Cassie’s Ruminations

Egg Bread

Egg Bread, aka Toad in a Hole, aka Egg in a Nest, aka Egg in a Basket. This simple and tasty breakfast has many names and is popular the world over. After getting home from an overnight sleep study in a lab where I had something like 25 wires hooked up to me, a comforting breakfast was just thing. Hopefully in a couple weeks they’ll be able to tell me if I do indeed have sleep apnea and where to go from there. The recipe is very easy to scale to serve more. I pan fried some bacon to go along with the bread and just used some of the grease instead of butter.

Egg Bread
Serves 2

2 tbsp butter
2 slices bread (I used a whole wheat sandwich loaf)
2 large eggs
salt and pepper

Melt 1 tbsp of butter in a skillet over medium heat. Cut a hole in the middle of each slice of bread using a biscuit cutter or just a knife. Place the bread and cut out pieces in a skillet. Crack an egg into each of the holes in the center of the bread slices. Season with salt and pepper. Cook until the white is mostly set, about 2 minutes. Add the other tablespoon of butter and flip over the egg bread and cut outs to toast on the other side. Cook for another 2 minutes or until the egg is cooked through. Serve hot.