Using leftovers from dinner

This year I spent Christmas Day with my sister and her family. I made sweet potatoes to bring to dinner. So of course I saved the pan and a couple of taters to make an egg bake.

I always say I hate to waste flavor, and the carmelized butter at the bottom of this pan is pure flavor. So I left it dirty and just added my egg bake to it. For these sweet potatoes, I cut the tips off because they are hard to chew, but then diced the rest up.

I tried to distribute them evenly, but they are mushy so it's difficult to move the pieces around.

This is as much spinach as I could cram into the pan. I usually just go by feel to tell how evenly it's spread. This time I noticed one of the corners dipping down later on, so it must have had less spinach. But it's not a big deal. It doesn't have to be perfect.

I love the bacon they sell at Aldi. So delicious!

And I love slicing mushrooms to fry in the bacon fat.

I also chopped up an onion and fried it with the bacon. Very tasty.

Just to try something different, I added the seasoning to the pan. I'm out of garlic, so this week it's just cayenne, salt, and black pepper.

This is about half a bag of cheese, so one cup, sprinkled on top.

There was some liquid left in the frying pan, so I mixed it into the cream before adding the eggs. I used 18 eggs this week.

The finished product. It turned out really well. In the past I have made the mistake of using too many sweet potatoes. This time it was perfect because they didn't overwhelm the dish.