Fancy Pants and Eggs

I adore eggs. Not like I want to make mad passionate fucking with one, but damn they are tasty. Eggs are wonders. First, if you think of what they are, REALLY think about it, you might never eat one again. Second, eggs are just amazing from scrambled, to in cakes, to being made into Mayo. Third, they are the best hangover food. Seriously, think of your last hangover when you had eggs for breakfast, you felt better sooner. I read some serious documented scientific proof on it on some webpage, so i know it's a great cure for hangovers. Some chemical or enzyme. Oh stop rolling your eyes, I was a Communication Major! The only science I took in college was Enviromental Science and I never bothered to show up. No really, I had to call a friend the day of the final because I didn't know where the class was.


But back to the Egg and not my education, or lack there of.

Hangover cures being just one of the mean reasons that eggs are the perfect food for the single chef, busy business person, or just plan no idea how to work the oven yet person.



1. They are cheap: A buck and some change for 18 eggs. That's six two egg omlettes and six birds in a nest. You got dinner and breakfast covered.

2. Baking almost always requires them: Unless you want shortbread...

3. Easy to Make: put a little butter in a hot pan, crack it and there you go or crack it into a bowl and scramble the hell out of it.

I have yet to master the fried egg. I know how to do it, but I don't like fried eggs so I flip them over so the yoke cooks a bit. And there is nothing WORSE than the smell of a slightly burnt egg.


And the trick to scrambled eggs for either omlettes or Frittata's is to scramble the hell out of them so that you can see the air getting into the eggs-- these will be fluffy eggs.


But what the single, busy, and/or scared of the oven persons really want to know is: How the hell do I impress people with EGGS?!


Easy, The Frittata:
You'll Need:


Butter-- a tablespoon or so to coat the bottom
Half an onion sliced (or any veggies really: mushrooms,left over peppers, etc)
Half a tomato diced
Cooked Canadian Bacon or Bacon
shredded cheese
3-4 eggs scrambled (or 6-9 eggs if you are using a 10-12 inch
frying pan)
8-9 inch frying pan/ omlette pan that is oven safe





Heat up the frying pan on the stove on medium and set the oven on Broil
once the frying pan is nice and hot add butter and let it bubble up and melt
Scramble up the eggs so they are nice and fluffy
add onion and let them cook a bit until almost translucent
add tomato and stir a bit
Add eggs and much like an omlete, push the sides back as well as with your spatcula "cut" holes in the bottom to let the uncooked eggs get to the pan and get it so there is only about 1-.5 of an egg left to cook
toss bacon and cheese on top
Throw in oven with Broiler on for a minute or until the eggs have cooked and cheese is bubbley! (WATCH THE OVEN! You saw what happened to me with just toast)


USE YOUR OVEN MITT TO TAKE IT OUT OF THE OVEN!

Served up with a nice bloody mary or mimosa it would really be the hangover cure, plus it was cheaper than going to Denny's and you don't have to tip someone who spit in your food. Also, your bed/couch is a lot closer to crawl back into. Which is what I like to do while watching "Whose Wedding Is This?" on Style. Trust me, having eggs in the house is a life saver. Esp if you are the kind of boyfriend that eats your wonderful redhead's two slices of glorious pizza along with your OWN two slices while she's yaking up the MAGNA bottle of wine she drank to get a buzz before going out... (love you!)

(Blogger was being odd this morning, so this post is coming a bit later than I wanted it to.)