Banana Cake Bonanza

So You Need To Use Up The Bananas You Have

I Don’t Care! Take Me To The Recipe!

Ingredients

Cake:

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup buttermilk

1 cup mashed bananas

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Banana pudding:

3 cups milk

1 cup sugar

2 tablespoons cornstarch

1/4 teaspoon salt

6 egg yolks

2 teaspoons banana or vanilla extract


Banana frosting:

1 banana, smashed

1/2 cup whole milk

3 cups powdered sugar, sifted


Alternate Topping Option: 

Three bars of your favorite (plain) milk chocolate

2 cups of heavy whipping cream

Instructions:

Banana cake: 

Go ahead and preheat your oven to 300*F and gather up all of your ingredients. (Trust us, this makes it SO much easier, and you feel very TV-Star-Chef like. It's a good feeling.) 

Grab three separate bowls all of the same size.  In the first one, you're going to sift your flour with a fine sieve. This gets air into the flour as well as breaking up clumps, which is important for a cake like this. Once that's done, mix in your baking soda, baking powder and salt. 

Example of sifted flour for making banana cakes

Grab a second bowl and toss in approximately two large bananas. If you'd like to measure them precisely, we advise using another bowl to mash them and then measuring one scoop at a time. Give them a thorough smashing with a fork, and then add in the buttermilk. 

Using a stand mixer or a hand mixer, cream together your butter and sugar until it's pale, fluffy, and fully incorporated. You will want to start off on low so you aren't inhaling sugar and slowly work your way up. Once you've got it nice and fluffy, add in your eggs and vanilla and continue to mix. 

Next up is adding the dry ingredients and the banana a bit at a time. Alternate back and forth between them. until your dough is nice and thick, but it should also have a smooth consistency. 

Batter consistency for making banana cakes

This is what the consistency and smoothness of your batter should look like by the end of things, although, we will point out, your bowl should be much more full than this. We forgot to grab a photo prior to filling up the muffin tins.


Now, a quick discussion of forms for the cake. You can use muffin tins, or an eclair pan, or you could do something crazy and use that Star Wars tin that you got for Christmas from the company White Elephant. BUT whatever you do, there's two things you need to make sure of. 1) Your form needs to be only 1/2 full when you make these. The batter will rise and you will end up with what looks like cookies on top of your cake otherwise.  That turned out fine for us in our initial tests, but if you're wanting exactly what we offered, then you're going to need to make sure the tins are only 1/2 filled.  (ask us how we know that one!

Once you've filled your cake forms of choice, pop them in the oven for 25 minutes, rotating your pan (or pans) halfway through the cooking time. 

That /should/ be enough time BUT we advise checking with a fork or toothpick stuck in the center. If your testing implement comes out of the cake clean, great! You're done. If not, turn the pan, and leave it in there for another 2 minutes. Continue the process of testing and turning every 2 minutes until it /does/ out clean. 

Once they're done, allow them to cool completely, and we'll move on to making pudding! 

A preface for this section. Please, read all of the instructions carefully. Puddings are tricky beasts and they are just as easily destroyed as souffles. Our first attempt at making this ended up with cooked egg and grainy bits. Even after sieving the pudding could not be saved. You have been warned.

To start with, grab your six eggs and crack them into a pyrex bowl or measuring cup, preferably one that has room for more than just those six eggs. In a small saucepan, combine milk, sugar, cornstarch, and salt, mixing thoroughly. Cook over medium-high heat if you've got an electric stove, or medium low if you've got a gas stove.  Do this until it thickens and bubbles begin to form on the surface. Reduce the heat to low and cook it for two more minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, and grab your ladle. Carefully pour one scoop at a time of the milk mixture into the eggs, using a whisk or fork to mix thoroughly. Go slowly, and add about 1/3 of the milk mixture to the eggs.  MAKE SURE TO MIX THOROUGHLY and that you've brought the temperature of the eggs up to (roughly) the same temperature of the milk mixture. Once that's been reached, add the egg mixture into the pan and put that back on the heat, allowing it to come up to a gentle boil. Cook that for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. (and yes, we mean /constantly/. You don't have to whisk it so hard it flies out of the pot at you, but you do have to keep the mix turning constantly or else you'll end up with the bottom scorched. 

