Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–I’m so glad you’re here!
Today, I am continuing my series of posts devoted to the idea of “home-keeping.”
In yesterday’s post, I pondered the differences between “house-keeping” and “home-keeping.” Both are an expression of love, but there is a difference between the two: I think of “house-keeping” as the nuts and bolts of keeping a home clean and hygienic. I think of “home-keeping” as doing those things that make a “house” a “home.”
It should surprise no one that I view of home-keeping through the lens of a cook. Cooking for the people I love is my way of turning my house into a home for all those who enter. But how can a person who’s juggling a family and job practice home-keeping without going nuts?
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to feature some recipes that will help make your house a home, without making you crazy. This week, I’m featuring home-keeping recipes for the first meal of the day: breakfast.
Yesterday, I shared a recipe for bran muffins that can stay in the fridge for a week as batter and magically be transformed into warm, cozy, on-demand muffins in the morning while you’re taking your shower or walking the dog.
Today, I’m featuring spinach and egg casserole that can be made in bulk at the beginning of the week and carved out for breakfast on-the-go for the rest of the week because it re-heats beautifully.
Spinach and egg casserole is another of my mother’s recipes that we’ve been eating for forever. When I know that we have early morning appointments or guests, I make a big tray of it for days when there’s no time to make breakfast.
I have made the dish hundreds of times and have experimented with adding jalapeños, different cheeses, asparagus, even kale–all have turned out pretty great, so feel free to improvise with this one!
This dish is also great as an entree for a vegetarian. When the call comes from the church to take food to a home-bound parishioner, I always take this dish because it’s great for any meal of the day, whether for a vegetarian or not. And it’s always a crowd-pleaser–it’s the dish everyone wants the recipe for after an event. Mr. Stone Soup even makes it for his annual men’s fishing trip to the great pleasure of the fishermen!
Tune in tomorrow, when I’ll share another recipe for home-keeping at breakfast.
Until then,
Peace, love and good food,
Keri
