Tuesday: Eggs in the rough

eggs in the rough

Oh the egg the egg the incredible edible egg! (flashback from the 70s adverts on eggs from the egg council)

These eggs are so yummy and easy to make. They don't have to have the bacon of course but when you feel a little wicked, why not? Our dear dear friend Judith gave me a dozen from her hens and we whipped these up one night when we were feeling a bit tired and peckish. Fast and easy.

Here's how:

Start with the freshest organic eggs and chives, mix up six eggs and generous amounts of chives

In a large flat frying pan stir fry:

1 cup of cooked rice, two heads of broccoli florets, half of a chopped onion and five strips of uncured organic bacon.

Add salt and pepper and some rosemary and stir fry the ingredients until bacon is crispy

Pour in the beaten eggs over the veggies and bacon and let it set up. Then you can fold and separate the eggs until they are cooked through. Serves 3-4 people for lunch or dinner or sunday brunch!

Monday: French Toast!

My favorite breakfast is French Toast. I love everything about it. It is hard for me to keep it to once a month, as the gluten thing is a big problemo, but when I have it I enjoy it even more so. mmmmmm. So here is the deluxe recipe.

Use a semolina or batard, baguette loaf. Slice into thick slices.

In a bowl mix up:

4 organic large eggs

1/2 cup milk or soymilk

add to this mixture:

1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp ground cardamom

1/2 tsp cinnamon (more to come later)

lots of freshly ground nutmeg

Take the bread and soak it in the mixture. I like to coat both sides and let it sit for about 5 minutes while I prepare the frying pan with a teaspoon of butter. When it's melted I place the prepared bread in the pan.

At this point - it is cinnamonfication time. That's right. You can't get enough of the cinnamon here. Sprinkle it liberally onto the toast's raw side and then flip when the bottom side is nice and golden.

Cook until done. Serve with traditional maple syrup. Or get all European. Which simply means you have not most likely HAD real maple syrup and opt for things like: apple butter (very very good) or nutella (evil) or jammies of all sorts (ok, if you are simply out of maple syrup)

Eat until you are going to pop.