baked eggs - the tamer version

I think I was a little bit depressed this morning.  Last night before I drifted off to sleep, I was calculating a rough budget for our trip to the states at the end of the year. It came to a 5 digit figure and I felt like dying on the spot. Our trip could easily buy us a new kitchen, a new car, the cost of building a new garage...

Needed a bit of a pick me up, so I dove straight into the meat compartment of the fridge and retrieved the fattiest rashers of bacon I could find.... then commenced cooking! Hooray!  I actually had no recipe at hand and just went by gut feeling - I suck at following recipes. 

Inspired by yesterday's brunch at Circa Espresso.

pre-baking

Ingredients (3 servings):
3 eggs
3 rashers of bacon (slice a bit off each to dice/garnish)
2 tomatoes chopped into 2cm chunks
4-5 small heads of broccoli
a dab of butter/olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
tabasco sauce (optional, for that added bite)

1. Preheat that oven!  I set mine to 230 degrees C and let it preheat for 15 minutes (fan-forced).
2. Lightly fry off your bacon.
3. Chop the broccoli into halves, submerge in tapwater in a cup and microwave for 1 minute on high. Drain and set aside.
4. Chop your tomatoes into biggish cubes. 
5. Oil your ramekins (I didn't and I regret it), assemble the bacon so that it's not lying flat on any surface (so it's standing up and making a squiggly pattern in  your ramekin). 
6. Slot the tomatoes and broccoli in the folds of the bacon.
7. Crack eggs on top. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.
8. Chuck it in the oven for 12 minutes if you want a runny yolk, and 15 minutes for a semi-solid but gooey yolk. 

TIP: Don't add too much salt because the bacon should be salty enough for the egg whites. 

I ran out of block mozzarella cheese, so I couldn't add in cubes of that :( Mushrooms or asparagus spears would have been lovely in this too.

Alternatively, if I had a grill, I'd so make this in a shallow pan. When I move out, my kitchen will have EVERYTHING.

totes baked

yum with toast

It looked better IRL, and the juices at the bottom of the bowl were DELISHUS. So thankful it turned out great. The only thing that bugged me was the mysterious marks that appeared on the sides of the bowls. They so were not there when I put them in the oven :(