A Skillet Sensation

While we're at it, let's hang out in the kitchen some more. Frying up some eggs while the poacher's down. A whole different version, yet so very similar (soft yoke if preferred), of a finished, cooked egg.

I'd gotten myself one of these about a year ago. As a kid Dad would poach any of us eggs who'd want some; typically it was just me & Dad chowing away on the poached eggs. I specifically remember that the device he had for poaching could poach up to six at once because I'd think about how it was a shame we'd only be making two eggs in the device. Always being sure to balance, those two eggs would be cooked directly across from one another in the poaching tray; never next to one another. 😛

As I'm typing this, I'm also realizing, although we typically ate our scrambled eggs in two's, when Dad would pull out the poacher, it was only one egg each that we'd be eating. Hmmm...

I'm currently pondering which one of these will work best as a strong substitution to this one, the one I've used too many times since I purchased it a year ago. Apparently its design isn't meant to poach eggs five or more times a week (occasionally, yes 😎😋). Or, (also?) there's a reason it carries a single-digit dollar amount fee. 😏

I don't have any recollection of making omelets in the house. From time to time one of us would get ambitious [read: very hungry] &, while out at a restaurant, order an omelet & be well loaded down from the high content protein. One particular restaurant had a really good chicken omelet. Whenever I ordered that, I typically didn't eat anything else the whole rest of the day; it was that filling.

I also remember that as a child, my brother developed a distaste for eggs, particularly scrambled eggs. I think he'd manage his way through hard-boiled eggs, or it was that he preferred them hard-boiled. (This also came in handy at Eastertime. 😋) Due to his distaste, I followed suit & also developed a distaste. 😂  (When I was five years old I also ate mulch from the oversized fresh mulch load in our driveway. Why? Well, duh...because my brother had just eaten some. 😜)

So Mom took me "aside" & (I think my brother was in the living room, which was the next room over, watching television, while Mom) sat with me at the dining room table. She (her version of "kindly") explained to me what was going on. She did basically flat out say that just because my brother didn't care to be eating these eggs didn't mean that I didn't care to be either & that there were things I ate as a baby which I was already "claiming" I didn't like (anymore). She didn't say it directly, though she insinuated that she was confident that I did enjoy my eggs scrambled; that I did enjoy eggs in general, & she didn't want me to be passing them up (just because I'd watched my brother do so); I'd be missing out on an awful lot. She certainly was right; & I'm grateful that she made this "dining room moment" happen (even if I think the way she made the moment happen, & how she explained things during it, weren't exactly amazing 😏). Eggs are a grand high-protein, low-costing meal.

I'm also thankful to have learned how to properly prepare an egg in a skillet. Having one of these is essential 😊; also, some of this prepping the skillet in advance. Unless, of course, you've just cooked some fatty meats where their remaining grease will serve the same purpose (& quite well 😋). This coconut oil works wonders. It's cold-pressed, which is better than warm-pressed as it allows for the food's natural flavors, whereas the warm-pressed coconut oil does not.

Something else I'd have never done as a kid, which I happily do now: Dice up some mushrooms & onions, tomatoes & sweet peppers & sauté them just a touch. Magic happens. They melt decadently in your mouth. Especially alongside some eggs. 😋😍



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