Eggland’s Best $100 Visa Gift Card Giveaway
This is a compensated review by BlogHer and Eggland’s Best.
In our family, we like eggs. We like eggs a lot. So when BlogHer asked me if I’d be willing to share some recipes I love to make with Eggland’s Best eggs, I stood up and raised my hand and then I saluted.
Okay. So maybe not literally.
But I was tickled to participate, mainly because Eggland’s Best is a product I’ve used regularly for the last couple of years. Since we have a growing boy in this house, I’ve tried to be careful not to buy food with added hormones and antibiotics, and Eggland’s Best has neither. Plus, since stuff like eggs and milk and meat and fresh vegetables are staples of our diet, I don’t mind paying a little extra to buy a better quality product. It’s taken me a long time to learn the lesson, but really good ingredients make for better-tasting meals, and better-tasting meals mean that the people in this family don’t mind leftovers quite so much. Since I’m the one doing the cooking, that’s a win-win for me.
So. The recipes.
A couple of nights ago I was craving something chocolate-y LIKE NOBODY’S BUSINESS, AS IS MY INALIENABLE RIGHT AS AN AMERICAN, and since I had all the stuff for fudge pie on hand, I had no choice but to make one. This is a super-simple, very rich pie, and the great thing about it is that a little goes a long way. Just a tiny sliver of this pie will satisfy the most intense chocolate craving, and it tastes so delicious that your family and friends will love you forever for making it. The eggs are key, of course, because without them we’d have a lovely chocolate soup.
Fudge Pie
3/4 cup sugar
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
1/2 stick butter, melted
2 well-beaten eggs
1 small can evaporated milk
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350. Mix all ingredients, making sure to thoroughly combine the dry ingredients before adding the butter, eggs, milk and vanilla extract. Pour mixture into a pie shell, and bake for 35-40 minutes. When you remove the pie from the oven, it will still be a little jiggly. Let stand for 15-20 minutes before cutting. Serve with vanilla ice cream.
My husband’s favorite pie in the whole wide world is egg custard pie, and when I told him I was going to be making three recipes with eggs, he said something along the lines of “OOOOH! OOOOH! EGG CUSTARD PIE!” It’s something I rarely make because I’m a big believer that desserts should feature chocolate, but since I had some purty, fresh eggs to use, I humored him and made my mother-in-law’s recipe. He was so grateful.
Egg Custard Pie
2 cups whole milk (skim or nonfat milk won’t work nearly as well)
6 eggs
dash of salt
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 350. Mix all ingredients, then pour into a pie shell. Bake for 45 minutes or until set. Let cool before serving.
This last recipe is so simple, and I’ve probably made it fifty times for special occasion breakfasts (whether we have company, or I’m cooking for something at church, or we’re celebrating a holiday). What I love most about it is that you can make it the night before and put it in the refrigerator, so when you wake up the next morning, all you have to do is throw it in the oven and wait on the deliciousness.
It’s a keeper.
Crescent Roll Breakfast Casserole
1 12 oz. package bacon, chopped and fried (reserve about 2 Tbs. of bacon grease)
2 packages fresh sliced mushrooms
2 packages crescent rolls
8 large eggs, beaten
2 cups evaporated milk
2 cups milk
2 cups shredded Swiss cheese
Cook bacon pieces. Drain on paper towels. In reserved bacon grease, saute’ mushrooms until they lose their firmness (about 8 minutes). While mushrooms are cooking, press crescent roll dough in the bottom of a large (around 10 x 13), greased casserole dish, making sure that you press all the seams together. Depending on the size of your casserole dish, you may have a little bit of dough left over.
In a separate bowl, combine eggs, evaporated milk, milk, and cheese. Set aside.
Scatter bacon and mushrooms on top of the crescent roll dough. Pour egg / milk / cheese mixture on top.
Bake 15 minutes on 325 degrees, then 35-40 minutes on 300 degrees.
If you’d like to win a $100 Visa gift card and a six-month supply of Eggland’s Best eggs, leave a comment and tell me your favorite dish to make with eggs. Egg casserole? A good frittata? CAKE? The possibilities are endless.
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January 18th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
homemade brownies!!
January 18th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Breakfast tacos. Quick and easy!
