You’re probably thinking “she’s gone mad” bacon and eggs for a Super Bowl appetizer? What could she possibly be thinking? Well, once you taste these babies, you’d wish you had made more of them. Just the perfect size to pop in your mouth (or for more delicate mouths, ehem, one may need two bites). I bought quail eggs for an appetizer for our friend’s Paul and T (post to come soon and I don’t want to spoil it) but I had a few of these gorgeous little eggs left over, so I came up with this breakfast for appetizer treat, and since Super Bowl is on Sunday, why not serve it to your discerning guests?
You can see how small the quails eggs are in comparison to the large Grade A egg.
We spotted this sign walking up to a restaurant on Bloor for lunch last Sunday. Since this post had bacon in it, I thought it appropriate.
A sandwich board sign in our hood which seemed appropriate with this post.
It’s really not a recipe, you can easily see all the ingredients, so I’ll just describe it. You’ll need 1 large slice of German seedy bread (we usually use this brand’s 7-Grain bread), 4 slices of Pancetta, sliced about 3.5 mm or 1/4 inch thick and four quail eggs.
First you want to fry the bacon until crispy, set aside in a warm oven, reserve bacon grease. Then cut four rounds of bread about 4-5 cm or 2.5 inches in diametre, and fry each side of the bread in the bacon fat until slightly toasted, but saturated in the bacon fat (you can hear your arteries bursting, no, wait, those are mine bursting), set aside and keep warm. In the remaining bacon fat, fry up each egg, trying to keep as circular shape as possible. Serve immediately, you want the yolks a little runny. To serve: take one slice of the bread round, put the bacon on top and then the egg, garnish with parsley or cilantro leaves. Serve with a napkin because you will have creamy yolk running down your chin.
A one, perhaps two bite morsel
They turned out so pretty, I had to take two photos.
Oh, you have a little dribble on your chin, let me get that for you.
Go Jays Go!
Oops.
Good thing I didn’t have these while watching the Super Bowl. I probably would have eaten so many that I would have gone comatose before the game. 🙂
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Thanks Jed! Hope you’re well, I haven’t seen you around for a bit. Believe it or not, I watch most of the game (well, at 9 I got bored and switched to Downton Abbey (I would have stayed the course but that blackout did me in).
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Yummy! These look like a great appetizer any day!
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They were rather fun Amber, thank you.
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I also like them, in Spain we have it in a lot of places, it calls ¨Tapas¨. Have a lovely week!
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We LOVED the tapas in Spain, we were there last September in Barcelona!
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Those eggs were done to perfection Eva! There’s no way I could pull those off. That is so impressive!!!! I didn’t realize you could find quail eggs for purchase either. What a treat. I can’t wait to see what else you came up with for Paul and T’s visit!
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Thanks Kristy, these little breakfast sandwiches were wonderful, and thank you for the lovely words.
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mmm! Perfect for breakfast… or really anytime of the day I could eat this! and yes I LOVE it when my yolks are runny!! Those are the best!
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Thanks Sammie, they were a lovely little treat!
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Eva I don’t think so you are mad, they look fantastic! I love eggs so that would be my kind of appetizer and they are very much presentable if not too pretty to be eaten up. ^.^
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Thank you kindly Helene, they were just the perfect size to pop into one’s mouth.
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Love this. Thanks for sharing
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Thank you kindly Lara.
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I love the eggs!!
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Thanks Judy.
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Bacon is meat candy hahaha
We are not into superbowl, but I would eat these horses ovaries.
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Thank you kindly Zsuzsa! What a funny play on words; sometimes we calmly them horsey dovers!
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Those are gorgeous little eggs in the shell Eva… they look like living art. Food can be so inspiring that way I find. This is a wonderfully unique and no doubt lip-smacking tasty appetizer for any time of day I’d say! Love the sign too… how great! Enjoy the weekend Eva (will you be watching the game?)
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Thank you Kelly, yes I will be watching the game. I’ve grown accustomed to it in the last few years. Plus I like making the food.
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I think I’d just to visit North America so that I could eat the food that they serve while watching the Superbowl! 😀 And I love it when the yolk dribbles! 😛
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Thanks so much Lorraine, yes the Super Bowl has been renamed in our house for Super Food Bowl…I’m looking forward to the creative American commercials, since this is the first year we can watch them live (we don’t have cable anymore, just a digital antenna that picks up the US stations).
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I always only go for the food and if these were there, I’d even make sure I was early =)
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I may have to put you to work in the kitchen if you do come early SM! But I’m sure you wouldn’t mind.
