… Avo & Egg
Ok so I think in my last blog I promised to get up to date over that weekend. I didn’t. So like the last one, this one will also be a test of my memory. So this one is an avocado on toast recipe. There are four in the book. I have done three. On doing the first one I said that I would have to do the one with a poached egg at some point and I was both looking forward to it and dreading it. You see I actually do have a pretty good memory and so writing a blog post about a meal I cooked almost a month ago is actually ok.
It was over three years ago that I poached an egg for the first time. Now I guess that most people who do something for the first time would do it in private. Just for themselves. Or at least in semi privacy. Maybe for their partner or a close friend. I cooked eggs benedict for sixteen people. Ok they were mostly my family but not all of them were and it was sixteen people. And it was for Christmas eve (or may be boxing day – my memory is not that good) breakfast. So it was a kinda important thing. I found out that poaching eggs is not that easy. Poaching eggs for sixteen people that you are trying to serve simultaneously is really not that easy at all. I was more than a little stressed.
All that to say, I wasn’t confident that my second attempt at poaching eggs would be a success.
Basically I have a rule that I won’t cook any of these meals again until I have cooked them all. I break the rule for these types of recipes. Today (that is in the fictional today that existed about three weeks ago) I am cooking breakfast/ brunch for three people. This is a recipe for one and so I cook it three times.
Everything is easy. It’s just making toast. Putting avocado on it. Some chilli and a few other bits and bobs. Everything that is except I have to poach an egg. Now I’m cooking for three people and I do each one in turn, so I can time each. Despite this I have to poach four eggs. One ends up down the sink.
I really can’t poach and egg very well. I love poached eggs. I had two for breakfast on Saturday (the real Saturday – not the Saturday in my fictional time line that exists in this blog post). But I can’t cook them. In the end this is a lovely meal – or breakfast. And the poached eggs were ok. They were ok. Only ok. Can someone teach me to poach an egg?
Who with: Gordy and Gavin
How long: 4:38/4:45 / 5:09
