egg as food
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Why You Should Prep Your Garnishes Before You Start Cooking
Let me paint you a picture: You’re cooking breakfast. Today, you’ve decided to make soft scrambled eggs in brown butter. You plan to finish this scramble with a healthy handful of finely sliced chives, or maybe green onion if you’re out of chives. You will eat the eggs with toast.
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How Learning to Make Eggs Taught Me to Cook
When I decided to teach myself how to cook, I wasn’t hoping to create elaborate, show-stopping meals. I just wanted to be able to take a look at what was in the fridge and be able to whip something together like a functional human adult. But since I had no kitchen experience at all, making…
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When Do Butter and Eggs Absolutely Have to Be Room Temperature?
The most successful bakers are the most methodical and least impulsive, or they have at least learned to channel their impulsiveness into other pursuits. Baking requires a small amount of forethought, a tiny bit of planning, and a crumb of patience. Baking requires certain ingredients to be at certain temperatures before they’re even mixed into…
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The ‘5-5-5’ Instant Pot Method for Hard Boiled Eggs Is a Culinary Abomination
I haven’t done a formal study, but I would guess that I have written about eggs more than I have written about anything else (besides myself). Eggs are something of a miracle. They’re incredibly versatile, filling, and nourishing, and they respond to heat and chemical manipulation in a wide variety of exciting ways. I love…