Well the holiday is over and as my sister Foxy proclaimed to me yesterday on facebook messenger, "We survived! Yes!!!" I really am not a Scrooge, I do love the fuss and the celebration and I try not to cut corners on the excitement but good golly, does a normal week sound good.
Am working on housework today tag-teaming orders of duty with Foxy using IM. Have been blasting through recording receipts for our budget recrding, stripping and re-making the beds, sorting winter from summer and pregnancy from non-pregnancy in the clothing department and bagging and bagging and bagging up loose-leaf pregnancy tea that I bought and haven't been using at all because I haven't been organized enough to get it ready to use. Whew. Am ready for a huge goods purge, immersing myself in a housekeeper's routine again and booting up of my weekly menu system. All good things which, somehow feel relieving. Am feeling all together at the moment because I have some beef thawing out in the kitchen for swiss steak for dinner (one of those classic comfort dishes that I've never made or eaten).
Speaking of classic food I've never made...A asked me at breakfast if I might make his eggs sunny-side up sometime. I said, "Sure!" And then there was this long pause and I followed up with a casual "So do you know how?" I feel silly but, I've always made eggs over easy or scrambled and I haven't really got any idea how to make a proper sunny-side up egg....will have to look it up and broaden my experiences.
The garden is looking properly drab and I keep wondering if I should just put it out of its misery, trim, chop and rake it up for the winter. On the other hand, there's a lot to indoors and the cosmos are still pumping out blossoms and I hate to cut them off, mid-bloom. I just hope I don't put it off so long that I find myself out there in the snow, clipping stems and finally stacking pots and pulling in the outdoor cushions.
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If you can make eggs over easy than you'll have no trouble making them sunny side up. Basically, just don't flip them over. :) Here is a little tutorial video: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Sunny-Side-up-Eggs
@RacieM - *grin* Thanks!
You either baste them in the pan face up, scooping pan fat onto the tops, or, much easier, put a lid on it. Let the splatters cook the tops by bouncing off the lid and onto the top of the eggs.... stop when you get to the desired done-ness. Voila' !
Here's another cool egg .. Shirred eggs. I think a French thang. Gramma Sallie liked. Put one or two eggs in a little pot pie tin or something small and ovenproof, top with a tad of butter and salt and pepper, pop in the oven at 350-ish. place a pan of water in the oven on the rack below the eggs. Let cook. Take out and eat! (They are kind of rubbery eggs but also cool because they are baked, not fried.
A-aa-and...
Here's my favorite way to cook eggs, don't know the name for them, so I call them holey eggs...
Preheat cast iron pan. Make an egg sized hole in a piece of bread, place in pan, add a pat of butter, crack an egg in the hole, add salt and pepper and a dab of butter. Can also add a dab of cheese, parsley. Cook until almost done, flip, leave long enough for the flipped side to cook, flip over and onto a serving plate. Yum!
They made this kind of eggs in the chick flick from the 1990s, Moonstruck, with Cher etc, I was really impressed! What to do with the piece of bread? Cook it too and add to the plate for a crunchy side.
Like pearlygirltoo, I recommend covering them to cook the whites -that's how I do it! But you have to really watch them because the yolks will cook in not time flat if you do it that way.
Huh. This is so interesting. Technically, I cook my eggs sunny side-up then. My dad taught me to add a touch of water to the pan at the end, cover with the lid and steam till the whites are cooked. I guess I just thought it was a clever way to make over-easy eggs without all the clumsy mess of breaking the yolks while flipping them. I guess A just means that he doesn't want his yolk steamed over then...or not steamed as much. Will have to try. I make shirred eggs sometimes. I like them with a little dollup of tomato paste, some chopped spinach and little grated fontina.....mmmm.....
Gene's been making sunny side up eggs by covering them without the water (my mom always used water, too, just like your dad). When you don't use water, the eggs have a more classic sunny side up look without the layer of white on top of the yolk. I have never done it. I'm a scrambled or over easy girl.
@Meekandquietjourney - I'll try Gene's method for Aaron's egg then! Cool to know!
@cutepickles1 - Thanks! Me too...its one of the patriarchs blessing his sons.
Yes I think we are all glad for a little break between the special things! Especially with the sicknesses thrown into the picture!