Eggs In A Hole
I am in full hibernation mode, are you? Shortly after nightfall, I'm under the covers with the lights out and getting up in the morning feels downright unnatural. All I want is to nest in my apartment with travelogues, a towering stack of cookbooks, and my Julia and Jacques dvds. Groceries will be delivered to my door, and I will send notice to my friends and employer that, regrettably, I will be unavailable until the magnolia trees bloom.
This breakfast will either help you brave the blustery cold or send you right back to bed, sleepy and slowed-down. Your post-meal energy level is a coin-toss, but the food itself is undebatably delicous. I have a feeling the young ones will love this, too.
Eggs In A Hole
Serves 2
2 slices bacon (I'm in love with extra-thick cut slab bacon right now)
2 slices toast
2 eggs
Fry up the bacon over medium-low heat. Meanwhile, using a cookie cutter or the rim of a glass, cut round circles out of each piece of bread. When the bacon is crisp, remove from the pan and drain on papertowels. Place bread and bread rounds in the bacon grease and crack one egg into each bread hole. When the whites of the eggs are set and the bread slices are getting nice and brown, flip. Flip your little bread circles, too. Aren't they cute? After another minute or so, scoop up each piece of bread and its egg with a spatula, top with its little sister piece of bread and serve with bacon.
Eggs In A Hole
Serves 2
2 slices bacon (I'm in love with extra-thick cut slab bacon right now)
2 slices toast
2 eggs
Fry up the bacon over medium-low heat. Meanwhile, using a cookie cutter or the rim of a glass, cut round circles out of each piece of bread. When the bacon is crisp, remove from the pan and drain on papertowels. Place bread and bread rounds in the bacon grease and crack one egg into each bread hole. When the whites of the eggs are set and the bread slices are getting nice and brown, flip. Flip your little bread circles, too. Aren't they cute? After another minute or so, scoop up each piece of bread and its egg with a spatula, top with its little sister piece of bread and serve with bacon.
Comments
back in the day when i was a kid and mom made this for us (without that yummy bacon grease, though!) we called it "eggy schmageggy"(spelling??). wow, i really loved it. along with cinnamon toast, a glorious breakfast! i'll have to make this for hopper. thanks!
Posted by: amanda | February 10, 2007 5:22 PM
I made eggs in a hole a few months ago, decided they should make a regular appearance on my breakfast table, then promptly forgot all about them. Thanks for the tasty reminder!
Ah, nothing beats the original PBS celeb chefs, Julia and Jacques...
Posted by: Janice | February 10, 2007 6:42 PM
Oh man, this is my favorite thing to eat at Cracker Barrel restaurant. Yum yum. I've never attempted to make it yet.
Posted by: Mizsmoochielips | February 10, 2007 11:32 PM
This is my husbands favorite way to have eggs on the weekend.
Posted by: Sara | February 11, 2007 1:26 AM
For Valentine's Day breakfast one year, I cut out a heart-shaped hole. Try it!
Posted by: claire | February 11, 2007 12:04 PM
I think someone makes this in the movie Moonstruck- was it Cher's mom?
Posted by: caitcat | February 11, 2007 4:16 PM
Amanda, Mmm...cinnamon toast, definitely one of my childhood faves that may need to be revived.
Janice, Totally agree with you about Jacques and Julia. They never fail to delight me.
Mizsmoochielips, It's so easy! You gotta give it a try!
Sara, Your husband is a lucky man!
Claire, I love that idea! I need to go buy heart-shaped cookie cutters for my upcoming Valentines baking anyway so I will definitely give that a try.
Caitcat, I don't know - sounds like it's time to watch Moonstruck again. Though when I'm in a Cher mood it's hard not to watch Mermaids, one of my all time faves.
Posted by: Sarah | February 11, 2007 7:48 PM
so funny that you posted on this! we've been obsessed lately with making these in the morning, and night, and for lunch...
Posted by: Maria | February 12, 2007 3:04 PM
That looks so good to start off the morning!! I would add a nice hot cup of Latin style cinnamon spiced coffee. You should try it if you like coffee. Just take a stick of cinnamon and break it up into small pieces or smash in a bag and just sprinkle it over your ground coffee once it is in the coffee filter. Some Latin people also make cinnamon tea, by just boiling some broken cinnamon sticks until the water is a dark pinkish red and adding honey or sugar. Either way I think it would add an extra warm kick to your lovely breakfast!
Posted by: Dannny | February 12, 2007 7:14 PM
in college, we called these "toast-holes." just as much fun to say as to eat. mmm...
Posted by: megan | February 12, 2007 10:40 PM
Oh yummeh! I started making these after V for Vendetta reminded me about them. Except I do two slices of double wheat bread, two eggs. and I eat the circle after I cut them out. I fry them next to each other n the same pan with butter, then make a grilled cheese sandwich out of them. They are sooo fattening but sooo good that way.
Posted by: SmittenKitten | February 14, 2007 8:18 AM
I had no idea eggs in a hole/toast-holes/eggy schmageggy would resonate with so many people! I am surprised and delighted - apparently I'm the one who has been missing out!
Posted by: Sarah | February 16, 2007 9:31 AM
when I was a kid, we called them "one eyes" for obvious reasons...
my grandma was a master at this breakfast dish! I just loved eating the little cut-out center...
Posted by: annie | February 20, 2007 12:40 PM
We used to call this "Birds in a Nest".
Posted by: April | March 2, 2007 10:16 AM
Sarah, when you come to visit me, I would like to make Dannny's cinnamon coffee and eggs in a hole. XOXOX
Posted by: Anonymous | March 14, 2007 9:41 AM
I make these all the time with my kids - we call them "Frog Eyes"
Such an appetizing name.
Posted by: Steamy Kitchen | May 1, 2007 2:47 AM
We were just watching V for Vendetta and I asked my daughter if she would like to try a eggie in the basket. "Okay but just one", she said. My husband said, "No thanks". She ate both and is now cooking one for her dad and another for herself.
As I check out the correct way to make it.
Posted by: Jean | June 15, 2007 10:11 PM
I made eggs in a basket for Luella and she loved it.......I was just about to give up on Lu eating eggs. I love all of the blogs and will pray for you to win the lotto so that you can do tri-weekly reports and blogs!
Posted by: Rosalee | June 26, 2007 12:10 PM