Sunday 25 August 2019

A Food Post

It's been a while since I last posted anything about food from my own kitchen, but last weekend, O.K. and I were here, and had all our meals at home.

On Saturday morning, we tried something new. O.K. had come across the idea on some social media channel or other (I really don't remember), and it a) seemed easy enough, b) looked and sounded delicious and c) I happened to have all the ingredients at home.

You need:
slices of soft, untoasted bread
strips of bacon
eggs
cheese


Cut the crust off the slices of bread and then flatten the slices with a rolling pin. I'll show you further down what I did with the cut-offs.

Grease as many cups of a muffins tin as you need and press one slice of flattened soft bread into each.
Put a strip of bacon into each bread "nest", try to shape it like a ring. Add bits of cheese. The original recipe was with hard, salty Italian cheese, such as Grana Padano or Parmiggiano, but I used Emmentaler and can imagine making this with any other type of cheese, really. And of course, instead of bacon, ham will do nicely, or neither, if you are vegetarian.

Last but not least, add one whole egg to each nest.
Put in the oven at 170-180 Celsius for maybe 15 minutes or until the bread is golden brown and the eggs are done.

It should look more or less like this:

Put on plate, sprinkle dried (or fresh) oregano or other herbs on top, and enjoy!
It was nice to cut into the nest and taste the mix of still liquid enough egg, bacon, cheese and toasty bread. The nests would make a very nice touch on an Easter breakfast or brunch table, I think.

For our Sunday dinner, I made Pumpkin, the same way I have described here.The result looked almost the same - with the exception of what drink we had with it; no wine this time, as O.K. had to drive back home the same evening:

We did not manage to eat up the entire pumpkin, which meant I had the leftovers on Monday. I cut the pumpkin slices into smaller pieces, added a handful of boiled spuds and roasted it all in a pan - along with the cut-offs from Saturday morning's bread crusts, cut into small bits (croutons, the way you find on salads):

Usually, when I work at one of my clients' offices, I have lunch at their canteens, often with the clients themselves. But sometimes I find myself more or less left to my own devices, when my colleagues work elsewhere or are on holiday, and the clients are not there, either. This was the case on both Wednesday and Thursday this past week, and I took advantage of it by buying a sandwich at the canteen (and also getting dessert from there) and eating it on my own at my desk, interrupting work only for about 15 minutes.
The bread for the sandwiches is baked on site, and as you can see, they are really very filling. On Thursday, dessert consisted in a delicious mousse au chocolat with cherries.


Here you are, my food post for the next half year or so :-)

18 comments:

  1. Ooh. I am going to have to try those baked egg nests. it looks delicious.

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    1. I really liked them, and the morning was chilly enough for me to appreciate a cooked breakfast, too.

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  2. Fun to read a food post from you. I've seen those nests but never made them. However, I do have all the necessary ingredients on hand and I think I will try them for supper this evening. But won't make so many!

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    1. There were two of us and we each had two - just right if you don't have much else for breakfast (or supper).
      I like such simple recipes where you do not need fancy ingredients but have everything at home.

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    2. Andy wouldn't eat it with bacon in it, but I'm sure I could just leave that out or add in some other vegetable.

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    3. My sister is vegetarian, and if I should make this for a family meal, I'd leave the bacon out, too.

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  3. I like the idea of that bread nest with that nice egg nestled inside. Here is another easy thing for you to try. Take a piece of bread, take a glass and press into the bread, cutting out a circle. Melt butter in pan and place the bread into pan along with the bread circle. Toast bread on one side and flip over. Crack egg into the "hole" of that bread slice. Finish cooking and both sides of bread are lightly browned. My son calls this "Eggy Bread". I made this for him last week when he visited with a fruit salad of purple grapes, peaches and bananas. It was good! :-) Have I told you this before? I can't remember anything these days!

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    1. I'm not sure whether you have mentioned "Eggy Bread" before, but it definitely sounds like something to try, too!
      O.K. and I often have fruit salad for breakfast as well, mostly apple, banana and blueberry; we mostly eat it with creamy yoghurt.

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  4. Rather an enjoyable way to eat an egg. I shall remember that when next I think of having an egg for brekfast.

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    1. When I was a child, we usually had a boiled egg for breakfast on Sundays. I've come off the habit once I moved to my own place, but this I can imagine to make more often.

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  5. That looks delicious and I mean it try it soon! Maybe this weekend. I love your food posts!

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    1. Thank you, Jennifer, it pleases me to hear that! I often cook nice things for us on the weekends but don't always post about it; maybe I should do it more often (even just for my own sake, to keep hold of recipes and ideas).

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  6. Well! I love the idea of the egg, bacon and cheese nests and when I am back at home I will definitely try that one. I think I would rather use ham than bacon - just to make sure it is cooked.

    P.S. You created this food post on August 25th and now it is September 10th! That's a long gap with no posts from you! I may have to report you to the blogging police!

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    1. The blogging police has already been here and ordered me to report about my hiking holiday in the Austrian Alps as soon as possible.

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  7. That is a really nice idea for a snack. I make my own bread and it is not easily flattened :) but when I buy bread next time this will be a wonderful way to use up some leftover slices. I don't cook much with bacon or ham so I might fry an onion and use that instead. I think it would be nice, don't you?

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    1. I think fried onion would work well with this, also dried tomato or even a spoonful of baked beans in the bottom of the nest. Versatility is something I particularly like about a recipe.

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  8. Great foodie post - all looks delicious.

    Hope all is good with you dear - have missed you the past couple of weeks.
    Hugs - Mary

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    1. Thank you, Mary! All is well. We have been hiking in the Austrian Alps with little to no internet access. Many pictures of great mountain and lake views are waiting to be posted!

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