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 make killer German pancakes. They come out of the oven all puffy and egg-y! Top them with lemon and powdered sugar, heaven!
Deviled eggs. I make them often for my nephew because he LOVES them like you wouldn’t believe!
Scrambled eggs with American cheese and salsa!
Breakfast burritos! I won’t order them from someone else, but I love mine!
anything breakfasty. casseroles, french toast, mixed with hashbrowns, but mostly my four kids love omelets. lots and lots of omelets.
Hands down my favorite recipe with eggs is FRENCH TOAST!
My favorite thing with eggs is anything we are baking. Whether is chocolate chip cookies, brownies or chocolate cake (sense a theme?) I love to create these things with and for the people of my house :)
Baked egg casserole – yum! A Christmas morning tradition at our house.
Cookies! Lots of cookies!
Butterscotch pie !
Quiche made with bacon, spinach, onion, cheese and mushrooms.
My fav is Ham and Egg Casserole. (with seven eggs and a pound of cheese how can it be bad….right?) It is super easy and with little salsa on the side. YUM !
Brownies. Always brownies.
Eggs! We love eggs! Cheesy eggs. Fried eggs. Quiche!
And we love Eggland’s best – never pass up a coupon for those!
Chocolate chip cookies, of course!
i haven’t ever tried eggland’s best, always get mine from the farmers market. now you’ve encouraged me to go ahead, when i run out before the next market. because you can certainly taste the difference in a quality egg!
my moon festival quiche is something everyone asks for.
Chocolate chip cookies. Yum!
Breakfast casserole! It is so yummy, but so rich we usually only have it at Christmas!
Egg salad is a yummy choice for eggs.
gooey brownies!!! i’m craving some now!!
Pound cake! I have a super-easy recipe with a butter golden cake mix + 5 eggs (and a few other things…) that is super easy and SUPER delicious!
Just a plain old sunny-side-up egg!
Potato Basil Fritata by Ina Garten. We love eggs!
The latest fave is microwave mug scramble… so fast!!
Fried Eggs for breakfast :)
Scrambled eggs – my two youngest eat them almost every day
Cake! Yum!
Muffins. I make muffins every week. And I need eggs to make muffins.
I like to make breakfast casseroles but my favorite thing is baking so I always use eggs for that!
This is easy…PANCAKES!
Mmmmmm, I love me some breakfast burritos! :)
A Greek frittata – spinach, feta, sliced grape tomatoes, maybe some zuchinni. Top with tzatziki sauce! Pita on the side…
Actually just a plain hard-boiled egg. You can’t get any easier than that.
egg salad, potato salad, or cake
Key Lime Pie!!! Our favorite dessert! 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
1 can sweetened condensed milk
3 egg yolks
Mix well and pour in a graham cracker crust. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes or until set! Cool for 10 minutes and then chill. Delicious!!!!
Mostly any dessert would be my favorite (cake, brownies, etc). I use Egglands’ now and have for a year or so!
Baked goods… brownies, cookies…
I like just plain old eggs and bacon. I don’t even care if they’re scrambled or fried…I like them either way.
I just love eggs period. Scramble them up and top them with cheese and it’s perfect.
I like a fried egg sandwich. Its been my pregnany staple!
I make a variation of Choc-Oat-Chip cookies from the Nestle recipe, but I throw in ground flax, wheat germ, and use some wheat flour instead of just all-purpose white. I also like to throw in sunflower seeds and cranberries or cherries instead of raisins (or even with raisins). AND instead of all chocolate chips, I throw in carob chips. Eggs are key!!
Sausage and Egg Breakfast Casserole! Yum!
Oh the possibilities are endless!!!! We love eggs around here … the kids love scrambled egg sandwiches for lunch and from time to time we love to do homemade pancakes for dinner. Oh please pick me :)
Omelets in a bag…delicious!
Creamed tuna with peas and sliced hard boiled eggs! Yum!
How do I choose? We love just plain eggs around here, but in a recipe, I guess Id have to say chocolate chip cookies!
Creme Brulee is my very favorite egg dish.
i make these awesome egg fritattas.
i keep the recipe handy b/c someone is always asking for it. coworkers request it for work parties instead of morning donuts!!
I love to make over easy eggs and Hatch’s green chili! YUM!!!!
Scrambles eggs with crumbled sausage and cheese!
Plain old scrambled eggs with some cheese mixed in – YUM
I know it’s simple, but I love egg sandwiches on sourdough bread with melted provolone cheese. In fact, I made one for dinner last night :)
I love to whip up a pan of brownies!
I love popovers!!! My grandma’s recipe!
Cake, cookies anything sweet!
Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread!!
One of the things I like best is scrambled eggs with lots of things added:
cilantro, onions, bell peppers, jalapenos,
cheese, tomatoes.
My favorite egg dish is scrambled eggs with onions and cheddar cheese.
