Melt Away

An enduring love for sausages, bread and cheese calls for this recipe;

the Cheesy Sausage Melt!

Rach adores sausages to the nine elevens. I wil chase bread to the ends of their world.

We both dance to cheese in any food. So VOILA!

Stuffing the sausage buns

It came out of the oven looking like this!

We added sauteed mushrooms (the usual favourite) and cool cucumber bacon salad to complement the cheesy sausage melt. This was great! Though honestly, a breakfast without egg is hardly complete.

So have your way, eggs or no eggs!

Cheesy Sausage Melt

Serves 6

6 sausage buns

6 sausages (of your choice)

2 large onions, diced

1 packet of parmesan cheese

6 slices of cheese

2 table spoons of olive oil

1. Pre heat oven to 175 degree celsius.

2. Dry-fry sausages in the pan.

3. Heat olive oil in pan. Add diced onions and fry till translucent.

4. Stuff sausages and onions in buns.

5. Sprinkle top with parmesan and slice of cheese.

6. Lay on aluminium foil/ baking tray and toast for 5 mins or until cheese melts.

7. Serve and enjoy with mustard or chilli sauce!

Cool Cucumber Bacon Salad

Serves 4

3 cucumber, diced

cream cheese

bacon bits

1. Put cucumber in a mixing bowl.

2. Add one dollop of cream cheese (or more if you want)

3. Sprinkle bacon bits and mix well.

Once again, we say, melt away!
Love, Rach and Via

The Breakfast of a New Year

Beginning the year with dear ones and a great breakfast created a warm tingling in our hearts we wished we could save it in a jar and use it for rainy days.

Here's what we were up to...

Pan-fried black pepper ham

Sauteed mushrooms yet again

Glorious glorious cheese baked bread

And our weak attempt at toad in a hole

It was difficult to get the egg cooked. The bottom of the bread was charring even before the egg coagulated.

Set on a rescue mission, we slipped the 'toad in a hole's out of the pan and into the oven on a baking tray.

They turned out better, though still missing the mark!

It is always fun to try something new, though it didn't turn out the way we expected.

Don't you agree? If you do, here's toad in a hole for you!

Toad in a hole

Serves 1

1 slice of bread

1 egg

butter

1. Preheat oven to 175 degree celsius.

2.Cut a 50 cent hole in the middle of the bread.

3. Butter up both sides of the bread.

4. Crack an egg into the hole of the bread.

5. Season with salt and pepper.

6. Place bread on aluminium foil/ baking tray and bake for 7-10 minutes or until you see the eggs setting.

7. Serve and enjoy immediately!

Happy New Year!

Love, Rach and Via

The Great Banana Bread

There are many versions of the banana bread which is really banana cake shaped like a loaf.

We thought banana bread with some coffee in the breezy afternoon would do us some good.

Our first attempt at banana bread looked like this.

Please stay even after you've seen this.

We used too much flour and had too little bananas in the mixture. Not to mention, our electric whisk broke down in the midst of whisking! Horrified, we scrambled around for an alternative. The result was a certain pair of muscular arms and the metal whisk part from the electric whisk. Boohoo to blisters :(

Well, now this is our second attempt!! Cheers to not giving up!

It was moist, nutty and sat well with milk in our now bloated stomachs. Wait for the but. We always have one. But it didn't have enough bananas. Maybe just one more banana would do the trick. More banana would make the bread a little sweeter and richer with its flavour.

Introducing the actors of this play:

We mashed and microwaved the bananas for it to be moist and soft.

Then, mix all the wet ingredients together.

It smelled great at this point! So tempted to lick up the bowl but restrained.

Stirred in the flour and walnuts.

Pour batter into baking tin. Had a little design on top! All ready to pop!

That was fun and pretty manageable!! :)

Here, have a go!

Banana Bread

Serves six

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup butter

3/4 cup brown sugar

2 eggs, beaten

2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.

2. Mash bananas and microwave them for 30 seconds.

3. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended.

4.Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.

5. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Cover top with aluminium foil if it seems to be browning too quickly. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

Have fun and go bananas!

Love, Rach and Via

Breakfast Adventure #2

You wouldn't believe how fast we came back for this one. We throroughly enjoyed our first one though a few blubbers. This time round, sauteed mushroom and tomato brushetta, aparagus on cheesy bacon eggs and strawberry pancakes!

We had to do a second take on the recipe. We didn't realise sauteed mushrooms were that simple!

Sauteed Mushrooms

Melt 1 1/2 tablespoons of butter in pan

Wait till butter is foamy

Stir fry mushrooms in butter for about 4 minutes

Season with chopped parsley and pepper

Brushetta Tomato

Dice 2 large tomatoes

Drizzle with olive oil

Sprinkle with parsley

(Usually the tomatoes are boiled first, then skins removed, then diced.

But we prefer ours fresh. Option is yours!)

Garlic Toast

Slice baguette into thick slices

Rub peeled garlic on the sides

Butter them up

Dry pan-fry on the pan for about 4 minutes, flipping them when necessary or you can toast them in the oven!

Cheesy Bacon Eggs

Crack 8 eggs into bowl

Lightly beat, adding 6 tablespoons of milk (the more milk you add, the fluffier your eggs'll turn out)

Add pinch of pepper and chopped parsley

Add 2 1/2 cups of mixed cheese

Pour egg mixture into pan

Sprinkle bacon bits on top

And scramble away!

Aparagus

Chop off ends

Lightly boil for 1 minute or less

Drain and serve

We had intended to make aparagus wrapped omelette. Turns out we all prefer a scrambled egg morning!

So we just top the eggs with the aparagus :)

We had leftover pancake mix from the first adventure. So instead of waffles, we are going with the good ol' traditional buttermilk strawberry pancakes! One day, we'll do it from scratch!

Buttermilk Strawberry Pancake

Create mix following directions on the box

Stir in strawberries gently

Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in pan (the more butter you have, the crispier the pancake)

Pour mixture into pan

Flip when you see holes forming on the surface of the pancake

Good to use a small size pan, the thicker the pancake the harder to cook :)

We had fun! So many ideas for the next adventure!

Till the next!

Love, Rach and Via

Breakfast Adventure #1

Since the birth of the new home and then some, a desire to create/cook all things deliciouschocolateysweetsavouryawesome has been brewing (possibly attributed to the amazing kitchen as pictured!). In there, we do maannnyyy things. Yes, let your imagination run. And now, this is just the first-

breakfast in our pjs!

A short commentary of the morning's adventure

We made slices in the black pepper and chicken chipotle sausages. Then, started frying the sausages with a little olive oil.

Then beat the eggs with milk, pepper and secret spice mix. Melted 1 tablespoon of butter into pan and poured egg mix into pan. Dropped mushrooms and cheese slices into the egg mix quickly. At this point, decided which of us wanted their eggs scrambled or omeletted. Stirred and chopped quickly for scrambled. Waited for bubbles, checked if underside was cooked and folded for omelette.

After which, we sliced bagels in half and buttered them up. Dry pan-fried bagels till cripsy. And we plated up!

We really fought with the waffle maker.



Poured Aunt's Jemma Buttermilk Pancake Mix into the waffle machine. After 10 seconds, it starts smoking up real mad. Tried real quick to lift the cover and discovered the batch turned out pretty alright. Felt mystified as to why the smoke came up. Decided butter could soothe the angry waffle maker. But noo, it smoked up more! Turned off the heat and ran off for breakfast to save our growling stomachs.

Yum was everything except the chicken chipotle sausages that tasted a little like garbage.

Till the next!

Love, Rach and Via