I'm so excited! A while back I invited anyone who wants to guest post on my blog - and have been poking Mom to do it more recently. So, imagine my delight when I got an email with her very first guest post!! For those of you who know Mom, she's one of the best cooks I know. And the things in this post are simple, but awesome things she made for us growing up... and now I make, too. So, without further adieu, here's a post from Mom!
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Home Comfort Foods
What do you think of when you hear home comfort foods? I think most of us remember back to our childhood and the foods our Mothers prepared for us. I can remember coming home from school and looking in the cake drawer and sometimes finding a plate of chocolate cookies with frosting on, or else graham crackers frosted with butter cream frosting. I would be so hungry and want to take one but Mom always said "You have to wait or you won't be hungry for supper." I think that treat would have tasted a lot better then, than when I had finished eating a whole meal.
Maybe I was wrong but I was never that strict, with 3 growing boys no matter how much they ate after school they still scarfed down a big meal. I always remember Mom's Easter Cake she would make. Chocolate cake with seven-minute frosting and decorated with coconut nests with Jelly beans. So pretty and so good!
Anyway, breakfast is what really comes to my mind when I think of home comfort foods. I learned two quick breakfast dishes from Mom that I often made for my family and still do for Glenn and I. Trim Da Ca Ca (Egg as in Chicken thus CaCa) and Egg in the hole.
Trim Da CaCa
Cut two slices of bread into small chunks and brown in butter in fry pan. Beat two eggs plus 2 tbsp. water, add a little bit of butter to pan and pour eggs over toasted bread. Stir with spatula until egg is set. Salt, pepper, and enjoy!
Egg in the Hole
Take one slice of bread and with a glass cut out circle in bread slice. Butter bread, put in fry pan, add a little butter in bread hole and crack in one egg. Butter top of bread in pan and when egg is starting to set flip over. Butter and toast the bread circle you cut out also. Salt, pepper, and enjoy.