My favorite thing to make with eggs has to be an egg sandwich. We have been making these for years…microwave poached egg with cheese on an English muffin. Delish! My second fav thing to make is my husband’s favorite…deviled eggs. It makes me happy to make him happy!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
We make cookies a lot at our house (most recently, white chocolate chip and macadamia nut – yum!), but I’m going to have to try that egg custard pie recipe. That used to be my favorite dessert at Morrison’s Cafeteria.
Our version of Breakfast Casserole. And the wonderfully simple boiled egg. Yum. :)
Lemon Poundcake!
All my fav recipes have eggs! But one that features eggs is this insane intense brownie recipe that has massive amounts of eggs and chocolate and butter and very little sugar and flour.
Quiche, mainly spinach or ham.
PW’s Sleepin’ In Omlette… hands down winner!
My favorite is a ham and swiss quiche.
We love breakfast burritos. We have ’em for breakfast, lunch or supper. In fact we had them for supper Sunday night!
Breakfast casserole….YUMMMMMMM!!!! With sausage, and lots of cheese!
i myself *heart* a good frittata, but lately the best thing i make with eggs is a supremely delicious breakfast muffin for my fiance!
Whole wheat chocolate chip cookies! They are my kids’ absolute favorite dessert. We make them EVERY Friday for “Family Fun Friday Night”!
Ashley
I love eggs! Scrambled are my favorite, but I’ll take them boiled, fried, in an omelette, over easy – you name it, I’ll eat them!
A soufle! Cheesy,bacony, eggy goodness!
Sunshine toast! Eggs, butter, bread, DELICIOUS.
BET’s! (bacon, fried egg, tomato sandwich)
My husband and girls eat omelets EVERY morning. Me? I prefer hard boiled egg white…yummy!
Chocolate Sheet Cake.
Boil-in-a-bag omlettes!
In our house, it’s simple! Cheesey Eggs! It’s my kids first choice for a fast, easy and delicous dinner. In fact, they were astonished when I tried to tell them most people eat eggs for breakfast! I still don’t think they believe me!
I love eggs too! I really do. I think my favorite egg dish that really features eggs would be a good breakfast egg burrito! Gotta love it with salsa and cheese and sour cream!
My husband is the egg cooker around here. He makes them hard boiled for me and our 8 year old, over easy for our 11 year old, and sunnyside up for himself and our 14 year old. We have breakfast for dinner at least one night a week. He makes extra hardboiled eggs and I have one each morning for breakfast.
Scrambled eggs with shredded cheddar (a.k.a. ‘cheesy eggs’ to my toddler)
My husband would say it would be Impossibly Easy Cheeseburger Pie, but he would be lying because then he would remember the potato casserole that has THREE eggs (and lots of unhealthy but delicious things like heavy cream, sour cream, cheese and bacon!) and would say OH THAT’S RIGHT the potato casserole wins.
And now I want to make a potato casserole!
Fried egg sandwiches!! Or french toast. It’s a tie.
Deviled eggs or creamed eggs on toast which my mom and aunt always make when they are together.
How about homemade chocolate chip pecan pie? Yum!
Turkey meatloaf, breakfast burrito, or good ‘ole eggs and cheese!
I love a good sausage and cheese quiche. Bring it on!
Quiche with spinach and bacon! The only way I can ever get my family to eat spinach. (Sorry, spinach.)
I’ve fallen in love with the Pioneer Woman’s “Egg in the Hole”. I eat them several times a week, much to the dismay of my arteries.
My favorite eggy thingy is home made brownies, which require 5 eggs!! But, just dump everything in a bowl and stir. So easy and so yummy. This was a life saver when we were overseas and had no brownie mix!
Yummy Pancakes !!! :)
Oh, wish I’d gotten in on this one, since ALL we buy is Eggland eggs. Love them & eat about a dozen a week around our house. I guess my fave thing to cook is probably a cake recipe with eggs, but scrambled, Frittata-ed and breakfast French toast would be strong in line too.
Mmmm, egg sandwich on a cinnamon raisin bagel. With cheese. My favorite breakfast!
I love making my own “egg mcmuffin” in the mornings :)
Scrambled eggs with tomatillo/avocado salsa!
Omlettes
We love eggs of all sorts! Scrambled are a big favorite here, but also frittats (with fresh basil on top, yum!), omlets, baked goods of all sorts… Eggs are GREAT!!
Brownies….I love brownies. But we do a lot of french toast here too….and pancakes….and waffles! We use a lot of eggs!
I love to make brownies!!
My favorite thing to do with eggs is a good ole’ egg sandwich. it’s about the only thing my girls will eat for breakfast these days (besides donuts – of course they always eat the donuts). fry it up between 2 pieces of sprouted bread with a little mayo – YUM! And, it makes me think of my Daddy everytime I fix it, too, which is an added bonus!