Tamara's Beth's Hank's Eggs "Surprise"

Last night at Whole Foods Beth was telling me about Beth's Hank's Eggs and although kind of weird seemed interesting enough for me to make an attempt at making something like it.

The ingredients:
1/2 ham steak (fully cooked)
3 small potatoes
3 large eggs (I think I should have used more)
1 clove of garlic
1/2 small onion (I used white but a red onion would work nice)
1/3 medium yellow bell pepper
1/3 medium red bell pepper (I would have used green to if I felt like looking for one at the store)
tablespoon of olive oil
pat of butter
pepper
oregano
parsley
paprika
couple ounces of colby jack cheese - shredded
seasoned salt
Mrs. Dash table seasoning
sea salt and pepper to taste


I cut my potatoes into thirds and dropped them in a pot of salted water to boil. (I find they fry up better if you do this). I cooked them until fork tender. Cut them into semi-thick slices and let them cool slightly.

Other prep work:
fine chopped the onion
minced the garlic
chopped the bell pepper in bite-sized pieces
chopped ham steak into bite-sized pieces

Heated the olive oil and butter in a pan tossed in the potatoes. Those started to brown and I added in the onion and bell peppers and garlic. Added black pepper (I love the stuff). I let those cook down. The potatoes continue to brown and get a nice crust to them.

I pushed that to the side and added the ham that I seasoned with the Mrs. Dash (liberally). Cooked the ham until it had a nice color then mixed in with the potatoes. I added the seasoned salt and oregano. Stir well to blend flavors.

At this point, I beat the eggs. Made sure the potatoes were cooked like I like them. pushed everything to one side in the pan and added the eggs. Scramble scramble scramble. Before the eggs were fully cooked I mixed everything together. Did a little taste test added some salt. I added about 1/4 of the cheese and stirred together. Topped with parsley and paprika. Finally I added the rest of the cheese on top. Turned off heat and let that melt.



I served Tamara's Beth's Hank's Eggs "Surprise" with slices of green apples and tomato and a piece of butter toast.