It’s been a while since I’ve been riddling. Here’s one for you:
Sometimes the lame ones are the best to leave you guffawing to the core. What’s your lamest riddle(s) yet?
Let’s start the counter ticking to descending the weekend. See you next week!
November 11, 2017
Monthly Mystery Munchies #29 with Gen
Category: Monthly Mystery Munchies
Sugar and spice and all that’s nice and my dear South African BBF (best-blogging-friend) once again came out strong using the cardinal spice of cinnamon.
She upped the ante and went all out with Cinnamon Buns with Cream Cheese and Buttermilk Glaze:
Don’t they just look divine! Like me, she looks to baking as a mood enhancer – the process, the prep…everything! She’s perfected the art of baking this cinnamon buns, cautioning that it is important to note that these portions have to be measured precisely.
With buns looking like that, there is no mistaking she has gotten the perfect recipe. In her words:
And perfect it is! I’ve adjusted the frosting by increasing the portions and adding vanilla, which I am permanently ‘sessing over. I am also obsessed with cinnamon. I’ve had a love affair with it for years. I put it in everything. Like, everything. It goes into my smoothies, I sprinkle it over my All Bran and bananas every morning, I put it in curries and chilli dishes… Any opportunity and I’m down.
Baking is something I haven’t done for quite some time. The price of butter has skyrocked in South Africa. FML. No, seriously, it saddens me. Baking is something that’s an instant mood enhancer, and I’m not just talking about the finished product. In fact, I think I enjoy the actual process and preparation more than the reward that comes out of the oven! Okay, maybe not more, but definitely on par.
If you haven’t check out her recipe yet, go pop over to her Cinnamon Buns with Cream Cheese and Buttermilk recipe here for some cinnamon-y, cream-cheesy, buttermilky goodness! Even better, please share her page along!
See you next month for another round of MMM….mmmmmmmmmmmmm….!
November 10, 2017
Monthly Mystery Munchies #29: Cinnamon-Sugar French Toast Roll
Category: Monthly Mystery Munchies
Miss us?
This has been a while isn’t it? I miss us too and I’m glad that Gen has since been on the mend since her last unfortunate incident involving a hot, bursting pipe which landed her in hospital. It must have been some 3+ months ago since our last MMM!
The good news is that Gen’s healing well. Even after such a freaky ordeal, her spirits remain strong. Her optimism has been out of this world and I’m so very glad that she’s up for our MMM! That’s one hell of a strong woman for you who by now cannot wait to get her sore ass back into the kitchen!
And with that, here we go with this month’s theme of using cinnamon. It’s the one thing that has been under-used in my spice-rack. Surely my bottle of cinnamon-sugar can be put to good use.
This theme came about because I was bothered with the fact that such oughtta-be-used-often-spice hardly is ever used in my kitchen. I’m not sure why that is but it bugs me that the spice bottle is at a risk of being completely forgotten.
I love my spices and I cannot let that happen to my cinnamon-sugar spice bottle, can I? That would just not be fair to other spices!
But what would I make with cinnamon sugar?
Churros was too easy a guess; in fact making churros was the main reason I bought it in the first place though at this point in time, toying with churros was not really on the top of my list. I was not in the mood to make dough. Dough can be oh-so-finicky. I don’t have the patience for finicky!
Instead, I thought I’ll do something simple. Something that’s relatively quick. Armed with white bread, butter and spice bottles in question, I decided on Cinnamon-Sugar French Toast Roll for breakfast.
They were made the night before and although the kids weren’t too thrilled with the taste of cinnamon, they ate almost the entire plate leaving me with only 1 measly roll of the French Toast. Silver Bullet had one.They kids must have ate quite a bit between the both of them.
How did that happen?
Cinnamon-Sugar French Toast Roll
2017-05-08 03:36:34
Serves 4
Cinnamon-y-sugar french toast in a roll for an easy breakfast treat!
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
25 min
Total Time
35 min
Ingredients
- 1 loaf of white bread, cut off the crust on the sides
- 45g butter
- 3 tbsp fine sugar
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- 3 eggs
- 1/4 cup skim milk
- 2-3 tbsp cinnamon-sugar
- some butter to saute the rolls
- Maple syrup or honey (optional)
Instructions
- Melt butter and mix in fine sugar, brown sugar as well as cinnamon powder. Stir well and make it into a paste. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, whisk eggs and milk together. Set aside.
- Using a rolling pin, flatten the white bread with the crusts off. Then spread the butter-sugar-cinnamon spread on one side of the bread and roll. Repeat this till all the bread are used
- Heat up pan with 2-3 tbsp butter in it. Let the butter melt.
- Dip the rolled bread into the egg-milk batter and coat well.
- Saute the coated roll into the hot pan for 1-2 minutes until golden brown on each side and until a little crisp on the outside
- Remove from the pan. Repeat the remaining rolls as necessary and add butter as and when required to grease the pan.
- When ready to serve, sprinkle cinnamon-sugar all over and dip it with maple syrup or honey if desired.
Notes
- Soaking the bread rolls too long in the eggs would cause the bread to disintegrate easily, so be mindful not to soak it and then forget it or your bread would turn to a mush.
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Now that’s decided, come let’s mosey over at Gen’s South African kitchen with her take of something cinnamon-y and sugary. I’m seriously dying to share her creative take with cinnamon-sugar. It’s a lovely spice to work with and we all could appreciate a little spice and sweetness in our life, wouldn’t you agree?
With that, Welcome Back Gen!
What other cinnamon-sugar food would you recommend? I would love to hear your take on this.
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Monthly Mystery Munchies features every first Friday of the month in collaboration with Gen, Author of Eat, Play, Clove. Stay tuned with next month’s edition from the Grubbs ‘n Critters’ Kitchen!