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Dutch Apple Babies
January 11, 2010 | 
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Dutch Apple Babies
In my continuing love affair with eggs, I made the perfect Breakfast or Brunch dish for Christmas Morning. The secret is in choosing the right pan, as it will rise to ridiculous heights depending. Check the picture. Someone gave me these cool little individual casserole pans which I had never used. They were perfect, but we did take them out of the pans to serve, as I did not want eaters sctatching the pans. Really really easy!! Beyond easy…and slathered with syrup……and each person gets their very own….
Dutch Apple Baby
1 large apple
4 large eggs
1 c. all purpose flour
1 c. milk
¼ c butter
Cinnamon
Powdered sugar
Lemon wedges
Preheat oven to 450
Wash, peel and core apple, slice fairly thin. (may wait until just before using in recipe to avoid browning of apple slices)
Batter: Whirl eggs and flour in blender until smooth. Add milk and whirl to mix well. (You can use a whisk instead.)
In a 10-12 in frying pan or an 9-14 in oval pan, oven proof, melt the butter. Immediately pour in the batter. (size of pan affects the rising of the batter)
Scatter apple slices over the batter and sprinkle generously with cinnamon.( I added some dried cranberries just for color)
Bake at 450 until Dutch Baby is puffed and top is brown. About 20 min. A knife inserted into the Dutch Baby will come out clean. Serve immediately.
Dust with powdered sugar and serve from pan or slide onto a serving plate. Squeeze lemon juice to taste , cut into wedges if you used just one pan, and with maple syrup or a homemade raspberry syrup.
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Flying Eggs!!
Okay, enough about all these wonderful dishes you are posting. I want to let you in on my latest experiment. I am trying to get a really easy way to make a sort of soft boiled or poached egg. I noticed this cool egg cup in my cupboard, and decided to just crack a raw egg into it and cook it in the microwave. Some little angel whispered in my ear that it might be a good idea to cover the cup with a towel, just in case. I made a guess and put it in for 50 seconds. I was surprised by some really strange pops and other noises, and when I opened the door, the towel was off the eggcup, the egg was out of the eggcup and nestled in the towel, and and I enjoyed my very first over cooked microwaved soft-boiled flying egg! Next time maybe 30 seconds?? (Earned my nickname this time for sure).
Tags: Mashed Potatoes with Lobster and Bacon
We spent a couple very pleasant hours in Branson, Mo with former Executive Chef John Blansit from John Q Hammons looking at Wyndam Resort Vacation Homes. I can recommend it for anyone interested in a vacation home, but all we came away with was one of his family’s favorite recipes which he makes for family get togethers.
It includes all the best of what foodies love, butter, lobster, bacon. I will make it for us when we get back. I have to test the recipe first!!
I suspect Matt is drooling just at the thought of it all…
Linda’s Eggs Benedict
Fake Hollandaise– easy!
1/4 c. real mayonaise
1/4 c. sour cream
1/2 t. dijon mustard or to taste
1/8 t. cayenne pepper or to taste
juice of 1/2 lemon or to taste
Stir all ingredinets well. Add sm amt of yellow food coloring. Stir. Cook 40 seconds in microwave. Stir and keep warm until served.
Recipe serves 4 and may be doubled.
Toast english muffins with canadian bacon or ham on top in toaster oven or oven. Poach an egg for each muffin and top with sauce. Garnish with paprika.
Served best with Bloody Marys or Mimosas, and really good friends!!
Tips from Travelin’
Breakfast at Linda and Russ’
Fun stuff I am learning from family and friends on my road trip:
- WHEN they serve cold hardboiled eggs with the included “continental breakfast”at the Econolodge in who knows where, run the egg under hot water to get it to peel easily
- EATING it fresh does matter: the best steak in the world will be found in Dodge City at any steakhouse across the street from one of the world’s biggest meat processing plants- at least I could not hear the mooing.
- CHECK out Keurig Coffee Systems, my next new food toy! http://www.keurig.com/
- PICK your friend’s brains for food tips and sign them up on foodnuts while you are there– Welcome to Linda, a true lifelong professional foodie. Later I will post her Eggs Benedict Recipe