Churro French Toast Bites Recipe for Valentine's Day

It’s the weekend of love! 🥰 It’s a time to show the ones closest to you a little extra love than normal - from your partner to the kids, even the family dog. We all deserve a little extra love, especially after this year!

If you’re looking for a fun family activity and an easy recipe to make that everyone will enjoy, this is it! All the directions and even step by step images are below. I made this with the girls earlier this week and we ate them up, and we’re ready to make more on Sunday. Get the kids to surprise their super mama or super papa in bed with breakfast, or make a picnic spread in the backyard for a Valentine’s Day breakfast. It’ll make for a great start to the day + holiday!

Will you be trying our Churro French Toast Bites? Tag us in a pic on Sunday and we’ll repost!

Churro French Toast Bites

Ingredients

• 10 slices of slightly stale bread

• 2 eggs

• 1 cup milk

• A few drops of vanilla (optional)

• Dash of salt

• 2 tablespoons butter for frying

• 2 tablespoon brown sugar

• 2 tablespoons of sugar

• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon

• Nutella, chocolate or maple syrup for serving

Preparation

1. Use a small heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut out the hearts from the bread. Make sure you leave the bread for a few hours or even over night, as this will help it soak up more of the egg mixture without falling apart or losing its shape!

2. Beat the egg with milk, vanilla and salt in a bowl. Put it aside.

3. Mix cinnamon, sugar & brown sugar in a separate bowl. Put it aside.

4. In a pan over medium-high heat, melt the butter. Reduce the heat to medium-low.

5. Dip each heart in egg mixture and coat both sides, being careful not to let it soak too much or they will lose their shape. Shake off excess egg mixture.

6. Place the bread in the pan and fry about 45 seconds per side.

7. Transfer the hearts into the bowl with cinnamon-brown sugar mixture. Coat well!

8. Serve with a side of Nutella, chocolate or syrup. Enjoy! 😋

Celebrate National Dinosaur Day with a 'Jurassic World' Twitter Party & Island Themed Cocktails

Anyone else’s kids obsessed with dinosaurs ?! We’re either playing with dinosaur toys , watching shows with dinosaurs, or running around outside, giving our best dinosaur roar all day long. While we wait for Universal Studios Hollywood to reopen, we’ve partnered with the theme park to celebrate National Dinosaur Day by joining their ‘Jurassic World’ Watch Party on Twitter!

On Friday, May 29 at 5PM PST, you can screen your own copy of ‘Jurassic World’ at home and join @UniStudios on Twitter for a special viewing party, where you can interact with other fans of the movie.

We’ll be watching the movie for the first time with our kids at home too, and if you know us, you know how we like to do our movie nights - in pajamas with lots of snacks & drinks. For the first time ever, Universal Studios is sharing cocktail recipes from the popular Isla Nu-Bar on the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot! They even included a non-alcoholic Mai Tai recipe for the kiddos and pregnant mamas. 

Click the images below to download the recipes, and tweet & tag @UniStudios and hashtag #UniversalAtHome on Twitter tomorrow to show off your drinks, movie set up, and favorite scenes from the movie. See you there!

Bird of Paradise

Mai-Tai (Non-Alcoholic)

Tiki Tai

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Easy Banana Bread Recipe

You asked and we answered! A few nights ago on the @supermamas Instagram Story (give us a follow 😉), Paulina shared some videos of herself baking. She was making a recipe that Bricia has shared with the family for years - Banana Bread via the New York Times cooking section. This recipe is so easy and so good, every single person in our family makes it whenever there are ripe bananas in the house.

Will you be making this during our social distancing? Snap a pic and tag us on Instagram!

NYT Banana Bread

Makes 1 loaf. Total time is 1 hour 15 minutes.

INGREDIENTS

FOR THE BREAD

• ¼ pound cool butter (1 stick), more for greasing pan

• ¾ cup dark brown sugar

• 2 eggs, at room temperature

• 2 ⅓ cups very ripe bananas (about 5)

• 2 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• ¼ teaspoon salt

FOR THE TOPPING

• 3 tablespoons chopped walnuts or pecans

• 1 tablespoon granulated or coarse sugar

• ⅛ teaspoon cinnamon

PREPARATION

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan. Using electric mixer, cream butter until smooth and fluffy. Add sugar and cream together 2 minutes more. One at a time, mix in eggs. Mix in bananas until only small lumps remain.

2. Stir dry ingredients together and mix into banana mixture just until combined. Pour into prepared pan. If making topping, stir ingredients together and sprinkle over batter.

