Camping recipe: Muffin Tin Eggs

Muffin Tin Eggs

from The Real Family Camping Cookbook 2nd Edition

This is a fun way to make eggs for a bunch of people at the same time, or make eggs for some people in a muffin tin and pancakes for others in the skillet. 

Serves: 6

Ingredients:

6 strips of bacon

6 eggs

muffin tin

Preparation:

1. Cut each strip of bacon in half, making 12 pieces total.

2. Put 2 pieces of bacon into the bottom of each of the 6 muffin tin cups in a cross, making a little bacon "basket."

3. Place the muffin tin on the grill over the campfire and cook the bacon until done to your liking.

4. Crack an egg into each cup on top of the hot, cooked bacon and cook more until the eggs are done.

You can make fried and scrambled at the same time!

Variation:

• On occasion I've been teased that all of my recipes contain bacon! Instead of bacon, you can cook the eggs in butter.

• This dish is especially nice with a few leaves of fresh spinach cooked between the eggs and the bacon.

• A sprinkle of cheese can never hurt, right?

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New camping recipe: Rice and Eggs

Our kids like rice, so we often put on a pot when we're camping, and we never throw out the leftovers. (Or any leftovers, truth be told.) And though I'm sometimes teased about how often I use bacon in my recipes, in my defense I would point out that bacon is a great salesman of new foods to kids. So while this food has a grownup attitude, kids may be drawn to it's bacon-y goodness.

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

4 eggs

4 strips of bacon

½ medium onion, chopped

¼ green pepper, chopped

3 c. leftover cooked rice (white or brown)

1 handful of cilantro, well washed and chopped (wash it at home)

butter or olive oil

salt & pepper and hot sauce

Preparation:

1. Chop the bacon and fry it in a skillet. Remove the bacon and drain it on a paper towel, leaving the bacon fat in the pan.

2. Wipe out all but 2 t. of the bacon fat with a paper towel. Add a little butter or olive oil and sauté the chopped onion and green pepper until soft.

3. Add the rice and bacon and heat through.

4. Move the rice to the sides of the pan and fry the eggs one by one in the center of the pan.

5. As each egg is fried, scoop up a spoonful of rice and put it on the plate, then add the egg on top.

6. Add a sprinkle of cilantro and serve with hot sauce, salt & pepper.

7. Ah, cilantro.

“Same old slippers, same old rice, same old glimpse of paradise.” - William James Lampton

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