Baked/Shirred Eggs
I often get asked, what’s your favorite ingredient? That’s a toughie. I’m partial to automatically (and most enthusiastically) exclaiming my allegiance to butter or bacon, but not far behind is the humble egg. Experts ping pong back and forth on whether or not they’re good for you, but my loyalty to the egg remains firm.
Legend has it that a chef’s hat held as many folds as s/he knew how to cook an egg, a 100-fold hat being reserved only for the heads of the most knowledgeable culinary experts.
Eggs are affordable, versatile, convenient, and yummy! Not to mention, they’re high in protein and have 13 essential nutrients.
Fresh eggs are the best and lend themselves beautifully in everything from my quiche and steak & eggs to bibimbap!
I’m fairly unhappy when my fridge doesn’t hold any eggs and with an abundance of them, (they had a mega-super-deal on organic eggs this week) I was happy to whip up another satisfying egg based dish.
Smothered with hot, gooey cheese, the yolks underneath are still rich and runny, spilling it’s butteriness onto a bed of robust, herbed tomatoes, happily pooling with more cheese.
(Fyi, I had mine for breakfast, but paired with a salad and some rustic bread, it would also make for an amazing supper)!
What else can you make with eggs?
- My favorite breakfast sandwich: Bacon, Egg, and Jam (crazy yes, but crazy good)!
- Omurice/Fried Rice
- Soft Boiled, paired with Asparagus and Cheese (another one of my fave ways to eat Eggs)
- Frittatas
- Crepes
- Spanish Tortilla
- Deviled Eggs
- Eggs Benedict/Poached Eggs
- Soft Scrambles
- Custard/Zabaglione
- Herbed Egg Sandwiches
- Eggs in a Hole/Egg Nests
- Breakfast Soufflé/Casserole
- French Toast/Bread Pudding/Strata
- Huevos Rancheros
- Egg Drop Soup
- Croque Madam
- Eggs Sur le Plat
- Steamed Eggs
- Loco Moco
- Cheesecake/Flan
- 1 tb olive oil {not extra virgin}
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- 1 ts thyme (or basil)
- ½ ts crushed red pepper
- 12 oz crushed tomatoes (I like San Marzano)
- Salt and pepper
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 ts sugar (or ½ c diced carrots)
- Eggs (as many as you like)
- 2 tb cream
- ¼ c parmigiano-reggiano
- Slices of fontina, gruyere, mozzarella, etc
- Fresh tomatoes, toast, parsley
- In a heavy bottomed pot, slicked with oil, soften your garlic, herbs, and pepper flakes.
- Slowly add in your tomatoes, season, tuck in your bay leaf and simmer for 15-20 minutes.
- Sprinkle in your sugar.
- Ladle in sauce on bottom of baking dish and crack as many eggs in as you want.
- Drizzle over cream and sprinkle over and layer with lots of cheese.
- Broil at 350 for 5 minutes (less or more depending on how you like your eggs).
- Serve bubbling with fresh, seasoned tomatoes, buttered toast points, and garnish with fresh flat leaf parsley.
Wishing you a golden delicious morning, noon, and night!
Love,
Your Squishy Monster
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Great looking steak and eggs there Angie! The quiche looks delicious too! You look se feminine, lovely, and Angie preparing the dishes and eating them………It is ironic, Many are saying today ALL cholesterol is ok it is INTERNAL inflamation and it’s causes for health issues of today.Beef , pork, cheese, eggs, etc may be getting a bad beef after all. Time will tell. Thanks for sharing these lovely recipes and ideas, Have a great day!
Love.
Les.
Right? People need to make up their minds, lol.
You could convert me into loving eggs my friend, wow
A yummy sunny morning indeed!! What an eggcellent way to prepare these little treasure troves of yummyness,
I used to avoid eggs when I was a much younger version of me, jesterly yolking that I would rather wait a while and have a whole chicken dinner instead. >.<
I love my eggs folded between a biscuit with bits of bacon, spinach, cilantro and extra butter. <3
Thanks for sharing Angie. Have a wonderful day!!
Warmest Regards,
-Paul
Baked Eggs ares so trippy…even better Baked Eggs w/ Bacon!!!! in bed maybe some coffee flavored coffee ….I’m so damn frickin hungry now. ..oh and french toast! MMmmmm
Those baked eggs look so delicious! I’m going to try your bacon, egg, and jam combo
I too am an egg fan. My hubs will only eat them scrambled which is fine but, a bit boring. I like them all ways (except maybe raw). He has leftover spaghetti tonight and I’m making eggs with english muffins and maybe a bit of bacon for myself
both of those options sound delish!!
HOA is terrible where I live…I so wish I could raise my own chickens
ohhh yes, the only things this dish is missing are bacon and butter!!
yum yum yum!!
I could write a love poem, you know lol
Hi Angie, I love anything eggy…..your above eggs menu all are egg-cellent food.
Your baked egg look delicious, full of flavor. Nice to go with a cup of hot coffee.
I love soft boil eggs too 3 times a week, one of the super food to prevent aging.
Eggs are my favorite food! Going to try this for dinner tonight
Love hearing it =)
I didn’t know that—thanks for the info!!! Now I’ll give em some double lovin =)
What a great looking breakfast!
My tummy seconds that.
I love eggs at breakfast and I am definitely going to have to try these!
I’m an egg fan too, esp of the local organic kind! I once made “eggs in purgatory” but put a TON of anchovy paste in the tomato mixture for some reason and it was so bad, I probably will never try that dish again, even without the anchovy paste. But since this has a different name, I think I can forget about that dish from hell in order to try it–you made it sound so good!
I love any food that can be as versatile.
dish from hell, lol…it made me think of super spicy eggs (oooh, I could go for something like that right about now)!
You are preaching to the choir! I love eggs. I eat them every morning… organic free range though of course
Is there any other kind? =)
I could definitely go for a plate of scrambled eggs right now…
I agree! Eggs are so versatile + such a staple in this household, too. Your shirred eggs look fantastic!
Thanks for this Angie…..you are making me smile again with that easy breezy recipe!!!
REBECCA
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Love eggs too and these baked eggs look marvellous with the tomatoes peeking out! One of my favourite simple Sunday brunches is soldiers smothered in butter with (very) soft boiled eggs. When I was little, my grandad used to do the same with a couple of drops of Kikkoman light soy sauce and pepper – I’m still hooked on it that way!
i love eggs.. as much as i love butter and other dairy products ^^! and i don’t care what they say about cholesterol @~@ many of my super-duper boring dishes takes a turn for the better with the addition of eggs ^^ i *heart* eggs ^^ and your baked eggs ~ mmm.. yums!
Eggxelent post! I am so hungry now. I love me a runny gooey yolk too.
Yep! egg is indeed a most versatile ingredient. What can’t you do with eggs:-)
Right?
It’s like golden sunshine!
You and I could head an “I love Eggs!” club
I also love Tomatoes…a lot! =)
I’m glad, Rebecca ^.~
Thanks, Amy!
with cheese! =)
This is such a great post! We have dairy delivery in my area, and we get fresh eggs delivered early Wednesday mornings. I love your idea of using San Marzano tomatoes with those yummy Italian cheeses. What a yummy breakfast.
whaaaat!? I’m so jealous!
What a great video! I love your recipe. I always serve eggs for breakfast and this would be something new to try. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching =)
I sometimes do these in individual ramekins for a single serving (using leftover veggies on the bottom), but I sometimes have trouble getting the egg to cook properly… Good inspiration to figure out the variables (I know that one problem is that sometimes I have reheated the veggies & sometimes not)
That sounds amazing!