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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I LOVE eggs! My day wouldn’t be complete without them! I start each morning with an egg white omelette, and I make it with two real egg whites…fresh from the eggs. I save the yolks for other things.
To mix it up, I’ll add a little cheese and some spinach or mushrooms.
Another favorite with eggs is cornbread. Yummy Yummy Yummy!
Without a doubt, and I think my family would agree with me, it is jello cake!
We have 2 winners for eggs in our house.
The first is the egg, cheese and english muffin sandwich for breakfast. The second, and where most of our eggs have been going lately, is chocolate chip cookies.
We just love quiche of all varieties!
We love eggs in my house!! I’ve seen this recipe already mentioned but it’s my kids favorite breakfast – breakfast burritos! Scrambled eggs and cheese with bacon or sausage on a tortilla. This is something that they will actually eat ALL of and clean their plates!
I love quiche lorraine! Thats about the only thing I will eat with eggs :)
We lived on a farm for a year and a half. We had chickens. I taught my then four year old how to make scrambled eggs…on the stovetop, not in the microwave! (The lesson came immediately after we’d gathered some eggs, some were still warm!) So, my favorite egg dish is watching my Aidan making himself some scrambled eggs.
I love to bake and anything I bake usually includes eggs. But my kids love scrambled eggs so we go through lots of them in our weekly breakfast for dinner!
Scrambled eggs with cheddar cheese!
We love eggs!! In this economy eggs make a great (and inexpenxive) meal! I personally love a fried egg sandwich. My kids love hard boiled eggs, which they call “pago eggs” . Not a clue why! :0)
We love eggs at our house and probably my favorite recipe is a spinach quiche I make with eggs. It is really yummy!!
Brownies!!! Preferably the Ghirardelli Double Chocolate kind!
I tweeted! http://twitter.com/Naenae333
I LOVE me a good omelet. Add lots of fresh veggies and cheese, and I’m in heaven!
I think my first comment got lost in cyberspace!
“Brownies!!!! Preferably the Ghirardelli Double Chocoalte king!”
My current favorite recipe is for LEMON BARS. There are four eggs in the lemon custardy middle layer. Yum!
My mom makes breakfast casserole, a little like your recipe, for Christmas every year. I love it!
(Except this past year, she didn’t stir it very well, and I ate a bite that included about 1 teaspoon of mustard powder. Yuck!)
Oh gosh, we eat tons of eggs…so I don’t have a favorite egg meal…but, I would have to say I use the most eggs in my cake hobby :) I started decorating cakes a little over a year ago and I probably use 4 dozen egglands best a month!! (you can click on my name and see my cake blog :) )
My favorite dish is scrambled eggs with cheese! Yum!
I love to make any sort of baked treat…but especially oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Yum, yum!
My favorite egg item is a spinach omelet.
Right now I’m on a white chocolate chip, cranberry and pecan cookie kick. Uh-mazing.
chocolate chip cookies
We make a lot of lasagna and manicotti in our house! Mmm…
(you need eggs for the ricotta to soften it and make it creamy)
We love Egg Scramble here. Technical name, actually. It simply means Eggs for Dinner Because Potatoes And Other Things Have Been Added.
ooey=gooey cake.
I love egg salad, but all baked goods have eggs and baked goods are my weakness in life.
We love old fashioned deviled eggs…even for breakfast.
Crepes or Popovers! So good with really fresh eggs.
Um, I would make french toast. Or a good-old-fashioned chocolate cake. Slatered in white icing of course. =)
Eggs for dinner have become our new comfort food…. followed by more comfort food made with eggs….cake (my personal favorite!)
Brownie batter! Notice I said batter and not just brownies. I enjoy the batter and then my family gets to enjoys whatever is left when I make it into brownies. Yum!
I tweeted!
http://twitter.com/Inmates/status/7945765469
we love to make breakfast tacos – yum!
My favorite “egg” dish to make is Easy Garden Bake. It is great for both breakfast or dinner and packed full of all kinds of good veggies. The recipe calls for onions, tomatoes, and zucchini- but I also add mushrooms, bell pepers, and sometimes spinach- Oh. So. Yummy!
Eggs are a vital part of my family’s diet! We use them by the carton!
Some of our very favorite meals….
1) egg salad
2) breakfast burrito’s
3) omelets
4) baking (we bake daily)
5) egg drop soup!
The yumminess is endless! I agree. Buying a better quality such as Egglands Best rocks! And guess what?
My town is an Egglands farm location!
Scrambled eggs, plain and simple.
We make something called Pearl Soup…it involves eggs and beef consume and cream and tapioca beads…it’s a family recipe and we love it!
Breakfast Tacos!
eggs are cheap = one of this grad student’s favorite ingredients. love strata with spicy sausage and lots of cheese. but my very favorite egg dish is scrambled eggs made by my mom. she uses lots of butter! tastes like home.
We are on a low carb diet so I use eggs a ton!! I love to make pizza crust using moz cheese, egg and parm cheese. Bake and let it set over night and it really does taste like pizza crust.
breakfast casserole! yummy…
I love omelets. Really really love them!
I love eggs.
