Monday, October 6, 2014

An old favorite

I love spinach. Raw, creamed, or something in between, it's one of my favorite vegetables. I also love mushrooms, bacon and cheese. So it is natural that I would love the combination of these in my egg bake.

I'm still working on the slab of bacon I bought a couple of weeks ago. It's pretty salty so I don't think it's going to spoil.
Of the items in this photo, the only thing I used up was the 18 eggs and the entire package of cheese. It's actually too much cheese. Maybe because it is a Colby Jack blend. If it was cheddar I would probably have liked it more. The spinach, bacon, and mushrooms were all large containers so I just used part of each container.
I like to cut the mushrooms in half and then slice them some more. Really big chunks of mushroom can actually make it hard to eat when baked into the eggs.
I added these to my sliced up bacon and sauteed them together. I also added some crushed garlic from a jar and dehydrated onions.
I normally like to spray some coconut oil in my pan before I add anything else. Trader Joe's sell a can fairly cheap.
This week I added the spinach first. I packed it down a bit but kept the level about even with the top of the pan.
My bacon and mushroom mix was added next. I put the spinach in before this layer so the weight would compress the spinach a little bit.
Here the egg mixture has been added, but it sunk into the spinach so it's not visible. This batch may have had room for a full two dozen eggs, but I was too tired to go back and add more.
I used the usual mix of eggs, heavy cream, cayenne and black pepper, but I skipped the salt because this bacon is extremely salty.
The full two cups of cheese was actually a bit
too much. The bacon and cheese together can get pretty greasy. Fat adds flavor and it helps me stay full, but too much of a good thing can be a bit overwhelming at times.
All that cheese sure does look nice! I baked this at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes or so. Sometimes I like to put the eight portions into individual containers for the microwave, but this week I was tired so I just put some plastic wrap over it and stuck it in the fridge once it had cooled. Maybe after a couple of days I will separate the portions into smaller packagers.

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