Showing posts with label patty pan quiche. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patty pan quiche. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Patty Pan Quiche

After wondering what we were going to do with 4 pounds of Patty Pan squash from our CSA last week a friend with her own CSA (and her own plethora of Patty Pan) mentioned seeing a recipe for hollowing out the squash and cooking an egg inside for breakfast.

I found this recipe and tweaked it to my own preferences.  I also found that I needed to bake the squash longer for it to be soft enough, though I may have not hollowed it out enough in the beginning.



Luckily I had an extra squash because in the hollowing out process I got a little over ambitious with the first one and put a hole in the bottom.  I was more gentle with the next two.


Since all breakfast is better with bacon I fried up a few pieces to crumble inside and then sauteed the onions in the bacon fat.



After stuffing the squash with the bacon and onion mixture I topped them with eggs.  I scrambled my egg and left LJ's whole for a comparison.


You can see I overfilled each squash so the egg came out over the top as it cooked




If I were to do this again, I would also add a little cheese with the bacon and onions and scramble all the eggs.  It would also be helpful to have a grapefruit spoon to take out the sides of the squash.  Overall it was pretty good and a nice way to get some vegetables in for breakfast.