Re: Help! Young Kids Always being fed Junk

In article <dplt050igm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Banty <Banty_member@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hey, being as I really dislike eggs (unless they're over hard, yoke broken,
> completely over-cooked, with lots of salt and pepper to cover the remaining
> egg
> taste - known to diner waitresses as "stepped on"), I can't fry an egg. I
> can't
> scramble eggs. I can't poach an egg. I can over-boil eggs for easter eggs,
> but
> with a cracked-egg yield loss of about 40%. There's a certain - touch - to
> doing eggs right which a lot of people take for granted as they're doing that
> at least twice a week. I dont' have that touch.

That's because you hate eggs, so you don't care -- they do need careful
cooking.

I can improve your Easter egg yield, though.

Put the eggs in the saucepan and put in cold water to about an inch over the
eggs. Put on the stove without the lid and heat (not full bore) to boiling.
When the eggs are boiling, cover them (make sure hte steam vent is closed) and
take them off the heat. Set your timer for 10 mins. When it rings, drain
your eggs and plunge them into cold water (replace the water when it warms
up). You now have perfect hard-boiled eggs. If you want to eat them, crack
them all over and keep in a bowl of cold water in the fridge. They will be
easier to peel.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.
.

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