Making pudding for the first time for banana cakes

NO, this is NOT what your pudding should look like. We’re including this image for the horror factor. Don’t let your pudding end up like, and carefully follow the steps we’ve outlined, please.

Remove the pan from the heat and add in your extract of choice. (We chose vanilla when we made it, to give some balance to the banana cake.) Pour your pudding into a clean heat proof dish and allow the pudding to come down to room temperature. Then pop it into the refrigerator to continue cooling completely. 

For your frosting:  If you're going with the banana option: 

Grab a full banana, smash it up and then add it to a blender. Add in 1/2 cup of whole milk and blitz it until the mixture is fully liquid. Pour that mixture into your third bowl from earlier and whisk in the sugar one cup at a time. 

If you're going with the chocolate topping: Grab a clean, completely dry saucepan, and pour in 1 cup of cream, reserving the other half. Put the heat on low and allow the cream to come up to heat slowly while you chop up your chocolate. You're looking for small pieces, so if you get slivers while you're chopping, that's perfectly fine. 

Once you've got it all chopped up, add it to the cream, and bring your heat up to medium-low, stirring constantly. Just like before we don't want the cream to scorch. Once your chocolate has fully melted and you don't see anything solid any longer, that's when you need to make some choices. How thin you want your icing is going to decide how much of that second cup you need to add. If you want a ganache, keep it as is, don't bother adding any more. If you want to thin it out, add a little bit of the cream at a time, fully incorporating it until you are satisfied with how thick it is. Once the proper thickness has been reached, pull it from the heat and keep stirring until it's cooled down to room temperature. 





So, has everything rested/cooled/set? Yes? Then it's time to put it all together!! :D Grab a large piping tip, and set up a bag with your pudding inside it. Now, grab one of your muffins and inject the pudding in the center if you have a muffin, or in 3 places if you have an eclair shape. Put it onto a plate or cooling rack on a cookie sheet, and do the same to all of the other cakes. Once that's done, it's time for your frosting of choice.  Spoon that over the top of each cake and enjoy! 





We know there were a lot of warnings and choices that you had to make for this week's recipe. We just wanted to make sure that you were able to learn from our (many) mistakes and ended up with a delicious food. If you /did/ end up with a delicious treat, consider showing us over on Facebook? If you ended up with a horrific mess, well you can show us that too! 





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Additional Reading 

A SWEET-TART CAKE TO BEAT ALL THE PIES

MONKEY BREAD, MONKEY BRAINS, PULL-APART BREAD, IT ALL TASTES GOOD!

SPOOKY & HAUNTED HALLOWEEN DESSERTS

SLOW AND EASY SUNDAY STUFFED FRENCH TOAST














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Slow and Easy Sunday Stuffed French Toast

You’ll End Up Wanting The Whole Plate For Yourself

I don’t care; take me to the Recipe!

When we at ARS think of Sunday, it's a time for family, having fun, and spending the day cooking. This Sunday we wanted to whip up something a little different and try our hand at Stuffed French Toast. In theory, a very easy recipe. In practice? Well. It’s still easy to do, but experimenting makes it far more fun. 


This is a VERY subjective and experimental recipe. There are a couple different reasons for this. How firm you want your bread to be is going to affect how much egg it can soak up without distorting and turning into goo. However, it’s also going to affect the final taste and texture. The ratio of fruit to cream cheese is going to vary wildly based on which brand of fruit jam you buy and how much liquid still exists in that. So, if you want a hard and fast “here is the amounts you need, here is what you’ll get” recipe, we suggest checking out one of the others that we’ve linked in our additional reading section at the bottom. It’s ok if that’s what you’re in the mood for! This isn’t a recipe for when you need breakfast on the table 20 minutes ago. It’s more for when you want to spend Sunday experimenting with your family and having fun in the kitchen and if there ends up being several versions of food at the end, you win! 

On to the recipe! 

Ingredients

Bread - We suggest either Challa or a huge loaf of Italian. It’s the size that matters as much as anything. 

Cream Cheese

Slivered almonds - to taste - we suggest at least ¼ per two slices of bread, but it’s up to you on how much texture/crunch you want in your mix 

Sour Jelly or Preserves - We chose sour cherry 

Milk or heavy cream, or a mix if you want- only about 2 TBSPs though. 

