A Practical "I Love You" for Hungry Men and Lazy Wives on Valentines Day and Beyond

I've got nothing to update in my recent "Killy Series" adventure story but thought I'd give you a practical post in case you are peeking by here occasionally.

My husband has a thing for breakfast. He loves it. So for valentines day I figured I'd share how I show my husband love: I make him BREAKFAST. But not just any breakfast...Cereal? donuts? bagels? french toast? pancakes? "nope, not breakfast" he would say. I have to agree. I figure if those things count as breakfast so does cake, candy, and pie all of which I would be okay with if I weren't constantly battling the scale. But back to the BREAKFAST: He wants eggs, potatoes, steak, you get the picture. I think of myself as lazy although I've also convinced myself I'm really not it's just the way I'm wired and I have value in other ways. (I'm a smooth talker like that.) Either way, I would like to spend about 10 minutes in the kitchen, have a delicious breakfast of protein and veggies ready and a perfectly clean kitchen when I'm done AND not break the piggy bank.  Hold on to your hats because I think I've got this one figured out.

Now because I try to show my husband respect and all those lovely things I don't only cook him breakfast on special days. I cook him breakfast almost everyday so to get that to jive with my "lazy" thing I've got going on I've come up with something I think every "lazy" woman with a HUNGRY husband should know about: I will call it an egg plop.

a veggie (cooked, raw, from a can)
a hunk of meat (cooked, raw, or leftover)
cheese (fancy, cheap, shredded, not)
eggs

Melt some fat in the pan or chose meat with fat in it (sausage, bacon) then throw in veggies until they brown up. Meanwhile whisk together eggs, salt 'n pepper (and my hubbo is convinced the eggs are much fluffier with a glug of whipping cream sloshed in) so that too. Back to the frying meat and veggies, once pretty much cooked make sure some fat is still sliding around in the pan or add some oil and pour your eggs all over whatever is in the pan. Cook it for a minute or two popping in cheese any time now if that's going in and then flip the plop over (letting all fall apart) to finish cooking. Put the flipped plop on a plate with a fork that doesn't tip off the plate when you set it down (or find out your own love's preferences) and serve it up with a smile or a peck on the cheek (in keeping with the ever changing nature of the plop, just keep him guessing all around.) And if your man's "love language" is food (I doubt that's really a love language but maybe it should be) he might purr for you at this point.

zucchini, tomatoes, scrambled (see how the tomatoes deflate? no need to chop those babies!)

As I hinted at above, a cool feature of the egg plop (and crucial to it's "lazy" nature) is it's never the same thing twice. Do whatever you feel like that day. This morning I didn't feel like dirtying a bowl so I plopped in eggs and they were fried. Fried works wonderfully if you cook up a burger or sausage and serve the eggs on top of the burger. The meat acts like toast for sopping up the gooey parts.

Valentines Plop: sausage, yellow peppers, fried eggs

Another option is to whisk everything together in one big bowl and pour it all in a pie pan or (for a big crowd a sheet cake pan) and bake it til not sloshy. So many variations, boredom is not on the menu!
I think that's pretty much it. I'll leave you with a list of things I've plopped in case you like inspiration:

Veggie:
peppers
onions
mushrooms (super easy to open a can of stems and pieces)
sweet potatoes (shredded, diced, sliced)
zucchini
tomatoes (diced or cherry, fresh or canned)
radishes
olives
spinach

Meat:
sausage
bacon
hamburger patties
leftover roast
leftover steak
pork chops
meat off leftover ribs
chicken (shredded, diced, I've even done skin on w/bones)

Cheese:
goat
feta
brie
swiss
cheddar
mozzarella
pepper jack

Toppers:
avocado
salsa
tz sauce (the white cucumbery greek sauce-however you spell that)
heavy cream reduced (leftover from last night's chicken)

I've never plopped but would in a heartbeat:
parsnips
beets
broccoli
cauliflower
fish
spaghetti squash
rutabaga

So it's easy, adjustable to fit my (lazy) mood, uses up leftovers (saves money), satiates a HUNGRY man…it's a recipe for LOVE LOVE LOVE all year long. OH yeah, the only part I haven't quite figured out is the "clean" kitchen. Notice the tightness of my pics--no hints at the drippy counters beyond the edge of the frame? Well, I'm still working on that part but living out a little love has become breezy 'round the wee killy digs. Gotta LUH-UH-OVE that!