Cooking lesson #5 - Eggs

The search for a potJill starts the egg boiling

That's right - it says "for professional cooks"
Perfect!

First poached egg ever

Cheers!

If you missed the first installment with the cooking lessons recap, click here, it's worth the read. So Jill and I had had some egg discussions. She needed to learn how to do deviled eggs and I needed to learn how to do poached eggs. So we found some recipes and turned one crazy Saturday night into egg night. The day started with my quest to find a spider strainer, I was convinced I needed one for my poached eggs, found one and it wouldn't fit in the pot I had to poach the eggs in. Oh well, now I have it and I'm sure I'll get tons of use out of that. Anyway, Jill came over here for cooking which was an adventure in itself. I don't cook so I don't have very much useful cookware. The first laughing fit was over my pots and pans cabinet - which consists of 100 cookie cutters, 17 cookie sheets, 12 cooling racks and 3 pots/pans. After some girl talk and a little wine it was time for the deviled eggs. There was some personality conflict between Jill's "these have to look perfect" attitude and my "just peel the damn things" attitude, but all in all, they were a big hit, we ate the entire plate full! Around 11:30 PM we finally decided to attempt poaching, once again our creation - Eggs Florentine was a huge hit! We toasted to eggs and friendship with a couple mimosas and ended another successful cooking lesson!

July 3, 2010