Jolly Voyager

The other day Maddi and I had the opportunity to meet some lovely people.  Me, Maddi, and our friend Emily got to take Keely, (mine and Maddi's favorite photographer) and her husband Aaron out to breakfast at Ramos House Cafe in San Juan for "the best breakfast we've ever had" as expressed by Keely and Aaron.  I have to agree that the food was amazing.  We ordered their flannel hash, an egg scramble, banana nutella pain perdu, and biscuits with apple butter.  Everything was delicious!

Good morning!  The other day I decided to make a recipe I haven't made in awhile.  A couple years ago we went through a phase where we would make these chocolate bundles a lot, but then we kind of forgot about them.  Plus, when you've got some puff pastry and some chocolate chips laying, why not make them!  Chocolate chips are a staple in our house.  We always and if not, there must be some chocolate chips sitting somewhere in the cupboard.  I also like to add walnuts to my chocolate bundles if you wanna do that too.

Ingredients: 11/2 cup of chocolate chips, 1 cup of walnuts, puff pastry sheets, 2 eggs, 1 tsp of milk or half and half, powdered sugar.

Preheat the oven to 350 and cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Next, let the puff pastry thaw (or set it on top of the stove top while the oven is pre-heating like I did because I was impatient).  The puff pastry I bought was already cut into little squares, so if you are buying the big sheets of puff pastry I would cut each sheet in four equally shaped squares.  Then mix together the 2 eggs and 1 tsp of milk or half and half in a bowl to make an egg wash and brush the egg wash over each square.  After brushing the egg wash on your squares, add a handful of chocolate chips and broken up walnuts if you would like in the center and pull all the corners of the squares together and twist them together to make you bundles.  Then brush more egg wash over your bundles on the parchment paper and stick them in the oven for 35 minutes.  After they have come out of the oven let them cool a bit and dust powdered sugar on top.

Enjoy your weekend!

-Makenzie x

I always love trying new places to eat especially if I know it's going to be delicious food.  It doesn't have to be anything too fancy and hipster, sometimes its the hole in the wall places that are the best.  This past weekend we made a visit to a newly opened place in Santa Ana called The Little Sparrow.  The Little Sparrow are also partnered with Hopper & Burr that does the coffee making for them with their own pop-up corner.  If you know Maddi and I well you know that we're always up for coffee!  We also had a delicious eggs benedict that had prosciutto, arugula, hollandaise sauce and an amazing poached egg on top.  And before having our meal we had some beignets (not pictured. But I recommend trying them!) with our coffee.