Eggcelently Eggstatic!

Week 4!!!!!

Intro to cooking techniques was so much fun tonight!!!

I know I mentioned in a past post how excited I was about learning bread making..... another thing I'm really excited about learning at school is cooking eggs. Doing different things with eggs... learning different ways to cook eggs for breakfast/brunch.... and perfecting the way I cook eggs!

So! Tonight's class was the first of 3 classes on learning different ways to cook eggs!! eeeep! yay!

Tonight we covered simple cooking styles... sunny side up, over easy and...... wait for it... wait for it... POACHED EGGS!! I have always been told how hard it is to make poached eggs, but it was so easy!!! I guess having and instructor show you how to do it the right way really helps!!

So we all know sunny side up... and over easy!

oh but wait!! He also taught us how to properly season an aluminum.. or no.. stainless steel pan! a non-stick pan... for things like this... basically he taught us how to make a natural non-stick surface....what you do is, you take kosher salt... a bunch of kosher salt.. maybe half a tblspn.. if u want you can go for a full tblspn ... either way... you put that on the pan, and with a paper towel just rub it all over... you will see the salt will start to turn grey... I'm not sure if I'm going to be giving the correct info, but something about cleaning up the carbon on the pan and filling up the holes in the pan to sort of create a smooth surface so the liquid of the egg wont get stuck in the ridges?? something like that ... I dunno... it basically just polishes the pan....then you pour some clarified butter on it and you're good to go!!

BACK TO THE EGGS!!!

So, I started off with making sunny side up and over easy eggs.... we have all made them before.. but one thing I liked that I learned tonight was that you know, you put the egg on the pan, but before I used to just let it sit there, but tonight we were told to lightly shake the pan around to get the egg moving and not stick in one spot... it worked out really well for me! My eggs came out looking really good!


I didn't spend too much time making those types of eggs, I think I made 2 sunny side up and 2 over easy.... I quickly moved on to poached eggs!!!! I was so antsy and anxious!!!!!

I grabbed a pot, filled it half way with water and put it over the stove to heat! First thing I learned was to put some vinegar in the water.. it helps the egg coagulate.  So you heat the water... just until it starts to boil and you take it down a bit to a simmer. Then! Stir the water, creating a whirlpool effect. Then plop the egg in (we learned its best to crack the egg in a bowl then pour it in). The whirlpool helps with sorta keeping it all centered. It's really awesome watching the egg whites flow and cook at the same time!! It's like when you see those videos of coral reefs and see the seaweed moving around.. it's so cool!!

So to bring it all together... sorta but not really... we made  Salad Lyonnaise.  We had some salad frisse, a thick slab of bacon!! not those silly thin strips.. we got  3 slabs!!!  We cut off the skin, and cut the bacon into thick rectangles...mmmmm soo yummy!!!  We had our poached eggs and made some croutons and a vinaigrette! It was DELICIOUS!!!!!

Here's the best pic I could find on google image search engine of this salad!!! This salad actually looks perfect! I want to eat it up right now!!

Until next time!

Enjoy your food ya'll!!!!