Every once in a while, when I’m baking dinner, I decide to make something that requires a pie crust… Of course, I don’t always meal plan like I should, so I sometimes end up in a kind of tight spot!
The other night I wanted to make my yummy quiche recipe, which can be made with or without crust, but I was really in the mood for some crust!
With BBQ season just around the corner, (or if you live in Chatham, Ontario – it’s already started this year in mid-February – what the what??!), I thought that I would share one of my favorite BBQ season recipes with you: Creamy Mushroom Steak Sauce! Continue reading
Have you ever been to a cooking class before?! I’ve been to a couple now that are held at The Great Canadian Superstore, and they have been great!
One of these cooking classes is where I finally learned how to properly batter something in bread crumbs and I’m about to share the very simple and easy process with you!
I’ve used pork chops here in my example, but really you could use anything! Fish, mushrooms, pickles… Cheese!
All you need are these three items (plus whatever it is that you plan on battering!)…
Eggs.
Flour.
Bread Crumbs.
Depending on how much I have to batter, I usually start with three or four eggs, and add more as I need it.
I also like to use bowls that are about the same size as whatever I am battering. You will need 3 bowls, total!
I beat my eggs in one bowl, and leave them in there. In another bowl, I start off with about one cup of flour, and again, just add more as I need it. In the third bowl is where I put my bread crumb mixture. For these pork chops, I used Panko with Italian flavored seasoning, but you can use whatever is your favorite!
The first step, is to dip it in the flour and make sure it is fully covered.
Next, you take it, and dip it in the egg, making sure that the flour is fully saturated.
Then, finally, you roll it in the bread crumbs!
So, repeat after me… Step one, flour. Step two, egg. Step three, bread crumbs. So simple, right?!
Now here’s the kicker… If you are like me, and love extra, extra crispiness, then you are going to do this. Flour, egg, bread crumbs…
Egg…
Breadcrumbs.
And if you want even more crispiness, just continue with egg, bread crumbs… egg, bread crumbs.
It’s really that easy, and it’s really that delicious! Go on, give it a try, and let me know how you like it!
I always say that it’s completely impossible to have a happy baby and a clean house! Trust me, I’m really trying to work on the balance and all, and I know that some moms really do have “it all together”… just not me, yet! Still working on it!
Sometimes my daughter and I role with the motto “Messy hair, and we don’t care!”, and well, we just decide to have fun all day long! So, last week we decided to start out by making play-dough first thing in the morning. Honestly, the making of this play-dough was actually a necessity! You know how sometimes the play-dough gets left out overnight, and it gets all hard and stuff?! [Psst! Do your kids love play-dough?! Check out some of these great play-doe accessories!]
Here are some of the great reasons why I LOVE this play-dough recipe:
What You’ll Need:
All you need to do is throw all of the ingredients into a big mixing bowl, and mix, mix, mix!
I actually got about five “servings” of play-dough out of this recipe, each about the size of my fist! I just put the servings into zip-lock baggies and threw them into the freezer… So next time the play-dough dries up — I’m completely prepared!
Also, in case you haven’t noticed yet, I pulled an epic mom fail while making this play-dough!!! I completely always, also forget to buy food-coloring!!! Hence, my “white-ish” play-dough… BUT! I figure that maybe we can turn that into another fun activity of color-mixing and adding color into the play-dough the next time we are looking for something to do! I actually ended up throwing a little bit of green glitter into the mixture, just to spice it up a little bit! 😉
