Brunch Ramekins

I was going to do a long post about meals I cooked last week, but I'm having trouble locating some of the photos, so, in the meantime here are Brunch Ramekins.

I made this recipe up a couple of weeks ago while I was watching the movie 'Julie and Julia', seeing all the food made me REALLY hungry, so I decided to go cook something. Preferably with lots of bacon. Thus, this recipe was born.
Overall, everyone enjoyed them, but next time I would possibly add less salt.

SERVES 5

Ingredients:

• 7 eggs
• 6 rashers of bacon
• 5-7 hashbrowns
• Dried Sage
• 3 large onions
• Butter
• Salt
• milk
• Cheese
• Parmesan cheese

Method:

1. Cut hashbrowns into small squares. If they are too hard to cut while frozen wait until they defrost.
2. Place hashbrown pieces onto a tray and cook in a preheated oven (180-200C) until they are cooked through. Remove from oven. It does not matter if they go cold while you are preparing the other ingredients.
3. Fry bacon in a hot frying pan until they are almost done. Transfer bacon to a plate and remove the fat. Chop bacon into medium sized pieces.
4. Dice onions and place them in the pan you used to fry the bacon (do not wash the pan before you do this as the bacon fat will give the onions a nice flavour.
   Add to the onions: diced garlic (about 3 cloves) and several large nobs of butter. Season with salt and pepper. Sauté until nice and brown.
5. Grate Tasty cheese onto a plate or board and then grate some Parmesan onto a separate plate.
6. Beat two eggs with a little milk, salt and pepper and dried Sage.
7. Grease your ramekins with butter. 
8. Put some bacon in each ramekin. Then add some hashbrown pieces. Squash the bacon and hashbrown pieces flat with a spoon or your finger. Use most of the bacon and hashbrown for the bottom of the ramekin but leave a little over.
9. Cover bacon and hashbrown base with onions. Use all the onion mixture.
10. Sprinkle a layer of Tasty cheese over. Press down again.
11. A little more bacon and hashbrown.
12. Crack and egg into each ramekin.
13. Sprinkle some Tasty cheese around the yolk.
14. Around the yolk place a few bacon and hashbrown pieces.
15. Sprinkle some Tasty cheese over the top and then sprinkle some Parmesan cheese over that.
16. Place in the oven.
17. Leave in the oven until heated through and the egg is cooked to your satisfaction.
18. Enjoy!

Hashbrown pieces

Delicious caramelised onion

Bacon makes everything better

Bottom layer

Ready to go into the oven

Cooked

If you make these, let me know what you thought of them in the comments :)