Eggs - you want roughly 2 eggs per slice of bread

Cinnamon

1 Tbsp packed light brown sugar



Tools

-Cast iron griddle or a skillet

- mixer 

-Pie pan or other large shallow dish 

-Bread knife 

-Paring knife

Our bread really is 2 inches wide, it’s so large though it doesn’t look like it.

Our bread really is 2 inches wide, it’s so large though it doesn’t look like it.

To start with, a note on breads.

 Although we suggest using either Challa or Italian, you can do this recipe with a loaf of brioche bread. The important thing is that this is a high and thick loaf of bread. You want something that is at least 3- 4 inches wide, and at least two inches high. Yes, this is going to give you really large slices of bread, but that’s the intent here. 


Now, grab your loaf of bread and start by slicing it into 2 inch thick slices. So, ideally, your slice should be 2 inches wide, 2 inches thick, and however long. 


At this point, you can leave your slices out overnight to firm up, or move on to the next step. 


Whatever you decide, when that time has passed, flip over a slice, grab a paring knife and cut a slice that’s roughly 2-3 inches long. You’re looking to form a deep pocket inside of the bread.  Do that to all of your slices, and set them to the side for a moment. 



Grab your cream cheese and preserves and measure them out in a 2 to one, cream to fruit ratio. You want this to be stiff enough to fill it into the slices, but with enough fruit that you get the taste. Either use a food processor or a fork and mix the two together, adjusting the ratio as needed. 


This is roughly how thick ours ended up being after we adjusted the ratio several times.  You also definitely need additional help when trying to fill the slices with your filling.

This is roughly how thick ours ended up being after we adjusted the ratio several times. You also definitely need additional help when trying to fill the slices with your filling.

Now is when you’ll need to get a second set of hands. We had a few willing participants who were able to help us, in exchange for future delicious food. Have your partner hold open a slice of bread with two forks, while you use a third fork to fill the bread with your cream cheese mix. 


Egg, Milk, brown sugar and cinnamon

Yum Delicious eggy mix! The base to any good French toast.

Once all of your bread is filled, mix together your eggs, dairy, cinnamon, and sugar into a pie pan, or some other shallow dish.  

Stuffed bread soaking in a shallow pie pan filled with egg mixture for making french toast

With how thick the bread is, the additional soaking time is very important to allow it to really seep into the bread. It’s also why we said that you might want to let your bread sit over night so that it can hold up to that extra time.

Lay your bread into the dish and let it soak on one side for 2 minutes. Flip it over and do it for another 2 minutes.

While your bread is soaking, turn your stove on to medium-low, toss in  1 Tbsp of butter and allow it to melt. 

And now we begin the cooking process to make our  French Toast

And we begin the cooking process! At this point it smells so sweet and eggy, but that shifts as the egg cooks and the surface of the toast browns.

Place one to two slices of bread in your pan at a time, and let them become golden brown, roughly 5 minutes on a side. Flip, add more butter if you need, and allow it to cook for another 5 minutes, or until golden brown. 

And here we have the delicious final results that are rich, filling, delicious and such good French Toas you'll want the whole thing.

And here you have two super thick slices of French toast so good you’ll be wanting to keep all of it for yourself.

Plate your delicious Stuffed French Toast and serve with either butter or genuine maple syrup. We tried it with just butter, and it was truly delicious. 


So what did you think? Will you be trying this one? Let us know over on our Facebook page and don’t hesitate to share photos! We’d love to see how the recipe turned out for you! 



If you ended up here because your stove isn’t maintaining heat evenly though, we can still help! Even with sharing delicious recipes like this, in our work time, we want to keep your home running smoothly. If you’re noticing trouble with any of your major appliances, reach out! We can help you set up an appointment that works for your schedule and figure out what the trouble is. 

Give us a call at ((214) 599-0055) or check out our appointment page to get things started. 



Additional Reading

Whether you want a more exact recipe, or just more delicious food. 

Brown Sugar - Cinnamon Oat Bars

A Sweet-Tart Cake To Beat All The Pies

Broccoli & Cauliflower Soup

The ‘post-Thanksgiving’ Meal Guide

Lentil & Quinoa Soup

Rich, warm, and so delicious you’ll be fighting for seconds


I don’t care! Take me to the recipe! 


Winter is firmly here now, at least according to the calendar, so we’re dreaming of soups. Maybe not a super hearty soup though, since the weather is all over the place? Fortunately, we have this Moroccan-inspired lentil & quinoa soup to hit the spot. 