3. Bake about 55 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Let cool in pan 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack and let cool completely before wrapping tightly for storage.

Have you been cooking and baking during your time at home? Share your favorite recipes below!

Complete recipe available via cooking.newyorktimes.com.

How to Make Mango Micheladas

Fall may have started, but we’re not ready for summer to be over! We’re holding on to the last bit of summer heat by making delicious mango micheladas with Keitt mangoes from Melissa’s Produce and everyone’s favorite I Love Michelada mix. Here’s a step by step guide on how to make our famous micheladas and keep that warm summer feeling all year round.

Step 1

Rim your ice cold glass with lime and tajin from your I Love Micheladas mix. You can purchase it at your local Northgate or Vallarta Market, or online at ILoveMicheladas.com.

TIP: Don’t have any limes? Use a little michelada mix to rim the glass!

Step 2

Cut up the Keitt mangoes and add them to your ice cold glass. Keitt mangoes have a lemony tang with hints of honey, so it’s a perfect match to our miche mix.

TRICK: If you want to add ice to your michelada, try freezing pieces of mango with water or michelada mix in an ice mold.

Step 3

Add 3oz. of michelada mix to your glass and top off with your favorite mango beer. We love Latitude 33 Mangoveza, but any beer will do the trick.

You can also find a step-by-step video on our IGTV! Follow us on Instagram at @_supermamas. To purchase your own Keitt mangoes, check out Melissas.com.

Hatch Chiles: Roasting, Recipes and More with Melissa's Produce

Team Super Mamas has a thing for chile 🌶️. This past weekend, Melissa’s Produce invited us to join their event team for a live Hatch Chile Roasting at a local Northgate Market. Hatch green chiles are similar to Anaheim Chile that we know and love, but instead are specific to Hatch Valley in Southern New Mexico, so we jumped on the opportunity to experience this live chile roasting.

We arrived at Northgate Market in Long Beach, California to a large group of people waiting for their hatch chiles to be roasted. We knew it was a big deal, but not like this! Chile lovers had been standing in line since 6AM that morning to purchase their boxes of chiles for the year. Many people purchase in bulk and then freeze a portion to last them to next season.

Lacy and Peter with Melissa’s Produce welcomed us and not only explained the roasting process but also helped us choose our own chiles. Then they walked us through the market and showed us all the great products customers could purchase - anything from fresh chiles to dried and powder hatch chile, plus hatch chile polenta, tortillas, bolillo con queso y rajas de chile hatch (so incredible 🤤), hatch chile muffins and pan de elote. Even the hot bar had items like macaroni & cheese with chiles, chicken & hatch chile tamales and ceviche with hatch chile. The combinations were endless and each Northgate Market has a variety of fresh hatch chile items that are available for purchase.

We also spoke with Fernando, the head buyer of hatch chiles for Melissa’s Produce, who gave us some fun facts about the veggie. He told us one thing to remember about hatch chile season is that it’s over almost as fast as it arrives, and harvesting really depends on weather conditions. A storm or cooler weather could roll in for two to three weeks, like it did this year, and could delay the maturity of the chiles.

• The hotter the weather patterns prior to hatch chile season, the hotter the chiles will be.

• Mild chiles are longer, hotter chiles are a bit shorter and the lumbre, or fire, chiles are the shortest.

• At the end of the season, the chiles get ripe, turn red and get a sweeter flavor. Around Labor Day, the chiles are the most mature, have thicker wall (perfect for chile rellenos) and tend to be spiciest.

• 50% of the crop is to sell fresh chiles and 50% is for processing - salsas, powder, frozen - but it’s definitely not as good as fresh hatch chile!

There are two weeks left of Hatch Chile season and you have a few more opportunities to join Melissa’s Produce for a live roasting! Join the Melissa’s Produce team on Saturday, September 7th at the following locations. The events start at 7AM and run until 2PM or until chiles run out.

Locations

Northgate Market La Habra

1305 W. Whittier Blvd. La Habra, CA 90631

(562) 691-8032

Northgate Market Vista

1150 E. Vista Way Vista, CA 92084

(760) 724-4900

Don’t forget to check out your local Northgate Market for more delicious hatch chile items and if you’ve already purchased your chiles for the season, you can find delicious recipes like Hatch Chile Deviled Eggs, Roasted Hatch Chile Mc n’ Cheese, Hatch Chile Apple Pie and more at Melissas.com.

Major thanks to Melissa’s Produce for the invite!