I awoke from a dream startled, and rang Mr NQN at work.
“Honey, I had a dream that you were wearing two of my cardigans. You know the one with the pearls?”
“Err what?” he said startled.
“You were wearing two of my cardigans to work, one backwards, and you were about to do a dance off with the guys that you work with…” I said breathlessly while thumbing through my wardrobe to look for the cardigans, just in case he had taken them you know. ”So I guess I’m ringing to find out, was I dreaming or did you wear two of my cardigans and are you having a dance off?”
There was a loud sigh and then with the patience of a saint he said, “No I’m not but thank you for calling.”
I realise now that it’s best to not call someone straight after dreaming, after all, they are sometimes so vivid that you might think that your shirt and pants wearing husband might suddenly turn up at work wearing not one but two of your cardigans.
This is a much better and safer way to wake up.
I save this recipe for weekends when it is cold and raining as a trip outside is about as welcome as a trip to the dentist. It’s the kind of dish we might choose if we see it on a cafe menu and it really is so simple. It’s a bit of mixing (in the ramekin itself, no extra bowls to wash up), a bit of slicing and then it has 10 minutes in the oven while you check your morning emails, blogs, instagram, facebook, twitter and pinterest.
Or your cupboard to see whether your husband has borrowed your clothing…
So tell me Dear Reader, do you go out for brunch on the weekends? And what do you usually order?
Baked Eggs With Chorizo
Serves 4
Preparation time: 5-10 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
- 1 tin chopped tomatoes
- 4 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 garlic clove, very thinly sliced
- 1.5-2 chorizo sausages, use cured or dry chorizo, sliced very thinly (if you use fresh chorizo, you might need to fry the slices first to ensure that they are cooked through)
- 80g feta cheese
- 16 olives
- 4 eggs
- Salt and pepper
- a few tablespoons of fresh parsley to garnish
- Bread to serve (I served it with a Neu’s Delicacy carrot bread)
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HA! It looks like we both had eggs on the brain today. They are so good, aren’t they? Yours are much lighter for sure. Can’t wait to try them. I LOVE chorizo and the combination with the cheese and tomato is just perfect for supper or brunch.
Delicious! I just want to dunk that lovely bread into those pots…
Cheers,
Rosa
I always order baked eggs when they are on the menu! Love the dipping of bread into runny yolks.
This dish reminds me of a Middle Eastern egg dish I made quite some time ago called Shakshuka, Lorraine, and it was delicious. http://kitcheninspirations.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/shakshuka-a-middle-eastern-egg-dish/. What I love about your dish is the addition of Chorizo, which would spice it up very nicely.
We love going to brunch in our hood where we’ll order one Heuvos Rancheros and share it (they bring it out on two plates and there is tonnes of food). BTW, I just watched Heston Blumenthal’s egg video and it was amazingly enlightening. I shall never make eggs the old fashioned way again. Thanks for putting me onto him (frankly I never liked his show, but love the videos)
Such a beautiful meal!
Hi Lorraine, these look so delicious! Funny story with the cardis! We don’t go out to brunch too often on weekend but when we do I like to get a dose of chorizo too… With goat’s cheese in an omelette. Or a vege big brekkie with avo and haloumi.
Funny post Lorraine about the cardigans. A great spot to take visitors for brunch at weekends is The Cliffhanger Cafe at Bulli Tops. Fabulous views over the escarpment and southern beaches, plus beautiful food and large servings, so the menfolk don’t leave hungry! Also excellent customer service, something getting harder to find these days!
This looks delicious! and so simple to make too. I LOVE weekend brunches but don’t have it often enough. It would be a British fry up for me (bacon, eggs, sausage, toast, mushrooms,.. the works! )
Haha my friend that must have been one vivid dream! The dancing fine but TAKING ONE OF YOUR CARDIGANS?
That is not on
This breakfast looks fantastic – warm, filling and with great flavour, just what’s needed after weird dreams
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Mmm that’s one of our favourite little tapas to have on a rainy day too!
Brunch is usually reserved for special mornings (or hungover ones..)
I love baked eggs but it isn’t a dish you see on menus here. Mr Glam and I often go out for breakfast at the weekend. I usually have scrambled or poached eggs. Delicious. Mr Glam has cake. GG
I adore Spanish eggs and they are top of my list when eating out.
