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On Thursday, I thought to myself, 'I should do something with those leftover sweet potato puffs.' And eggs are good with leftover sweet potato puffs, and I could make an omelet, but I couldn't use ALL the puffs in one omelet, and then I'd just have the same problem again the next day, and who knows if I'd want to make another omelet?

And then I thought maybe I could make eggs muffins, but I only had five eggs, which wasn't really enough, plus washing the muffin tin is such a pain. But I have a square pan (probably 8x8? 9x9?) that looked easy to wash, and I had pancake mix, so after some quick internet searching to make sure I wasn't totally off base, I assembled the following:

1 cup pancake mix (one of those all-purpose pancake and baking mixes)
5 eggs
1 cup milk (okay, it was half and half mixed with water; close enough)
1/4 cup oil (in retrospect, did not need this much; I was guessing ratios based on the pancake recipe that came with the mix)
1 tsp camp mix (salt, pepper, garlic)
leftover sweet potato puffs
cheese
oh, and I remembered I had dried shallots, so I added like 1/4 cup of rehydrated shallots too

And then I poured it in the pan and baked it at 375F for about 35 minutes, and it came out great! (Well, it came out fine. I was pretty worried about giving myself salmonella from undercooking the eggs, so it probably didn't actually need all 35 minutes.) Like a crustless quiche, but the pancake mix keeps it from being quite so relentlessly egg-textured. It tasted best the first day, but it's been pretty good re-heated in the toaster oven too.

I declare this recipe a success, and a good way to use up leftovers.