Ok, Quick post about leftovers. I got pizza the other day (delivered to me, for the first time in over 2 years. I don’t know why this excites me as much as it does). In addition, I opted for cheesy bread to accompany the pizza. Now, I love pizza but I have a consistent expectation that I will prefer delivered pizza as leftovers. After two years, my expectation still holds true. The grease congeals into the bread after it is cold and somehow makes all things better.
I do have a point here so hang with me on a little stroll down memory lane. I am not a fan of the squiggly memory lines, but if you want them you can put them here.
When I was young, my mom would make me open faced egg sandwiches. I think it was my mom, maybe it was grandma Helen. Doesn’t matter. I am sure you had something similar. She would cut a circle out of the middle of bread and put the bread into a pan. Then, she would crack an egg and pour it into the hole in the middle of the bread cooking to over easy/over medium depending on her timing that morning. After it was done, she would toast the circles in the pan and we would eat the yolk with them.
Back to today, I have almost a whole order of cheesy bread in my fridge. I hate to say it, but I am probably not going to eat it as is. This morning, I wanted something different but nostalgic for breffy. That said, I think you can guess where I am going. I made the egg sandwich thing from childhood with cheesy bread. I did alter the recipe a little though. I scrambled two eggs first with a little plain yogurt, salt, and pepper. Outside of that, all I did was heat a little olive oil in the pan, put two 1/2 bread sticks in the pan (pry should have just let the grease melt out of the bread but this is how we learn things) after a couple of seconds, I poured in the eggs. I shimmied the eggs a bit to keep them fluffy and then flipped. Ten seconds or so to finish and then plated them. Couple strips of bacon on the side and here is what you get:
Cheesy Bread breakfast
It tastes pretty good though as I said, I would probably not add the extra oil to the pan next time. As this was from the Hut (I don’t like advertising for free) it had plenty of grease already.
I know it isn’t fried chicken, but I promise that post is coming. It is written but I need to make it so I have pics. Sorry kids, my life has been full of work and shiny things of late.
Till next time eat well and let me know if you have any suggestions.
One Guy
Holy shit this sounds delicious. Want.
Thanks. Its super easy and I have been thinking about trying it with the actual pizza. Cutting the hole in the middle, cooking the egg, toasting the last piece.
OR, making a savory “bread pudding” That could be fun too. like a cheese bread quiche or fritatta. That may be interesting too.
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Also good is cutting up said cold pizza and tossing into scrambled eggs. So much less prep work that actually cutting veggies, breakfast meats, and toasting bread.
* I have only actually done this when really hungover so it might actually be really gross on a sober stomach.
That sounds excellent actually.
I was the one who introduced you to that egg and bread concoction and I am glad you have fond memories of the dish. I love how you have improved on the dish!