So here we go, breakfast for one:

• 2 eggs
• 1 bagle
• a pinch of old bay for each egg

Crack the eggs into cups and bring the water to a boil. Stir with a spoon to create a whirlpool (you don’t have to whisk it all that hard or fast) and carefully pour in the eggs. Lower the heat to low and let poach for about two minutes. Cut up the bagel and put the halves on a plate. Serve the eggs and sprinkle with old bay.

Easy wasn’t it?

The whites will be set and the yellow will be runny. Delicious :)

Exotic flavours is trendy right now in the chocolate business. Bacon, curry, rosemary and ginger/wasabi. Plus many, many more. I decided to try it out and copy one of these on a nutella like hazelnut spread by Leonidas Chocolate.

For this I used:

• Leonidas Chocolate hazelnut spread
• A pinch of ground red hot chilli peppers

I spread it out on a bagel and sprinkled the chilli on top. Simple as that. I don’t think I will make it again, not because it was bad. But spicy desserts just isn’t my thing.

Anyway.

Here’s my attempt on recreating past evenings but in my view of American style.

The sandwiches:
Bagles
Butter
Green bell peppers
Tomatoes
Pepper jack cheese
Mushrooms

It’s basically a steak sandwich without the steak. Just stack it up. I chose bagles because it’s American and fun. They also taste best amongst American bread when heated up and get the crust crispy. The green bell peppers because they are less sweet than yellow, orange and red.

No pepper jack?
If you don’t have pepper jack cheese you can just cut up a jalapeño and put it together with any mild regular cheese.

Its very simple, it just looks fancy, trust me ;)

What you need:
Italian Bread
Butter
Salami
Your favourite mild cheese (I used Muenster)
Oregano
Tomatoes
Garlic olive oil

How I did it:
I spread butter on both slices of bread (for moisture and for ingredients to stick) and put two slices of cheese on one bread slice. On top of the cheese I put two-three slices of the salami. Cut up about half a tomato for the sandwich and put those slices on top of the salami and top it all off with some oregano. Put the sandwich together and have a frying pan ready on low/medium heat. Sprinkle some garlic olive oil in the pan, it matches this so well! And let fry for a few minutes on each side, either until the cheese melts or until the bread is the beautiful brown colour you want it :)

Fast & easy! And very, very tasty. You could probably replace the oregano with basil for more flavour and even switch the cheese for a good mozzarella and maybe even some sun dried tomatoes to make it more Italian style.

I didn’t know about grilled cheese sandwiches until I came to America and now that I do I added my own twist to them, enjoy :)

This was day one of trying to make my own food. And I must admit, Im awesome.

I boiled two potatoes for about 20 minutes. Cut them up in a bowl and fried them with basil, garlic, oregano – all in olive oil. Added some avocados, to soften them.

Then I made a Italian-ish sandwich. With basil, sun dried tomatoes, mozzarella and some arugula for volume :)

This whole meal cost less than $20 at whole foods and took about 30 minutes to create!