January 18th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Cookies! Any kind! Though, we’re also lovers of simple scrambled eggs in this house!
January 18th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
grits and sausage casserole!
January 18th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
we eat a LOT of eggs around here- it’s called cheap eating- AND – it’s the original fast food at home- our currant favorite is: break two eggs into a frying pan on medium to low heat – (little bacon grease to prevent sticking), break the yolks if you wish, sprinkle with chili powder, paprika ,salt and pepper, take two whole green chilies (ours are from a can in winter) run your thumb down one side of each chili to open it up, lay them flat on the eggs and pop the pan in the oven. let them bake at 350 for 5 minutes or so and then slice or grate some colby jack or pepper jack cheese on top of the chilies and let that melt-
keep in mind -this really only serves one after you’ve tasted them-
January 18th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Wow! I used eggland’s best eggs tonight to make a spaghetti pie!
January 18th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Applesauce muffins!
January 18th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Banana Bread!!
January 18th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
We just love them scrambled around here. My 3 year old would eat scrambled eggs with a little cheese for every meal!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Quiche!! Love me some quiche with ham and broccoli – yum!!!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Brownies!!!! YUM!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Poundcake :)
January 18th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Wow…a favorite, there are so many! We love egg salad sandwiches but I’d have to say the thing we use eggs the most for are oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
January 18th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
I love my over easy egg for breakfast.
But I also LOVE cookies. And cake. and brownies. and ….
January 18th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
My husband likes scrambled eggs, and I love a good over easy fried egg!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Anything for BREAKFAST!!! Eggs benedict, french toast, taquitos!!! YUM!!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
personally I just like an omelet or a hard boiled egg. I am simple like that, and that would be the only part of my life that is simple.
January 18th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
breakfast burritos!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
I like to bake!! Cookies, cakes, pies.. Anything I can bake with eggs is great. :)
January 18th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
We like to have breakfast burritos! We just had them for SUPPER the other night.
January 18th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
I love me some scrambled eggs with lots of hot sauce!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
scrambled eggs…could not be easier.
Jane
January 18th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
aside from just plain ol’ yummy scrambled eggs, or boiled, I love quiche!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
scrambled eggs and rice!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Good ole fashioned chocolate chip cookies! Yum!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Chocolate chess pie–yummy
January 18th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
we use up a lot of eggs every sunday night because sunday night is pancake night around here. which also includes scrambled eggs. and sometimes french toast.
but my favorite egg dish is this egg souffle casserole that i got a recipe for from both my mom and mother-in-law. it may be the one dish that everyone in the family goes absolutely crazy for.
January 18th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Omelettes! Cookies! Cakes!
Well really, the most common one around here is pancakes. :)
January 18th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Yummy poached eggs with a dash of salt and pepper on whole wheat toast! MMM.
January 18th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
French toast…one of my favorite breakfast foods!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Breakfast Burritos or Omelettes!!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Pioneer Woman’s Chocolate Cake is my favorite thing to make with eggs. It has all of my favorite things in it. Eggs, butter, sugar, and chocolate!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Quiche!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
breakfast tacos with salsa!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
My mom’s pound cake…it’s the best!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Scrambled eggs… boring I know, but my 3 young kids devour them.
January 18th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Scrambled eggs for us!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Fried rice!!!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
i love to bake, SO cookies and cake would probably be it!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Breakfast Tacos! YUM!!! or Oven Pancakes.
January 18th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Chocolate chip cookies. Though my husband makes them – does that count? We use Eggland’s Best. We have to – EB are my husband’s initials!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Frittata–eggs and whatever I have in the fridge I need to get rid of. We have it nearly once a week :)
January 18th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
fried rice!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Omelets-western style!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
I would have to say cake!
I do love a good breakfast casserole!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
We have scrambled eggs for breakfast every morning. We love eggs!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
cupcakes yum!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
My favorite thing is this delicious chocolate pie that my husband mostly makes, but I help! :)
January 18th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Eggs and cheese on a tortilla, turkey and little bit of hot sauce! (disclosure-my husband always makes them)
January 18th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
A frittata with whatever veggies we have in the house! This weekend I cooked a little peppered bacon in the pan first, then chopped it up and added it to the frittata. A handful of spinach, a few green onions, garlic, and a roma tomato that needed to be used…Delish!