Madonna, this one where Annie was making breakfast foods for Ashley isn't the one you're thinking about, right? It's a good thread, anyway. http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2405445/on-the-go-breakfast-ideas

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this one?

http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/3656001/snow-day-with-the-monkey-princess-frittata-version?n=18

I should make those. Maybe a sauté of leek, onion, mushroom, red pepper diced, spinach or any green...mandolin potato bottom or sweet potato. Cubed pancetta on top with a few cherry toms. (adult version)

For kids some pasta would be good. (mac-n-cheese breakfast) or rice pasta.

I don't have a muffin tin but have been looking at some of the Yorkshire ones that should work.

What is the preferred heat-up from frozen?

Oven or steam oven should work from frozen. Nice to pull that out of the freezer to have with a micro green salad.

Grandsons are coming next month with DD for a visit while their parents tour Napa wineries with their other grandparents the week of spring break. 10 year old loves bacon quiche, and this might be just the ticket for him. Thanks for the recipe, twoyur.

twoyur, that's the one. Thanks!

Madonna, these came out really well, the bacon ones were favorites, but canadian bacon worked nicely too.

sleevendog, AFAIK, they've all been reheated in the microwave, as it's easy for the kids before school. We've made 3 batches now, and Amanda also likes to grab one or two for a quick snack at work. Now we're just waiting for "egg season" again!

Annie

Thanks everyone. I'm taking classes to become an Emergency Medical Responder or beyond. Our classes are every Saturday for seven weeks from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. It makes a long day for all of us in addition to family and animals to take care of. The first class, the instructor brought a big pot of sausage and gravy with home made biscuits. Today the second instructor brought egg casseroles. Everyone scarfed each up and you could tell they hadn't had time to eat before coming to class. Several don't bring a lunch and we're too far away from anyplace to get some lunch. Maybe next Saturday I'll make some of these egg cups and take some bananas and apples. I think they would be absolutely perfect. We do have a full kitchen with a microwave in the station we're taking the classes in.

Annie, my six girls went down to maybe two eggs a day for a couple of weeks, but now they've been laying five to six eggs a day for several weeks. Getting ready to increase my flock with more Cuckoos and Buffs because I have a lot of people wanting to buy eggs from me. Gave a dozen to my priest last week and he asked how old they were and I told him "yesterday and today". His grin really stretched from ear to ear then.

Madonna, I've been getting one or two eggs per day for a couple of weeks. Before that it was an egg every other day, yesterday we got 5 eggs, today I got one. When I get 12 hours of sunlight, I'll start getting a more consistent amount from my 21 girls. I did get 2 on Friday and an elderly neighbor stopped by to visit. He had a mild stroke several weeks ago and was staying with his daughter, now he's back home and recovering well. He very longingly told me how much he missed those "farm eggs", even the cage free ones at the store aren't the same. So I handed him the two eggs I'd gathered that morning and told him that breakfast was my treat, LOL. He got that same grin.

I can tell you that one Australorp laid all winter, an egg every other day like clockwork, she was faithful, even when nothing else was laying eggs. The Buffs are second in production. The Cuckoos lay those nice dark eggs and are pretty consistent, but they don't have the production of the Buffs and the Australorps. The Aracaunas haven't started laying at all yet, not a single green or blue eggs yet, but the seem to be getting all their feathers "fluffed" and finished their molt and regrow of feathers, so I'm waiting. I hung that picture of Colonel Sanders in their coop too...

Good luck on that training, I'll be thinking of you on Saturdays.

Annie

I hung that picture of Colonel Sanders in their coop too...

LOL, Annie. I'll have to suggest that to the guy I buy eggs from. Right now he only has duck eggs.

The visiting grandsons have returned to Texas, and the muffin cup quiches were a big hit with the eldest, who loves bacon and quiche. He ate a dozen of them over the week's visit. They warmed up well in the microwave. I cooked thick cut bacon being sure not to make it crisp. I curled one slice of bacon around inside of the muffin cup, added about a tablespoon of thinly grated Swiss cheese to the center of the cup and topped it with a 3 tablespoons of two eggs beaten with 2 cups milk and salt and pepper. Next time I will use 3 eggs, 3 cups whole milk, and salt and pepper and a dash of nutmeg. I found if I use 2% milk that I have water at the bottom of the cup. Next time I will grease the muffin cups first as I had a messy pan clean up job otherwise. Baked about 20 minutes at 350.

sheila, they are sure handy to have on hand, aren't they? The thick cut bacon would be really good with these. I could see a bacon loving boy eating a dozen in a week easily, LOL.

Annie

Annie, since my last post I got six more Buffs and four Gold Laced Wyandotte. I was going to give a couple of Buffs to the elderly man down the road as soon as they were a little older because I knew he wanted a couple and was starting to build a super nice coop. He came down today and said he decided it would be really hard if his wife went in the hospital again. She broke her neck last year, suffers from diabetes and has had cancer for many years. He informed me that he's going to finish the coop, bigger than the two I have, bring it to me and help put up all the fencing. I know he really wanted a couple of chickens so I told him he could consider part of mine are his and he could come and get eggs whenever he wanted some. I've been watching for more Cuckoo chicks, but they haven't come in. Maybe I should try some Australorps. They do have them in.

Madonna, it sounds like you have a very nice neighbor, and "sharing" a flock will be a bonus for both of you, I think. My Mother claims my ladies as her own "pretty little chickens", without the need to ever take care of them, LOL.

Here it's chick days too, and of course, I don't really need any more, which doesn't stop me from looking. Now we have both a Tractor Supply and a Family Farm and Home, in addition to the Co-op, there are little chickens all over town. I haven't seen a single Cuckoo, though. Here it's Ameracaunas, Orpingtons, Brahmas, Wyandotts, Rhode Island Reds and White Leghorns, with a few sex links and Isa Browns tossed in. Also ducks in various colors and turkeys. I do need to get some meat chickens, but first I have to get the chicken coop cleaned out so they'll have a warm place to be, so maybe I'll just put a couple of turkeys in there with them. Turkeys are dumb enough that they forget to eat and starve to death, but the chicks will "remind" them, so maybe I'd actually be able to keep the darned things alive long enough to eat them!

Annie

Annie, the nice thing about using thick bacon is that they become finger food. It seemed impossible to use a fork easily. Thank you for the recipe. He loved it, and these are fussy eaters. Big help to DD on a school morning.

Sheila, that's what I liked about the Canadian Bacon too, I could fit it into a muffin cup and it acted kind of like crust, so they could be easily picked up and eaten. The Princess liked some with just sausage and cheese, nothing on the outside, because she cuts them in half so she has two rounds and puts them on a toasted bagel. Her brother also likes them in one of those flour tortilla boats, easy to hold on to.

It IS helpful to have something fast and portable on school days mornings, I remember that from when my girls were in school!

Annie