Ingredients: 

1 yellow onion

2 Tbsp roasted garlic paste

3 carrots

6 Tbsp  unsalted butter

2 ½ tsp sweet basil 

1 tsp cumin 

3 plum tomatoes

1 ¾ cup dried brown lentils

½ cup tri colored quinoa (or just  straight quinoa, but this adds flavor) 

3 cloves of garlic

½ cup full fat plain Greek yogurt 


Tools: 

Food processor

Chef’s knife

Cutting board

6-quart pot


-Grab your onion and chop it into rough dice.  Pop that into your food processor and give it a few pulses, until the pieces are roughly the size of your pinkie nail. 


-Set your stove to medium heat, put in 4 Tbsp of butter and allow that to melt. Once that’s done, toss in 2 Tbsp of roasted garlic paste (an example is Better Than Bullion) allow that to melt and disperse into the butter. Once that’s done, add your onion and allow that to begin cooking. You’re not looking for them just to turn transparent, you want them to actually soften during this process so that the flavor isn’t overwhelming later. 


-While your onion is cooking, grab your carrots and chop them up into large rounds, then toss them into the food processor. You want your carrot to be the same size as your onion, roughly. When that’s done, scrape the carrots into the pot, give it a few cracks of pepper, and a ¼ cup of water.  


-Mix together your sweet basil and cumin and stir into the pot.

- Back to the chopping block, grab your plum tomatoes and slice them into (roughly) 8 pieces. Toss them straight into the pot and stir occasionally as things cook for the next 5 minutes.  You’re looking for the tomatoes to being to lose their shape, and for the carrots and onions to soften.

-Add 7 cups of water to the pot, along with your lentils, quinoa, and a few cracks of pepper and 1 tsp of salt.  Add a lid to the pot and let it come up to a boil.  Once that’s done, uncover the pot and turn down the heat until it’s just at a gentle simmer. 

- Allow the pot to continue simmering until the lentils are tender, roughly 25 minutes, although it might be longer. 

- After roughly 15 minutes have passed, grab your garlic and mince it. Put that into a fresh frying pan with 2 Tbsp of butter on medium heat. Stir the mixture constantly. You want the outside of the garlic to begin to blacken, without it actually smelling or tasting burnt. It’s a really fine line, and we understand if you want to stop just when the garlic gets to a nice golden brown. At this point you can also add in a little bit of red pepper flakes, more sweet basil or white pepper. When the garlic is at your preferred stage of ‘done’, pull it from the heat and set it to the side. You don’t want it to continue cooking. 

-Once your lentils are soft, turn off the heat and dish up the soup. Add a dollop of Greek yogurt to each dish and some of the garlic butter on top. Mix everything together and enjoy for a delicious meal. 


-Even with the garlic paste added, it doesn’t have a ton of depth or texture, until you add in the yogurt and garlic and mix it all together. It’s when all the pieces are together that you get the magic. 


What did you think? Do you have a way to make the recipe even better? Did your family love it? (Ours did, we were shocked!) Did they hate it? (We’ve all got recipes like that.) Let us know over on our Facebook page, as always, we love to hear from you about how your adventures in the kitchen turn out. 


If you’re wondering what an appliance repair company is doing talking about soups and recipes, don’t worry, you didn’t land on an alternate blog. Appliance Rescue Service is still here to fix your appliances and make them as good as new. Whether it’s your dishwasher or your dryer, your stove or your ice maker, we’re here to help. Just give us a call at ((214) 599-0055) or set up an appointment on our page, and we’ll work with you to get your home running again. 

Additional Reading:

Broccoli & Cauliflower Soup - If you need something a little heartier, this is just as easy to make, and just as delicious.


5 Must Have Kitchen Essentials for Fall

Broccoli & Cauliflower Soup

Warming, delicious and surprisingly easy to put together!

I don’t care! Take me to the recipe!

Few things can help warm someone up in winter like a nice hot soup, and rarely will anyone object to soup, even with the veggies in it. That is exactly why we chose it for this week’s recipe. With a delightful vegetable stock and some baked chicken to complement it, this makes an excellent choice for a medium effort meal for lunch or dinner.


