Showing posts with label breakfast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breakfast. Show all posts

Monday, February 27, 2012

Oh, the things you can do with eggs

Breakfast and dinner are the 2 worst times for me.  Usually my husband is home for breakfast so that helps out immensely.  Dinner is just plain horrible, which is why I'm trying out the meal plans.  But last week he worked a couple of night shifts and I was on my own with the angels for wake up.  Of course, the newborn always wakes up a few minutes before the toddler and has to nurse immediately.  Then the toddler has to sit in her crib playing (usually whining) until the newborn is finished before I can tend to her.  This somehow makes her think she's just plain starving.  The newborn is now wide awake and doesn't want to be put down and the toddler is screaming for breakfast so I thought I needed some easy things on hand.  She loves eggs, so usually I spray a mug lightly with cooking spray, crack an egg in the mug and add a tad bit of milk.  Scramble with a fork and microwave for 1 minute.  If it's still wet at that point, fluff with a fork and microwave for another 30 seconds.  But this is now too long of a wait for her.
After some research I tried something different.  This afternoon I sprayed a muffin tin lightly with cooking spray, then cracked an egg open in each muffin tin.  It looked like this...
Then you cook for 10-15 minutes at 350.  I cooked them for 15 minutes.  I wanted to freeze them so I wanted to make sure they were completely done.  After they finished, I ran a knife around the edges to loosen them and was left with perfect egg mcmuffin type eggs.  Then I flash-freezed them in the muffin tin for one hour.  At that point you should take them out and place them in a freezer bag, label, and return to freezer.  Of course chaos hit my house and I forgot about them.  They stayed in the muffin tin in the freezer for a few hours and now look freezer burnt, but otherwise they would've been perfect.  I believe to serve you can just put one straight in the microwave for 60 seconds, but I haven't tested this yet.