Apr 12 2008
Breakfast at Teatime
With a whole chapter of breakfast recipes and a boyfriend who rarely eats breakfast, sometimes you have to bend the rules…
- Croque Monsieur Bake
In my defence I did make this masterly dish at breakfast time; it then sat in the fridge all day, rather than overnight, and we had it as a rather fine Wednesday supper. Apparently, according to the book, if you eat it for supper you are supposed to do so in your dressing gown. Whoops!
I was initially worried that it called for rather a lot of mustard but once spread across six slices of bread it seemed about the right amount. Eating it you did occasionally get the odd Dijon-y mouthful, but certainly wasn’t overwhelming.
This was pretty filling, probably because of the six eggs! Other wise it was just a ham and cheese piece, right? Per person it worked out at two slices of bread, two slices of cheese, a slice of ham, two eggs and a mouthful of milk. Having it sitting in the eggy milky mixture all day made for a lovely squidgy consistency with the ham a nice firm contrast. It made a fantastic noise when I took it out of the oven, spitting and crackling away. I tried to film it but as it was an impromptu decision the lighting was all wrong and the focus out, so I shan’t share it with you!
Probably a bit of a hefty dish for brunch, I’d have said. Maybe if you’d been out living the high life the night before.
