Smoked salmon, goat cheese, and chive eggs

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Eggs, salmon, chives, milk, and goat cheese are all you need for an easy and healthy dinner, lunch, breakfast or brunch. #meandthemoose ##eggrecipes #eggs #salmon #easybrunch #quickdinnerrecipes

Eggs, salmon, chives, milk, and goat cheese are all you need for an easy and healthy dinner, lunch, breakfast or brunch. #meandthemoose ##eggrecipes #eggs #salmon #easybrunch #quickdinnerrecipes

Five ingredients and fifteen minutes are all you need for this easy and flavorful dinner, a fancy breakfast, or a fun brunch.

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Eggs, salmon, chives, milk, and goat cheese are all you need for an easy and healthy dinner, lunch, breakfast or brunch. #meandthemoose ##eggrecipes #eggs #salmon #easybrunch #quickdinnerrecipes

Eggs, salmon, chives, milk, and goat cheese are all you need for an easy and healthy dinner, lunch, breakfast or brunch. #meandthemoose ##eggrecipes #eggs #salmon #easybrunch #quickdinnerrecipes

So, this dish started its life as an omelette, but if you’re anything like me, no matter how hot you get your pan and how much oil you use, certain days omelette’s just hang on tight. And since we’ve pretty much sworn off nonstick pans, scrambled eggs are our destiny.

Anyway, I first made these eggs for Father's Day 2015 and they’ve been in the rotation ever since. They’re delicious and SO FAST. If you want dinner on the table in under 20 minutes, make these. If you want a “special” breakfast that doesn’t take ages, make this. You get it!

Eggs, salmon, chives, milk, and goat cheese are all you need for an easy and healthy dinner, lunch, breakfast or brunch. #meandthemoose ##eggrecipes #eggs #salmon #easybrunch #quickdinnerrecipes

Eggs, salmon, chives, milk, and goat cheese are all you need for an easy and healthy dinner, lunch, breakfast or brunch. #meandthemoose ##eggrecipes #eggs #salmon #easybrunch #quickdinnerrecipes

Eggs, salmon, chives, milk, and goat cheese are all you need for an easy and healthy dinner, lunch, breakfast or brunch. #meandthemoose ##eggrecipes #eggs #salmon #easybrunch #quickdinnerrecipes

Eggs, salmon, chives, milk, and goat cheese are all you need for an easy and healthy dinner, lunch, breakfast or brunch. #meandthemoose ##eggrecipes #eggs #salmon #easybrunch #quickdinnerrecipes

These eggs are so basic, but the salmon and chives and cheese make them creamy and salty and herby.

 A couple of notes:

  • I don’t salt the eggs because the salmon is so salty that I don’t often need more.

  • Don’t overcook these babies. These eggs are best when they’ve just barely stopped jiggling.

  • I DO cook the salmon a little bit because, strangely, I don’t love the texture of smoked salmon. I love raw salmon and cooked salmon, but that in-between phase isn’t my favorite. Just a little bit of heat makes the texture of the thinly sliced fish a little closer to cooked salmon, so it’s more to my taste. If you like smoked salmon, leave it out during the cooking and then add it on top of the cooked eggs to maintain the original texture.

Eggs, salmon, chives, milk, and goat cheese are all you need for an easy and healthy dinner, lunch, breakfast or brunch. #meandthemoose ##eggrecipes #eggs #salmon #easybrunch #quickdinnerrecipes

Eggs, salmon, chives, milk, and goat cheese are all you need for an easy and healthy dinner, lunch, breakfast or brunch. #meandthemoose ##eggrecipes #eggs #salmon #easybrunch #quickdinnerrecipes

Smoked salmon, goat cheese, and chive eggs

Time: 15 minutes, all active
Yield: Enough for two adults as a main course, 4 people as a side dish

1 Tbsp olive oil, butter, or fat of choice
6 eggs
3-4 Tbsp milk (whole or 2% both work)
2-3 oz goat cheese
2 Tbsp chopped chives
5 oz wild smoked salmon (or, one small package), torn into smaller pieces or roughly chopped.

