-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD>       Title: Toad in the Hole (Egg)
 DD>  Categories: Five, Bread, Egg
 DD>       Yield: 1 Serving

 RH>  This was known as Egg in the Eye by our girls. Once, when they were
 RH>  small, one of them couldn't think of the proper name so she requested
 RH>  "Egg in the Face". After we stopped laughing, I fixed one for her.

 DD>       1 sl Bread
 DD>       1 ts Butter
 DD>       1 lg Egg
 DD>            Salt & pepper

 DD>   Cut a 3" hole in the middle of the bread and discard. In a
 DD>   small skillet, melt the butter; place the bread in the
 DD>   skillet.

 RH> Don't discard the (eye) hole piece. Put it in the fry pan to toast
 RH> along side of the egg cooking in the slice of bread.

Many recipes tell me to discard something that can be re-purposed or
added back in later in that recipe. Stuffed peppers, for instance. When
I cut the top w/stem off I discard the woody stem - but I trim the rest
of the actual pepper remaining and chop it fine to add it back into the
mixture that becomes the stuffing. Mushrooms the same. 

And the bits and bobs trimmed from meat have myriad other uses and are
well worth keeping, bones too if I'm going to be making stock.  Bv)= 

 RH> Sometimes when I turn it, I'll add a slice of cheese on top of the egg,
 RH> then a slice of ham over that. When the egg has cooked, I'll flip it
 RH> again and let the ham sizzle for a minute or two, melting the cheese a
 RH> bit. Good high protein meal for just a bit of work.

Sorta like a home-grown Egg McMuffin usig bread instead of muffin.  Bv)=

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Dirty Dave's Stuffed Peppers
 Categories: Beef, Vegetables, Rice, Sauces
      Yield: 6 Servings
 
      6 lg Bell peppers; cored
      1 lb Ground beef
      1 c  Rice; cooked
           +=OR=+
      1 c  Instant rice
     26 oz Jar marinara sauce
      2 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Garlic granules
      1 md Onion; diced small
      1 ts Dried leaf oregano
 
  Cut a slice in stem end of peppers. Remove seeds and
  wash thoroughly. Put the peppers in the microwave and
  nuke for one minute. Wait a minute, then nuke for a
  second minute.
  
  Remove peppers.
  
  Dice the onions. An "as seen on TV" onion chopper with
  the small die plate works very well here. Dice the
  tops that you removed from the peppers at the same
  time.
  
  Pull on your rubber gloves and dump everything except
  the peppers and marinara sauce into a mixing bowl.
  knead and squeeze and mix like you are making mud pies
  until all ingredients are well distributed.
  
  Stuff each pepper and stand upright in crock pot.
  
  Pour marinara sauce over peppers. Cover and cook for
  3 hours (approx) on high. Or 5 hours on low. Test a
  pepper w/fork for doneness.
  
  Serve with sauce over the pepper. Side with au gratin
  or mashed potatoes and green beans or corn. If serving
  mash - the sauce makes an excellent gravy.
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
 
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