About two weeks ago, my friend Magpie posted a recipe for “Eggs in Hiding,” which she had come across while nostalgically flipping through old cookbooks.
EGGS IN HIDING
1 T. butter
1 can condensed tomato soup
½ pound American cheese, diced
6 hard-cooked eggs
1 cup cereal flakes, crushedHeat butter and soup in top of double boiler. Add cheese and cook until melted, stirring constantly. Arrange halves of hard-cooked eggs (cut lengthwise) in buttered baking dish. Pour cheese mixture over eggs. Sprinkle with cereal flakes. Brown under broiler. Serves 6.
I know. Awesome right?
Mag challenged folks to make it. A few jumped to the challenge in an instant. Me, well, fast is relative during Jazz Fest season but I managed to think ahead and make preparations over the weekend. Tonight’s experiment almost failed between the kids stealing cheese while I’m trying to peel eggs, Kate’s diaper explosion and necessary immediate shower, Will coming in covered in mud, and Paul coming in covered in mud AND insulation… all while I’m suppose to be stirring continuously and/or watching a broiler. But, I pulled it off!
I even took pictures. (These were taken with one of the point-and-shoot cameras from the Photovoice project — I’m trying to get more familiar with them and the more I use it, the more fantastic a camera I think this is for the price. But I digress.)
The recipe calls for American, but I used a domestic Cheddar (sounds fancy, huh?)Â Also, I used two cans of tomato soup.
I didn’t want leftovers, so I only used 4 eggs.
Here’s the soup and cereal on top. Will ate the box of corn flakes before I had a chance to make it, so we actually had to go and buy a second box for the recipe.
It’s under the broiler now. Considering all the running around I did while it was cooking in there, I was surprised it didn’t burn. Also, the eggs were made Saturday and had been in the fridge since then — but everything was warm through when it came out of the oven.
The finished product! It had started to brown a tiny bit in the top center.
FINAL REPORT: They loved it!
No, really, they did. And this is really saying something, as my kids make a point to try to starve themselves at dinner time. But you don’t have to take my word for it…
Eggs in Hiding from Cold Spaghetti on Vimeo.
alejna | 04-May-09 at 8:58 pm | Permalink
Yay, eggs in hiding! (And fully documented!)
de | 05-May-09 at 3:48 am | Permalink
Your sauce looks good – must be the addition of the second can of tomato soup. I had pictures of the whole process, but deleted them because it looked terrible and I thought no one would believe me when I said it truly was good.
And the kids? So cute!
lisa paul | 05-May-09 at 9:17 am | Permalink
Okay, if it gets kids to eat things like tomatoes and eggs, great. But this recipe brought back terrible memories of my mother’s dreadful cooking. She swore by the Peg Bracken “I Hate to Cook Book” which was all about opening cans and dumping things together. Yick.
magpie | 05-May-09 at 6:59 pm | Permalink
You’re great. I love that you all loved it – did you use undiluted condensed tomato soup?
Send me your address, so I can send you your prize!
jenny | 06-May-09 at 6:02 am | Permalink
that looks YUMMY. reminds me of the “pots of gold” my mom used to make – tomato soup with cheese-filled dumplings. delish.