Remaining post-Christmas Leftovers

So breakfast and lunch will finish up the leftovers from Christmas. The pictures show breakfast, in process and done. The brown bits you can barely see at the bottom of the pie plate in the first photo are the leftover solids from making ghee yesterday. The rest is diced leftover veggies plus some sage I had on hand. I use this generic egg pie recipe for making breakfast and lunch egg pies. It's really easy and incredibly flexible.

Basic Egg Pie

miscellaneous "summer" or leafy veggies - mushrooms, tomatoes, zucchini, onion, spinach, fresh herbs, almost anything of that nature
1 - 2 T butter or butter solids or ghee or lard
4 - 6 eggs
1/2 - 1 c milk or buttermilk
spices to taste
shred cheese or panko or nut meal
lard or butter to grease baking dish

If using a conventional oven, preheat to 350F.

Dice or chop the vegetables. Grease a 9" pie pan and put in the fat, cut into pieces. Add the diced / chopped veggies. Microwave on high 3 minutes. Remove from microwave.

Meanwhile, combine the eggs and milk or buttermilk. with just enough so that it is thinned but still mostly eggy. If you use buttermilk, the mixture will seem to congeal slightly.

If you are going to give the empty egg-milk mixture pan to a four-legged family member as a treat, put your spices directly on the cooked vegetables, and then pour the mixture over. Otherwise, whisk the desired spices into the egg mixture and then pour over. Be creative! Some common spices I use (not all at the same time!) are curry powder, cayenne, sage, italian spices, red and black pepper, you get the idea. For the pie in the picture, since the fresh sage still has a lot of flavor I just used some coriander, marjoram, and dry mustard.

If desired, sprinkle a light layer of shred cheese, panko, nut meal, or something similar on the top. You can also dust the top with paprika if you want it to brown slightly.

If using a conventional oven, cook until set (time will vary based on number of eggs used, etc.)

For the Advantium, cook 10 min at U=4, L=3, M=3. I use this same setting no matter what combination of eggs and veggies I have and it is fine.