasn't a phenomenal meal, but fast, easy & healthy.

Welcome any ideas you have. I like a cook book called Seriously Simple by Diane Worthington: http://productsearch.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.aspx?WRD=seriously+simple+easy+recipes+for+creative+cooks