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Skriven 2013-04-02 10:01:16 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.42)
  Kommentar till text 35546 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: easter eater 351
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 MLoo> Annie made these weird things where you cut a hole in a slice of 
 MLoo> bread, put it in the frying pan, then fill the hole with an egg. 
 MLoo> After a minute, you flip the bread and egg and cook until done. 
 MLoo> I thought that a strange idea, and as it combined two of my 
 MLoo> favorite things, bread and overcooked eggs, I gave this 
 MLoo> specialty a pass.

i grew up with this... possibly it is a british thing? my mother was raised in
bermuda (british foods and habits)... i like to butter the bread a little after
cutting the hole out with a glass... then into the frying pan with the egg...
we called it, get this, "Egg in the Middle of Toast" :) it can be hard to get
right at times... we always had it where the yolks were still runny... the hard
part is getting the toast toasted decently, not too much, while the whites are
cooked and /don't/ let that yolk get cooked at all... it doesn't take much for
it so go sideways and not come out right... there is such a fine line between
the tempuratures that the whites and the yolks cook at... only a 3 or 4 degree
F spread IIRC... maybe 5 degrees F... i forget which cook taught me that...
possibly anthony bourdain or... wait... no... i think it was alton brown,
actually... he's always getting into the science of the hows and whys of
cooking ;)

another one of similar nature is two or three eggs soft-boiled then mashed in a
bowl with Ritz crackers and a little bit of butter... comfort food from
childhood! we have a gas stove now and i can't ever get the timing right with
it for the water temp and how long to cook the eggs in the shells... however,
my dad like poached eggs and i discovered that i can poach them just right to
mix with the crackers... the key is that the whites are cooked thru but the
yolk is not cooked at all... see above for the yolk cooking thing ;) and the
crackers, oh the crackers... gotta be Ritz for the right taste i grew up
with... the original ones... their others just don't work... other butter
flavored crackers are kinda ok (captains wafers) but don't even think of trying
to use saltines or similar soda cracker types... yerk!


 MLoo> Easter lunch

 MLoo> I had some leftover rib roast while watching Bourdain tour
 MLoo> Istanbul with his mad taxi driver guide Ihsan and eating
 MLoo> and seeing most of the same things as I did back a few
 MLoo> years ago with Lilli and some other friends and our mad
 MLoo> taxi driver guide Ihsan. The Sodaro wine had mellowed out
 MLoo> quite nicely.

anthony is a character, isn't he? :)  i've gotten to where i'll watch his shows
and not many of the others of similar nature... that is until i start seeing
nothing but repeats... i'll watch BBC America's "Top Gear" repeats before most
others unless the show is real interesting or i want to try to catch something
i missed previously...

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