We don’t typically go out for brunch on weekends – I think it’s happened once or twice and typically in conjunction with the boyfriend’s family
But I’d love to make these eggs for bunch – this would be something to look forward to during the doldrums of the week…
Loved the story about the dream and I very rarely will have a really vivid dream where I wake up. Typically it’s not in the morning tho – it’s late at night right after falling asleep and they’re typically spooky, not funny. Although I suppose a cardigan-wearing Mr. NQN doing a dance-off could be spooky…?
Righto then… friends coming to stay over the week-end so this is breakky on Sun morning… thanks! Me thinks a few cubes of pre cooked kipfler thrown in there might be good too…
I love to go out for brunch. They do excellent eggs at Harveys in Brisbane.
I love this combination!
We don’t go out for breakfast/brunch much actually. I think it’s because I’m always so impatient to eat when I wake up that I can’t fathom having to get everybody ready and out the door!
What a yummy variation on a classic Mexican dish. I love the idea of making it with olives and feta. Of course, olives and feta are two of my favorite ingredients.
I do like to go out for brunch…hmm…let’s see: mimosas and eggs benedict for unhealthy starters.
Oh Lorraine you silly sausage….. speaking of sausages this looks delightful, colourful , delicious and far better than calling your husband at work
Yummm!! I’m always a sucker for anything with chorizo in it
I will also steer towards a burek or spanakopita if it looks like a good one 
Ohmygoodnessyum
My sisters and I love brunch! If we get to Kazbah, we’ll get a breakfast tagine or a french toast to share
I had to laugh about the perils of your cardi- out without you. Hopefully Mr NQN doesnt get ideas for future soirees! LOL
your breakfast ramekin looks very wholesome. I will have to keep that idea for a weekender.
The past few months we have been househunting every Saturday in a town 40 mins from where we live. We try to plan it strategically around brunch at a lovely cafe called Worn Out Wears. the menu is interesting and the tables are amongst antiques and gifts. I nearly always buy a scarf, a wrap, a beret, a notebook on the way out.
The chairs all have hand crocheted rugs to wrap yourself in whilst you dine. Your bill is presented to you in a Little Golden Book’ so you can explore the adventures of Barbie or a little red truck.
Apart from our recent adventures, we do love to go out for brunch. it’s our favourite meal at a restaurant.
Cheers,
ok… i LOVE baked eggs! my favourite in sydney has to be at Orto Trading Co, Waterloo st Surry Hills. Their eggs are cooked with sobresada – a spicy, cumin-laced sausage with a melt in your mouth texture. mmmm i’m hungry!
now I know what to do with some chorizo I have in the fridge!
Chorizo is huge down here!
This looks soooo good! I love my Eggs Benny, but an always up for a challenge.
Last time I had a dream about my husband, we had this huge fight in the dream and I woke up still angry with my heart pounding. He was still happily snoring away, so I kicked him. He woke up startled and I pretended to be asleep
Yum, another fantastic recipe I must try! We are so lucky in Newcastle to have a fabulous farmers’ market held most Sundays where you can buy beautiful chorizo (and pate and terrine and…) from the French chef’s stall. When we are there, hubby & I almost always have Turkish gozlame for brunch, but when at a cafe it’s always a mission to find the best eggs benedict (runny egg yolks & lemony sauce required). Love your cardigan dream!!
They look utterly delicious Lorraine! I need to buy some of those ramekins from my local deli to make the dish look’Spanish’ and perfect.
Not living within shouting distance to the city makes going for brunch a little hard and a reluctant husband , harder still. He moans, “Why do we have to go out for brunch when you cook a perfectly tasty one at home?” *sigh!* If we stay overnight in the city, then it’s possible and seeing as I’m a sweet-tooth, I usually order pancakes or french toast.
Now about that dream….did you go to bed on a full stomach, because that’s what usually happens , you end up having the weirdest dreams, I speak by experience, lol.
