So here’s what I made for Kellen for his breakfast in bed. This is my first recipe sharing blog, so forgive me for having too few pictures, next time I’ll have a picture of all the ingredients needed initially! :]

First, Preheat oven to 400. Sorry I missed this photo :/
Then, butter a muffin pan with a stick of butter or cooking spray. My butter wasn’t getting soft fast enough, so I eventually just went with my good ol’ cooking spray!

Next, Get out six piece of bread and a glass. The size of the glass doesn’t matter that much, I thought mine were going to be too big, but they ended up being perfect to give the little cups some structure like a traditional muffin


Pull crust away from glass. This reminded me of those Uncrustables they sell for little kids in stores, I always wondered how those were made, now I wonder if some poor lady is stuck in a factory line all day pulling away crusts from a glass…anyway…Put the little cut outs into the bottoms of the cups and smash them down just a little so they aren’t too high.



I hated the idea of throwing away most of six pieces of bread, so I decided to save them, and have something to feed the birds, the next time we go on a picnic date! Everyone should have something tasty on a picnic! :D



Next, in a frying pan cook bacon until it is done, but not crispy, about 3-5 minutes. Now, my best friends mom gave me the neatest thing for cooking up bacon in the microwave, its perfect for just two people, so I opted to use that instead. My bacon came out a little too crispy, but it was fine in the end product, just a little harder to mold to the pan.


After you bacon is all cooked and yummy smelling, mold bacon along the periphery of the break as to secure the egg and cheese later. It should look something like this:






Next, add your cheese! I grated onto a plate, then sprinkled into each cup, it would have been too much of a mess to do it directly over each one. Be generous, in retrospect, I’ll add more cheese, you couldn’t taste it much with all the other flavors. Oh well, now I know :]



Next is the hardest part, but it’s really not that hard. Crack your eggs so that you can get rid of about half of the white of the egg, then put the yolk and remaining egg white on the top of the cheese, be careful not to break the egg yolk. I did on a couple, and it was okay, but the unbroken ones were much better. See the difference in the broken and unbroken?

They should look like this, just beautiful. 

Then put them in the oven! Bake for 6-10 minutes, if you like your yolk unrunny, go longer. I think I did ours for about 12-13 minutes, and Kellen said he loved them and that is exactly how he likes his eggs, but I think I would have liked them a little more runny, just for flavor. Little baby Meiko was anxiously awaiting!

Here are the FINAL RESULTS! :D Salt and Pepper to taste, and I even added a little mustard to mine, can you say YUM?

yayy!

Ingredients:
6 slices of bacon
6 slices of bread
Shredded cheese
6 eggs
Salt and pepper

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 400° F.  Grease 6 wells of a muffin pan with butter.  In a frying pan, cook bacon about 3-5 minutes, until partially cooked but not completely crispy.  Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate.  Cut out rounds of bread (I used a 3.5-inch round cookie cutter, but a drinking glass would be fine.)  Press the bread rounds into the greased muffin wells.  Curl a piece of bacon around the periphery of each piece of bread, positioning it between the bread and the muffin tin to help keep it in position.  Sprinkle a small amount of shredded cheese in the center of each piece of bread.  One at a time, crack an egg, removing about half of the white, and dropping the remaining white and yolk over each piece of bread, being careful not to break the yolks.  Once all the bread pieces have been topped with eggs, bake until eggs are cooked through to your liking (about 6-10 minutes) and bacon is crispy.  Run a knife around the edge of each muffin well and pop the egg cups out.  Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve immediately.

I got this from http://annies-eats.com/2009/08/21/bacon-egg-and-toast-cups/

(sorry for the link, it wouldn’t let me make it clickable)

Enjoy!

It is so funny how things become so different so quickly. Since being married, it seems I cannot sleep past 7:30am, and I’m not really complaining about this because I wake up completely rejuvenated. Before, I would have to set an alarm to wake up at that hour, and I would be really groggy and fatigued. Now, however, I wake up and think, “well, there is no sense in laying here, since I’m not really tired anymore…”. Yesterday morning, I woke up and made these super cute (and super delicious) Bacon, egg, cheese, and toast “muffins” for Kellen and brought him breakfast in bed. And you know what…? I really enjoyed it! I’m quickly discovering how much I LOVE cooking. For hours, I scour the internet, on food blogs, saving recipes that look yummy and fun to cook and eat. Something else has happened, it’s the strangest thing, I have the desire to make our bed in the morning. A DESIRE, PEOPLE! I love walking into our room and seeing our furniture and our cute bedspread made! Not to mention, I sleep SO much better in  bed that has been made, it’s weird, I know. I don’t so much mind sweeping the kitchen everyday, anymore. I love watching our cats have personalities like humans. The more I’m around these dang cats, the more I love them like kids. I’m such a cat lady at heart. hah. As homesick as I was, I’m adjusting well now. I love having a place of our own. I like cleaning only 750 sq. ft. and I really like decorating it. The biggest thing I have learned in this nine days, though, is that things aren’t different. Our relationship hasn’t changed, we are the same people, doing normal people things, just under one roof. I think that, as women, we have some sort of fairy tale in our minds of the “ever after”. I think that I did, a little bit. That everyday would be some sort of extravaganza, and in a way, it is. But there is a whole lot of boring that makes up beautiful (thanks PK) and God makes beauty in strange small ways. He answers little prayers that wouldn’t mean anything to most people, but are very important to me. Marriage is a really unique kinda thing, and God is super cool, you have to learn to let go, stop worrying, stop with all the fear and let God be God, and let life happen. I’m learning that everyday, now.

God, you are so good.

“…your gentleness has made me great” Psalm 18:35