Recipe News: Beat it! Easy egg recipes

"Aren't eggs the most perfectly designed and packaged prop for performing kitchen magic? Starting with fried, poached, boiled and scrambled you can move on to perform even greater culinary feats, classic and modern. There's the greatest brunch dish ever, eggs Benedict; oeuf poché bourgignon, a poached egg served in a tartlet with a rich red wine sauce with bacon and wild mushrooms; poached eggs served in artichoke hearts; and eggs Florentine.

If I switch to scrambled I can conjure up a whole lot more favourite egg experiences, not fancy culinary stunts, just terrific simple combinations of the freshest eggs with something else, such as the scrambled egg and sea urchin I served at a friend's house in Kerry. Over to fried and I'm back at El Quim at the Boquería market in Barcelona eating fried egg with baby squid. Huevos rancheros, the Mexican breakfast of fried eggs with chilli tomato sauce had always intrigued me. Then I had it for breakfast in Costa Rica and by God that's one egg dish that gives you a good kick start to the day."

Includes recipes for:

Spring vegetable and herb omelette

Fried duck's egg with sprue asparagus and brown shrimps

Rhubarb and custard tart

Full article here.

May 28, 2006

Recipe News: Beat it! Easy egg recipes