One Potato, Two Potato

So, D1 sent me a recipe for a fun breakfast idea. You take a baked potato and an egg and some cheese and a little fresh parsley from the garden (or from the store) and some lovely cooked bacon.  

All things good! 

 "Baked Potato Eggs"

After baking your potato cut off a bit of the top;

then partially scoop it out

(you can save the insides for something else)

Sprinkle a little cheese on the bottom

because I love cheese!

Crack your egg right into your potato!

Top with more cheese and a little fresh parsley!

Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes for a nice over-easy egg.

If you like your egg not so over-easy bake it 10-15 minutes longer.

After you remove the goodness from the oven

top with some pieces of yummy bacon!

Now it's time to dig in!

Chocolate in Five

5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE

I haven't tried this yet, but it must be good and yes I know this goes completely against my previous Cholesterol Blog but I couldn't not share!

4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
A small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug
Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again. Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high). The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed! Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.

Some of this and some of that.........

In June my doctor doubled the strength of my cholesterol medication in an effort to lower my cholesterol level. Well since that had little effect on my cholesterol; going from 239 to 223 doesn't seem like much to me plus not to mention that my triglycerides went from 235 to 275 was less than comforting. I decided that like it or not it was time to really really change the diet. My new favorite foods are oatmeal, brown rice and black beans. Actually, I really do like them. I've stopped drinking milk, soy milk is my new friend. Eating a lot of fish. Rarely bread. Avoid sugar at all costs, which is going to be a challenge what with the holidays fast approaching. Already at work the Halloween candy is making its way into the office. I just run my hands through the bowl then remind myself I have food storage (recently canned) that will need to be consumed before I die!! Although most of that will probably last until I'm 100 since I bought flour and sugar both no-no's for me. The one thing I really wanted, black beans, they didn't have. But has this three week change is heading into week four sometimes you just want something sweet. So tonight I created an apple crisp, with no butter, no flour, no sugar except for the sugar that was in the craisins. I used apples, craisins, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, lemon juice, oatmeal, all bran, almonds, peanut butter (natural) and pure maple syrup (no sugar). I had mine with my vanilla soy milk and it was very tasty!