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BAKED EGGS with turkey bacon, green onions, and cheddar

SWEET POTATO HASH BROWNS

These make a fabulous combination.  They taste like that great breakfast dinner food that we all love, but are a lot healthier.  Plus, I just ordered my first set of ramekins and wanted to come up with something that wasn't dessert.  I made this for my family this morning and topped the potatoes off with some homemade tartar sauce, and the eggs with a bit of avocado, but of course ketchup is acceptable as well!  

Ingredients (for Baked Eggs with turkey bacon, green onions, and cheddar)

8 eggs

3/4 cup milk

1/4 cup green onions, chopped small

5 strips turkey bacon (personally I prefer it to regular bacon and it's a LOT healthier)

1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded

1/4 tsp. salt

dash of black pepper

Directions

• Preheat oven to 375 F.
• Cook bacon until it is crispy.

• In a bowl whisk together eggs, milk, green onions, salt, and pepper.
• Chop up bacon and place a fourth of it in the bottom of each ramekin.

• On top of the bacon place 1/8 cup of shredded cheese.

• Pour a fourth of the egg mixture in each ramekin.
• Place the ramekins in a baking dish and surround them with water a third of the baking dish full so that they get evenly baked.  

• Bake for 45-50 minutes or until the eggs are completely solid through when you stick a fork inside. 

Ingredients

3 sweet potatoes (that's the more white colored ones--not yams)

2 Tbsp. olive oil

salt and black pepper to your taste (I added 1/4 tsp. of salt and a generous dash of black pepper)

1/4 tsp. dried basil

Directions (for sweet potato hash browns)

1. Preheat oven to 400 F.
2. Wash sweet potatoes, but do not peel them! The skin tastes good and has a lot of nutrients in it.
3. Chop sweet potatoes into small cubes.
4. Toss them with the remaining ingredients and place them in a baking dish.
5. Bake for 20 minutes at 400 F. When they finish baking switch the oven over to broil and broil the potatoes for 2-4 minutes, or until they have crisped up.