Grits......
How do I love thee, let me count the ways.
I love thee with butter
I love thee with eggs
I love thee with bacon
I love thee with ham
I love thee with sausage
But please not with the yams!
Yams (sweet potatoes) for breakfast???? That is one of the recommended breakfast Paleo foods. Sorry, folks.....did you read my day 1 posting? I was born and bred in the South! Sweet taters are not a breakfast food! For we Southerners, Paleo breakfasts are a struggle and I am asked quite often about our breakfast. Eggs and meat are the only common breakfast food of Southern food and Paleo food.
You can have eggs any way you want them.....boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, eggs made in an omelet (no cheese), poached eggs (yeah, right!), or fried eggs. Yep, fried eggs are allowed. They can be fried in olive oil, coconut oil, or your bacon drippings. DID I say bacon? I did! Remember.....meats are common food...
So you can have eggs and bacon, eggs and sausage, eggs and ham, eggs and chicken, eggs and veggies......but it's still an egg.
What I really want is GRITS and eggs! But that just doesn't happen in this house anymore. We used to make a breakfast casserole - eggs, grits, sausage, and cheese - so yummy. But no more. It was a sad day when I tossed by bag of grits in the trash! I almost cried (I did say almost)! Not only was the casserole yummy but the best part was I could make it and we would eat on it for days. Hence, I didn't have to cook at 6 am every morning!
So, I go through all the Paleo recipes and here's what I found - Swirly Crustless Quiche - made in either muffin pan or 9" x 13" pan! Oh joy! I won't have to cook for a few mornings! Or so I thought.
Here's the story. I decided to cook this yesterday to have for today and Wednesday and Thursday morning. (makes 6 servings, 1 per day for each of us). It was so easy to make and bake. But here's what I learned. If you use a muffin pan, use cup liners. Oiling pan is NOT enough! Your pan will never be the same!
If you're putting them on a cooling rack.......well.....
Here's that story... I put extra muffins on the cooling rack to cool while I ate my muffin. My muffin was delicious! But the others were still too warm to put in a plastic bag. So I left them to cool more while I did some house cleaning. I went to put the muffins in the bag and...wait....there are only 3 muffins! I know I only ate one....didn't I? Thought process....yes, I did. ..it did make 6, didn't it? Looked in the sink at pan soaking....yes, 6 were made....I'm not completely crazy! Then it hit me.....Abby! Abby is our 70 pound standard poodle. During her last pregnancy she started taking items from the counter. Never sweets, just 'bread' type items. Leaving cookies cooling - not a big deal. Muffins....oh yeah, she likes 'em..... no proof....no crumbs....nothing.....but I KNOW!
We love feeding our dogs the 'raw food diet'.....but Paleo? She obviously loves these muffins as I was stupid enough to leave my muffin on counter this morning while I was making my coffee and when I turned around.....can I say disappearing act? But this time there were crumbs in her curls...GUILTY as charged! I had one left and I kept my eyes on it! So, what should have been breakfast through Thursday barely made it through today. However, I learned some important things to share (I'll also share the recipe).
1. Use a muffin pan, use liners!
2. Abby is now on Paleo eating plan....ha!
3. Swirly Crustless Quiche muffins are just as good as a leftover as they were freshly baked.
4. Cool them out of reach of Abby!
Here's the recipe.
Swirly Crustless Quiche
1 large zucchini, shredded or grated
2 large carrots, shredded or grated
12 eggs, beaten
sea salt and black pepper
your choice of other seasonings (rosemary, sage, thyme, etc.)
I recommend adding either 1/2 pound ground sausage (cooked and drained) or cooked bacon (drained and crumbled). It really needs this extra flavor even though printed recipe didn't list it.
Other suggestions - swap seasoning to lemongrass, lemon peel and orange peel
add crushed red pepper flakes for a little zing
add onions and/or jalepenos
swap veggies (broccoli, sweet potatoes)
Bake at 375 for approx 45 min or until lightly browned.
Now......back to the kitchen.....what I shall I try today?
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