Well really just eggs because although I made lamb I didn’t photograph it.
Today – a week before Easter/Passover, a foot of snow in the backyard, the Bruins struggling to stay afloat towards the playoffs and the Red Sox 15 days away from their season opener, I decided to try vintage recipe.
I decided to try this weird egg dish that I came across in the pages of an old Better Homes and Garden publication. (circa 1970’s) A “Swiss egg bake” that was listed under the “budget-stretching cheese and egg dishes” section.

Admittedly my husband straight-up told me he wasn’t going to try it if I made it.
I said I wouldn’t force him. 🙂
Sometimes you see something that is so wrong that you think “it must be right.” Prudently I decided right away to cut the recipe in half. That way I wouldn’t feel so bad if “no one” ate it.
Basically you mix and heat onion, canned soup, yellow mustard, Swiss cheese and milk together till hot but not bubbling and pour into a sprayed casserole dish and crack eggs into (onto?) the hot liquid. Line the edges with buttered toast and bake for 30 mins or so at 350 degrees until the eggs are set. Sprinkle with fresh chopped parsley before serving. ( oh and I would suggest letting this one cool off from the oven for a good 20 mins or so before sticking in your mouth – cause its HOT!)
So I pretty much followed directions – although I decided to saute fresh minced onion in a little butter first instead of using the dried instant minced onion called for. I think it was good but it did make it a tiny bit greasy perhaps. I also used an organic, gluten-free cream of mushroom soup instead of regular canned cream of chicken. And maybe my ratio of dairy ( I used full fat half and half instead of milk) was off because I didn’t feel this wasn’t as thick as it could have been coming out of the saucepan and into the baking dish.
Did I succeed? you be the judge…

Just imagine “hot” deviled egg dip! or perhaps a “de-constructed” eggs-in-a-hole with sauce!
Looking back I think perhaps if my sauce was much thicker to begin with the eggs might have been cuddled in better and maintained their shape. But coming upon the hard egg yolk swimming a sea of sauce was kinda fun. But really I just think they photoshop’d the crap out of the picture.
Production notes: if you like this dish and you could get it to be all pretty and such with the eggs and their yolks in all that glory – you could easily make this gluten-free and serve with veggies dippers instead – think artichoke spears and roasted slabs of carrot!
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