Nutella French Toast Roll Ups

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blueberries, breakfast, food, frenchtoast, nutella

Hi all! Hope you’ve had a great weekend! Ours was spent doing food shopping, having bubble tea (yum!) and me figuring out how to use a washing machine with instructions in Chinese! Finally we sent a message to  the translator so that he could help as I had no idea! 

Anyway, while browsing posts from fellow bloggers, Jhuls from The Not So Creative Cook had made these super adorable Nutella French Toast Roll Ups. I have made Nutella Filled French Toasts a few times but never thought of rolling them up! So later that day, I went to the imported goods grocery store, got some Nutella and made these cuties for Saturday breakfast.  Ingredients

• Nutella
• 2 eggs
• 50ml milk or single cream
• 3 slices of bread without crusts
• 1 tsp vanilla essence

Method

1. In a shallow bowl, whisk the eggs, milk and vanilla essence.
2. Flatten the bread with a rolling pin, spread the Nutella on (as much as you want!) and roll it up. Trim the edges with a sharp knive to make it look neater. 
3. Soak the bread in the egg mixture. Place in a hot pan with a touch of butter and cook seam side down for a minute or less on each side.

Dust with powdered sugar and serve hot with any fruits of your choice!💙

*With the access egg mixture that was left, I made some bite sized normal French Toasts.  

Have a good start to your week!😊
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Savoury Bread Pudding

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baked, bread, breakfast, eggs, food

It’s all about the summer “ferias” ~ fairs and “fiestas” ~ parties here at the moment and Bilbao is full of street parties, outdoor concerts, parades and fireworks every night for 10 days during this “Semana Grande” ~ the big week.

It was also a public holiday last Friday and I decided that I wanted to prepare a cooked breakfast for us as I’m usually a slice of toast kind of person when I’m on my own and that morning my husband suggested we have French Toast. I wasn’t too keen on the idea and wanted something slightly different but with bread and eggs included, so I decided to whip up this easy Savoury Bread Pudding with the day old bread we had…

Ingredients
• Eggs (beaten)
• any kind of bread you may have (roughly chopped)
• Mixed dried herbs
• Spinach
• Cherry tomatoes (halved)
• a little milk/evaporated milk
• salt & cracked black pepper to taste
• Cheese (optional)
• Extra virgin olive oil

Method
1. Pre heat oven to 150 degrees celcius.
2. Place the chopped bread in an ovenproof dish and set aside.
3. In a bowl, beat the eggs and into that, add the milk, herbs, salt & pepper and spinach. Combine well and pour over the bread making sure it is completely coated.
4. Add grated cheese and place the halved cherry tomatoes onto it. Drizzle with a little olive oil and bake in the oven till golden and risen.

Once ready, leave to cool for 5 mins and serve warm…

A warm hearty breakfast packed with flavours and kept us so full that we had a really late lunch!

Next time I’ll try it out with more veg like mushrooms and other herbs! Countless ways to make this! Enjoy!

What’s your favourite cooked breakfast?😊💕

Granola

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breakfast, food, goodness, granola, weekend

I bought some Greek yoghurt yesterday and what could be better to have with Greek yoghurt for breakfast? Probably lots of great things, but I wanted Granola with various nuts and sultanas…oh yesss!

Ingredients
• 3 cups rolled oats (not instant)
• 100gms butter
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• half tbsp flour
• 2 tbsp honey
• 2 tsp vanilla essence
• a pinch of salt
• Almonds, sultanas, walnuts (as much as you desire!)

Method
1. In a bowl, thoroughly mix oats, flour, salt & cinnamon.
2. Pre heat oven to 150 degrees C.
3. In a saucepan, simmer butter, honey & vanilla essence.
4. Pour the dry ingredients into the saucepan and mix evenly.
5. Place parchment paper on a baking tray, pour the mixed ingredients and bake for 1 hour or until golden. Stir every 15 mins to get an even colour.
6. Remove from the oven and add the almonds, raisins & walnuts. Mix well.

Leave to cool completely before trasferring into an air tight container.

Serve with Greek yoghurt…

Easy, tasty and plenty for many more breakfasts or whenever you feel like it!

Enjoy and have a blessed weekend!💞

Birthday Breakfast

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birthdays, breakfast, food

It’s my husband’s birthday today and I had planned on making him my Nutella Filled French Toast for breakfast this morning but there were no strawberries available at my favourite fruit and veg store yesterday. So I made him a savoury Herbed French Toast topped with caramalised red onions instead.

Ingredients
• Eggs
• Bread
• Dried parsley
• Garlic granules
• Red onions (cut into rings)
• Salt & cracked black pepper to taste
• Olive oil & a little butter

Method
1. In a skillet, heat a little olive oil. Sauté the onion rings for about 3 mins and set aside.
2. Beat eggs, a drop of milk, dried parsley, garlic granules, salt & pepper in a bowl.
3. Cut the bread in the size you want, dip into the egg mixture and place in the hot skillet with a little olive oil.
4. Once it’s golden, place on kitchen paper.
5. Top the stacked French Toasts with the caramalised onions.

