Confessions Of A Dirty Kitchen: Early Morning Multi-tasking,

This morning like every morning, I woke up hoping both babies were still sleeping, Saturdays happen to be my favorite days because my husband is home and normally i can squeeze in an extra hour or two of sleep. Today i decided to make use of my childless time and get a head start on dinner, make a yummy new breakfast and spend some time with my husband.

I managed to start dinner in the crock pot and about two minutes into sitting on the couch to decide what i was making both babies are up and ready to intrude on my mommy time. Oh such is the life of a mom.

Anyhow dinner tonight is a Puerto Rican classic Bistec Encebollado(Cubed steak marinated and cooked with onions) with Rice and beans. I always like to pull out the crock pot anytime i can, this just so happens to be one of my husbands favorite Puerto Rican dishes.Don be scared of the vinegar, it gives it an amazing flavor, and really im not sure why people don't cook with vinegar more often its a great "tangy" flavor to add to tons of meat dishes. Here's the beginning of this dish, the rest will come later :)

Crock Pot Bistec Encebollado

Ingredients:

4 Cubed steaks

1 Lg Red onion

3 cloves of garlic

1 cup of vinegar

water to cover

Adobo Seasoning to taste. (crucial ingredient)

Directions:

1. Slice red onion, and garlic. season meat very liberally in Adobo.( i season the steaks and then put more in the water)

2. throw everything in crock pot.

3. put it on low and continue your daily activities :)

****For anyone who hasnt used Adobo its a really good all purpose seasoning to have in the pantry it really taste great on everything and it will especially come in handy if you plan on following any of my hispanic recipes.

On to the next recipe! Breakfast!!

This recipe was something new i wanted to try and ive already made changes to it because the first results just weren't to my liking but i'll let ya'll be the judges.

Pancake and Bacon Egg Cups

Ingredients:

6 Strips of bacon. (trim off most of the fat)

1.5 cups Premade pancake mix

6 eggs

Maple Syrup

muffin tin

Directions:

1. first of all make your pancake mix, whatever pancake mix that might be, for the sake of time i grabbed my always ready box mix :) whipped up a cup and a half and added some vanilla to it.

2. Preheat oven to 350. While the oven is doing its job, spoon 2 tablespoons of pancake batter into each muffin well.

3. swirl in some maple syrup to your desired liking...we really like maple syrup in my house. so i was generous with it.

4.pop it in the oven for 6 minutes. now take it out and put the oven up to 400

5. add more maple syrup. I told you...we really like maple syrup.

6. lay your trimmed bacon in each cup to make cute little bacon cups 1 slice per cup. make sure your ends are overlapping so that you can contain as much of the egg as possible.

7. crack one egg in each cup and sprinkle with salt.

8. leave in the over for about 15 min.... i say about because it depends on how you like your egg...if you like it more firm leave it in longer.

I'd say its a pretty simple breakfast muffin, If you notice in my pictures there are eggs and bacon missing, that because i filled up some of the muffins with just pancake batter and syrup for my little one. Might i add that it was a genius decision and everyone should make pancake muffins!!! might try that tomorrow with some fruits...