Friday, February 13, 2015

Masterpiece

This week I made the best egg bake that I've ever made. I think the major difference was cooking the bacon longer. I also didn't have any cheese and went without, but I don't really miss it. Other than cheese, I was using all of my favorite ingredients.

The best egg bakes are always made the day after I make sweet potatoes. My friend in Milwaukee actually does this too. Makes sweet potatoes in the evening, and then uses the leftovers and the dirty pan to make an egg bake the next day. That is pretty much the best way to make an amazing egg bake.

If you want to make good sweet potatoes, I always say you have to "cook the hell out of them." Bake them at 400 degrees for over an hour. Once they start to make your whole kitchen smell like sweet potatoes, cook them for about another 20 minutes. What I use is not a cake pan, it's a roasting pan with a small trough around the outside. This trough allows the melted butter to get absorbed by the sweet potatoes while they cook.
I actually overcooked this batch. I had a cold all weekend and I couldn't smell them, so I didn't know when to turn off the oven! Instead of a nice caramel on the bottom it actually was charred. Oh well, it still worked.

Most of the sweet potatoes were put in the fridge to be used in my lunches this week, but I took a few and chopped them up to throw back into the dirty pan.

A nice layer of spinach. It's hard to distribute it evenly. That's okay, it doesn't have to be perfect.

Cooking the bacon a bit longer meant there was more grease left in the pan at the end. Rather than waste it, I poured it into my egg mixing bowl.

Delicious bacon and mushrooms. Also some garlic and onions. After I added them to the pan, I also dusted them with cayenne, salt, and black pepper.


For some reason I bought jumbo eggs last time, but then I only needed a dozen instead of 18. Mixed with the bacon fat and some heavy cream, then poured over the other ingredients.

Deeeeeeeeeeelicious! In addition to frying the bacon a bit longer, I think it helped to not have any cheese over it. Plus this is good bacon from Trader Joe's. It helps to have high quality ingredients. It's important to note that I did not do everything perfectly. The great thing about an egg bake is that you can be a little sloppy and still have a great meal at the end!


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