Poach an Egg, in your Microwave!
I like poached eggs, but some mornings I don’t have the time to do them the proper way on the stove top, so after a bit of trial and error I’ve managed to come up with a way to do them in the microwave.
This is quick and easy, and almost as good as the real thing. Check it out.
Eggs Benedict - perfect Sunday breakfast
It’s been a while since I’ve done much in the way of cooking around home, mostly because I’ve been on Lite n Easy, so on the weekend I decided that I really really needed something so tasty for breakfast and Eggs Benedict won!
I love Eggs Benedict, it’s one of my all time favourite breakfasts, but I’m not so much into smoked salmon and I find that sometimes ham is a little heavy on it along with the eggs and hollandaise sauce so about a year ago I started putting Prosciutto on them….what a difference it makes.
- Eggs (1-2 per person)
- Prosciutto (1-2 slices per person)
- Bread stick or English muffins
- White Vinegar
- Hollandaise Sauce (I prefer MasterFoods)
Now some people my give me grief about the MasterFoods sauce, and yeh normally I’d make my own sauces for whatever I’m cooking, but it’s Sunday morning so relax and let someone else do the hard part.
Slice your bread up, and get it it ready for toasting under the grill.
Here’s the actual secret behind my Eggs Benedict, my Nickelodeon glass with Spongebob, Jimmy Neutron and Angelica from Rugrats on it.
Crack an egg into a glass, it’s a lot easier to pour the egg into the simmering water and to get it to stay in one piece this way.
Put some water into a good sized pot, add a dash of salt. Once it’s just starting to boil reduce the heat and put in a good slurp of the White Vinegar (this helps the egg to bind and stay in one piece).
Give the water a really good stir in a circular motion, we’re looking to create a whirlpool in the centre.
Once you’ve got a good whirlpool going pour the eggs in and they should spin around and around binding themselves up into a nice ball.
The eggs should only take a minute and a half, you’ll know they are done as the yolk will actually start to float suspended above the bottom of the pot.
Take the eggs out with a big spoon or ladle, and put them on some absorbent paper to get rid of the excess water. Your toasted bread is probably about ready now as well.
Heat up the Hollandaise Sauce now, from memory it’s around 40 seconds.
Start to assemble your plate. I like a little bit of Baby Spinach and Rocquette on mine, so I normally will put them on first before the Prosciutto.
Add the Prosciutto, wrap it over itself so that it makes a nice shape to hold the eggs on. Dont worry about heating or cooking the Prosciutto, it will get enough heat from the toast as well as the Hollandaise Sauce.
After the eggs have been added, pour a load of the Hollandaise Sauce on.
All that’s left to do now is eat!
Enjoy!
Christmas Recovery
Well we’ve mostly recovered from Christmas around here, though I am left with a pretty horrid chest cold from Christmas Eve up at the in-laws farm house in Gloucester, and are slowly getting back into the rhythm of day to day life and in my case daily blogging. Today, I’m going to ease myself back into the blogosphere by doing a photoblog of our Christmas Day. Enjoy…
This was the outlook from the farm house on Christmas morning.
Presents, presents, and more presents!
Cath was pretty suprised with her present!
After we finished unwrapping presents, we had the traditional James breakfast of ham and eggs on the BBQ all wrapped up in a bread roll… So tasty! From Gloucester we headed back to Newcastle to go and have Christmas lunch with my parents.
The new ‘traditional’ lunch at my parents house consists of various salads and seafood. This year there was lobster, calamari, and prawns. Very, very tasty!
And for dessert we had a Strawberry Cheesecake, and strawberries.. Mmmmmmmm..
Needless to say after all this food and merriment Cath and I were both pretty tired and after making it home later that afternoon we crashed out for quite a few hours. Later that evening when we managed to raise the energy to get out of bed we realised there was next to nothing to eat in the house! Arghhh! Bad timing as it’s pretty difficult to find anything open on Christmas day! If I recall correctly we scraped together a couple of potatoes and some herbs and had a pretty basic dinner..hah..
Boxing Day was quiet as my cold was starting to kick in, we basically just went and caught up with a few more relatives. Also, I went and checked out the sales on at the local Drummond Golf….too be continued.. 
I did pretty well nothing on the 27th, umm Thursday, as my cold was really rocking. I felt so drained and completely stuffed up, the drugs were barely helping and it was quite warm in our house which of course was making me more uncomfortable.
Anyway, that’s got you all caught up to about now.. Who needs a drink?
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