Friday, October 16, 2009

Eggs Over Easy, Hash Browns, and Bacon


The best start to the day is a big breakfast. It just makes you feel good and happy when your full plus it gives you a ton of energy and you burn it off throughout the whole day. I usually start off my busy days with just a scrambled egg since that takes about 2 minutes but since I have some time on the first day of my weekend, I wanted to cook something special.

For the hashbrowns, you can use potatos you grate yourself. I used a half potato from another recipe that was in my fridge. If your going to grate it yourself, you need a grater with large holes! You want the potatoes to be long thin strips and this can only happen with large holes. I suggest getting a box grater and sticking some needle nose pliers into each hole to make them just slightly bigger.

Ingredients:
2 pieces of bacon per person your serving
1 egg per person your serving
1 cup frozen hash browns per person your serving (in freezer section of grocery store) You'll have hash browns for weeks or you can add it to soups as a quick veggie.
pat of butter

Directions:
1. Cook bacon on medium high heat in a saute pan. Keep turning so bacon doesn't burn. Cook to desired crispness. (I like mine almost burnt. crispy and salty, yum!)

2. Put hashbrowns in a paper towel and wring out any excess water. Put in saute pan with about a teaspoon of bacon fat. Allow to cook for 5 minutes, moving around just a little. Then try to flip all the hashbrowns over at once like a pancake and let cook another 5 minutes

3. While hashbrowns are cooking go ahead and make the eggs. Put the butter in a smaller saute pan and allow to melt over medium low heat. Crack eggs into pan and season with a pinch of salt. Allow to cook for about a minute then cover pan with a lid and turn heat to low. Let egg finish cooking with steam until it's done to your liking. ABout 2 minutes for runny yolks and 4 for hard set.

4. Serve everything together on a plate so when your eating eggs, the yolks run into the hashbrowns and make everything delicious. You can eat it with a little ketchup, salsa, or hot sauce, pretty much anything you'd eat with eggs or hashbrowns can go on here.

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