Author: Bruce Tretter
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How To Clean a Can Top – You Bet, In Pictures!
We know we need to wash our hands before handling food. We know we should rinse fresh fruits and vegetables with edible skins before preparing or eating them. But what about can tops – whether we’re taking the whole top off, like with this tuna can… …or just popping a hole in it, like…
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French Toast with a Savory Topping – All in Pictures
Yah, I know, ‘sounds weird at first – but then, wow, French toast with a savory topping? You’ll own it, especially for lunch or even dinner. Here’s all you need for ingredients, all of which look GREAT! Just click any picture on this page for a freshly revised, complete step-by-step picture book recipe.
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French Toast with Yogurt, Jam & Fresh Fruit – All in Pictures
Here’s all you need to make another energy-sustaining, fully flavorful alternative to maple syrup French toast topping with yogurt, jam, fresh fruit, and dried fruit. If you’re using leftover French toast, just do what I did with the piece of French toast you see below and give it a quick 30 second blast in the microwave…
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French Toast with Nut Butter and Jam – Easy & All in Pictures
You bet, this is easy – and darn delicious! All it takes is spreading your favorite nut butter and jam on a piece of cooked French toast either fresh out of the frying pan or warmed in the microwave to give you a topping that’s both flavorful and much more energy-sustaining that traditional maple syrup…
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Pan Cooked French Toast – All in Pictures
I don’t know about you, but I sure love the smell of butter, eggs, bread, vanilla extract and ground cinnamon cooking in the morning. Great stuff! Here’s what it takes to put together fresh pan cooked French toast. Click any picture on this page for a complete, freshly revised and more colorful step-by-step picture book…
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Oven Roasted Potatoes – Easy to Make, All in Pictures
Oven roasted potatoes are a great, less fatty but fully flavorful alternative to French fries and are darn easy to make. All it takes is a quick clean, cut, season, roast – and have at ‘em! Just a quick word about whether to peel or not to peel the potato skins. I recommend not peeling the skins…
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Easy and Safe Soft or Hard Boiled Eggs – In Pictures and Video
All right! Adios, snow – bring on spring! The weather’s getting better – yah! We’ve got a big holiday weekend ahead. Boiled eggs – either plain white or brightly colored – are gonna’ be centerpieces of kids’ dreams Saturday night and breakfast tables Sunday morning – and, yes, it takes a real man – or…
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Nut Butter, Yogurt, Fresh Fruit and Dried Fruit Topping – All in Pictures
Last time, I showed how to make almond, quinoa and flaxseed pancakes, shown below, that are a great energy-sustaining alternative to sugar “spike and crash” traditional flapjack pancakes. Here are the ingredients to make a nut butter, yogurt, fresh fruit and dried fruit topping that goes great on those pancakes – or any pancakes, French toast, or waffles –…
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Almond, Quinoa and Flaxseed Pancake – Picture Book Recipe
Do traditional flapjack pancakes, especially when they’re soaked or slathered with your favorite sweetener, tend to give you – or your kids – an eye-bugging, “take-on-the-world” energy spike followed not long after by a nose-diving, “UGH!” full body crash? You bet I know the feeling,..and it’s all caused by sugar. But why give up pancakes…