Who doesn’t like a runny egg?! It’s the ultimate comfort food and it’s good any way you prepare it, from the healthy poached egg to the wicked deep fried bull’s eye egg. That’s my translation of telur mata kerbau, a fried egg with a soft yolk that is usually served with spicy sambal on coconutContinue reading “The Runny Egg Series”
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Eggs Benedict in Ten Minutes
Eggs Benedict are the bane of my life. I’m just terrible at poaching eggs, but I love Eggs Ben. Yes, I can do the wrap in cling film and gently simmer method, but that’s not really a poached egg at all. Of course I blame the eggs; too old; too new; too watery, but whicheverContinue reading “Eggs Benedict in Ten Minutes”
Brown Butter, Sage & Cheese Omelette
The star in this recipe is not the cheese, but the sage and brown butter. Looking at the picture of my omelette, you might think it will be far too oily, but trust me, it’s not. This is another post in “The Runny Egg” Series, so our omlette will obviously be of the runny sort.Continue reading “Brown Butter, Sage & Cheese Omelette”
Ham & Eggs
Variation on a Theme In my last post, I showed you how to make great eggs, so here is a simple variation to this. I had a few slices of extraordinarily good paleta jamón left over in the chiller. Not enough to make a decent sandwich, but definitely too previous to feed to the dog IContinue reading “Ham & Eggs”
A Good Egg
How to Fry an Egg One of the great pleasures in life is a properly runny egg for breakfast, at least in my books. Whether poached, boiled, fried or scrambled, I like them all as long as they are runny. Apologies to those of you who like their eggs firm – I’ll never understand youContinue reading “A Good Egg”
The Perfect Steamed Egg
The old fashioned coffee shops in Malaysia produce a kind of buffet lunch, in which they line up big trays of all kinds of different prepared foods. There can be literally dozens of different dishes and you just go and load your plate of rice with whatever you fancy, pay what will probably amount toContinue reading “The Perfect Steamed Egg”
