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Cooking Eggs - A basic skill
Eggs are such a versatile food. Nutritious, easy to cook and inexpensive to acquire. You could easily have your own supply simply by building your own hen house, and keeping a few hens. They are also very necessary in a number of recipes, particularly in cake baking and in some pastries.
Did you have soft boiled eggs for breakfast as a child? Breakfast is not the same without eggs. Eggs really are healthy cooking for kids. You likely progressed to something like scrambled eggs with smoked salmon. This is a dish guaranteed to impress, yet is really simple to prepare. It takes minutes to prepare and cook and little or no cooking knowledge to get it right - serve with toast and champagne if you are really pushing the boat out. Otherwise, orange juice and/or coffee is fine.
For lunch or brunch, soufflés and omelettes are great. Not as easy to master but with care and attention can give impressive results and you can change the fillings to give yourself options - cheese of various types give different tastes and almost all cold meats can be used ham is particularly good, whilst shellfish and vegetables are different again.
Try a Spanish omelette for a tasty quick meal. Much easier that other types of omelettes, this does not require that it be light and fluffy. This is really simple. Break some eggs into a bowl and whisk until they are well mixed. Cut some left over vegetables into small pieces and gently fry in a little low fat cooking oil for a few minutes (just enough oil to stop it sticking in the pan), then add the eggs and stir gently. Now let it cook until the eggs are cooked all through. Cut into as many pieces as you want and serve. Delicious.
Try using boiled eggs as finger bites at parties. Boil your eggs until they are hard boiled. Remove the shells and cut them lengthwise in halfs. Scoop out the yolks and put them in a bowl. Set the whites aside for now to be used later. Now add flavours to the yolks. There are a number of ingredients you can use depending on your taste and your pocket. You could try mayonnaise (or salad cream). Cream cheese. Small pieces of ham. A little garlic butter. However, only use one flavour to an egg. Mash your egg yolk with the selected flavour, then pile it back into the egg white halfs. Serve on a bed of lettuce with a garnish of parsley. These can be used as an entree for a main meal, simply serve them with salad.