Some recipes take a little bit of work to get just right, and bouncing ideas off of other cooks is never a bad idea. That certainly happened with this recipe, where different ways to get the vegetable stock just right were debated with our not-so-resident cooking friend until we settled on this particular version. The biggest question was whether to blend everything, or only the broccoli and cauliflower. We hope all the conversation has produced something quite delicious for you to enjoy.


Things you'll need:


Ingredients

  • Broccoli 

  • Cauliflower 

  • Carrots

  • Celery

  • White Onion

  • 3 Tbsp Butter

  • Roasted garlic bullion (or similar)

  • One rotisserie chicken


Equipment: 

  • Vegetable knife

  • Cutting board(s)

  • Chef's Knife

  • Large Pot

  • Blender

You will want to start off by chopping up your carrots, celery, and onion. For the carrots and celery, aim to do smaller pieces, maybe one to two centimeters in size. For your onion, go ahead and mince it and aim for a roughly similar size, if possible. Place these into a bowl separate from the other ingredients, and sprinkle salt and pepper to taste.

Moving on to the broccoli, you will want to hold it upside down and chop off the florets a few pieces at a time. You’re aiming for pieces roughly an inch and a half long. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be left with a fairly long and bare stem. Go ahead and chop the stem into pieces roughly half an inch long. Now, repeat the same general process with your cauliflower. Once that has been completed, go ahead and place them into a separate bowl from your other vegetables, sprinkle in any salt and pepper you deem necessary, and give them a toss to help more evenly mix and spice everything.




Next, get your pot and put it on medium heat on the stove. Put in your butter and allow it to melt. Once it is melted, put in the garlic bullion and thoroughly mix it until it is a single, smooth texture. Once that has been done, add in the celery, carrots, and onion, allowing them to become softened. The biggest thing you’re looking for is when the onions begin to turn clear.





Once your onions have become transparent, add in the broccoli and cauliflower, along with a cup of water, and turn the heat down to a nice simmer. You want the broccoli and cauliflower to become soft, easy to push a fork into, but not squishy and “dead” feeling.


Now, strain out all of your vegetables and put them into your blender, adding in a cup of the broth they were in. Next, add in an additional five cups of water to your pot, and mix up the remaining stock.


Start pulsing your vegetables, slowly working your way up until you have a puree. You want a smooth consistency at this stage. Once you’ve done that, you will want to mix the puree back into the pot. From there, go ahead and give it a quick taste to see how you like it. Add spices as needed, or, leave it alone if you think it’s already good to go.


Next, take out your rotisserie chicken, and cut off whatever sections you think would be best with this soup. Our recommendation is to cut the meat off of the breast, since it tends to provide some excellently tender meat. An additional area to consider would be the thigh, as it tends to provide a similar quality of meat, but may take a little more work to cut off of the bird. We chose to chop this chicken up into strips, but cubes of meat would also work very well. Put this in with your soup, and it is ready to serve.

We hope you find this to be quite a delectable soup. While this recipe calls for chicken, the vegetable stock could be paired with other things, and we would love to hear about any ideas you have with this recipe! Feel free to tell us about your opinion of this recipe, and any modifications you make, in the comment section here, or over on our Facebook page! We’d love to hear from you, and if you have any issues with your appliances while cooking, feel free to give us a call or hop over to our appointments page.

Croque-Monsieur au Bleu (Or Very Fancy Grilled Cheese)

Fancy Pants Sandwiches to Keep You Running

I don't care! Take me to the Recipe!

When you're preparing for the holidays, you need a solid lunch to keep you going, this week's recipe provides just that. With a delicious grilled cheese that's dressed up enough that it'll leave you full, but not so over the top you're going to run out of steam just cooking it.

Sometimes you try a recipe the first time and it turns out fantastic. Sometimes you try it out as written and it ends up going horribly wrong. That's what happened with this week's recipe of "Very Fancy Grilled Cheese and Fancy Gravy" as our Tiniest Kitchen helper dubbed it. (If you want to be fancy though, you'll just call it a Croque-Monsieur au Bleu.

Initially, the recipe called for half of a sweet onion, only 1 slice of thinly sliced ham per sandwich, and only 1 cup of milk for the sauce. This... this ended very badly. Between the original recipe plus the poor choice of a black-coated nonstick pan, we ended up with a very dead set of sandwiches. (we'll share how to save those down at the bottom. *) So, we reworked the recipe and came up with this beauty to share with all of you. 

Ingredients: 

Sandwich

2 ounces blue cheese

2 ounces mozzarella

1/4 sweet onion minced

8 slices sourdough bread

8 slices of ham 

2 tsp Dijon mustard

coarsely ground black pepper, to taste

2 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted

2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil 

Sauce

4 Tbsp unsalted butter

4 Tbsp all purpose flour

2 cups milk 

2 Tbsp Dijon mustard

grated nutmeg

cayenne pepper

salt

coarsely ground black pepper


Start off by coarsely grating your blue cheese and mozzarella using the largest size of your box grater, mix them together by tossing them lightly. Set that back in the fridge to chill while you work. 

Line the broiler tray with aluminum foil. Preheat your ovent o 300*F. 

Make your sandwiches first, as the sauce shouldn't be made too far ahead, it'll become too thick if left to wait. 

Take your cheese mixture and remove roughly 4 tablespoons from the bowl. Set that into a smaller bowl and set it aside for later. Now add the onion to the original mixture and toss a second time. 

Lightly toast your bread in the toaster. Lay ham slices on four slices of bread that have been lightly smeared with mustard. Pack the cheese mixture into a 1/2 cup measuring cup and then invert it onto a slice of ham, pressing down with your fingers to compress the cheese. Coarseley grind lack pepper over the top of the cheese. Repeat the process with the remaining slices. Top each with a slice of bread and press down gently to compact again. 

Using a pastry brush, pain the top slice of each sandwich with butter. (You want to be a little heavy handed with this.) Warm your olive oil in a skillet on low heat. (and whatever you do DO NOT use a dark coated nonstick pan. Just back away from it and go to the store to get a different skillet. A dark pan will  burn your bread. Ask us how we know.) Cook 2 sandwiches at a time on medium0low heat. Press down firmly with a spatula and brown for about 2-3 minutes or until the bread is crisp. Flip over the sandwiches, paint the top slice of bread with butter, and brown until the bottom slice is crisp and the cheese is starting to melt.


Place each sandwich as you make it in the oven on the baking sheet to keep warm. When all 4 sandwiches are in the oven, turn off the heat and preheat the broiler. 

Lay the sandwiches on the broiler pan, top each with the Mustard Cream Sauce and 1 Tbsp of the reserved cheese mix. Pop them under the broiler for 3-5 minutes or until bubbly and golden. Serve immediately with a fork and knife. 

Making the Mustard Cream Sauce

in the saucepan, melt the butter, add the flour and whisk well. Slowly whisk in 1 cup of milk and cook until thickened and bubbly. Whick in mustard, nutmeg, cayenne, salt and pepper. Take a taste and add more spices or milk as needed.  You don't want the sauce to be too thick with this, so add the second cup of milk as needed to keep it at a 'sauce' consistency rather than 'gravy.' 

Let's say you've gone through all of this and you ended up with a murdered sandwhich anyway. Maybe you ignored us and used a black pan anyway. Maybe you put the heat too high. Maybe you thought "I LOVE onions and I don't want to use that little."  Or maybe you got called away to save your neighbor's cat up a tree. Whatever, your sandwich is blackened and it's too full of onion. It can still be fixed. Start off by pulling apart your sadwich and setting the ham to the side. Now apply a little melted butter to your pan and set it at the lowest possible heat. Put one slice of bread in it at a time, onion & cheese mixture on the pan. You want the cheese to become gooey and the onions to be translucent.  Now cover the pan and grab a second one. you're going to fry up an egg. However you and yours prefer your eggs to be fried, do that. (Personally, we think over medium goes very well with this.) Once your egg is done, put the sandwich back together, except this time you're not going to make a 'sandwich' out of it. Instead of having everything together in the middle, you want it to be cheese mix, bread, cheese mix, bread. This way you have a solid surface to put your egg on top of. Finally, take your sauce and drizzle that over the top. Yes, it sounds weird, we know, but it tastes amazing.  The tang of the mustard and the cayenne plus the gooey mixture of cheese, egg and onion? It's an amazing lunch. 

Oh, and if you wanted you could put your ham back in there somewhere too. 

What about you? What are some of your worst kitchen mishaps? Let us know over on our Facebook page or in the comments below. We'd love to hear from you.