Eggs and Peas

Ingredients:

olive oil, enough to coat pan
1 large onion, chopped
8 eggs
1 can of peas,drained or pkg.frozen peas
1 8 oz.can tomato sauce
8 slices American cheese
salt and pepper to taste

In large frying pan, put enough olive oil to coat pan. Stir fry onion until transparant. Add peas and tomato sauce. Then crack each egg and carefully drop into pan on top of peas and sauce, spacing out for individual portions. Try not to break the yolk. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cover and let cook until the yolks are cooked but not hard. Uncover and place slice of cheese over each egg. Cover and cook additional minute or until cheese melts. Serve with good crusty Italian bread to dab up all the delicious sauce.

My Mom made this thrifty dish for our family of 9, using a big roasting pan to accommodate a dozen or more eggs. She would serve it in the roasting pan like it was a leg of lamb and we all loved it!