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I make! Ham and egg pie edition

I’ve been playing in the kitchen a lot more.  Have you noticed?

I like pies a lot.  I really like pie for breakfast.  Pie and coffee go really well together.  Normally, this means some kind of fruit pie, but how about a savory pie for breakfast?  It still goes really well with coffee.

Awhile back, I came across this recipe for a ham and egg pie.  A brief gander at the ingredient list told me that this pie could taste really good.  A brief viewing of the demonstration further solidified that belief.  So I decided to try it out for myself over the weekend.  I had a friend coming over for brunchfast and I already had pot pie tins and mini sheets of puff pastry on hand.

And here was my result.

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Notes:

  • So with the ingredient list, I could already tell that this recipe had the potential to be delicious.  And it is.  More than what I had imagined.  It was REALLY good.
  • Like I said, I modified the recipe to make individual servings instead of a whole pie.  I used a slice of ham on the bottom, eyeballed the amount of green onions, cheese, and salt and pepper, cracked an egg on top, and then layered another slice of ham on top.  I made four of them and it still takes 30min in a 400degF oven.
  • I made some with and without the red pepper flakes.  I think I actually prefer it without the red pepper flakes and have Tabasco on the side (either the original or chipotle).
  • I think some sharp cheddar in place of the parm would also taste really good.
  • While the individual serving sizes were a lot of fun and nice to serve up, it would probably be more efficient to make a normal pie for larger groups.
  • I tried the pie both hot out of the oven and after it had cooled to room temperature.  I think it tastes best hot out of the oven.

I make: Melon fish pops edition

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Um…he may have a tumor growing out of his chin. If octopusesesseses had chins.

Or in this case, an octopus pop.

I needed to make some fish pops the other day and I also needed to get rid of all the fruit that was in my freezer.  My mother thought it was a good idea to buy all this fruit while she was here, way too much for only two people to eat.  At least instead of just letting all the fruit rot and then throwing it out, she decided to cut it up and freeze it.  I don’t like wasting things.

It’s all well and good to have a lot of frozen fruit on hand, but…then you have a lot of frozen fruit on hand.  Way too much fruit.  In fact, it’s about the same amount of fruit you had earlier when it was all fresh.  And it takes up space in your freezer.

What do?  Make fish pops.  (Or smoothies.  I do that a lot too.)

I found a bag of diced hami melons and a bag of diced cantaloupe in the freezer.  I blended about a cup of melon (separately) with about three tablespoons of plain yogurt and a couple of teaspoons of sugar.  Then poured the molds about half full of the hami melon mixture and froze it for about 30 min.  Then I filled the rest of the molds with the cantaloupe mixture to get a layered pop.

The thing with the fish pop molds is that they’re all different sizes and so the smaller molds and molds that didn’t have as much liquid had frozen to a semi-solid state after about 30 min, but the larger or fuller ones were still pretty liquidy.  So, the octo-pop you see is layered.  But I do have this clown fish that isn’t.  Actually, I think I kind of like the clown fish better.

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It isn’t a very good pic. Sorry.