Broccoli-cheddar frittata, bacon optional

This is a crowd-pleaser!

A few weeks ago, I found myself with some cooked potatoes, broccoli, eggs, and bacon. All signs pointed to making a frittata — the patron saint of fridge cleanouts. 

I roasted the broccoli while cooking the bacon in the oven and assumed I’d crumble the bacon to blend in with everything else. But then, the Instagram-sharing side of my brain spoke to me and said, “What if I drape the slices of bacon on top?”

I shared the creation in my Instagram Stories, and some questions rolled in: “How did you do that?”  “Did you cook the bacon first?” 

For this newsletter, I set out to develop a frittata recipe with bacon on top that wouldn’t require you to have cooked potatoes on hand and would still come together in about 30 minutes. 

I thought to myself — what tastes great with broccoli? Cheddar, of course!

This broccoli-cheddar frittata is already so good that bacon might be overkill. 

But I kept it here as an optional topper because life is hard, and sometimes bacon makes it better.