Birthday breakfast is served…

Happy Birthday to my wonderful, loving husband! FELICIDADES!!!🎈

Have a lovely weekend to all!💞

No Ordinary Eggs

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breakfast, eggs, food

Sundays are the best days for a nice leisurely breakfast. Wouldn’t you agree? I love scrambled eggs but when I do make them, I always make sure they are not dull and well…ordinary! I like adding herbs and cheese to mine!

Ingredients
🍳 Eggs
🍳 Milk
🍳 Cheddar cheese or any other you may fancy
🍳 Cherry tomatoes
🍳 Mixed dried herbs
🍳 Parsley & garlic mix (optional)
🍳 A little salt & cracked black pepper
🍳 Butter and a little olive oil

Method
1. In a skillet, add butter and a little olive oil to stop the butter from burning.
2. Halve the cherry tomatoes and sauté till slighty soft.

3. Beat eggs and add milk, cheese along with the herbs into a bowl.

4. Pour into the skillet and cook till slightly done or once the cheese melts.

Serve with warm slices of toast…

Simplicity at its best!

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!💞

Ps. Place your toasts upright against each other as putting them flat on your plate can make them soggy from the condensation. 😊

Chocolate Crepes for Sunday

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breakfast, food, Sunday

It has been a wet and cloudy weekend here in Bilbao and I had promised my husband chocolate crepes for breakfast since yesterday…ooops. So this morning, I got out of bed, made my coffee (because I do not function very well without it ☕️) and whipped up some chocolate crepes, filled and topped with banana slices.

Ingredients
• 1 cup plain flour
• 1 cup milk
• 1 egg
• half tbsp icing sugar
• 1 tbsp dark cocoa powder
• half teaspoon vanilla essence
• 2 bananas

Method
1. Combine all the ingredients into a big bowl and beat with an electric mixer, mix for about 5 to 8 mins.

2. Leave to stand for 10 mins and start preparing the skillet. Once hot, add a little butter and scoop the batter into the skillet.

3. Swirl the batter around the skillet till its thin. Flip the crepe, place the banana slices and fold the crepe in half. After a few seconds, it should be ready.

Top with banana slices and dust with icing sugar…

You can also add any fruits of your choice…bananas, strawberries, raspberries etc.

A great start to a cloudy day and a beginning of a new month!

Have a wonderful Sunday! 💞

A Colourful Breakfast

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breakfast, food, fruits

Good morning! It’s going to be another lazy Sunday for us as we had a couple of good friends over for dinner last night and didn’t get to bed till 2am. So I made a simple breakfast of fresh fruits and heated the croissants in the oven!

I used strawberries, kiwis and banana, sprinkled a tiny bit of sugar on them and added a teaspoon of vanilla essence! Mix well and serve with the warm croissant!

Simple & filling!

And because we have leftovers from last night’s dinner AND also the delicious brownies my friend baked, it’s a no cooking Sunday for me today! ☀️☺️

Nutella filled French Toast

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breakfast, french toast, nutella, strawberries

Earlier this morning I made a sweet, mouth watering breakfast of Nutella filled French toast served with macerated strawberries. I saw a photo of it on an Instagram page and thought….I HAVE TO TRY THAT!

What you will need…
– Nutella
– 3 large eggs
– 50ml full cream milk
– 4 slices of bread
– 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
– 1 tablespoon lemon juice
– Sugar
– Fresh strawberries
– a little butter (melted)

Method
1. First of all you will need to macerate the strawberries. Slice them length wise, place in a bowl and add 1 teaspoon of sugar and a tablespoon of lemon juice. Mix well and leave this at room temperature for about 30 minutes.

2. In a shallow bowl, whisk the eggs, milk, 1 teaspoon of sugar, melted butter and vanilla essence.
3. Now spread the Nutella on 2 slices of bread (as much as you want!) and cut them in half.

4. Soak the bread in the egg mixture carefully not submerging the Nutella centre. Place in a hot pan with a touch of butter and cook for a minute or less on each side.
5. Pour some of the strawberries onto the hot French toast, dust with icing sugar and serve immediately.

Perfect with a glass of fresh orange juice to keep you smiling all day! 😊

Happy weekend to all! 🍓

For the love of avocado…

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avocado, breakfast, healthy, toast

What could be easier, tastier and healthier than avocado on toast for breakfast? Well, probably a lot of things but mine would have to be this…

1. Halve an avocado and scoop it out with a spoon into a bowl.

2. With a fork, mash it and add a little cracked black pepper & salt to taste.

3. On the hot piece of toast, spread the mashed avocado…as much as you want!

There you have it…a great healthy breakfast that will keep you full till lunch!

Mash it, slice it, have it anyway you like it but most importantly….enjoy it! ❤️