Friday, March 15, 2013

Not on in a house or with a Mouse

Baked Eggs with Tomato Sauce 

Ingredients:

4 T melted butter
3/4 cup diced tomatoes with garlic, basil, and oregano
4 eggs
4 slices of Garlic Ciabatta Bread (or baguette)
2 T cream
4 -6 T Grated Parmesan  Cheese
1/4 t salt
Fresh cracked black pepper
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Melt butter,  and pour one tablespoon into the bottom of each gratin dish.  Place two slices of the Ciabatta in each dish.  Spoon the diced tomato mixture onto  the the slices of Ciabatta.
Crack one egg at a time and gently nest on top of the diced tomatoes , two per dish.   Drizzle one tablespoon cream
and the remaining butter over the eggs .  Sprinkle salt and pepper over everything.
Place gratin dishes on baking sheet and bake for 22 minutes, sprinkle with parmesan and and switch to 350 convection and bake an additional 3-4 minutes.

On a cold, snowy day this dish was a rich, hearty, fully flavored and utterly perfect.The eggs are creamy and the bread absorbs the liquid's flavors.  I would also recommend this dish to anyone with a picky eater in the house, Dr. Seuss would be proud of these eggs(granted they are not green). It is also a great way to use up bread that has gone a little stale

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