Here is a nice picture of the bacon. Looks amazing! But it doesn't really taste like bacon. This is about 2/3 of a pound pre-cooked weight.
This week I started with some bacon fat left over from last week. I'm out of spray oil, so I just poured a bunch of bacon fat into the pan and then poured it out again once everything was coated.
Next I cleaned 5 lbs of sweet potatoes and cut each of them in half. Then I baked them - with a stick of salted butter - at 400 degrees for just over an hour.
While the sweet potatoes were baking, I sliced up the bacon and fried it. I forgot to add anything to it. No mushrooms nor garlic this time. Just bacon.
When the sweet potatoes were cool enough to touch, I put about half of them in a container for later use, and cut up the other half for the egg bake.
Can I fit two 8 oz bags of spinach in this pan?
Yes I can!
After I put the bacon on top of the spinach I also sprinkled on some dehydrated onions. Then I seasoned it with the usual salt, black pepper, and cayenne.
When I was mixing the eggs, I remembered that I'd never added any garlic. So I added some crushed garlic from a jar with the eggs, as well as some heavy cream and the rest of the bacon fat. I only used a dozen eggs. They were Jumbo eggs, but I still wish I'd used more eggs in this one. I baked it all at 350 for about 45 minutes.
It turned out pretty good, but I am not loving it. I think I am getting bored with egg bakes. After this one I'm switching back to frying a few eggs each morning. Maybe I'll make some muffins instead, but I think I'm just ready for something different for a while. So you may not see another post for a while; maybe a few weeks, maybe a few months. It's time to get outside and enjoy the Minnesota weather!