Purist favorite – sunny side up
Sweet favorite – brownies
Savory favorite – cheese souffle
We eat a lot of Eggsland eggs around here! With three young girls in the family, I always buy food without hormones – Eggsland fits that bill. Our favorite egg recipe is a Pepper Jack crustless quiche. Yum!
Fried eggs, sunny side up, with yolk that is just beginning to thicken, hot all the way through, and white that is just cooked without a hint of firmness. Cooked in a pan with olive oil and melted butter. With white toast to dip in the yolk on the plate. There is nothing better to eat. Nothing.
Nate’s Mom
Scrambled eggs with cheese… I think I’ll go make some now:)
Cream cheese flan!
I love eggs, and I almost always buy Egglands Best too. Fave ways to use ’em? Too many to list – so I’ll just say pumpkin pie, which is what I’m going to make today :)
French Silk Pie! Must use Egglands Best because the eggs are not cooked in this recipe.
I love making blueberry pankcakes and scrambled eggs!!
My favorite breakfast casserole!
We love eggs at our house and our favorite thing to make with them is a breakfast casserole!
Cookies. Or possibly brownies, depending on my mood.
meatballs!
Husband’s favorite is “Egg In A Frame”, where you cut a hole out of a slice of bread and fry your egg inside.
I love making Egg Casserole (NOT quiche, mind you, because real men don’t eat quiche at my house). The recipe is a little different every time, depending on what I have on hand, but green chilies and cheddar are a favorite combination.
We love egg salad and scrambled eggs!
Triple chocolate brownies with toasted pecans! Yum!
I love to make cookies, however the eggs in a baggie/microwave were really fun to try! Thanks!
Homemade noodles!
Cheese grits casserole!
Either my mom’s egg casserole, or Huevos Rancheros!
I have several favorite’s but the one that just popped in my head was the baked french toast I make for Christmas morning. It uses 8 eggs. I make it the night before and it bakes while we open presents. I made it this fall and my 10 yo walked in the kitchen and said “It smells like Christmas”
Breakfast burritos.
That’s a tough question! There are so many delicious things that can be made with eggs. I love breakfast though and scrambled with some cheese, over easy with some toast or in a yummy breakfast casserole are all winners in my book.
I like to make Dutch Babies, which is like
an oven baked puff pancake.
Homemade brownies. I have a recipe that Paula Deen would approve of … it may kill ya, but you’ll love it anyway ;)
scrambled eggs!
I made some delicious brownies on Sunday, using an egg of course, and I’m so sad that they are gone today!
CHEESECAKE !!!!!and yes I am shouting!
Eggs with a hat on!
An omelet with ham, cheese, onion and green peppers! Yum- I want one now! :)
My son would just want to crack them on the kitchen floor for pure pleasure..
but I’d rather make some yummy breakfast tacos!
We have a unanimous vote in my household….brownies!!! From scratch, from a box, doesn’t matter but they can’t be good without some eggs. :)
I have to follow low-carb because of health issues and eat eggs and spinach every morning (but my REAL favorite thing that contains eggs is: cookies – mmmmm)
mmmm…scrambled eggs with american cheese on buttered toast….
I love to make French Toast with Eggland’s Best Eggs and Sour Dough Bread! Yummy and easy! I did this yesterday for my daughter and me and it was so delicious! Love those Eggland’s! ! !
breakfast pizza! num nummy!
nothing like pancakes or waffles…saes us from eating lunch
Blueberry muffins!
Chocolate chip cookies, are actually any cookies for that matter. Oh, and French Toast, I love that stuff.
I love an egg every morning, mashed on toast. Yum Comfort food indeed.
I use Eggland’s best eggs as well and I can tell a difference and really love them! I am partial to a really good poached egg with buttered toast on the side in the morning…but I make a mean breakfast casserole and I bake a lot, so we go through the eggs like crazy!
Grandma’s peach cobbler
Cornbread, yummy!
Egg, cheese, salsa burritos for breakfast…great way to start the day!
CHEESECAKE!
Deviled eggs!
I’m not real big on eggs in their natural state, but if you want to use them to make a cake, or corn casserole, or a quiche then that would be lovely. I have learned to boil up about a dozen at the beginning of the week, and eat one with my yogurt and granola – it has a lot of staying power.
I just love a good ‘ol breakfast burrito! Eggs, cheese, salsa, some ham or sausage if I have it on hand.
Mmmmm…..*drool*
My husband had a heart attack and eggs are rather a ‘no no’. I love a good omelet and on the night he works late, I that is what I often make. Has to have onions, mushrooms, and cheese to be complete!
my most favorite thing to make with eggs is “Christmas Morning Casserole,” which everyone has had before, and is THE BEST thing you’ve ever put in your mouth. period.
Vegetable and egg casserole! Love EB eggs!
I love my weekly clean-out-the-refrigerator frittata. That straggling potato, half an onion, few strips of bacon, whatever cheese wasn’t used and any other veggies. Delicious!
I LOVE to make my mother in law’s breakfast casserole recipe…it has green chilies and sausage–comfort food at it’s finest.
My favorite and not so frequent recipe is FLAN. Oh, the creamy richness…thanks now I will be thinking about it all day.
I love to make quiche lorraine. Just plain and simple, love it!
Breakfast tacos (for dinner)!
Omelettes!
Pancakes from scratch.