The simplest recipes start with the best ingredients. Take our dinner the past two nights, for example. A tortilla (frittata?) made with farm fresh eggs purchased from our innkeepers in Norwich, VT on the Boston blogger King Arthur weekend made for a filling and quick post-work and post wine class meal.
I pulled this recipe together in my head based on ingredients we had in the house since we didn’t quite make it to the grocery store last weekend.
Ingredients
6 farm eggs
1 cup roasted red peppers
1/4 cup grated parmesan
3 small potatoes, sliced in very thin rounds
ground black pepper
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I simply whisked the eggs until fluffy and poured them into a pie plate with the rest of the ingredients, stirred, and put the whole thing in the oven at 350 for about 22 minutes.
At the very end, I put the broiler to high and left the tortilla in the oven for about three minutes, until it was bubbly and brown on top.
I served it with a little dollop of garlic aioli. But that’s not all. . .
I also dug into the bag of delights that I bought at King Arthur and baked a heartland honey sunflower bread. Yes, it was from a box, but I did have to mix all of the ingredients, knead the dough, wait for it to rise, shape it, wait for it to rise again, and bake it.
![]() The box has the Oldways Whole Grain Stamp! Hooray! Check out all of the sunflower seeds in the dough, |
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The bread came out perfectly and made me want to make some bread without a box very soon.
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This was one of the easiest and most delicious dinners I have made in awhile, and we had plenty of leftovers. I need to remember to make enough food every Monday so that when I get home from wine class at around 10 Tuesday night we have something easy to heat up. It made all of the difference!
I am having another trying week, but I am trying to stay positive because the Newport Wine and Food Festival with some great friends is this weekend.
What is keeping you positive this week? Or if you are having a not-so-great week like me, what is bringing you down? Whatever it is, I hope it gets better!