• Use a 3-inch cookie cutter to cut a shape out of each piece of the bread. Assure that the bread is uncut around the edges so that the egg stays inside the hole.
• Drain the peppers.
• Melt butter in a large skillet or a griddle.
• Place bread and cut-out pieces inside skillet, and toast them on the bottom. Turn all bread pieces over.
• Break an egg into each hole with the pieces of bread.
• Add a strip or 2 of red pepper to each nest.
• Season the eggs with salt and pepper and sprinkle a little cheese into each nest.
• Cover the eggs with a lid. They are perfectly done when the whites are firm and the yolks are just glazed over.
• Transfer to a platter, sprinkle with fresh basil and serve with the cut-outs.

Notes

• I serve with some fruit, bacon or sausage. Picture shows Apple Chicken Sausage.