Breakfast Pot Pie

While filling out my chef bio, it became clear why bacon is superior to pie – versatility. Where is the breakfast pie? I’m not talking about quiche (clearly not worthy of being associated with pie) or eating a slice of fruit pie for breakfast (as my husband is known to do), but a proper pie crust, filled breakfast foods.  Behold, the breakfast pot pie!

The cast assembles

The idea was to create a pot pie filled with ham, potatoes, onions, peppers and hollandaise sauce, topped with an over easy egg – essentially eggs Benedict reconstructed. I created a hash of sorts with the cubed ham, potatoes, onions and peppers while the bottom pie crusts baked.

I then filled the crusts, and topped with the hollandaise sauce:

They were topped with crust and baked for about 10 minutes.

The pièce de résistance – an egg sunny side up.  Breakfast pie is served:

--Mary

Bonus Content - actual conversation that took place when Isaac was looking at the above pictures and realized he didn't drink any orange juice with breakfast that morning:

Isaac: Hey, where’d the orange juice go?

Mary: Oh... it was for presentation purposes only. The container was actually full of mold…

Isaac: Oh that’s gross.

Mary: … and definitely not suitable for human consumption.