Recipe: 10 Minute Brunch for Lovers and Fighters

Lately I’ve been on a quick yet savory meal kick. I want a great meal, but don’t want to spend an hour making it, and yet another hour doing the dishes. Below is a great huevos rancheros inspired brunch option using one pan and ten minutes of your time. I prefer fried eggs, olive bread, and a pico de gallo style salsa, but you can use whatever egg, bread, and salsa options you like. Plus, the recipe can be easily adjusted to accommodate 1 to 18 guests!.

Ingredients:

  • Eggs (1 egg per guest)
  • Bread (1 slice per guest)
  • Salsa (1 spoonful per guest)
  • Uncooked Spinach (quarter cup per guest)
  • Olive Oil
  • Lime Juice
  • Salt & Pepper

Directions are as follows:

  • Preheat your pan on medium heat
  • Add butter, margarine, or non-stick spray.
  • Add eggs to pan
  • Begin toasting bread
  • Flip eggs.
  • Next add spinach to each guest’s plate and season with fresh lime juice, olive oil, salt & pepper
  • Place 1 piece of toast on each guest’s plate and add 1 scoop of  salsa on top of each piece of toast
  • Remove egg from pan and place it on top of toast with salsa
Serve with a cup coffee or a glass fresh squeezed orange juice and enjoy.
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As an FYI, this post title was inspired by a great jam by Mos Def entitled Bedstuy Parade and Funeral March
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Dorchester Open Studios 2011 – October 22nd and 23rd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dorchester Open Studios 2011 hosted by the Dorchester Arts Collaborative will take place on the weekend of October 22nd and 23rd with an opening reception the evening of Friday October 21st.

I will be one of approximately 130 artists that are displaying work at 6 group sites and 7 home studios. For more information about open studios visit: http://www.dac-online.org.


Dorchester Arts Collaborative membership information is also available at: http://www.dac-online.org/about-us/membership/membership-option.

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Rooftop Container Gardening

I recently moved from a two-family house with a small yarn into an apartment building surrounded by cement and two lovely trees. The location and building are wonderful, but the shade and cement make it nearly impossible to recreate the vegetable garden I’d been cultivating for the past 3 years. I spent most of March perplexed.  I didn’t want to give up my garden, but how does one garden without green space? Luckily, we live in an age of Google. A search of “urban gardening” provided ideas, which I paired with some ingenuity to create an urban veggie oasis.

I do have roof access in my building. This solves my lack of sunlight problem, but how does one create a garden on the roof? Trusty Google suggested container gardening as a solution for people looking to grow vegetables in the city, since many vegetables can be grown in pots and containers. Now I just needed to find 18 or so large containers. [I’ll point out here I didn’t want to spend a fortune, or any money at all.] Here’s what I did. I visited my local pizzeria and burrito shops asking if they had food containers (1 gallon or larger) that they typically threw away.  I explained what I’d be using them for and they were happy to let me take them off their hands. So, now I’ll be growing my tomatoes in a bucket that originally held 5 pounds of pickles! They’ve agreed to give me their containers each week for the next few weeks! This means I won’t need to purchase any containers for my veggies and I save trash from going into a landfill, win-win!

Check out a few pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649

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