Tag: toast

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  Simple French Toast

  Bread soaked in an egg and milk mixture and then fried in butter!
  How wonderful is French toast?

  It is so simple and quick to make that you can enjoy it for breakfast even on your busiest day.

  Simply

  Whisk an egg (for every few slices of bread) and add a dash of milk. Add a bit of sugar and cinnamon to the mixture if you want some sweetness.

  Then pour the mix over the bread and wait for it to be absorbed.

  

  Melt a bit of butter in a fry pan and cook the bread until the egg has set, flipping it over midway. 

  Serving

  Serve hot with some bacon, fried mushrooms and tomatoes.

  

  Enjoy,

  PK

  Here are some more easy to prep recipes and posts about egg: 

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  PK

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  February 15, 2020

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  FoodHacks: Microwave Cheesy Eggs

  Got a hankering for scrambled eggs but short on time or perhaps you only have a microwave and no hob?

  Then this tip is for you :).

  I think they come out just as good as the real deal. We will be microwaving a beaten egg in several short zaps, breaking up the curds each time. You have control over the result being well broken up or not and even how dry you like.

  Steps:

  Simply take an egg and whisk it in a bowl with a splash of milk. I then add a bit of shaved Parmesan, a sprinkle of ground black peppercorns and whisk again.

  

  Now into the microwave. This step can be tricky to master and the timing is going to be particular to your microwave. In my microwave 30 seconds is right for the first zapping.

  If you find that the egg has been over cooked then you need to reduce the zapping times.

  

   

  This is what we want. A few curds that can be mixed around with a fork and not a solid mass of rubber nor the absence of curds. I then stir the curds and pop the bowl back into the microwave. Now I am using 20 seconds bursts between stirrings.

   

  I will reduce the times if I think the egg is overcooking. This is how it looks over the next few cycles of zapping and stirring.

  

  

  

  Perfect and ready for some toast 🙂

  

  Enjoy,

  PK

  Related Links:

  • more FoodHacks here
  • Dishes using Parmigiano-Reggiano (parmesan) 
  • Dishes using cheese

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  February 8, 2017

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  KT’s Dippy Eggs and Soldiers

  My toddler loves a soft boiled egg and soldiers and when he wants them for breakfast he asks for ‘dippy eggs’. The name has stuck I am happy to say :).

  The problem was that I had always cooked hard boiled eggs, using this method, growing up. So I had to ask my wife if she knew how to cook a runny egg. Ironically, even though she only eats poached eggs, she remembered a recipe from BabyMac’s blog (see it here).

  I gave it a try and was amazed at the results. Now I cook a couple of eggs for the kids’ brekkie (that is what we call breakfast in Australia) and a sneaky extra one for dad. Add a couple of pieces of toast to make “soldiers” and you are done in under 10 minutes!

  We try and source ethically produced eggs with middling success (we now have a good supplier in Gale Force Farm Organic Free Range Eggs ) but that is a story for another day.

   STEPS:

  1. Gather the ingredients
  2. Boil the eggs and cook the toast
  3. Serving

  You will need:

  • Ingredients:
    • several slices of toast per person
    • one chicken egg per person
    • butter, margarine or butter blend for the “soldiers”
  • Equipment
    • a chopping board
    • a butter knife to cut the top off the eggs, butter the toast and cut them into “soldiers”
    • a small saucepan
    • a toaster
    • a timer
    • a small plate for the toast
    • several egg cups

  Gather the ingredients

  Steps:

  1. Put aside a few slices of bread for each person and pop them in the toaster but don’t start toasting them yet.
  2. Take an egg or two per person out of the fridge and let them start to warm up to room temperature.
  3. Take the butter out of the fridge.
  4. Fill a saucepan with water, enough to cover the eggs (one layer deep). Bring it to a rolling boil.
  5. Set your timer to 5 minutes.

  Boil the eggs and cook the toast

  Steps:

  1. I used a slotted spoon to lower the eggs into the boiling water and pressed start on the timer. Be very careful not to put a crack in the shells.
  2. At 2 minutes left, lower the bread into the toaster. We have our toaster set to make semi-frozen bread into golden brown toast in two minutes.
  3. At 0 minutes take all of the eggs out off the boiling water.
  4. Butter the toast and cut into 1.5cm wide strips.

  Here is a video of what I think a rolling boil looks like:

  Serving

  My wife says commit when it comes to taking the top off an egg. Take a butter knife and slice the top part off. It isn’t so much a chopping motion as it is a slow but forceful movement from one side to the other all the way through. Previously I used a teaspoon to crack it all the way around and then scoop off the top but never again. My wife’s way is so much better as you get less broken shell in the yolk :).

  A very important note: take the tops off all of the eggs. If you don’t they will continue to cook past the runny egg stage that we are trying to achieve.

  

  Thanks to Beth from BabyMac,

  PK

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  June 28, 2016