Breakfast Sandwiches

I make breakfast sandwiches every Sunday night along with making dinner. Josh has a quick breakfast before work everyday and though I can make these sandwiches fresh in the morning, I choose to make them in bulk on Sunday night, freeze 3 of them and let the others sit in the fridge. Once the ones in the fridge are gone, you have to start defrosting the frozen ones in the fridge the night before. To warm up the defrosted sandwiches, I microwave them unwrapped on a small plate for 25 seconds. I also add a slice of cheese to my sandwiches, but I’ll also add lunch meat or sausage patties if I have any.
Also, my fried egg looks a bit burnt, however, my butter fats just burnt a bit, that is why it has such a dark color. I also cook my eggs to over easy, so when it’s bitten into the yolk runs everywhere. Freezing the sandwiches doesn’t change the yolk’s runniness.

  1. First, toast 10 pieces of bread for 5 breakfast sandwiches. Place on a plate. Begin to heat a small frying pan on medium.
  2. Add about 1/2 Tbsp of butter to the frying pan and coat the bottom of the pan. Crack one egg into the frying pan. Throw away the shell and wash your hands.
  3. Returning to the egg. Once the bottom of the egg is fully opaque, shake the pan to make sure the egg moves, if not, free the egg from the bottom of the pan with your spatula carefully.
  4. Once free, slip your spatula under the egg and carefully flip the egg using gravity and little “force”. Cook until the white around the yolk is firm. Remove from heat and transfer onto a set of toast.
  5. Repeat steps 2-4 for the remaining sandwiches.
  6. Finally, add a slice of cheese and any meats to each sandwich. Wrap each sandwich individually with saran wrap. Freeze or refrigerate as desired.

Oven Roasted Buttercup Squash

This year, Josh and I have been doing tons of squash! Squash is healthy and very common where we are living. This is one of my favorite ways to have buttercup squash, and I highly recommend! It is also fun to eat the squash this way, because all you need is a spoon to eat the inside.

  1. Wash off your squash and carefully cut the squash in half
  2. Preheat oven to 400 F
  3. Use a spoon to remove the seeds and strands. Using a knife, score the inside of the squash.
  4. Mix 3 Tbsp honey and 3 Tbsp brown sugar and coat the inside of each squash half. Place on a cookie sheet.
  5. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes and serve!

Modernizing Our Light Switches

As you can see, Josh and I have decided to change out all of our old light switches for a modern rocker switches. Most of our switches are Leviton brand and you can find them relatively cheap on amazon, assuming you don’t have to buy many “odd” switches like we did. Besides the normal single rocker switches, we also had to get a dimmer switch for our dining light (the one that was most recently changed), and a double switch for our kitchen light and back porch light. The later of these we also found a strange old electrical (?) box. I mean, we do live in a Lustron home, so strange 50s things aren’t that uncommon, but we definitely weren’t expecting that, nor have we seen anything like it elsewhere in the house. Along with that, you will also see that some of the old switch plates damaged wallpaper/paint. We aren’t happy about our new found work, but the projects seem to be never ending, so oh well!

Clock Movement Replacement

This was a small project that was pretty easy. We had to measure the depth of the face and then just follow the installation instructions on the back of the package. This is a very special clock though to me, because my husband made it about a year after we started dating in high school and he stained the whole clock a dark color, because I love the richness of dark wood. He also stained the 12, 3, 6, and 9 a red color because red is my favorite color. It meant a lot to me at the time, and I’m glad to have it hanging in our house and working.

Ranch Dressing Pasta Salad

This is a very filling and heavy pasta side. Adding fresh veggies would easily brighten it up and make it a perfect salad for a summers day where you’ve done lots of work, or a great picnic salad to be served with grilled chicken and watermelon. Every time you change the ingredients, it’s like your getting a new salad! I would also add a bit of dill to the salad, but I don’t have any at the moment, so none this time.

  1. Boil 8 oz of pasta until al dente. Strain and rinse with cold water. Shake off excess water and transfer to serving bowl.
  2. Add 1/3 cup of ranch dressing. Add 1 cup of mayo. Add 3 Tbsp of dried minced onion. Add 1 Tbsp of garlic powder. Add 2 tsp of onion powder. Add 1 1/2 Tbsp of chives. Mix together.
  3. Refrigerate until serving.

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