Eggs

[Polska_Gurom]

Do they have to be boiled as is always recommended I prefer them fried with the yolk the way I want

Doesn't really matter, eggs are a nutritional powerhouse whichever way you consume them. Don't be scared of using oils and fats, your body needs some anyways for the absorption of fat soluble vitamins, among other functions. Just everything in moderation is the main thing.

 

[Polska_Gurom]

Whatever way you eat them they are superfood

Yes, people get too scared of them because of fearmongering around cholesterol.

 

[Jaylee]

Yes, people get too scared of them because of fearmongering around cholesterol.

In the late 1980s junior health minister Edwina Currie didn’t help matters much, either..?
Something to do with “salmonella.”

 

[MrsA2]

if I can find something to act as an eggcup. Thanks.

A shot glass works well...as we discovered in a holiday rental one time

 

[Polska_Gurom]

In the late 1980s junior health minister Edwina Currie didn’t help matters much, either..?
Something to do with “salmonella.”

A bit too far back for a young lad like me to remember

 

[Jaylee]

A bit too far back for a young lad like me to remember

lol, I had my mind on other “things” at the time, myself?
But a quick Google head checked what was reported at the time..

 

[Antje77]

A bit too far back for a young lad like me to remember

But at least you have the google, we didn't in the 80's and we'd have to go to the library if we desperately wanted to look up some random piece of information!

 

[Jaylee]

Don't think I've ever seen a recommendation only to boil eggs.

I probably go through more than a dozen a week, fried (in olive oil, lard, or garlic butter, for slightly different tastes) and in omelettes mainly.

Omelettes?

Stayed in a cove on Crete, Loutro.. years ago with my wife, only access was by boat. Or do the cliff walk of death.
Loads of goats.. Rumour had it the local herder was also like a Wild West sheriff. He’d have a coffee every morning by the front enterance outside, dresses in black. A little like “uncle Albert” dressed like the bad guy in a martial arts movie?
I’d greet him with a nod? He clocked me the first morning & it was like a “spaghetti western.” Once he figured I was “mostly harmless” we were cool.. I was told years ago they don’t like hippies on the islands? (Long story. I was once threatened with a knife by a shop owner buying yoghurt in antiparos.)

The hotel owner who also had a parrot “makes the best hooomlleettts.” (Omelettes. His pronunciation, not my spelling.)

Lovely they were too.. mushroom & ham?

My wife & I still recreate these hoomllets.
Like folded mushroom & the hams as the filling.

 

[Jaylee]

But at least you have the google, we didn't in the 80's and we'd have to go to the library if we desperately wanted to look up some random piece of information!

Or in my case.. My T2 dad (no longer with us.) back in his day actually knew his onions.
He also told me his education was pretty much beaten into him?
I know they banned “that corporal discipline stuff” the year before I left school. But they took no prisoners being T1 at school.

I’m not joking @Polska_Gurom when I say there was no care package when I went back to school after summer break diagnosis.
Think feral T1 8 year old with a bag full of hypo treatment & pee test equipment?

Look up the “four Yorkshiremen, Monty Python.”
& what I say will make sense but at the same time… none at all.

 

[Ryhia]

Talking about eggs reminded me of baked cheese and egg a childhood favourite. My mum used to call them birds nests. Its a simple, probably well known, recipe, Just grate or slice some cheddar cheese and layer it around the edge of a tea plate. Break an egg (or two) in the middle add a bit of butter for greasing around the edge. Cook in the oven until the egg is cooked. 'Bout 10 mins. The cheese goes all bubbly and crispy on the edges and the soft yolk mixed with cooked cheese is delicious plus where the cheese has stuck to the plate makes it something to linger over. Think of parmesan crisps. Yum Yum.

 

[Antje77]

Talking about eggs reminded me of baked cheese and egg a childhood favourite. My mum used to call them birds nests. Its a simple, probably well known, recipe, Just grate or slice some cheddar cheese and layer it around the edge of a tea plate. Break an egg (or two) in the middle add a bit of butter for greasing around the edge. Cook in the oven until the egg is cooked. 'Bout 10 mins. The cheese goes all bubbly and crispy on the edges and the soft yolk mixed with cooked cheese is delicious plus where the cheese has stuck to the plate makes it something to linger over. Think of parmesan crisps. Yum Yum.

I'm definitely going to try this, thank you!

 

[Ryhia]

I'm definitely going to try this, thank you!

Hope you like it.

 

[Antje77]

Hope you like it.

I'm not sure what a tea plate is though, but I'm also not sure I have any plates I can put in the oven.
I'll figure something out though!

 

[Lupf]

I can't help observing that @Laconic who posted the question has stayed silent since.
And yes, I am also one of these who likes eggs in any which way

 

[debs248]

Today has inadvertently become a very eggy day

Had 3 fried eggs for breakfast (don't normally eat in the mornings but have to for new meds)

Then hubby decided to make a frittata to use up all the ageing veg....

Not sorry at all, eggs are fantastic

I second the asparagus and dippy egg combo, just lush.