Pâte à Choux

One morning, I felt like making something sweet and interesting for breakfast. Breakfast is our most ordinary meal of the week. We eat the same thing, really, every weekday morning - raw oats with ground flax seeds, walnuts, and honey that we make for ourselves since we have different morning schedules. That's a nice way of saying that I sleep in:) On weekends, usually on Saturday mornings after the farmer's market, John makes breakfast for us with fresh eggs that we pick up there - an omelet or just over-easy eggs with toast from bread baked that morning and purchased at the market. yum!
So this morning, I felt like making something dessert-like, who knows why! I want to make doughnuts soon, but with the ingredients on hand, I was able to make pâte à choux - pastry with filling inside. We used jam and chocolate as our fillings, but next time, I will definitely fill them with cream, the more traditional route. See below for some pictures of our very sweet breakfast. We enjoyed these with some strong coffee.

Mojadara

Post by Mom (from the shared blog days, enjoy:))

** Rumor has it that Pop has spent a good part of the day preparing the sour kraut post.... but he hasn't POSTED - so this is a victory - of sorts - as my food is ready, and the POST is completed.... while the cabbage is merely under the stone, without the luxury of internet confirmation....

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Today's Post?  Starting now:

I try to think about cooking dinner at least 1 night a week - it is the least I can do, right? So tonight was the long awaited Mojadara, a recipe I learned to love while working (at Bell) in downtown Greensboro and eating at Zaytoon's.....

So tonight, after rashly committing to "cook" dinner, I prepared the rice, the lentils and then began the "caramelized" onion process....which to a non-cook seems like a big freaking deal.... slice onions and deep fry in hot oil until they "caramelize" which is to be contrasted with BURN to a crisp....


And after they are done, (which takes an amazingly long time) stir into the rice/lentil Mojadara.... and then cook batch number 2....

Man, these look great.....

then add.... into the pan.....

so..... it all came together pretty good...

 until the VERY end, when it was time to prepare the Taziki Sauce..... and it seemed that certain "man folk" from the Weber house had contrived to take the PLAIN yogurt that I had purchased, and turned it into some kind of Vanilla treat - - - leaving the sad, lonely cucumber for another day....

  but thats okay.... I still  beat the Sour-Kraut/crock post - and don't have to cook for another week...

all is well.