Separately, my mom, older daughter, and I all bought a dozen eggs. I made pancakes this morning, but we still have about 34 eggs left. I figure that I need to be creative if we're going to finish them up before they go badly. What are your favorite egg recipes? Bonus if they are vegetarian and easy to convert to gluten-free. Thanks in advance!
These all sound great! I made tacos with poached eggs for Chickpea's lunch, but I'm going to try at least one of these recipes for dinner. Maybe the carbonara over GF pasta or spaghetti squash.
I didn't realize that we could keep eggs for a month so I feel less rushed now. Still happy to see so many alternatives to poached, scrambled, fried, or in a baked good.
I probably eat a poached egg every day or every other day, but I've never had more than 18 on hand at any one time (except for one Easter when we had an egg-dye, sleepover, and hunt party). It just seems like a lot of egg whenever I opened the fridge. Looks much more manageable now.
French toast
Omelets
Breakfast for supper
Deviled eggs
Baked egg casserole make this and after cooking it wrap in single second size portions they can be pulled out an microwaved for a quick breakfast.
Invite some friends over for brunch.
Seriously, eggs don't go bad (assuming refrigerated with intact shells). For years, no one even knew there was a sell by date on the carton. So you really have no rush. They will easily keep over a month.
French toast, quiche, bread pudding, more pancakes (they freeze great), mayonnaise (this does NOT keep with fresh eggs but is 500% better than the jarred stuff), really indulgent - eggs Benedict (you can make lots of substitutions - asparagus, avocado, roasted peppers, smoked salmon or other fish or shrimp for the Canadian bacon), and you can plop a poached egg (or several) on top of all sorts of things (any sort of hash - I just had a sweet potato, butternut squash and kale hash that was fantastic - my 8 year old loved it too , Thai/Asian noodles, soups (whisk it in for egg drop soup).
My kids love hard boiled eggs for snacking. Egg McMuffins, French toast, omelettes, potato puffs, egg salad sandwiches, devilled eggs and Yorkshire pudding are all favourites here. We also use them in muffins, cookies and cakes.
Crepe brûlée french toast.
Deviled eggs.
Hard boiled eggs.
(Eggs keep longer than a few days though. Not sure why the hurry.)
Egg salad.
Put in tuna salad with Apple dices.
Frittata.
Quiche.
We love eating boiled eggs. It's a good healthy snack or breakfast. Or you could make some cookies :)
I get others saying they'll keep but who wants to store three cartons of eggs in the fridge?!
Besides cooking with them now, you can always separate the yolks and whites and freeze each separately (one container of yolks, one of whites). You can even freeze the yolks separately in an ice cube tray, one yolk per section, like, well, yolk-cubes. (Be SURE to wash it very thoroughly after you pop out the cubes and put them into a ziplock bag back in the freezer.
Why? You can add yolks to lots of things to thicken them, like certain sauces and other dishes! Whites can be thawed and made into egg-white omelettes though the texture may not be the same as fresh.
Quiche! My kids love it...
Frittatas (similar idea, no crust needed so it's an easy gluten free recipe)
Hootenanny or Volcano pancake..... don't know if you can substitute a GF flour or not...
http://www.bunsinmyoven.com/2011/11/27/hootenanny/
http://everythingbutgluten.com/index.php/selected-recipes...
Bonus... the second one says gluten free flour! Go for it!
Uses 6 eggs! Very yummy! I served it with stewed apples the other night... yum!
3 ingredient pancakes. All you need is a banana, egg, and blueberries. A major hit around here
We eat at least two dozen a week. Egg salad for lunch, banana bread, pancakes. Eggs for breakfast.
As a vegetarian, I eat eggs either for breakfast or for lunch.
We eat sooo many eggs.
Here is what I would have on the menu over the next few weeks. I usually get a giant Costco size thing of eggs, so I am sure your eggs will last at least 3 weeks in the refrigerator.
-German Pancake (some people call it Hootenany)
-Crepes (either savory or sweet) you can fill them with sausage, chicken, bacon, cheese, mushrooms, breakfast potatoes, chicken salad, etc- the sky is the limit- or sweet stuff like whipped cream, bananas, strawberries, nutella, jam...
-quiche, crustless quiche, ham and egg cups (see ourbestbites.com for a good ham and egg cup recipe- it is basically like a little quiche baked in a muffin tin)
-hard boiled eggs for snacks or with breakfast
-deviled eggs at your superbowl party
-use em in any baking you do over the next few weeks
Sometimes I scramble some with the turkey sausage crumbles and jalapeños and cilantro and put it in a tortilla. Serve with salsa and shredded cheese.
I keep the crumbles in the freezer so I can do this anytime I am bored with breakfast. So I heat up the pan with a little oil and the diced jalapeños and turkey sausage first, then eggs, then the cilantro last.
Egg noodles for soup. You can make a big batch and store them. You could try using a gluten-free flour.
Egg/potato salad.
French toast.
You could probably use up a bunch if you make breakfast muffins... Put an egg, some cheese, sausage, bacon, ham, green onions, seasonings... whatever you would want in an omelette into a muffin tray and bake it. Then you can pop them into the freezer and re-heat as needed.
Quice
Omelettes
Egg burritos
Make some brownies, cakes & cookies.
They won't go bad soon. You do not have to use all today!
Many people don't even refrigerate their eggs so these should be okay.
Pasta Carbonara
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/classic...
Deviled eggs
Scrambled eggs, with ham, Cheese and green onions
Pickled Eggs in pickle juice
Or Pickled eggs in Beet Juice
Bread pudding! Google Paula Deen's recipe and cut the sugar by half. Delicious!
I love Tortilla Espanola with tomato sauce and arugula!
http://spanishfood.about.com/od/tapas/r/tortilla.htm
Put them in ice cube trays. They can be frozen and kept a year. When ready, just defrost at room temperature.
