We don’t go out to restaurants often, but when we do it’s often for a brunch date to a nearby eatery called The Pump. It’s a remodeled garage full of antiques, road signs and great food. Brian has tried a number of things from the menu, but I always get their version of a Mediterranean scramble, an egg dish made with fresh spinach, tomatoes, olives, feta and – what sets it apart in my opinion – bacon. You know how they say everything tastes better with bacon? Yeah, that.
But remember how I said we don’t eat out much? Months and months would go by with no mediterranean scramble so I finally decided to recreate it at home. And oh, my goodness – why did I wait? Seriously, this is SO good and I love that it’s full of fresh vegetables in the morning. It’s a great way to start the day.
Once you make this, you might find that regular scrambled eggs are rather boring. Be warned.
[recipe]
Mediterranean Scramble with Spinach & Bacon
- 4-5 slices bacon
- 1/4 c. diced onion
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 6 eggs
- 2 Tb. milk {or water}
- 1/2 tsp. black pepper
- 1/2 c. olives, quartered – regular or kalamata
- 1/2 c. chopped fresh tomatoes
- 3 c. fresh spinach
- 1/3 c. crumbled feta cheese
- salt to taste (thought it doesn’t need much with the salty feta)
- Cook the bacon in a medium to large skillet until crisp. Remove from skillet, drain, crumble and set aside.
- Add onion and garlic to bacon fat in skillet and cook for medium-low heat until softened and starting to brown.
- Whisk eggs with milk or water and black pepper. Add to skillet and gently scramble with the onions.
- When the eggs are almost set, add spinach and fold in. Cover and let cook about a minute for spinach to wilt. Add in the remaining ingredients along with reserved bacon pieces and gently mix all together just until warmed through.
- Transfer to individual plates or a platter, sprinkle with a bit more feta, if desired, and serve passing salt as needed.
Serves 4
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Joyce @ It's Your Life says
February 20 at 4:23 pmI’m featuring this post tonight on Real Food Fridays, thanks for posting.
Susie says
February 18 at 6:38 amThis is SO good! I made it for breakfast this morning and everyone loved it! Thank you.
Vicki says
February 16 at 9:29 pmThank you for your great blog and yummy recipes. We had this for dinner-it was awesome and everyone loved it! God bless you!
Jami says
February 17 at 1:30 pmSo glad you liked it, Vicki!
Joyce @ It's Your Life says
February 14 at 8:14 amThis is different which is good, I never thought of putting tomatoes with eggs. Love for you to share this, and some of your organic gardening posts on Real Food Fridays.
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Jami says
February 14 at 1:47 pmThanks, Joyce, I will! 🙂
Kari J. says
February 13 at 3:15 pmOh my goodness. I am so making this as soon as I get some spinach. I’m sure no one but me, my husband & one of my older sons will eat it, since most of my kids are the “plain eggs” type, but that just means more for us, right? 🙂
Do I dare ask how goes the power outage? I keep thinking of you cooking on your wood stove insert — ingenious, in my opinion. Hope y’all are keeping warm.
angi says
February 13 at 2:01 pmLooks yummy! We always add lots of sutff to our eggs. My daughter had a friend stay with us a couple of days and I made eggs the first morning with swiss chard, garlic, some leftover cubed potatoes, and bacon. The next morning when I said I was making eggs again, the friend said “Can you just make normal eggs?” It was pretty funny.
Jami says
February 13 at 2:42 pmHa! I’ve had that same response, too, Angi, though most often it was from our own kids. 🙂 So glad they both like dishes like this now!
Diana says
February 13 at 1:56 pmThis is so completely perfect! I was just sitting here wondering what I could fix that’s easy for supper (my mother is in the hospital and I am worn out), and my chickens have stepped up in their egg laying so I actually have more than a dozen. Thank you thank you thank you!
Jami says
February 13 at 2:41 pmSo glad to help, Diana, though I’m sorry to hear about your mom. 🙁 This should be a nice way to use your fresh eggs!
Lisa says
February 13 at 1:55 pmThis looks delicious!