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Eggs a la Queso prep

As you may have observed, I eat a lot of eggs and spinach.   I try to limit my egg consumption to two day and usually for breakfast.  Sometimes, if I'm pressed for breakfast due to early work meetings, I'lljust do turkey bacon.  Yesterday, I was so FULL still from the fiber filled egg scramble of the day before, I couldn't eat breakfast.   So I had my eggs for lunch. 

I have created something so wonderful that I have to give it a french name.   It is awesome.   The reason it's awesome is because of the shredded Queso cheese I have started to use.  Queso cheese is cheese found in quesadillas and on top of refried beans in mexican restaurants, it is a white soft cheese. It has ZERO carbs.  Most cheese has 1 carb.

Since it had zero carbs, I wanted to try it on eggs.  My husband hadn't eaten lunch yet and one of his favorite eggs dishes is eggs benedict.  I was going to try to make a low carb eggs benedict but with the queso cheese instead of the hollandaise sauce.  Hollandaise sauce has scant carbs in it by the way so I'm not saving anything really....I just didn't want to make hollandaise sauce.

It was amazing.

I poached the eggs, while the eggs poached, I sprinkled half the queso on the spinach and blanched that in the microwave for 30 seconds.   Placed the poached eggs on top of the spinach and sprinkled with the remaining queso which melted on contact.  I did season this with a little salt and pepper.  Here's the ingredients I would suggest:

I used 1 cup of spinach - I now would use 2 cups because the spinach really shrinks in the blanching.
1/4 queso
2 eggs
Carbometer: 3 - 4 carbs

I didn't think that would be enough....so I also blended a blackberry strawberry low fat, greek yogurt and also to help up my fiber count.  I couldn't finish the yogurt...the eggs were so filling.

Here's the final presentation:

Eggs a la Queso with Blackberry-Strawberry Yogurt