Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Poached Egg

Skylar wanted eggs benedict, so we did it.
I don't know why I've always thought that poaching an egg would be hard, for some reason on movies and cooking shows they make the poached egg like the ultimate egg cooking test, which is dumb because it's super easy.
Boil the water, then let it simmer, add vinegar to the water.  Crack the egg into a separate dish.





Pour in the egg, and don't worry, the whites will gather themselves together again.



I don't know how long it's supposed to cook, but maybe 3 minutes?  I just let it go until it looks like the whites are all cooked. Then pull it out with a slotted spoon to drain out the water. 


Lay it on top of whatever you want to eat it on.  :)  
In our case we used ciabatta bread, our personal favorite, gouda cheese (totally perfect for the dish!)  canadian bacon, and topped it with some hollendaise sauce.  
Delicious!!!


On MasterChief the true test of the properly poached egg was to see if the yolk was runny

 Yep, it's perfect!!

Yumm... I think I'll have this for dinner again.


(The only downer is the poached egg gets cold really fast so you have to eat it as soon as you make it, so no eating poached eggs together as a family.  One person cooks while the other eats)

1 comment:

The Goss Family said...

HAHA you are awesome! I love poached eggs, and I think they are really easy too. PFFT, maybe we are just naturally amazing cooks! We should start our own cooking show :D