Great recipe – thanks! My favourite is mushrooms done with a little butter, thyme and lemon rind, served on warm Turkish bread with lashings of ricotta. A good drizzle of olive oil finishes it off perfectly…
Brunch on weekends is my favourite thing to do. It’s almost like a treat for working so hard monday to friday. Baked eggs are my weakness, and chorizo is an added bonus. Didn’t realise it was so easy to make at home. I have to, just have to give this a go! It looks AMAZING Lorraine!
Baked eggs seem to be all the rage at cafes at the moment… yet I haven’t tried making my own yet!
OMG…if my husband see this he will ask me do to it immediately…ok, I can do it for him, only if he wears my cardigan.
I almost reckon I could get my non-egg eating husband to eat these – delicious!!
I love this recipe. I do something similar based on a Karen Martini recipe for Sunday night dinner but this is simpler and I love the idea of individual ramekins
Wow these look soooo yummilicoius Lorraine
This is Mr Bao’s favourite dish and always orders it when we go out…but seriously i just need to stop being so lazy and make some ~
It’ll save us so much money because we always brunch on the weekends hehe
Very Spanish Lorraine!
Chorizo is a Spanish and Portuguese tasty rich pork sausage that is made in various styles like fresh, smoked or cured. It’s good to see that these days many Sydney delis, butchers and some green grocers sell them.
We love the smoked Chorizo and often make various types of dishes similar to your recipe in winter weekends. We usually have this type of dish as an entree at lunch.
i order baked eggs but i’ve made my own version and never really picked that anymore.
Ooh yum this looks delicious and I have just the dish for it too!
I sometimes dream that the husband does something bad and I wake up angry with him. Poor man!
Well, now I know what I am going to cook for brunch this Sunday morning, after watching the long individual time trial of TdF on Saturday night – that will go to 3.30 am and my darling Cadel Evans does not have the legs this year! I’ve honestly tried to help him peddle but it has not helped an iota
! So need something soul-warming! Good recipe 
! Terrific photo too! I/my family have always needed a little something to ‘break the fast’ immediately when I/we wake, but have also always gone out for very early Sunday lunch: for me a Chinese yum cha is a given whenever possible: need those dumplings 
!
I love this spicy, sultry egg dish. I’m not sure we can get dried chorizo here, but I can see a really good pepperoni bringing it home.
I should KNOW not to view your blog before have had brekkie, TRUE!
YUM!! YUM!! YUM!!! LOVE Chorizo and Baked Eggs too!
LOVE making brunch at home, is just me!
As there is always that next experimentation of that new and exciting recipe!
Good recipe, that looks SO good
It only takes you 10 minutes to check all your social media? I wish! But did you find those cardigans or had he really taken then? What a super looking breakfast and yes, so absolutely perfect on a wet winter’s day. Chorizo and eggs go perfectly together xx
We love making this dish! In fact Hubby and I used to go out on dates (prior to kids) to have a dish called “Eggs in Hell” for brunch, which is similar to this but made a lot spicier!
Some dreams can be so so vivid…at times you might even think you are awake and aware, like you in some kind of a vision…..
I need to find some chorizo now.
That would have been hilarious if he had taken on of your cardis to work lol.
I can imagine I will need this tomorrow morning. It looks like a perfect hangover brekkie
I probably should have mentioned this in my last comment, so please forgive the double-post. I’m featuring these eggs in today’s Food Fetish Friday (with a link-back and attribution). I hope you have no objections…
This looks like something Julia made on Masterchef a few weeks ago. Very yummy and sometimes I think there’s nothing that can’t be improved by chorizo x
I sometimes forget dreams except don’t really because some part of my brain thinks they happened, and then two weeks later I’ll end up really confused about what is reality and what isn’t.
Hi Lorraine, I happen to open this post on my cell phone when I was waiting to meet with someone today for a not very pleasant conversation (actually, about apartment we rent here). I was all geared up with the “opening line” for a constructive dialogue to solve the problem. Guess what? After I’ve read this post, I could hardly hide a smile , and I had to be serious for the meeting. But the picture of your husband wearing your cardigans was vivid in my head so I couldn’t stop smiling. When the person finally arrived, all my irritation was gone, and I was promised the issue in our apartment to be solved in a day or two. Thanks for making my meeting go smooth and quick!
