No Bacon for Breakfast?!

Oh No!  We're out of BACON!  In my house we go through more bacon in a week than most people use in a month.  No. Kidding.  So this am I got into the fridge to make breakfast and saw that there was no meat...or so I thought.  I dug around and found some black forrest ham and thought, "I can work with that."  So I used a muffin tin and shaped the ham slices into it and cracked a few eggs into the ham. Voila!  Breakfast: meat included.  I also sliced up some peppers and onion that I happened to have and tossed in some mushrooms and threw it all into a sauté pan.  OH. Yeah.

Oven baked egg cups:

You will need:
Sliced ham
Eggs
Salt & Pepper
Spray oil
Muffin tin

Heat oven to 400 degrees
Spray muffin tin so the cups come out easy
Shape ham into tin
Crack eggs into ham
Sprinkle with salt and pepper
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes
Let cool a few minutes before removing from tin

I sprinkled with cheddar cheese and fresh basil and served with toast and sautéed peppers.  Man that's good stuff! 

Eggs Nested with Love

  So yesterday for breakfast I made my children eggs in a nest, a simple breakfast I learned from *eek* an ex.  I had gone grocery shopping all over the tri-cities the previous day, in an effort to obtain the healthiest forms of sustenance for my family.  It's not as easy as one would assume to locate chicken free of hormones, antibiotics and not fed any form of animal byproduct.  So, I ventured to the Kennewick Yoke's, Richland Winco, and the Egg Farm in BFE Pasco.  These eggs are not only good for you, they are super cheap which in my house is awesome as we go through more than two dozen eggs per week!
 
  There is a point to all of this...

   So yesterday morning after chasing the garbage truck (well not really), actually he had already gone down our side of the street so my neighbor and I scrambled to drag our cans to the other side of the road to put them with the others that hadn't been picked up (don't judge), in an effort to make an effortless breakfast, I decided to make eggs in a nest.  It is so much more fun to make shapes instead of the boring old standby circle, so i dug out one of our valentine cookie cutters and made my nest pretty :)

Eggs in a Nest:

You will need:
Sliced bread
Eggs
Butter
Frying pan or skillet
Cookie cutter(s) of choice

Butter your shit (bread) on both sides,
Use cookie cutter to cut out the center and save the cutout piece,
Place all pieces of bread on pan,
Crack eggs into hollowed out bread,
Cook to desired doneness.
Plate and serve with fresh fruit (or whatever side sounds good).
Eat.

  *I was going to use the duck shaped cookie cutter, but it's too big :(