August.19,2010

Hi , we're back!

I know, we've been gone a few weeks. Busy summer schedule, silly family re-unions and time spent in the hot sun vegging out! We have decided to use this week as a lesson of how to cook eggs in many different ways. We don't want to do it all in one day, so this will go on for a while.

Todays lesson- How to cook a Hard Boiled Egg

First- warm up your refrigerated cold eggs to room temp by placing in warm water, this will prevent them from cracking.

Second- put eggs in a pot, single layered, and cover with cold water, just until the eggs are immersed. Put on high heat and bring to a hard boil. As soon as the water is bubbling hard, remove from heat and cover pot with lid. depending on the firmness of the yolk, cook for proper amount of time. This is the time of cooking after the eggs are removed from heat source.

Large eggs- soft boiled- 4-5 minutes
-medium boiled-6 minutes
-hard boiled- 17 minutes

How to test an egg if it is hard boiled.
Remove from hot water and spin carefully on countertop. If it wobbles, there is still uncooked yolk inside, if it spins evenly, it is cooked all the way through.

Third- When eggs are done, remove carefully and place in a bowl with cold water and ice for 10 minutes.

Fourth-Then peel shell and thin membrane off while under cold running water. Easy!

Slice up hard boiled eggs into small bits , add 3 tbsp of margarine and salt/pepper to taste for yummy egg salad sandwiches.

Some interesting add-in ideas...
celery & onion
chicken & curry powder
ham & mustard
pickles,mustard & onion
green pepper,pimento & chili powder
bacon & onion

So, all done, everyone loved their egg salad sandwiches. Maybe next time we'll make devilled eggs out of the hard boiled eggs. Now, since we have some more time, we are going to try frying an egg sunny side up.

Interesting fact!
The ropey strands of the egg white that attach the egg yolk in place are called Chalazae (kuy-lay-zee). The more prominent the Chalazae, the fresher the egg.