Eggs in a Basket

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Hello, it's been awhile since I've blogged anything cause honestly its been awhile since I cooked anything! New jobs will do that to you. So these Eggs in a Basket are super easy to make and I threw it together in about 10 minutes. Here is what you will need:
Ingredients:
8-9 eggs
frozen spinach in a box
1/2 cup sour cream
bag of hashbrowns
1-2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
muffin pan
bacon (optional)

I say the bacon is optional because I did not make this with bacon, but only because I did not have it on hand. Now if I did have bacon, you know it would have been added.

Cook the spinach in the microwave according to directions. Preheat oven to 300. Take a large mixing bowl and whisk your eggs together. Add in your sour cream. (when it comes to this you can add as little or as much as you would like, or none at all if you want. I think it gives it more texture. Add in 1-2 cups of cheese, depending on your preference for cheese. Add half the bag of hashbrowns. Add spinach.
Essentially take everything and mix in a large bowl, pretty easy huh? Now if you have bacon I would have cooked the bacon and added a small piece to the top.

I sprayed each muffin cup with Pam spray and filled each cup. You can do this anyway you want, but it makes it so much easier to pop out later and you can heat them up real easy for a snack or for breakfast.
I do have a slight variation of this recipe using pie crust that I will tell you at the end.
Fill each muffin tin till the top and let cook for about 25 minutes. Check at 20 minutes just to make sure. Let cool slightly and then run a knife around the edge of each tin and then they will pop out. This recipe makes about 18 or so depending on how high you fill them.

*variation of Eggs in a Basket
The other way I have made these are without the hash browns and using pie crust dough instead. Just pick up a pre made pie crust in the refridgerator section at the grocery store. Take a small ramikin or even the top of a glass and cut out circles of pie crust. Place that in the botton of the muffin tin. They will be bigger then the bottom of the tin, I push on the sides to raise the crust up so its surrounds the muffin tin. It won't reach the top and that is okay. The rest of the ingredients are the same. Add a large spoonfuls to the muffin tin, till it almost reaches the top. You can cut strips of the pie crust to lay along top of the egg mixture, but honestly it just gets messy. Cook at 300 for about 25 minutes or so. Check after 20 minutes. Let cool slightly (so you don't burn yourself) and I run a knife around the edge of each and then they sort of pop off. These are quite good. Similar to the ones above just no hashbrowns.