Raise your hand if you like cold pizza. Lame. Cold pizza is grody. No. Thank. You. Guess what? I’m married to a man who likes cold pizza – God is funny like that. But, on the flip side, I don’t like my pizza piping hot. I kinda like it warm…so that the cheese doesn’t burn the roof of my mouth. I have issues with waiting until food cools down…that’s normal, right?
Lots of people like pizza for breakfast. They grab a leftover piece out of the fridge and head to work…or class. When I was in college, lots of my friends ate cold pizza for breakfast. Not me – no way. I had higher standards than that – Toaster Strudels, baby…they are classier than Pop Tarts. 😉
I’m a huge fan of Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks (affiliate link butt covering per the FTC). This is yet another one from my mother-in-law. I’m telling y’all…she’s always sending me these subliminal messages that say “Make me chocolate cake.” Or maybe there was a note in there that said that…anyway, I’m taking the hint.
If you are ever stumped for ideas for a wedding gift, this cookbook is where it’s at. It comes in second only to my favorite cookbook of all time. Any homemaker would be tickled to have this in her arsenal. Do you know I also have one of the original Better Homes cookbooks? My grandmother gave it to me – I’ll be featuring it one day. It’s currently displayed in my kitchen for decoration.
I’ve been making this recipe for Barry and myself for a while now – Barry LOVES IT. So, when I came across the Breakfast Pizza recipe in this cookbook, it reminded me that I have never blogged this one…bingo, baby. I didn’t use this particular recipe – it’s just a springboard for my imagination – kinda like commercials.
This recipe is Gluten-Free, as there is no crust – the “crust” is an egg base. It’s pretty firm, so if you cut your slices smaller and don’t load on the toppings, you can eat it with your hands. But I use a fork – because I’m weird like that. I always eat pizza with a fork. ALWAYS. Stacy –> OCD.
If a crust-less breakfast pizza is against your religion, I’ve got you covered with my other breakfast pizza version from my former SAD ways. You can just use whatever crust you want.
So, the base for this pizza is egg. You’ll bake it like a quiche – I always like to bake until it’s totally done. That takes about 15 minutes…because I don’t want runny eggs. Runny eggs make me runny away.
While my eggs are baking, I’m sautéing my toppings. Because I hate putting raw toppings on pizza – they just end up being crunchy, which isn’t cool with me. For this pizza I like to fry up some sausage, onions, and green peppers. Bacon is a good option too – God bless Bacon. Amen.
Whatever you like on your pizza, you can add to your breakfast pizza. Pepperoni is cool…ham and pineapple would be kickin’ awesome. Aloha. In separate news, did you know that plural of pepperoni is pepperoni? Yeah – it messed with my head too.
When you top the pizza you just stick it back in the oven until the cheese is melted – because we already sautéed the toppings. Booya.
Breakfast Pizza (GF)
- 6 eggs, beaten
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- Pizza sauce
- Mozzarella cheese
- Sausage, bacon, or ham, cooked and chopped
- Sautéed onions, peppers, and/or mushrooms
- Beat eggs with salt and pepper.
- Pour into greased 9 inch pie plate.
- Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes or until eggs are set.
- Top with sauce and other desired toppings.
- Return to oven for about 5 minutes to melt cheese.
Yield: 3 servings
This is an awesome idea Stacy! I’d eat this for any meal! 🙂
Wow! Thanks for commenting! I’m honored – I love your blog. 🙂
Love the crust!
Thanks for sharing at vegetarianmamma.com’s #glutenfreefridays link up!
What a genius idea, I never would’ve thought to make an egg crust rather than a normal crust. This is fantastic, definitely pinning. Thanks for sharing on the weekend re-Treat link party!
Britni @ Play. Party. Pin.
You had me at God bless bacon!!
You had me at God Bless Bacon!
What a great pizza, love the inspiration. Thanks for sharing it with us on foodie friday.
found you at Desserts Now, Dinner Later…Love the idea of the eggs being the “crust!”
I am GF and have just started trying some pizza! This is one we will have to try! Thank you for sharing!
Hi! Found you via Let’s Get Real and love your breakfast pizza idea! I make a similar egg dish but never considering making a pizza variety! LOVE it! Thanks for the post!
Hi there. Stopping in from Let’s Get Real. I was intrigued by your recipe. My dad used to make my sister and I pizza omelettes. This looks very similar. My kids are going to love this. I’m going to make this for them tomorrow morning. That should start our Saturday out right.
Sweet, thanks for the feature Stacy! Now you should try the soup – you can leave out the taters for cauliflower if you want. 🙂 Katie
No way, Jose! I love potatoes!
My favorite cookbook too! and yes, it was a wedding gift nearly 30 years ago, and I gave a copy to my daughter last year when she got married. The breakfast pizza recipe looks delicious, I’ll be trying it on my family soon.
This looks divine Stacy! 🙂 looking forward to trying it soon!
This looks so yummy! Pinned to try this weekend. 🙂
Oh my gosh Stacy! Just when I thought I couldn’t love you anymore 🙂
Hey Stacy–I’m all about cold pizza, too, although I won’t turn down hot or warm pizza either! LOL Your breakfast pizza looks delish, as do the highlighted posts. I’m linking up Healthier Pumpkin Butter made in the slow cooker. I didn’t even know about your link-up until I came over from Amber’s to check out your recipe. 😉
Thanks for hosting!
Shirley
I hope you’ll come back each week!
Looks great! I putting in my Plan to Eat recipe box!
I am very new to blogging, and frankly, I’m quite dense technologically, so I hope what I did was ok. Just let me know what I did wrong! 🙂 I don’t even have a camera to take pictures so, it’s bare bones to say the least! But, it’s a fast S lunch!
Thanks for linking up!
My little girl’s 6th birthday is today and I’ve been trying to figure out how to treat her with pizza since we’ve been gluten and dairy free. This egg-crust pizza may be just the trick. Thank you, Stacy! (I already have a work-around for the cheese and I hope it’s acceptable, with all the yummy sausage and bacon goodness to be the main attraction anyway.)
Have you tried cauliflower crust? I’m not sure how it would hold up with dairy free cheese though. Daiya brand is our favorite here.
Not yet – but we like cheese crust!
I have an old B H & G cookbook that I got from my grandmother also! Mine is copyright 1930. There are some very strange recipes in in it.
Quintuple yum on today’s post! Wow! Great everything!
Oh, I love cold pizza, Barry! Stand strong! 😉
You cold pizza weirdos – good thing I love ya both. 😉
Cold cheese pizza is a yummy breakfast!