Watch “Celebrating Mothers” Episode of my show “Celebrating Life & Food”. http://vimeo.com/41464357
Celebrating Mother’s day is always something I enjoy. Being a mother, I love to be celebrated. Usually I sleep in, until I hear the kids making noise in the kitchen as they make me breakfast. With a little chuckle, I wonder how they are doing, what they are making and what the kitchen is going to look like when they are done. Ha, it usually is an absolute mess. It has gotten better as they have gotten older.
This year on my show; Celebrating Life & Food, I did an episode “Celebrating Mothers” with a great brunch menu: Scrambled eggs w/wine, nestled in Puff Pastry and Strawberry Smoothies. My daughter Sara and her friends Leah & Kristen joined me as I taught them how to make this delicious breakfast.
Scrambled eggs are amazing if you make them the right way! Here are several tips to ensure a perfect, creamy, flavorful result.
- Add 1/4 cup of white wine to the eggs. Wine adds an amazing flavor to the eggs. I don’t add milk or water or any other liquid; just wine. It can be any white wine that you enjoy.
- Once you have lightly whisked the eggs, wine, S & P, pour them into a med-low heated skilled that has melted butter.
- Now for another tip; gently stir. Keep stirring the eggs, scraping the sides and the center as they have a tendency to cook faster. Stirring the eggs keeps the curds the eggs form smaller and therefore creamier.
- Add your cheese just before the eggs are done. The eggs should be creamy and shiny. If overcooked they will look dry.
- Puff Pastry is a perfect “bowl” for the eggs. It is beautiful and takes scrambled eggs to a higher level. Just bake them according to the package.
Strawberry smoothies with a touch of Orange Juice and Honey make a perfect, refreshing drink for this brunch. So easy!!!
Don’t you love the journals the girls made for their mothers? I bought the journals at Michaels for $2.50. They were in a clearance bin. Michaels also had this brand of scrapbooking supplies that I love; Jolee’s Boutique. The entire brand was 50% off. The style was called; French General; Petite Bijoux. The girls used silk flowers, labels, buttons, ribbons, etc from this collection and we used a glue gun to adhere everything to the journal. LOVED, LOVED, LOVED the outcome!
Instead of a “tablescape” we created a “trayscape”. I used a tray that I had around the house, added a linen cloth…any napkin will do. I always save little jars to use as vases and I used 3 small jars and added a single bloom in each jar. The journal, the eggs in puff pastry and the strawberry smoothie, finished off the trayscape perfectly!
Thank you Amanda, Tyler, Mike & Tom for all your hard work behind the scenes as we taped “Celebrating Mothers” for my TV show; Celebrating Life & Food. You guys ROCKED!! It was the first time we filmed in my kitchen instead of the studio kitchen and I loved it! So comfortable and familiar!
To my mother; Mama (said with a french accent because she is french), you have been my foundation. You are a loving, kind, courageous women who has always placed your family first. So many wonderful memories; doing cartwheels together in our backyard, singing “I Have Confidence in Sunshine” as we cleaned the house, making chocolate chip cookies for Christmas and eating them in the middle of the night, looking out in the audience of every production I was in and seeing you there with a smile on your face and kleenex in your hands as tears of joy streamed down your face. And the greatest gift of all; that as an adult, you are a dear friend to me, my husband and now, with my children. Thank you for your continued gift of celebrating life and family. It is from you that I learned how to celebrate!! I love you Mama. Happy Mother’s Day!!
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STRAWBERRY SMOOTHIES
Ingredients
- 2 cups fresh strawberries
- ½ cup orange juice
- 5 ice cubes
- 3 T. honey
Directions
- Place all ingredients in blender and blend until mixed
- For decoration, place strawberry on the side of the glass.