Easter Cuteness

I love Easter for the fact that it's yet another big holiday for yummy food...and this one is for cute food too!  I decided to make something fun for my two young nieces.  Easter eggs with a twist.

The Japanese, creators of the ultra cute anything, have as usual come up with a great way to make hard boiled eggs cute.  I found these forms at the Japanese food store I frequent, Tensuke, and decided to try it.  One is a bunny and one is a bear. 

What you do is hard boil eggs, peel them and while they are warm put them in the form.  Once in the form you lock it down and let the egg cool in the fridge in the form.  Once cool, they keep that form.

I also painted the eggs with some food coloring to make them extra cute.  I hope the nieces like them!

xxoo
-Mizzie

The Classics

What better for dinner but a classic...Tomato soup and grilled cheese.

Ok...maybe I pimped it out a bit.

Tomato soup made with my home jarred tomatoes, butter, milk, fresh basil, red pepper and my new found fun...honey.  I really didn't think it would work, but WOW it gave the soup new dimensions.  When using home jarred tomatoes the acidity is allot higher then store bought canned tomatoes, thus why I add butter and milk.  I actually usually use heavy cream but was out of it.  The taste was great but the acid was high.  Thinking some sugar might calm it down I went to the cupboard and discovered my sugar was hidden behind lots of stuff and the honey was right up front...What the hell...try it.  I'll never go back. Try it.

The next is the grilled cheese...butter, real butter not anything else, rosemary olive oil bread, deluxe american and good swiss cheese. 

I am full now.
xxoo
-Mizzie

It's Raining....

It's cold and raining...ok...maybe not so cold but definitely raining.  Time for chicken and dumplings the easy way.  One can of your favorite chicken noodle soup, 1/2 chicken breast, chicken stock and some glutenous thick noodles. The glutenous noodles I got frozen...I really cheated.  The dry bag noodles wont thicken up the broth enough.

Cut the chicken breast in chunks.  Boil the soup with some extra broth with the chicken to cook it.  Once boiling add the noodles and let it cook for around 10 minutes at a boil.  It should thicken and TA DA!  It's dinner yet.  Add a good bread and butter and you have a perfect rainy day dinner.

I also opted for some fun reading materials.

xxoo
-Mizzie