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Simple Breakfast Tacos

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 The Wild GemsLeave a comment

Simple Breakfast Tacos

What You Need:

6 eggs

1 1/2 tablespoons of milk (eye it)

6 pieces of chopped up ham or turkey lunch meat

1/4 or 1/2 diced jalapeño (depending on your heat level)

1/4 of a purple onion diced (more or less)

A spoonful of jarred minced garlic

2 times around the pan of olive oil (about 2 tablespoons)

1 large avocado sliced

A couple of dashes of your favorite hot sauce

Salt, pepper, and oregano

Steps:

1. Whisk together your eggs, milk, and season with salt, pepper and a little bit of oregano.

2. Coat your pan with the olive oil and add the garlic. Then add your jalapeño, onion, and turkey or ham. Sauté until soft and a little brown. (You can also raise the heat to give it a little crisp)

3. Add egg mixture to veggies and meat and let the magic happen. Scramble as you would with basic scrambled eggs.

4. Serve on heated corn tortillas with sliced avocado, topped with hot sauce.

Delish!

A visual of how much I used of onion, jalapeño, and meat.

Enjoy! Happy breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner!

Banana Cream Cheese Muffins or Bread

March 30, 2021August 31, 2022 The Wild GemsLeave a comment

This recipe can be used to make a banana bread loaf or banana bread muffins! If you choose to make banana bread instead of the muffins I would suggest sprinkling a little brown sugar right on top before baking! It provides a sweet crusty top!

Enjoy!

What you will need:

2 to 3 very ripe bananas

1 8oz package of cream cheese

1/2 cup of unsalted melted butter

3/4 to 1 cup of sugar

A pinch of salt

1 teaspoon of baking soda

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups of flour

1 beaten egg

Brown sugar for sprinkling on top before baking (optional)

Steps:

1. In a medium bowl mix together with an electric mixer the bananas, cream cheese, and melted butter.

2. Next add the sugar, salt, and baking soda.

3, Then add vanilla extract and the beaten egg.

4. Last, add your flour and mix well.

5. What you want to do now is butter your muffins tins and pour batter into the tins. Distributing equally. (If making banana bread loaf sprinkle a little brown sugar and pat into bread *optional*)

6. Place in oven at 350 for 12-15 mins. Oven time may vary. Be sure to check on them. They are done when the tops are little golden.

*if baking a banana bread loaf bake at 350 for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick or butterknife comes out clean*

Serve warm with butter! So good!

Breakfast Zucchini Bread

April 25, 2020April 26, 2020 The Wild GemsLeave a comment

This bread is easy to make and super tasty. A yummy quick breakfast treat, but hey, if you want to have this for lunch or dinner I won’t judge!

Is best served warmed up with unsalted butter! Enjoy!

Breakfast Zucchini Bread

(This is called ‘Breakfast Zucchini Bread’ because it’s best to make in the evening and allow to sit overnight.)

Makes one small 8 x 4 loaf

Bake at 350 for 50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

What You Need:

1 large zucchini or 2 small ones finely shredded

1 beaten egg

1 1/2 cups of flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon plus a sprinkle of nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup of sugar

1/4 cup of vegetable oil

Steps:

1. In one small bowl whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and baking soda.

2. In a separate medium/large size bowl mix the beaten egg, sugar, vegetable oil, and shredded zucchini with an electric mixer.

3. Begin adding the dry ingredients (the flour and spices) to the wet ingredients (the egg and oil) slowly till batter is consistent.

4. Generously butter up the loaf pan and pour batter into pan. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

5. When bread is complete, allow to cool completely. Cover and let it sit overnight.

And then, enjoy for breakfast!

Mix all the dry ingredients in separate bowl.

Combine flour mixture and zucchini mixture together and bake at 350.

Saturday Morning French Toast

March 13, 2020January 8, 2022 The Wild GemsLeave a comment

What You Need:

1 loaf of French bread (Vienna bread is tasty with this recipe as well) cut in 1/2 inch slices

1 cup whole milk

2 tablespoons of sugar

2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

2 tablespoons of unsalted butter

4 beaten eggs

Cinnamon sugar spice, fresh fruit, and pure maple syrup for finishing – OPTIONAL (but truthfully, makes a huge difference!)

Steps:

1. Heat skillet to medium-high heat.

2. In a shallow bowl combine beaten eggs, whole milk, vanilla extract and sugar. Dip bread slices into egg mixture and allow a few moments to absorb the mixture on both sides of each slice.

3. Melt 1 tablespoon of butter on a hot skillet and begin your first batch of bread slices. 2-3 minutes on each slice of bread until golden.

4. Repeat step 3 with remaining butter and bread slices.

While warm spread softened butter on French toast. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar and serve with pure maple syrup and fresh fruit.

Enjoy!