HI Marina! Awww that is wonderful! I’m so glad that it took the irritation out of your day xxx
YUM. I have made this without the olives. Its good! Brunch out is my favourite thing to do. it leaves the whole day to do other things. I just wish we had the budget to do it more. I am keen to check out Leigh Street in Adelaide to see if there are any nice breakfast nooks hiding for my birthday this year.
Wow – rich and delicious! An excellent idea and a great Sunday brunch ;D
Yum! this looks delish.. I’m not usually in to eating breakfast at anytime of the day – though I could defo eat this anytime of the day!
Oh I love baked eggs, and those really look cafe-quality! No need to brave the outdoors or travel for them, hehe. I’ve been trying to save money lately, so have been making waffles for weekend brunches rather than going out. I might try your baked eggs next weekend!
We all love chorizo here! i cook it in a spanish rice with black beans style dish popping the whole thing in the rice cooker and finishing off with pimiento and fresh coriander. Gotta love winter!
You and I must be looking at a different Pinterest….I can never check Pinterest in just 10 mins. (one thing always leads to another). I think I will have to make and eat my baked eggs with chorizo and THEN check out Pinterest.
Wow, Lorraine! How delicious is this! I’m going out to buy chorizo tomorrow! My mouth is watering!
What fantastic timing! I am making our annual chorizos with my family this week – 20kg should do us for the year… just!
amusing dream – I quite like waking and remembering my dreams – far more than an eggy breakfast but I do find this sort of baked breakfast quite fascinating
this must be superb|i”ll try & bake my own
I have some pretty vivid dreams too, and Kurt hates hearing about them! He’d much rather wake up to these eggs. The feta and olives sound delicious here. They look great in the cazuelas too.
That’s really funny! I dreamt I had won the lottery and remembered the numbers the next day too, played immediately but that’s dream didn’t come true either either.
I love this dish! I’m going to bookmark it – I have eggs (yep, I do) and chorizo in the freezer, so it’s perfect.
And I love your husband. But you know that, right?
baked eggs are the best when the yolk is runny … yum!
Wow….so easy but sooo good. I love baked eggs
Perfect for breakfast /brunch tomorrow.Thank you for the giggle too.
Sadly, we work too many hours to make a living so there’s little time for eating out but breakfast is a favourite.
I’m of two minds on breakfast. If I’m homesick, it’s going to be something American and if I’m normal it will be something with an egg and toast. I love potatoes with breakfast too.
I’ve never dreamed that John was wearing my clothes. Nothing matches his beard.
These look amazing Lorraine – great brunch option. I often make something similar to this – based on the Israeli dish Shakashuka – delicious. And I do go for brunch almost every weekend and baked eggs are one of my favourite orders!
I love your version of baked eggs, I really wanted to put chorizos in mine as well, should have got it! Will definitely make baked eggs again with your recipe!
Boo discovered the wonders of baked eggs at school on Friday.
Methinks this will be on the menu tomorrow morning!
Hmm this looks delicious – I love baked eggs! I think I’ll have to have a go at making these myself
Beautiful presentation, I love your red ramekins!
sadly, i don’t go out for brunch–i make it for about 100 people every sunday at our restaurant! sausage is always a draw for me.
Loved your baked eggs and vivid dream
I love easy yet tasty oven dishes like this lovely one. I will make this in wintertime but I can eat it anytime, you know! It sure looks delectable!
These look amazing, and Chorizo is one of hubby’s favourite foods. Will have to try it.
One question though – is the egg yolk hard or runny after 10 mins in the oven?
I’ve had trouble with baked eggs not cooking the eggs quite right in the past.
Thanks,
Kate
Hi everyone! Thanks! I’m so glad that you liked the recipe and I’m glad to report that no cardigans were harmed (or stretched)
It was just a very, very, very vivid dream! 
Kate, good question!
The yolks were still runny but they had a little bit set at the top. If you prefer them runnier, you can cook them for a shorter time or even crack them into the ramekin once it has been cooking for a little bit 
Used to enjoy brunch outside with friends or just with my husband…until two little ones came along…then not really. The places we like are all too crowded and we have no patience to wait outside with the kids. So, I love this kind of recipes where we can comfortably make it at home while kids play or watch TV… Thanks for the perfect recipe!
Delicious! I added potatoes at the bottom…next time will try spinach. Potatoes did not quite work.
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