Vegetarian Baked Eggs with Mushrooms and Tomato

Sunday Brunch....my favourite meal of the week.

This is the time I can get up leisurely, make a cup of coffee and peruse over my fridge and pantry and decide what to start my week with. Sunday is the beginning of the week right?

I've already made the big breakfast with scrambled eggs, mushrooms, tomatos and avocado on Saturday, so figured I'll mix it up a bit.... I've made pancakes the last couple of Sundays....I Looove Pancake. But yeah time for a change... so browsing through foodblogs...I came across these little baked eggs in muffin tins. Score!

Yummy Baked Eggs

Here's how I made mine:

Ingredients:

• Sliced bread (white or brown or whatever you have)
• Desired number of eggs
• Tomatos, chopped
• Mushrooms, chopped
• Spring Onions, chopped
• Parsley, chopped
• Tasty Cheese, gratted
• Butter
• Salt and Pepper

* Feel free to subsitute filling with what you like, say....BACON!!!

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 180C
• Saute the mushrooms, tomatos and spring onions in butter
• Spray the muffin tin with oil (I forgot to do it and was a bit difficult to get them out afterwards)
• Smash the bread with your palm/fist to flatten it a bit and then smoosh it into the muffin tin
• Fill each bread cup with the coked veggies
• Topped with some cheese
• Crack an egg into each cup
• Put in oven and cook for around 15 -18 minutes until the eggs are cooked to desired consistency
• Scatter some chopped parsley on top and serve!

I also squirted some Siracha Chili Sauce on top heh

Breakfast and Brunch

Breakfast and Brunch - definitely the most important meal of the day. Well especially Brunch since that's 2 meals in one and usually the highlight of my weekends.

Shashuka with Feta

This morning I was having a craving for poached eggs in a spicy tomatoey sauce - Shashuska. It's a popular Israeli dish that can be eaten at brekfast/lunch or dinner, but usually doesn't have cheese, but I'm a rebel! heh

I've made it once before and it was great. But alas, my fridge was empty :( and needed to make a quick trip to the local fruit and veg shop for some ingredients

Ingredients

• Onion
• Garlic
• Capsicum
• Can of diced tomato
• Eggs
• Chili
• Cumin
• Salt & Pepper
• Parsley
• Feta (optional)

Directions

Cook the diced onion, garlic and capsicum, add in the can of tomatoes, season, cook uncovered to reduce the sauce and then crack in eggs, cook til eggs are almost ready, top with feta and parsley. Served with toast

Vegetarian Frittatas

 Vegetarian Frittatas

These gorgeous little frittatas are made with so much veggies, they're really good for you - plus it's low carbs!
Basically cook mixed veg (onion, garlic, capsicum, mushrooms and spinach) and then add in beaten eggs, fill the muffin pan and topped with feta of course and bake in oven. Perfect snack and great for picnics!

Weekend Brunch

More Brunch

Here's just some other breakfast I made, the poaching technique is coming along  

I Love Breakfast!!!

Best Meal of the Day, even though I usually don't eat breakfast during the week. Solely because I love my sleep too much, and usually don't get up til the very last possible minute. aka 8:30am (yes I start work @ 9:00am, YouSeemi!)

But weekends are alllll about the Brunch, Big Breakfast for me. Though typically I'm not really a fan of cafe breakfast, since usually I make it better. Exception was the Soft shell crab omelet @ Cafe Ish, that was to DIE FOR!

Anyway so when Muso Dude comes to visit, I make vegetarian breakfast, last time, I had some fetta cheese scrambled eggs, roasted tomato, spinach, garlic mushrooms and tofu (just coz they were around). It was pretty delish and I didnt even miss my meat.

But then the following week I had a girlie sleep over and I made sure I got some Bacon ready. And Avocado! Love love love avocado :) I wanted to fit more on my plate but ran outta space, ooops. Greedy! HA

Vegetarian Brunch

Fail fail fail, I just can't seem to get the hang of poached eggs, am seriously contemplating on getting one of those kitchen gadgets/device that makes the job so much easier. Tempting tempting tempting, but no, cannot! Promised Mami that as part of Bloctober, no buying of random kitchen utensils. uuuugh.

Yup that's right, I'm doing Bloctober, another Hangover-free month! It's only been 1 week so far.

So this morning with Mr ShyGuy and DirtyWrestler around, I wanted to make a hearty breakfast for us all. Good thing there was haloumi in the fridge, it's been described as Steak for vegetarians. heh and I couldn't agree more. I made some garlic mushrooms and roasted tomatoes to with with it all. But unfortunately I just couldn't poach the eggs and Mr ShyGuy had to help me out.

Saturday Breakfast

Woke up really really hungry this morning, but then I'm in Mami's house and alas! Her fridge is empty......oh dear...with 2 eggs, bit of left over mushrooms, a few carrots, quarter of a cabbage, half a loaf of bread, bunch of sprouts and some avocados... What am I gonna do for breakfast/brunch?!?!

Well one's gotta do what one's gotta do. With bellies rumbling, I set off to experiment with my limited resources.... but first off, COFFEE!!!

After being inspired by Donna Hay on Masterchef last night, she was soooo meticulous with everything. I wanted to try to make the elusive centred runny yolk soft boiled eggs. Apparently you swirl the hot water in the saucepan to make a whirlpool and then drop the egg in and this would make the yolk stay in the centre. As soon as I dropped the egg in, I was like oh no! This isn't gonna work - the egg just cracked, oops! Well there wasn't any more eggs left so, it'll do. But they turned out alrite! Though I still have no clue how long I'm suppose to cook these eggs...

Then in a fry pan, I melted some butter, added the grated carrots, chopped mushrooms and sliced red cabbage, topped it off with some fresh parsley from the garden and served it with some sprouts.

All in all, it wasn't such a bad effort and avocados are always good.