Orange-Walnut Pancakes & Portabella Baked Eggs

This was a beautiful and easy brunch!

I loved the pancakes, but the mushroom was something really special!

I think if you had a brunch for a crowd these mushrooms would be ideal.

Portabella with baked egg, Orange-Walnut Pancakes and a Bloody Mary.

For the Pancakes...Here's what you need:

1 1/4 cup flour (sifted)

1 tsp baking powder

1 egg separated

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 Tbsp sugar

pinch of salt

1 cup milk

3 Tbsp melted butter (plus a bit more for frying)

handful of chopped walnuts

1 Tbsp orange zest

2 Tbsp fresh orange juice

Here's what you do...

Mix flour, powder, sugar, egg yolk, milk vanilla, salt, butter, orange zest and juice together until well combined, but still has lumps.

Beat egg white until stiff peaks form. 

Fold egg white into pancake batter

Let the mix rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Now add the walnuts. 

Heat your pan or griddle and cook scant 1/4 cup batter (per pancake) for about 2 minutes (until bubbles appear) on one side and another 30 sec to 1 minute on the other until set.

These have a very light orange flavor with the hearty walnuts in each bite- YUM!

Now to the Mushrooms!

Here's what you need:

Large Portabella Mushroom caps

garlic powder

salt

pepper

eggs

Parmesan Cheese

parsley

Here's what you do:

Preheat broiler to high.

Spray mushrooms with either olive oil or butter flavored cooking spray. Sprinkler garlic powder, salt and pepper to taste.

Broil mushrooms until tender- about 5 minutes on each side.

Oh my the delightful smell...

Remove mushrooms from oven. Switch oven to Bake and set at 400 degrees. 

Break one egg into each mushroom and sprinkle with desired amount of Parmesan Cheese. 

Return to oven and bake for about 15 minutes, or until egg is set and whites are cooked.

Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.

Sprinkle with parsley for a fresh, pretty plate.

This is so pretty and delicious!

Happy Brunching Everyone!

La Bonne Vie Y'all!

Saturday Morning Brunch Idea! The Hubs Approved!!!

Challah French Toast! Yum!

This is very hearty. I found the recipe on the Food Network App.
It is a Barefoot Contessa recipe and the Hubs Loves It!

I used 6 large eggs and sliced the Challah into thick pieces (about 3/4").

She calls for plain Challah, but I could only find Challah with raisins. It is wonderful with raisins!
You will need the 1 tsp of orange zest, 1 1/2 cups of half-and-half (I used heavy whipping cream,
because I had it in the fridge) or 2% milk, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract, 1 Tbsp honey, 1/2 tsp Kosher salt. 

Mix eggs, cream, orange zest, honey, vanilla extract,
salt in a shallow bowl. Soak bread in the mix 5 minutes
on each side.

Heat 1 Tbsp of butter and 1 Tbsp of oil in a skillet on
medium heat. Cook soaked slices on each side for
2-4 minutes until golden.

Heat your oven to 250 degrees so that you can keep the toast warm as you cook the second batch.
Then cover your French toast with confectioners sugar.

The Barefoot Contessa suggests serving with warm maple syrup
and raspberry preserves.

We didn't have raspberry preserves, so we just used blackberry preserves.
It was still delicious!

So Orange-Scented French Toast, covered in Blackberry Preserves and
smothered in syrup...Win!

The Hubs Loved It!

I cannot tell you that it is at all low carb, but there is quite a bit of protein from all of the eggs.

If you are going for yummy French Toast and you aren't carb counting...pick this one!!! 

Hooray for Brunch!

La Bonne Vie Ya'll!