Weekend Cooking is a weekend blog meme hosted by Beth Fish Reads. Today I decided to try a new breakfast recipe. Recently I read Crissy Teigen’s cookbook Cravings: Hungry For More and really enjoyed it. So I decided to give her bagel bake recipe a try. First though I should say that I wasn’t able to follow it exactly because I was just grabbing leftovers from my fridge. I used onion bagels instead of everything bagels, I didn’t have Parmesan or Gruyere cheese, I just used cheddar. Also I didn’t have sausage and so I just used bacon. And I cut the recipe in half, or at least tried too.
I really enjoyed this cookbook and it’s actually one that I am thinking about owning someday. I’ll be sure to do a review for it later. Here’s the recipe I used today.
As you can see I substituted onions for leeks, I decided to do this because I was already using onion bagels and because I had a leek that needed to be cooked. I cut the recipe in half, using four eggs instead of 8. I loved the use of cayenne in the eggs.
When I put it all together I was really afraid I didn’t have enough eggs, but I didn’t have anymore eggs to use so I just had to go with it. Personally I think next time I would put the bagels on the bottom and build everything on top of them. But this was fine for the first time.
Here’s the finished result. As you can see I did end up having enough eggs, it turned out really beautiful. Next time I would probably add more cream cheese because I love it. And I would love to try this recipe when I have the rest of the suggested cheeses. Grant really liked this, and I did too. Overall I would say it was a success!
Oh man — this looks awesome. I love bread pudding as a dessert, and this sounds like it’s a kind of savory breakfast version.
Bread pudding is an awesome dessert, I should really make it more often. 😀
Going to check out this one. Thanks
You’re most welcome!
Thanks for sharing your recipe, I’ve never had a bagel..they aren’t really available here in Australia
Have a great kitchen week!
Huh, I didn’t know that, how interesting. Well maybe you’ll be able to have one someday. 🙂
I love when people adapt recipes to what’s on hand and share how it worked out. This looks wonderful. And that comment that bagels aren’t available in Australia! OMG! (LOL)
I know right? I love bagels, couldn’t imagine not having them. 😀
[…] this cookbook. I made one of the meals right away and it was a big hit for my family. You can find that post here. I also made notes to save several other recipes. I liked Teigen’s flavor base for the book. […]