Breakfast for 4!

hello readers, happy july!

In celebration of this great month and this great holiday (holla 4 days off in a row!) I have a bevvy of beautiful ladies hanging out. My sister is in town, her friend Kelly is in town, and Tamah came over to hang. With a morning hangout coming, I was racking my brain over what to put on the table. We couldn't go out to eat, as I had a roof guy coming over to check out the situation up there, and August coming to drop over her keys so i can do some kitty-sitting this weekend, hence the home hang-out time. I didn't have a ton in my fridge, but I did have eggs, I had some greens from my CSA, and I had a couple of tomatos. I was going to start from there.


I cleaned some CSA greens (spinach and swiss chard) and chopped up some onion (about 1/4) and garlic scapes (scapes were CSA as well). I rummaged around in the fridge and saw i had some andouille sausage, so i cut a link of that into small pieces as well. I cut up 1 tomato (although in hind-sight i should have also done the second tomato).

I put about 2 tablespoons of olive oil into a large frying pan, and when the oil was hot, i threw in the onions and scapes. I salted and pepper-ed them lightly, and let them cook down until they were slightly softened. I added the chopped andouille- I should note, this was pre-cooked packaged sausage- if you are using raw sausage, it will need to go in the pan earlier (with the onion) and cook longer. Once the onions and sausage were soft, i added the tomatos, and about 1 minute later, added the greens (it was about 2 handfuls of spinach and swiss chard) along with some crushed red pepper for some kick.

While the greens wilted, I cracked 6 eggs (there were 4 of us for breakfast) into a bowl, and beat them with my awesome hand mixer that I picked up at an estate sale last summer. I like the hand mixer better than a whisk for this, because it beats the eggs nicely and doesn't splatter them everywhere.

Once the greens were wilted, I added the eggs, and salted and peppered the whole kit and caboodle. While the whole pan cooked, I turned the broiler on in the oven, and once the eggs were a bit set, but the top still liquid-y, i put the entire pan in the oven to set the top. I realized I had some left over grated cheese from our pesto dinner the night before, so i sprinkled that on top of the pan. After about 5 minutes the eggs were set, I grabbed a pot holder, grabbed the frying pan, and brought it to the table.

The verdict was "delicious!" It was great to use so much of my CSA bounty, and eggs are a great vehicle.

Happy breakfast everyone!