3 Steps To A Perfect Hard Boiled Egg

March 7, 2020 The Wild Gems1 Comment

*What came first*, *the chicken or the egg*?

3 Steps To A Perfect Hard Boiled Egg

Step 1: Fill a small to medium size pot of water, then, place desired amount of eggs into water. Turn stove top to medium high (to about a 7 or 8 on stove)

Step 2: When water comes to a rolling boil, turn heat down to medium (About a 5 or 4). You want to keep the rolling boil going but you don’t want it to be an aggressive boil. Set timer for 18 minutes.

Step 3: Once the timer goes off remove pot from stove immediately and place eggs into an ice bath (a bowl of water with ice). Let sit for about 5 to 10 minutes.

After removing from ice bath, cut in half, and your eggs should look like this.

PERFECT AND DELICIOUS.

That’s it!! Place in fridge to enjoy later or eat right away.

Blueberry Muffins With Oatmeal Streusel Topping

March 5, 2020March 5, 2020 The Wild GemsLeave a comment

Pair this muffin with a cup of coffee or make some for your friends & family!

Blueberry Muffins With Oatmeal Streusel Topping

Oven: 400 Makes: 12 muffins Bake: 15-18 mins oven time varies

Insert toothpick and when it comes out clean then it’s complete

What You Need For Muffins:

1 3/4 cups of flour

1 1/4 cup of sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 beaten egg

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup of milk

1/4 cup of vegetable oil

3/4 cup fresh blueberries

What You Need For Oatmeal Streusel Topping:

3 tablespoons of brown sugar

1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon

A dash of nutmeg (optional)

2 tablespoons of butter

3-5 tablespoons of rolled oats (if you don’t want to use oats you can use flour)

Steps For Muffins:

1. Combine flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder in large mixing bowl. In another small mixing bowl combine beaten egg, milk, and oil.

2. Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture and then add egg mixture. Mix until completely combined. Then add fresh blueberries to mixture.

3. Spoon batter into muffin tins, then sprinkle streusel topping on muffins. Bake at 400 for 15 to 18 mins.

Serve with softened butter. Absolutely delish.

Steps For Oatmeal Streusel Topping:

Combine the oatmeal, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg in a small bowl. Add butter until the mixture becomes crumbly. Sprinkle onto muffins before baking.

4 Ingredient Baked Pop-Tarts

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 The Wild Gems

Easy, yummy, and quick!

Once you figure out how easy this is the possibilities are endless!

I’m so excited to try more flavors and to really get creative!

Let’s just get to it shall we.

All You Need Is (for this specific pop-tart)

• premade pie crust

• smuckers natural strawberry fruit spread

• The egg white of ONE egg (all you do is brush this over the pastry before popping into the oven)

• Cookie Icing

(Sprinkles optional)

Maybe one of these days I’ll try making these with homemade dough and icing but I don’t have time! Do you!? This method of using store bought and pre-made makes this super easy, especially with your kids!

This is something fun then can make by themselves too! With adult supervision with the oven of course.

4 Ingredient Baked Pop-Tarts with pictures

Steps:

Step 1. Follow steps on the pre-made dough, on the box of dough I bought it said to roll out and let rise for 20 mins.)

– once dough is ready, cut out the size of rectangles you want and as many as you want (doesn’t need to be perfect).

– in this picture there are 6 rectangles which will make 3 pop -tarts.

Step 2:

Put a dollop amount of strawberry spread onto the rectangles. However many you are making you want to make sure each rectangle has a plain one to go on top.

Step 3.

Place a plain rectangle of dough onto each rectangle with strawberry spread. And seal each pastry with a fork. Poke some holes on top with a toothpick.

Brush egg white wash all over the pastries. (whisk egg white a little before brushing)

(I made these with my girls so they aren’t the prettiest but I’m sure if you have time you can do a nicer job!)

Step 5.

Bake at 400 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes (oven time may vary) allow to cool

Step 6.

Add cookie icing and sprinkles!

Enjoy! See, simple!

Now go get creative and Wild with this!!!

Coconut Almond Chia Seed Pudding

October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 The Wild GemsLeave a comment

Talk about creamy, light, and refreshing! Especially when you add fresh fruit!

I love this flavor because it’s not overly sweet but it’s satisfying enough when you want to indulge in something sweet.

Especially if you’re trying to limit your intake on the super sugary stuff.

The coconut milk is what provides that creamy texture while the almond extract supplies the flavor.

Hope you enjoy it!

Coconut Almond Chia Seed Pudding

Servings: 4-6

What you need:

2 cups Coconut milk

1/3 cup Chia seeds

1/2 tsp Almond extract

1 Tbsp Honey

(Side note: a can of coconut milk is only 1 and 1/3 cup so if don’t feel like opening a new can of coconut milk just add regular milk. As long as it equals 2 cups)

Steps: