Sunday Brunch

I finally had a day at home--I went to a conference in Tempe this last week--, so I splurged and made Sunday brunch. Biscuits, roasted potatoes, and yogurt with roasted banana.





All are easy to make, and relatively low-cost, because they use items which you can usually find in your kitchen.

Roasted Potatoes
1. Preheat oven to 450F/200C.
2. Peel and cube an appropriate amount of potatoes for each person (I used two small-medium sized).
3. Put them in a pie plate or bread pan.
4. Drizzle about 2 tbsp of olive oil over.
5. Sprinkle salt and pepper. Other seasonings probably fine too, but I prefer natural taste.
6. Bake in the oven until done to personal texture/appearance, stirring after about 10 or 15 minutes (so they don't stick to the pan). I like mine a bit crispy, hence the overdone look.

These do become a bit like hashbrowns in the sense that they're a bit greasy, but still not as messy as fried potatoes.

Biscuits
1 heaping cup Biscuick
1/3 cup milk
Stir and drop by spoonfuls/forkfuls onto a baking sheet. Bake for roughly 8-10 minutes,until golden brown.

Roasted Banana with Yogurt
Roasting bananas brings out their natural sweetness. If you were to combine with non-sweetened yogurt, it would still be a nice treat.
1 banana
1 carton yogurt (vanilla works well)
granola (if you have some)

1. Wrap banana in tin foil, and place in appropriately-sized pan. This is because the bananas can sometimes leak a bit, and banana juice in the bottom of the oven is hard to clean up--plus it starts to burn and smell (personal experience). So if the banana leaks, it will go in the pan, not the oven.

2. Roast at 400 or 450F for about 20 minutes.

3. Unwrap tin foil, let banana cool completely. Placing in freezer okay.

4. Mash with a fork, then add yogurt and mix. Mashing while warm, then cooling more in freezer also okay.

5. Add granola if you have it, or want to.