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Cheat Codes: Overnight Oatmeal
Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a morning person. At all. I enjoy my sleep, and I enjoy it well into the late hours of the morning. And those times I do have to get up early it takes me a long time to get going. So knowing my breakfast is ready and waiting for me when I get up is a load off. While there are some other types of breakfast that you can prepare in advance, today I’ll be tackling everyone’s favorite winter breakfast: oatmeal.
What is this morning you speak of?
We Can Do It Better: Gingerbread French Toast
Back around Christmas time I saw on TV that the chain restaurant Denny’s was serving Gingerbread French toast. I thought that sounded delicious and decided we needed to try making it ourselves. Unfortunately we didn’t have time to try making them before Christmas. But while gingerbread men are a traditional Christmas cookie, just plain gingerbread is more of just a general wintertime treat, so there’s still time to make gingerbread French toast!
Some basic research revealed a plethora of recipes calling themselves gingerbread French toast. I feared we were too late to jump on the gingerbread French toast bandwagon. However, upon closer inspection we realized most of these recipes didn’t actually use gingerbread! They just used regular bread and added gingerbread spices to it (or were weird things that didn’t even look like French toast, but that’s another story). But where’s the fun in that?
Quick Recipe: Curry Dipping Sauce
This recipe doesn’t really have much of an elaborate back story or anything. Basically, I made it to go along with the chicken fingers I made for dinner one night. While honey mustard is my go-to, all-time favorite dipping condiment for chicken fingers, I was just in the mood to try something different this time. So I whipped up this recipe off the top of my head. It’s really yummy for chicken fingers, and also French fries. It takes a standard American food and gives it a touch of exotic flair.
We Can Do It Better: Homemade Crunchwrap Recipe
Ever wonder what the most popular posts here on PCFG are? I imagine not a lot of you have, but regardless, our homemade Taco Bell/Mexican food posts are actually really well-received. I imagine that partly makes sense on account of a little correlation I like to call “Younger People Like Taco Bell”. I’m sure plenty of old people like burritos too, but thanks in part to a rising health consciousness in the 18-30 bracket, it seems like people are very interested in figuring out how to make some of these delicious foods they grew up with, while also ensuring that no human body parts or rat feces end up in said food. Hey, tacos and cleanliness, it’s a winning combination! Who know?
Nonetheless, I consider myself a much-learned sage on the venerable fast food chain, thanks to my dark past. So believe me, I know the one menu item which seemed like it was made of pure taco magic, which you could never recreate: the Crunchwrap. A few people have asked me for advice on how to make your own crunchwraps at home. Fortunately, the two of us were able to bullshit and piece together the process step by step, which is actually not as hard as you’d think. And best of all, it is indeed “affordable”. Or let’s just say cheap. Because let’s not beat around the bush.
Tortillas: $1.30 Tostadas: $1.20 Fifteen-Year-Old Commercial References: Priceless
We Can Do It Better: Disco Rings (or Cheesy French Onion Soup Rings)
A few weeks ago, this picture popped up on my Facebook newsfeed courtesy of Ted Allen (host of Chopped)’s fan page.
Original photo credit for this goes to Ted Allen I believe.
The caption indicated that they were cheesy French onion soup rings. I immediately Googled this concoction and discovered that they’re a menu item at the New York City restaurant Alder. I immediately sent the picture to Erik saying something along the lines of “Holy shit these look amazing, we need to make them immediately. They’re pretty much just disco fries with onion rings.” He agreed and thus our version, which we’ve been calling disco rings, was born.
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