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Skillet Eggs with Parsnips, Sweet Potato and Goat Cheese

Another substantial broiled omelet - for one or two - but you must really really care for the other person as this is something you may wish to eat in it's entirety.
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Keyword: broiled, eggs, skillet, skillet meal
Servings: 2

Ingredients

  • 1 onion Small cooking onion, roughly chopped
  • 2 parsnips 2 small or 1 large, finely chopped
  • 1/2 small sweet potato or garnet yam (finely chopped)
  • 1 t coconut oil Tropical Traditions is highly recommended
  • 2 strips bacon organic uncured (Applegate Farms Sunday Bacon mmmmmm)
  • 2 eggs Hopefully from your favorite local farmer
  • 1 oz goat cheese for this I use the "everyday" goat cheese La Buchette from Isle de France at Costco

Instructions

  • Start by peeling the parnsips - in the photo you will see my absolute favorite vegetable peeler in the whole world - the Kiwi, commonly found at Asian food markets. There's also a shredding version that is a lot of fun for very easily making fancy looking garnishes with vegetables.
  • Make sure that when you chop the parsnip and yam that the pieces are of mostly uniform thickness so that they will cook at approx the same rate - the worst thing is to get a nice bite of omelet but with a hard bit of undercooked parsnip or yam in the middle.
  • Put a teaspoon of coconut oil in your well seasoned cast iron skillet and gently brown the two strips of bacon - flipping with tongs as necessary - you want to render out a good deal of fat - we'll need all of it! When the bacon has browned place it in a bowl or on a paper towel - leave the grease in the pan, its pure gold for this recipe! With your skillet on medium, add in the chopped onion, parsnips, and yam -
  • Let the pieces brown, but also keep them moving as we want them to be cooked evenly - adjust the heat of the stove - you'll soon figure this one out - every stove and pan seems to have a personality all its own. The skillet I use belonged to my Grandmother.
  • Yes, you want them to glisten... that is how they'll get all "GBD" (Golden Brown and Deliciouas occasional muse, Alton Brown would say.
  • Make sure the items in the pan are fully cooked before adding the two beaten eggs on top
  • Gently pour the eggs around the pan, adding back the crumpled bacon, and then dollops of goat cheese to the top.
  • Allow the eggs to gently cook and slightly brown on the bottom - make sure that you have started the oven's broiler heating, as we will need this to cook the top. After a few minutes, check the edges of the eggs and make sure that it is lightly browned - then place the whole cast iron skillet in the oven RIGHT UNDER the broiler:
  • Do not let your attention wander at this point as a broiler is a strange and fickle beast. One moment everything is raw, the next charred to an un-salvageable carbony crisp! When the eggs, bacon and cheese are lightly browned on top, remove the skillet and make a choice.... will you eat it straight out of the pan with a fork?! OR scoop it out gently with a large spatula?
  • ...and don't forget to turn off the broiler... :)