Happy New Year, you excessively good looking paleo eaters. How’s your New Year starting off? Are you just starting to read my blog because you’re just going paleo to start the new year off right? Well, welcome!! I apologize now for my annoyingness. Not a word. Whatever.
Anywho, my new year started hungover. Why do we do that to ourselves? Makes no sense. Champagne doesn’t really kick off the New Year. It just kicked me in the pants. I never knew champagne could be so great. I’m a fun champagne drunk.
I’m super excited the holidays are finally over. I haven’t drank that much since I was in college and dancing on bars. I’m not gonna lie, it’s been a blast, but me and alcohol need a long break. I only need to poison myself so many times per year. So thank gosh I haven’t really poisoned myself this year. I’m off to a great start!
Ugh, so many people got engaged on New Years Eve. How cliche. Who am I kidding, I probably would think that was cute if I liked someone enough.
Speaking of people in love, I went to a wedding over the weekend. Oh weddings. You just never know what you’re going to get. Food wise, people wise, religion wise. I’m not really religious, so I tend to black out once any sort bible versus begin to enter the ceremony. No disrespect. I totally get religion and why its so important to other people, but I’m just there to support the couple that are taking the plunge. All I really want is to dance and eat cake. The last wedding I went to was with my friend Dom, who is by far one of the best dancers for weddings and loves food as much as I do. So this wedding had a lot to live up to. Sadly, it was more people my parents age people dancing. And since I was my parents +1, while they danced, I licked the frosting off their plates. So classy. My parents are so proud.
So if you’re wondering what shredded rutabaga tastes like, its seriously like hash browns. No joke. And I wish I had come up with this and could take all credit, but my friend Stacy from California was the first to tell me about it. Her mom Daryl always makes them like hash browns so I had to try it. It’s bomb. Do it. You’ll never need potato hash browns again!
Rutabaga Egg Nests
Ingredients
- 1 large rutabaga, peeled
- 1/2 yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 3–4 tablespoons bacon fat (or other kind of fat)
- 2–3 eggs (or more)
- salt and pepper, to taste
- parsley (to garnish-optional)
Instructions
- Peel your rutabaga. Roughly chop then send the rutabaga through a food processor with the shredding attachment. If you don’t have a food processor, you can use a cheese grater.
- Place a medium skillet over medium-high heat and add 1 tablespoon of bacon fat and minced garlic.
- In a bowl, mix together rutabaga and sliced onion. Place in skillet, spread out in pan and press down. Sprinkle with a bit of salt and pepper. Cook for 4-5 minutes, then use a spatula to flip the rutabaga.
- When the rutabaga is almost done cooking, use a spoon to make a spot in the middle of the shredded rutabaga to crack your egg into. A nice little nesting area for the egg.
- Crack your egg into the middle of the rutabaga. To cook your egg perfectly, grab a lid and pour in just a tablespoon of water into the pan and cover. Let cook for a minute or two until egg is cooked to your preference.
- I did this in 4 batches with all the rutabaga I shredded.
- Top with a bit of parsley.
- It’s like you’re eating naughty hash browns. Genius.
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Had this for breakfast this morning, it was delicious!
Now I know what to do with a rutabaga….always wondered who actually bought them at the grocery store.
Hadith for breakfast today, now having some for dinner. Yum!
I’m going to sound like DebbieDowner because she came knocking at my door when I got super excited about “hash browns,” but the schoolmarm in me said, “uh, uh uuuuhhh. check the GI first” and it’s on par with potatoes.
effff!!
I am a real live all grown up adult and had to take my mom to the grocery to help me find a rutabaga..who was the brave caveman who decided these little ugly bastards were edible???
This Irish girl misses potatoes and gave turnips a try tonight to much success so this shall get a go tomorrow now that I have been aided in locating said rutabaga…
you make my life so much better!
I cant believe how delicious this meal was and so simple and easy!
Plus, it was the first time I ate a rutabaga.
I made this today. And I watched 823947234 episodes of New Girl this weekend, in your honor. This recipe made Monday a heck of a lot better 🙂
Oops and i meant to rate this:
Made this this morning. I cross-crossed 2 half slices of cooked bacon under the egg too. Amazing!
I’m just babystepping into Paleo thanks to your site – which is going to be hard as my boyfriend and I have the tendency to also poison ourselves with alcohol and I love carby-carb-carbs. And I really love hashbrowns. I’m very excited to start up and sneak attack these “hashbrowns” on my boyfriend!
Made this for dinner. Fantastic!
This is awesome. Eli, the 9 year old, asked for seconds. It passes the kid test too. Thank you for great addition to our regular menu.
yay!!! it’s awesome when Eli likes my food!