The Over Medium Egg

[Smithy]

I'm not sure whether the North Americans have them, but does anybody else love scotch eggs? One of the best things on a picnic IMHO

 

[Candied violets]

No, I do not want an infusion of mint-vanilla-and-lavender. If I wanted perfume, I would bring some with me. And, please, no honey or lemon. I'd love milk and sugar, and it would be very nice not to get a weird look from the waiter when I ask for them!

I agree. There is a pitiful selection of teas at most restaurants and most of them are flavoured. It's not even that I dislike flavoured teas, they have their place, but most of the flavours go horribly with milk and sugar. If I wanted mint or lavender I'd order a tisane, not a tea. I don't understand it, aren't milk and sugar fairly common complements to tea?

 

[Diamondback]

I like my oofs with salt, pepper, and a dollop of A-1 Sauce. Sausage on the side and two slices of white toast, and I'm all set.

Mmmmm... A-1, the fifth major food group. lol

 

[dhermann1]

If you like A-1, you'll LOVE Peter Luger Steak Sauce. Only avaiable around New York, I believe. It requires refrigeration, so you can imagine what kind of fresh perishable ingrediants it has. I've never tried in on eggs, but now that you mention it, it might be good. Has anyone mentioned yet that great great lumberjack breakfast, steak and eggs? That'll get you started good! My brother, when he worked outdoors, used to have that, plus a couple slices of fried mush.

 

[alphy27]

Alphy 27-why chickens? Probably because they are a heck of alot easier to raise than crocodiles! Actually, if you have ducks, geese, peacocks (oops make that peahens) you end up eating their eggs, though the goose eggs are huge. These are all birds that lay eggs where you can get to them without climbing trees or cliffs. Chickens must be cheaper to raise. And warbaby, I read your recipe and then checked your origins. The only time I've had eggs like that was in England-(well without the caviar) Do other countries take a healthy egg and load it with fat? (But they are the best scrambled eggs ever)

Makes sense to me. I'm a very experimental eater and always game for new foods. I'll let you know how the crocodile eggs turn out.

 

[Josephine]

I'm not sure whether the North Americans have them, but does anybody else love scotch eggs? One of the best things on a picnic IMHO

Do you mean a hard boiled egg, wrapped in sausage meat, and then deep fried?

 

[Smithy]

Do you mean a hard boiled egg, wrapped in sausage meat, and then deep fried?

That's the stuff! Common back home for picnics and cold lunches, you can get them in the supermarket but not a patch on homemade.

Good to hear that you've got them Stateside

 

[Josephine]

That's the stuff! Common back home for picnics and cold lunches, you can get them in the supermarket but not a patch on homemade.

Good to hear that you've got them Stateside

I find mine at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. A heart attack in your hand. I've never had one, but I hear they're good.

 

[Smithy]

I find mine at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. A heart attack in your hand. I've never had one, but I hear they're good.

Health-wise a lot of places bake them now.

I never used to buy the ones from places like Woolworths the sausage meat was always like sawdust, homemade is the only way to go.

 

[Flivver]

I really enjoy eggs butI often get strange looks from waitresses when I order them in a restaurant. I ask for them scrambled well done or over hard...like rubber! I don't like the gooey runny part that most people seem to savor.

Ketchup and lots of black pepper add the finishing touch!

Hard boiled eggs are good too...as long as they're well boiled. I sometimes bring these to work for lunch. I get positive comments from co-workers about how much healthier eggs are than the heavy food they're eating, but then when I put ketchup on them they just don't get it.

I learned to put ketchup on eggs when I lived in Michigan. Does anyone else do this?

 

[dhermann1]

I iwent through a phase when I was in my teens of eating fried egg sandwiches. I did them pretty well done, and with lots of ketchup. Something about the combination of salt and vinegar.

 

[Haversack]

dhermann1 wrote: "I iwent through a phase when I was in my teens of eating fried egg sandwiches. I did them pretty well done, and with lots of ketchup. Something about the combination of salt and vinegar.

Ah, the good old Egg Banjo. Favoured staple of the British Squaddie. 'Cept they prefer the yolk runny to give the true banjo effect.

Haversack.

 

[Smithy]

Ah, the good old Egg Banjo. Favoured staple of the British Squaddie. 'Cept they prefer the yolk runny to give the true banjo effect.

Haversack.

But no tomato sauce please. Brown sauce only on a fried egg sandwich, and preferably Daddies

 

[russa11]

Yep, I love eggs. Fried, over easy, scrammbled. with bacon or hash or home fires and fried cabbage. The seem to go with anything. When your hungry you can not go wrong with eggs. Lizzie Maine I have to agree. Eggs cooked in bacon grease are the best.

 

[olive bleu]

I iwent through a phase when I was in my teens of eating fried egg sandwiches. I did them pretty well done, and with lots of ketchup. Something about the combination of salt and vinegar.

ooohhh baby, how i love a fried egg sandwich, and naturally, with lots of ketchup

otherwise..my preferred style of egg is fried hard,brown edges and all, with yolks like leather and a side of burnt bacon..just like Mother used to make

 

[Dr Doran]

Current issue of Martha Stewart's magazine has a rather well-written, poetic discussion of the egg. Photos of different chicken eggs, including a bluish one; ostrich, quail, goose, and duck eggs; recipes. Worth a look. There is a cat in my lap so I cannot fetch it and proffer an excerpt.

 

[Miss 1929]

Never disturb the cat.

I just can't imagine eating any egg that has a runny yolk... even a firm fried egg grosses me out.

I cook them for hubby though, I make a mean huevos rancheros.

 

[retromom712]

Poached eggs are my favourite way to enjoy the humble egg.

But I am fond of soft boiled eggs dhermann, had two for brekkie today with toast soldiers. Still popular back home but very rare here.

mmmm i LOVE soft boiled eggs...so good...

 

[Warbaby]

And let us not forget the incomparable Dutch delicacy, Uitsmijder - 2 slices of whitebread with lots of butter, topped with fried eggs, ham, and melted cheese. Ummm, yummy!

 

[olive bleu]

another fav of mine is egg-in-a-nest..a piece of bread with a hole cut in the center, an egg broken into the hole and the whole thing fried in heaps of butter.yummy.