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It’s so lovely to see an original idea. What a great little appetiser and everyone would be so amazed as these emerge from your kitchen. They look wonderful xx
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Thank you kindly Charlie, I love coming up with new creative ideas for hors d’œuvres, we are always looking for something tasty with our cocktails.
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It seems quail eggs are quite elusive when I need to find them! What a yummy appetizer, Eva…though I think I’d be in heaven just eating the bread fried in bacon fat…mmmmmmmm…
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Thanks Liz, they were rather delicious. I wish I could get a dozen or half dozen, they are sold as 18 packs here.
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Bacon is meat candy! LOVE IT! I love the look of quail eggs, but over here, they’re more expensive than chicken eggs and I’d need a lot more to for the same effect. Sourcing a local quail egg supplier would be ideal. My little sister was considering having them as pets at one stage but I wasn’t sure if they were the same kind of quail?
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Hi Genie, not sure if the pet quails would be the same as the egg laying type, but not sure why they wouldn’t be. The eggs are very special and would be worth the cost for a nice party.
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Quail eggs … your guests must be very special indeed. I love that your sunny side eggs have cooked tops. There’s nothing I dislike more than that runny white on top of the eggs if I do them this way. So I make them over easy and then overcook the yolks. 😦
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Thanks Maria, these were totally lovely, the whites cook rather quickly because they are so small. I wanted the brightness of the yolk for the photo, that’s why they didn’t get flipped!
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How delicious! I love quail eggs.
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Thanks Angie, it’s the first time I’ve ever bought and cooked with quail eggs, and they certainly didn’t disappoint. I’ll be creating this appetizer again, for sure.
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Cool sandwich board sign. Creative and delicious idea.
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Bacon and eggs…cute idea.
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Thanks Karen, very kind of you to say.
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I can hardly imagine anyone who wouldn’t go crazy for such appetisers! Using quail eggs this way is an excellent idea! We have recently quail eggs in many supermarkets here, they are cheap too, but as much as I find them cute, I’m protesting and not buying because I have never seen free-range (not to mention organic) and the idea of poor battery quails makes me lose my appetite.
Anyway, I will keep in mind this wonderful idea for when I find eggs from happy quails 😉
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That’s interesting, Sissi, I assumed that the one’s I bought were free range because that is all this particular supermarket sells. I agree that normal poultry manufacturing (definitely not farming in my books) takes my appetite away as well. Have you seen the movie Food Inc.? It’s an interesting exposé of food manufacturing in the US.
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Oh, yes, I have seen!!!! Horrible! I will never forget this film (though it’s on a lower scale and some laws are different in Europe, the mass meat production is widespread). I think everyone should be forced to see it because I know people who could afford free-range meat, but just don’t care. I don’t even do it for the taste (which as you know is much better) but for the sake of animals. As a big carnivore (by meat I mean mainly chicken) I feel better to minimise their suffering, even though it does cost me a lot money and efforts (especially to buy pork or turkey because chickens are everywhere). Luckily the more people buy organic, the cheaper it becomes. I hope to see quail eggs soon too!
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These are perfect little bites, Eva. I must admit, though, that I’d have to buy a couple dozen quail eggs if any were to make it out of the kitchen to my football viewing friends. These would be just too easy to snack on in the kitchen. On second thought, I’d better have something else on hand to bring out to them. They won’t know what they missed. 🙂
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Aren’t you sweet John, they are indeed quite irresistible, particularly with the bacon soaked bread and the crispy salty bacon. Because the eggs are so tiny, it’s easy to over cook (mine were just a hair overdone, but still a little runny). On a positive note, cooking up a couple of dozen is fast because they take up such little space in a frying pan. An alternative is to poach them, but I wanted the bang from the yolks in the picture.
It helps to have a helping hand in the kitchen to keep you honest, but then again, if it were me, Mum’s the word 😉
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Hi Eva! This is great and quite fancy for a Super Bowl party, at least here in the UK it would be, since quail eggs are really expensive.
I’m sure you could replace the quail eggs with chicken eggs.
A great recipe, this could be a pretty delicious breakfast as well.
Thank you and looking forward to the next post!
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Hi Tudor, I picked up the quail eggs for $3.99 Canadian for 18 so it wasn’t terribly expensive. Chicken eggs, even the Grade A Small would be too large for this hors d’œurves. They were just so darn cute!
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Haha I LOVE the colour of these eggs they look too good 😀
Cheers
CCU
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Thanks CCU, they were quite pretty.
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