Backpacking Dad’s Too Easy Egg Recipe
I’m going to turn this into a cooking blog. Radical move, I know, but kids just aren’t that interesting. They mostly do the same things every day: learn, grow, explore, surprise you, break your heart, inflate your heart, shine wonder into your eyes, and pour cereal on their heads. That’s tedious. On to cooking!
Have you ever thought to yourself: "Self, I have weird pans in my kitchen that I never use for anything and I really want to cook more than three eggs at a time"?
Well, I have. I was sick of scrambled, fried, and hard-boiled eggs and I was about to shed myself of this ridiculous muffin tin I keep beneath my oven (it mocks me for I do not bake) when I was suddenly inspired to combine my problems into one solution.
Muffin tin, meet butter (to grease the cups), eggs, sliced green onion, and grated cheese. Eggs, meet broiler.
By the time the cheese was fully melted into the eggs the whites were set. Or nearly. I should have let them go probably another minute because I don’t crave runny eggs, though with the right toast those are perfect. Still, a grand culinary success if I do say so myself, which I do.
I used a rubber spatula to loosen the edges and lift the eggs from the bottom of the cup a little. Then I placed a cutting board over the tin and flipped them over together, sliding the little egg presents out intact.
And that is how Backpacking Dad got his protein today.
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Those look sickeningly delishus.
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Backpacking Dad Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 12:07 am
They weren’t bad. Really should cook them just a little longer to get slightly meltier cheese and harder yolk. But yeah, I’ll be making them again.
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Dude. Good call. Those look really good. Gonna have to try that. And yeah, kids are totally overrated. ;)
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Backpacking Dad Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 12:08 am
I know, right? Erin woke up from a nap yesterday and said “I had a good nap, daddy.” After I recovered my breath from her Face of Total Adorableness I was just all, “This again? Cute again? Adorable again. Man, I need more friends.”
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genious. I have to try these
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Backpacking Dad Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 12:09 am
Just don’t steal my recipe to make your millions.
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WOW. Those look fantastic! Are you the new Pioneer Woman? Are you gonna start blogging about calf-nuts next? :)
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Backpacking Dad Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 12:10 am
I need a new camera too. Maybe I’ll start a photography blog. And a cake disasters blog. I’d be good at that one.
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Oh WAIT… so you didn’t SCRAMBLE the eggs… you just cracked them straight in there? Yummmmm! About how many minutes do you suggest keeping them on “broil?”
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Backpacking Dad Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 12:10 am
yep. straight in. I went with, I think, 4 minutes, but they could have used a couple more.
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Those muffin tins can cook the hell out of some miniature meatloafs, too.
Of course, if you need to actually cook the hell out of your ground beef, it’s probably time to rethink where you’re buying your meat from.
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Backpacking Dad Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 12:11 am
I totally have to make tiny meatloafs! That would be awesome.
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I have a friend who does eggs like that, miniature frittatas. Add bacon an spinach, if you like those things…yum!
Thank goodness you’re switching to a cooking blog – I was really getting tired of the same boring posts full of cuteness.
Shade and Sweetwater,
K
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Backpacking Dad Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Me too, K, me too.
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I agree, cooking blogs rock! Those eggs look yummy…they need english muffins and cheese…yep, I’d eat that! Thanks for the inspiration for the morning.
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Backpacking Dad Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 12:13 am
They had cheese.
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Remind me to teach you how to make the world’s best omelets. With no mess. No clean up. And a perfect omelet every time. You will be kissing my over-sized ass with gratitude when you learn my secret. I swear.
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Backpacking Dad Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 12:13 am
I suck at omelets. I always burn the bottom or I let them fall apart on me. I’m the worse omelet maker ever.
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Wow. My husband is going to love this.
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Backpacking Dad Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Let me know how he likes it. Wait, do you mean he’s going to love making them, or eating the ones you make for him? Because if it’s the latter I’d tell him to get off his ass and put an apron on; for the amount of food this cooks in proportion to the amount of time invested he can feed the whole family during a commercial break.
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Hey, ANYthing that someone else cooks for me is a gourmet treat. I would eat those eggs with a goat, on a boat…
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Backpacking Dad Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 12:16 am
In the rain in the dark on a train in a car up a tree they’re pretty good you see.
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Nice! I might try those!
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Backpacking Dad Reply:
August 4th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Let me know how they work for you.
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great idea
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