You know how you see a recipe, and you think, “I am totally making that soon!” That’s how I felt about Renee’s baked eggs with a spicy habenero sauce. I’ve known that dish to be called eggs in purgatory, but either way, its eggs that are baked in a spicy tomato sauce. You can dip toasted bread in the sauce along with the eggs. Yum! My idea was to make it 3/4 of the way at home, and finish it off at work. Um, I may have also thought to add cheese to the top.
But when I quickly took it out of my toaster oven at home, I thought “this looks a little too done” but I didn’t have time to poke a fork in it to test. I know sometimes when I make breakfast pizza the eggs look well done, but they are perfect. Well half way to work I thought “what if this sucks ass?” So I did a quick pit stop at Starbuck’s for a protein box. (Thanks Heather – still have $9 left on the gift card!).
So I get to work, take out my small casserole dish, and um, yeah – the eggs were totally rubber!
So, note to self, next time pay attention to how long you cook this dish – I’ll try it again though Renee! So a protein box to the rescue, with one baby vanilla scone.
Two of the other secretaries were out unexpectedly yesterday, so it was just me, so I wasn’t able to leave for lunch. I ended up having the last of my Mexican pizza for lunch. Notice I ditched the Styrofoam plates for a pretty plate for both breakfast and lunch!
So I am proud that we’ve been able to eat out of our house this week without going to the grocery store. Fruit and veggies have been lacking, but I plan to stock up this weekend. I defrosted a turkey breast thinking I was going to grill it, but the weather was supposed to get bad, so I decided to do it in the oven. The recipe I found online said to bake it at 400 for 30-35 minutes for a 2 1/2 pound turkey. Huh, I guess I thought it would take longer! So as soon as I got home, I heated the oven to 400, went to talk to Tony while the oven heated up, and then came back, patted the turkey dry, rubbed with softened butter and added some Italian seasoning to the top. I baked it on a rack above a rimmed cookie sheet. Well, 35 minutes later, it was nowhere NEAR being done. Try like an hour and fifteen minutes. Once the turkey hit 140 degrees I took it out and let it rest 15 minutes before slicing. By now it was nearly 7:30, and I was hungry!
Sifting through Pinterest like I do like its my job, I saw a recipe for Kentucky Dip. Huh. I never heard of that before. It was in Saveur magazine and they described the sauce as used on mutton barbecue. Who the fuck eats mutton?!
But the sauce was right up my alley – tangy, sour, smoky. This literally came together in a few minutes. I will tell you though, if you taste this when it is still warm, the Worcestershire sauce will smack you in the face. Let it cool to get the complex flavors that are going on here. I imagine this would be awesome on a pulled pork sandwich.
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The turkey was perfectly cooked if I do say so myself. Tender, juicy – yum! Dinner wasn’t the most attractive, I will admit, but this Kentucky Dip is amazeballs.
We sleep with both a humidifier and a small heater in our bedroom in the fall and winter. We need the noise because there is absolutely no noise in our neighborhood, no street lights or sidewalks, so it’s REALLY dark at night. The big storms went south of us, and we were just supposed to get rain. Well I woke up to sheer blackness and total silence. Yup, the power went out. I went to use my cell phone to call ComEd to report the power outage, but there wasn’t a battery left. I started to sleep in the back room with the window open thinking the noise of the rain would lull me back to sleep. But then Tony woke up, saw it was dark and quiet, I wasn’t next to him and bed and was wondering what the hell was going on!
I ended up using his cell phone to call – the outage effected a mere 299 people, and our house was one of them. This was four in the morning and they suspected the power would return by 5:45. Well, we went back to sleep. We were awake now, so talked for a while. I was finally able to go back to bed, but I didn’t have an alarm set, so I didn’t sleep too soundly after that. I ended up waking up at 7:15 this morning. Thank goodness it’s Friday and I can sleep in tomorrow!
So any of my southern readers – have you ever heard of Kentucky Dip? What else do you use it on??
Off to shower and figure out what to put together for my food today – should be interesting! Make it a great day!
I know lots of Kentuckians (Kentuckans? Kentuckers?) who eat mutton haha. Definitely not my cup of tea though.
And here I was thinking you could cook? giggle
A half an hour for a 2 1/2 turkey breast? Have you NOT made a Thanksgiving turkey before woman? Damn, even Steven knows it’s 20 minutes per pound, at least.
Although, I will say – looks delicious. As everythng you cook does.
Now what is your next pizza? Thanksgiving? Because I don’t want to replicate. [and btw – that is what we are making today, so no stealies.]
I know, I don’t know what I was thinking when I read how long to cook the turkey – duh! And I won’t steal that one – my caraway dough is rising as I type this 😀 Hugs!
If you like baked eggs in tomato sauce, you must try Shakshukah! It’s amazing dish! It traditionally has onions but you can leave those out and put in something like eggplant which is a common version:) I made this recipe and it was delish http://www.kitchenparade.com/2012/09/shakshuka-recipe.html
That sauce looks amazing! I’ll be trying this when I can have brown sugar again! 🙂
I have never heard of Kentucky dip until now – and I’m very glad I had! It looks delicious!!!!
Happy Friday Biz!
I’m in Mississippi so Kentucky seems northern to me and I have never heard of Kentucky Dip either. But it does sound and look good. Hmmm, might have to give that one a whirl one day. Cold front slammed through here about 11-midnight last night – a real fall-ish cool weekend on tap and I am loving it!! Just have to take care of baby Chex all weekend – he is sooooo sore from his surgery yesterday. Look forward to seeing what you whip up this weekend, Biz!
I love the way you presented the protein box. That turkey looks so good. I never think to make just a breast, great idea! Hope you have a great weekend and can get some extra rest. I’m a bit sleep myself today as the baby decided 4:45 was a good time to wake up today! 😛
I guess we are too far South to have heard of Kentucky dip. I have always considered Kentucky a Northern state but what can I say, I am directionally challenged. The dip sounds great and it would go well with so many things. Hope you catch up on your sleep this weekend. I really like your new lunch and breakfast plates. I just love colors.
Hey Biz
You’ve gotten some great mileage out of that card..yay! I took the kids shopping yesterday and flipped when I saw fuzzy fleece footed PJ’s for the babe. OMG! I asked my oldest daughter to cover my eyes but then I ducked behind her and squealed. I ended up with 11! But I forced and I mean forced myself to put 2 back. It gets real cold here ..below zero in the desert.
We actually DO have mutton products here in the freezer section. What is mutton? Is it sheep or goat? I bought frozen mutton hamburgers once by chance and made them…did not like the smell or taste.
I also bought a french fry cutting thingamajig and a silicone pastry brush. Im always looking to try new recipes thanks to YOU!
xox
Rubber eggs don’t sound great, but that dip sounds really good!
The turkey + sauce looks awesome.
The protein box reminds me of a Ploughman’s Lunch. There is a Flickr group with photos, and a Pintrest search also brings up some pretty pictures.
that sauce looks great! I bet the hubby will love it on his rib eye! Have a lovely weekend Biz.
Kentucky dip sound great – I love savory, tangy sauces. Those eggs are funny – they remind me of those ‘fake foods’ that dieticians always have to show portion sizes. 🙂
Enjoy the weekend – looks like it’s going to be a blustery one. I’m looking forward to making some ‘stuffed cabbage stewp’ – a favorite Rachael Ray recipe and I’m cooking a turkey breast tomorrow! Great minds think alike 🙂