Egg in a Nest
TIME/SERVINGS
Total: 10 mins
Active: 5 mins
Makes: 2
By Aida Mollenkamp
INGREDIENTS
- 2 (1-inch-thick) slices of bread
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 2 large eggs
INSTRUCTIONS
- Cut or tear a 1 1/2-inch hole out of each slice of bread.
- Heat a medium frying pan over medium heat, and melt the butter until it foams. Add the bread slices.
- Crack an egg into each bread hole, season with salt and freshly ground black pepper, and cook until the egg sets up, about 3 minutes. Flip and repeat.
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Toad in the hole is an English dish where sausages are cooked in a savoury batter, it is nothing like egg in a nest.
we called these "frogs in a hole" and have heard "toad in the hole" as well referring to the same thing.
Someone needed a recipe for this?
You forgot the BEST part....frying the little piece of bread when you cut out the hole!!....We also call it 'toad in the hole'!
Thanks. Now I just need to know what a chippy sandwich is. Anyone grow up with that?
The One-Eyed Connelly from my yutes! Arrrrr. Hey weremonkey, I remember chippy sandwiches as potato chips on whole grain bread, usually skooshed together with some sort of rubbery deli meat and cemented with nuclear yellow French's mutard. Could it be what you were thinking of?
A chippy sandwich is pretty much what it sounds like. Although usually called chipbutty in UK. Hot pototo chips,not crisps in bread, and with whatever else you might fancy added in.
Thank you for this wonderfully simple recipe. One can easily dress this up with some grated cheese on top and some freshly chopped basil or oregano or cilantro or whatever your in the mood for! I can't wait till Saturday when I can cook this up for breakfast.
We called these "Bull's Eye" growing up - ditto the thought on the little piece of bread that comes out of the middle. Add a nice cold glass of chocolate milk and this is the ultimate comfort food breakfast for me.
Oooh, I miss this. My dad called it a "bird's nest." As snarky teens, we called it "egg in the hole in the bread," but loved the novelty none the less. It was always a good Sunday morning when there was EITHITB on the breakfast table.
we called it "toad in the hole" and the crispy bread bit "taxes" also used garlic salt instead of plain salt. yumm
I've always fried both sides of the bread, then added the egg and cooked sunny side up.
My 11 y/o loves this. i remember the girlfriend who taught me this in college with great affection!
I bet it would be great if you rubbed the bread with a cut clove of raw garlic, too. At Campanile (LA restaurant) they make this for brunch with olive bread. Yum!
Always called a "birds nest" where I came from in New York State. It was one of the second things children learned to cook. The first was a bird's nest without the egg - take a piece of bread (don't rip out the center), butter it liberally on both sides, fry it - and call it "army toast." I haven't thought about a bird's nest in a long time - think I will have one tomorrow morning. Yumm.
Also known as 'Bullseye'. What I like to do is use a big slice of San Fransciso Brand Sourdough for the bread...Both sides well coated with soft butter or margarine and sprinkled with some grated parmesean cheese. The sourdough and parmesean really kick up the flavor of this old favorite. As a side note. For those who are familiar with the movie Moonstruck...At the end of the movie Olympia Dukakus's charcter is making a Birds Eye/Bullseye breakfast. There's a shot of the pan and it looks like some long slices of canned Italian roasted red peppers have been added to the pan. Or it might have even been tomatoes. Anybody else notice that? Wonder if it's an Italian thing???
Also known as 'Bullseye'. What I like to do is use a big slice of San Fransciso Brand Sourdough for the bread...Both sides well coated with soft butter or margarine and sprinkled with some grated parmesean cheese and toasted to a golden brown crunchy consistency. The sourdough and parmesean really kick up the flavor of this old favorite. As a side note. For those who are familiar with the movie Moonstruck...At the end of the movie Olympia Dukakus's charcter is making a Birds Eye/Bullseye breakfast. There's a shot of the pan and it looks like some long slices of canned Italian roasted red peppers have been added to the pan. Or it might have even been tomatoes. Anybody else notice that? Wonder if it's an Italian thing???
I've always known it as "Egg-In-Toast"... Whatever you call it, it is delicious and easy to make. Some pictures of our version here:
http://menuinprogress.com/2008/05/egg...
I call this "Egg in a Frame" and have been making it since I was a kid. It's just so good! I taught a friend how to make it the other day, and she loved it.