Saturday Night Dinner

I planned on having eggs for dinner sometime this week and decided tonight would be it.  Thinking about it throughout the day I thought maybe instead of the regular “good stuff” scrambles I usually do I’d try my hand at poached eggs.

Growing up my family had poached eggs quite often.  We had an insert for one of our pans with the removable little cups that hold the eggs.  I didn’t even know you could poach an egg without one of those special pans until I worked at a bed and breakfast and my friend and coworker made a poached egg for a guest with nothing more than a pan of lightly boiling water.  I haven’t had the special egg cups since I got married so I’ve always waited for poached eggs until I visited my parents and could use theirs.  Today I decided I’d give the boiling water version a try.

It was not as easy as it looks.

In the end I figured it out a bit but that was after 5 other misshapen, half missing eggs made it out of the pan.  I’m still not great at it but I’m willing to try it again.

At first I thought I’d just do poached eggs on toast like I grew up with but then it occurred to me to make it into a twist on eggs Benedict instead.  I didn’t have any English muffins and wanted something more than plain old toast so I threw together some biscuits.  While they were baking I cooked some regular bacon since I didn’t have any Canadian bacon and whipped up some hollandaise sauce because, you know, with the eighteen pounds of butter in the Kouing Aman I made this week I really needed a little more.  For something different I sliced up some avocado to go on top.  Such a good dinner but really, it’s probably a good thing we don’t have it very often.  It’s so worth it when we do, though.