Thursday, October 7, 2010

Salmon Hash with Poached Eggs

Mmmm Breakfast. What an overlooked, but truly outstanding meal. They say Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Were not sure who "they" are but they do tend to be right. Theres something about having a big filling breakfast thats like filling the gas tank before a big road trip. Cruising past pit stops and snack bars knowing you don't need to stop... okay that analogy is just not working, but you get the point. Weekday breakfast is all too often sadly uneventful. Theres no such thing as happy breakfast hour or breakfast meetings. Nobody does a power breakfast. In today's world breakfast seems to either get woofed down on the drive into work or skipped entirely which is a real shame because some of the worlds best food is for breakfast. When we lived in San Francisco, the big thing to do was Sunday breakfast. We're talking everyone in town went out for breakfast on Sundays. You could tell the best spots by how long the lines were, and when you got through the line (even if was almost lunchtime) you knew you had some great food to look forward to. The other weekend we wanted to try our hands at Sunday Breakfast, and with lots of leftover fish, we invited some people over and whipped up a Salmon hash. Charisse even tried her hand at poached eggs, which taste great, but are super easy to screw up. Theres just something about watching an egg basically dissolve in water that makes you go "eeeewwwww". The eww generally produces laughs from everyone else, so its fun to do at parties! This one is super easy to do (except for the eggs which are optional anyways) and its really filling. It is just the sort of thing that helps take the edge off after a long night out and is a great way to start off your Sunday (Eric says you can't watch football on an empty stomach!).





Salmon Hash with Poached Eggs
What You Will Need

4 potatoes (peeled and boiled until soft)
6 slices bacon (fried and chopped)
2 cups salmon (we used leftovers from a previous dinner)
1 onion (minced)
2 cloves garlic (minced)
fresh thyme 
salt and pepper
olive oil
hot sauce to taste
4 poached eggs

Fry the bacon in a large cast iron skillet and reserve the drippings while the bacon drains on a paper towel. Cook the onions in the drippings until soft, add garlic cooking about 3 mins. Meanwhile, cube the potatoes and add to the onions, mix in the rest of the ingredients except the poached egg. Heat through, salt and pepper to taste, and serve with poached egg on top with hot sauce.

12 comments:

  1. Do you have any leftovers?
    Except the bacon I'll definitely make it for a brunch, breakfast is a 5 minutes meal in my house

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  2. I can't be without breakfast. This is breakfast, lunch, AND dinner!

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  3. I love poached eggs on just about anything! This meal looks hearty and healthy too with the salmon, love it! :)

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  4. This would be a huge hit in my home. Bacon, fish, eggs? My son would want you guys to adopt him!

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  5. That breakfast outdoes any other breakfast known to mankind or should I say womankind ;) Totally fantastic!

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  6. Mmm, I want some! I am SO glad I discovered your blog. I don't think I even would have found you without the FB contest. I'm looking forward to following your blog! :-)

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  7. Great breakfast ... I would not mind having this for my breakfast :)

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  8. I enjoy an eggwhite scramble for breakfast many days. Always include leftover roasted veggies in this scramble and when I have leftover salmon from dinner the night before, pieces of the salmon go into my eggwhite scramble. Yum :)

    The Souper

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  9. You have inspired me to go make some hash for breakfast. I haven't ever had it with salmon, but I bet it was great!

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  10. Looks fantastic. I have to eat breakfast, i just don't get people who can go until lunchtime without eating! And I adore salmon so this is right up my alley.

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  11. what a wonderful breakfast! I do love poached eggs, and that hash looks amazing....what a wonderful combination of flavors!

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  12. Wow this is my kind of breakfast! Salmone and eggs oh yes!

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