Heat the butter or oil over a medium flame.

Crack the eggs into a medium bowl and vigorously whisk with a fork until the whites and yolks are well combined.

Add the milk, goat cheese, and chives and whisk again until the ingredients are reasonably incorporated (the goat cheese will still be in clumps).

When the pan is hot, pour in the egg mixture and add the salmon. Lower the flame to medium low or low.

Move the eggs around with a rubber spatula scraping the cooked layer from the bottom and letting the raw eggs run into the open spots. Repeat until the eggs are soft, but cooked, about 3-4 minutes.

Apples and honey stuffed french toast

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Apples and honey french toast | Me & the Moose. This french toast combines fall flavors of apples and honey for a delicious breakfast or dinner. #meandthemoose #fall #frenchtoast #roshhashanah #apples #honey #breakfast

Even if you aren’t celebrating Rosh Hashanah, apples and honey are a superb combo and mixed with cream cheese and stuffed into buttery challah French toast? **Chef’s kiss**

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Apples and honey french toast | Me & the Moose. This french toast combines fall flavors of apples and honey for a delicious breakfast or dinner. #meandthemoose #fall #frenchtoast #roshhashanah #apples #honey #breakfast

You could absolutely eat this French toast for a special holiday breakfast, but I love a breakfast-for-dinner situation and holidays with breakfast-for-dinner foods are especially fun, no? Also, might I add, this fancy-seeming French toast is extremely easy to whip up for a Yom Kippur break fast in a few days.

Apples and honey french toast | Me & the Moose. This french toast combines fall flavors of apples and honey for a delicious breakfast or dinner. #meandthemoose #fall #frenchtoast #roshhashanah #apples #honey #breakfast

Apples and honey stuffed french toast

Time: About 20 minutes
Yield: 3-4 extra large slices

Adapted from this stuffed french toast recipe
Leftover challah (Cut into 3-4 very thick slices)
4 eggs
½ cup milk
½ tsp cinnamon (heaping)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 Tbsp butter (for the pan)

Stuffing
3-4 oz cream cheese
2 Tbsp unsweetened apple sauce
2-3 tsp honey
1 small apple, chopped into very small pieces (about 1/3 of a cup)
Large pinch of salt

To make the stuffing, combine the softened cream cheese, apple sauce, honey, and salt. Put the cream cheese mixture into a plastic bag or piping bag and put in the fridge until needed.

Starting at the top crust, make a cut down the middle of each thick bread piece but stop an inch from each side and the bottom to create a pocket in each slice. Cut enough so that you can get some filling into the pocket, but leave enough room around the edges that the bread won't break and spill the filling.

In a frying pan, melt 1 Tbsp of butter on low heat.

In a separate container, whisk together the eggs, milk, cinnamon, and vanilla.

Take out your bag of cream cheese mixture and cut one bottom corner to make a piping bag. Open each slice of bread and fill with about 2-3 Tbsp of cream cheese mixture. Squish the bread and filling together a bit.

Working with one slice at a time, dunk both sides in the egg mixture and let the bread soak in the liquid. When the pan is hot, cook the bread slices until golden brown. Flip and repeat until golden brown on both sides.

Serve immediately with a drizzle of honey on top.

A couple of recipe notes:

  • If you need/want to sub whipped cream cheese for regular cream cheese, omit the apple sauce in the filling and add a little bit of extra honey. Whipped cream cheese is much thinner and wetter, so you don’t need the apple sauce to thin out the mixture.

  • Once you’ve filled your bread, give it a little squeeze to ensure that the mixture stays inside.

  • Feel free to increase the egg mixture. Once you’ve dipped all of your bread slices, the leftover eggs can be cooked like regular scrambled eggs for a sweet, cinnamon-y egg-y treat.