Eggs Florentine

Dinner tonight

Serves 2 as a main dish entree. Accompany with a green salad for an easy dinner.

20 spinach leaves (washed)
8 big basil leaves, chopped (optional)
1/4 cup romano cheese (or a blend of romano and parmesan)
4 eggs
4 tbsp cream
salt and pepper
hummus (optional)
diced tomatoes (optional)
goat cheese (optional -- sometimes we use the goat cheese and not the hummus, or vice versa)

Preheat oven to 375. Spray two small oven safe dishes (ramekins) with PAM. Microwave the spinach, wrapped in a paper towel, for about one minute (til it's wilted). Divide spinach leaves and basil leaves between dishes. Sprinkle with half of the romano cheese, dividing the half between the dishes. If desired, place a couple dabs of hummus in each dish, and some diced tomatoes. Add a couple slices of goat cheese to each dish, if desired.Crack two eggs into each dish. Don't stir them up or try to blend the ingredients. Pour 2 tbsp cream into each dish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and remaining romano.

Bake for 25 minutes or until eggs are set.

A wonderful Saturday evening dinner while watching Britcoms on PBS.

Korean food

I've heard good things about this Korean food blog, this recipe in particular:
http://koreancookingshow.blogspot.com/2007/08/korean-style-vegetable-pancake.html

I haven't watched the video yet.

Menu week ending October 5

I didn't keep track of what we ate every day. Migraines were keeping me from the computer part of the time. But we've had fabulous food!

We went to a family friendly Irish pub to eat Fish and Chips, followed by Sticky Toffee pudding.

At home, we had a British Isles dinner with English bangers (sausages) and colcannon (mashed potatoes with bacon and cabbage).

Dh made "bubble and squeak" from the leftover colcannon. (I could eat bubble and squeak every day.)

We also had welsh rarebit twice. These foods were all immensely popular with our children -- and with us. (Welsh rarebit is going to be served at our home quite frequently.)

Links:
Colcannon recipes: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_22600,00.html
http://www.ireland-information.com/irishrecipes/colcannon.htm

Welsh rarebit: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_26813,00.html

picture of a British version of sticky toffee puddinghttp://stickytoffeepudding.com/ and a recipe we haven't tried yet: http://www.recipezaar.com/113993

bubble and squeakhttp://www.anenglishmaninamerica.co.uk/british-bubble-and-squeak-recipe.php

Irish brown bread:http://paisleyteacup.blogspot.com/2007/06/irish-brown-bread-easy.html

We varied the across-the-Atlantic fare with some south of the border flavor: tamales!