Recipe for Pop-Eye Eggs with Cheese and Salsa

This recipe is my grown-up and diet-friendly version of what my mother called "Pop-Eye Eggs."

I had the kind of mother who always sent her kids to school with a hot breakfast in their tummies, even though she was cooking for twelve!  Most of the time it was an easy-to-make hot cereal like oatmeal, but sometimes mom would cook things like pancakes or French toast.  And when it was a very special breakfast, we'd have Pop-Eye Eggs.  We called them Pop-Eye Eggs because the yolk of the egg looked like an eye popping out, but eggs fried inside a hole cut in a piece of bread are called by a large variety of names including Toad in a Hole, Eggs in a Basket, Eggs in the Hole, Eggs in a Blanket, Bird's Nest Eggs, Cowboy Eggs, Bull's Eye Eggs, Gas House Eggs, and Sunshine Toast.  If your mom used to make something like this, I'd love to hear in the comments about what you called it.

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