Saturday, March 7, 2009

Pesto, Hollandaise, hardboiled egg Sandwich

When I made that delicious Vegetarian Eggs Benedict, I had a lot hollandaise sauce left over. So what can you do with it?? Make a sandwich!

  • Multigrain Bread (from Flourish, I am interning there and helped bake this bread, but I can't share their secret recipe... sorry.. but it's good!!)
  • Hollandaise Sauce (look for recipe on previous blog)
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tbsp pesto (I used my mom's homemade pesto. You'll have to ask her about it...)
  • lettuce (got from my CSA box from Farmer Tom's CSA)
This is a quick and easy sandwich! Slice the bread. Smear pesto on one piece of bread. Smear the refrigerated hollandaise sauce (now should be the consistency of spreadable butter) on the other. Hard boil an egg about 12 minutes so that it the egg yolk isn't completely chalky yet, but it's cooked through. Slice the egg and place on sandwich with the lettuce. Perfecto!

Healthy Blueberry Banana Muffins

In my previous blog I talked about some muffins that I made with egg whites... hence the hollandaise sauce. This is it...
  • 2 cups whole wheat flour
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 2 teaspoons white sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 really ripe mashed bananas (if you have bananas that became too ripe to eat. Don't throw away. Place them in the freezer until you are ready to bake.)
  • 4 egg whites
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 Tbsp plain organic yogurt
  • 1 cup fresh blueberries
(I got the base recipe from allrecipes...submitted by ELEMMIRE) I just make a few amendments.

Grease muffin pan and preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix together flour, sugars, cinnamon, baking soda, and baking powder in one bowl.

Then mash up bananas in another bowl with egg whites, vanilla extract and yogurt.

Add the two mixtures together until mixed completely. It's best if you have a whisk (I unfortunately don't have this).

Put batter in 12 muffin pans, filling them about 2/3 full. Bake for about 20 minutes or until the inside is done (you can check with a toothpick. If there is uncooked dough on the toothpick after you poke the middle, it's not done.)

Enjoy!