Egg Cups

Bake some egg cups for brunch on Sunday, and keep the leftovers for a quick breakfast during the week!

I used salsa, cheddar, and spicy black bean gardenburger

Ingredients:
6 Eggs
Splash of Milk (optional)
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 C shredded cheese
Your choice of add ins - whether it's sausage, onion, bacon, tomato, etc. Make sure your meat is precooked if you are adding this into your mix. Get creative, make a fiesta theme or vegetable theme or whatever you can think of! Use up those leftovers from your fridge!

Other:
Muffin Pan
Cupcake liners - use paper if you're going to reheat leftovers

Preheat oven to 350 F.

In a medium sized bowl, whisk eggs. Add salt, cheese, (milk) and add ins.

Pour egg into each cup, filling no more than about half full.

Bake for approx 20 minutes or until egg is thoroughly cooked.

Sauce Saving Tip

Here's a quick tip for saving sauces that I usually find comes in handy when I'm making pizza. Pizza sauce comes in a 14 oz. jar or can, but I rarely use the entire jar making a pizza, especially if it's a personal sized pizza. Sometimes I like to buy the 2 packs of Boboli pizza crusts for a quick dinner where my boyfriend and I can personalize our pizzas (he likes pepperoni and bacon and I like vegetables). But back to the sauce. If you have leftover sauce from making pizza, chances are you won't use the rest in the same week. Sure it refrigerates for a few days, but freezing is best for longevity. The only problem is that saving the sauce in a ziplock can force you to use all your leftover sauce at once AND it takes quite a while to defrost.

I freeze my sauce in ice cube trays. Then once frozen, I pop each cube out and store them in a ziplock freezer bag until next time. That way, I can thaw out only as many cubes of sauce as I will need. They don't take long to thaw, and you get to choose how much sauce you have to use. So maybe one night I decide I want some sauce to dip a side in, or another night I want to make a pizza. I just pull out as many cubes as I think I'll need! Nothing goes to waste!

P.S. This is also a great way for someone cooking for one to preserve spaghetti sauce. You can always boil up some fresh pasta and defrost a few cubes of sauce for a quick dinner. I especially like this idea because I hate spaghetti leftovers.