Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Egg | Endless Simmer

Now that I work from home my morning routine is different. Instead of springing out of bed, having waited for the last of the possible“snoozes,” I now roll over, shut my alarm off and open my email. Right there in bed, with the ease of my newly updated (software version 4.0.2) iPhone.

First I check my work email to make sure nothing insane has happened, then my personal email. I receive a few blog posts directly to my email (otherwise I’m really terrible at keeping up with other food blogs that I enjoy). One of these is fromMacheesmo.

YesterdayNick wrote a thoughtful piece on the recent egg recall. As eggs’ number one fan, I knew this sort of danger was coming. But also as eggs’ fan, I know to buy my yolky treats straight from farmers. Farmers (thank youTruck Patch) that raise chickens as chickens should be raised, not cramped in an immoral amount of space and fed, well, I can’t be sure, but it’s not natural.

While most egg buyers tucked theirsunny side up desiresaway, I, instead, dreamed of how I would use eggs in my lunch that very day.

Egg Salad with Oven Roasted Tomatoes

While we’ve had sometrouble hard boiling eggsbefore on ES, I had an easy time of it today. I placed fourfarmers’ market’s eggs(enough for multiple servings) in a small pan, topped, by an inch, with cold water, covered, and brought to a boil. Once it started boiling I placed the pan on a cool burner and let it sit off the heat for 9 minutes.

Then I drained the water and shook the pan so the eggs would crack while bouncing off the sides, making it easier to peel. This also starts to cool off the hot eggs. (Jacques Pepintaught me this trick. ) Then I placed the eggs in ice water and soon after started peeling. It wasn’t the easiest peel job, as the eggs were fresh and I couldn’t slide my finger under the membrane to release the shell.

I cut the eggs in half, placed the bright yellow yolks in a small bowl, and placed the chopped whites in a larger bowl. In the yolk bowl I added:spicy mustard, grainy dijon mustard, prepared horseradish, apple cider vinegar, celery seed, caraway seed, salt, pepperand a touch ofwater. I promise, you won’t miss the mayo.

I mashed that all together to create the dressing. I then mixed that in with the whites, threw in roughly choppedoven roasted tomatoes(a variety of thelittle tomatoes, which I have been obsessed with slow roasting this season) and served it with sliced and pepperedcucumber.

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