Category

eggs

  • The Salty Turnip Omelette of Your Dreams

    The Salty Turnip Omelette of Your Dreams

    It’s a new year, folks, and as the weekend approaches, it’s time to ask yourself some serious questions, specifically about how you start your day: are you tired of eating the same thing over and over again? Is it possible that your boredom reflects a boredom with your life itself? Is it time for a…

  • Emergency Frittata with Spanish Chickpea Salad

    Emergency Frittata with Spanish Chickpea Salad

    Imagine a glass case in the part of your brain that houses recipes: inside that glass case? There should be a frittata and a little sign that says, “Break in case of emergency.” A frittata is a terrific thing to know how to make because, on a weeknight where you have nothing in the house–nothing…

  • Perfect Deviled Eggs

    Perfect Deviled Eggs

    Any time I’ve ever made deviled eggs, I’ve basically spooned a gloppy mayo-yolk mixture into floppy egg whites and masked the ugliness with either smoked paprika (see here) or weird garnishes (see my Deviled Eggs Three Ways). The problem was always that filling: never stiff enough to pipe, always wet enough to spoon. This time…

  • Omelet Issues

    Omelet Issues

    I’m at the point now where I really think I could make a good omelet, only I’m held back by a cruel and powerful force: a sticky non-stick skillet. David Lebovitz warned me, ages ago, not to flambé in my new non-stick, that it might ruin the coating, and did I listen? I did not.…

  • My Top 10 Favorite Breakfast Recipes

    My Top 10 Favorite Breakfast Recipes

    Breakfast may be my favorite meal to cook because there’s nothing fussy or formal about it. You just wake up, roll out of bed, head to the kitchen, put the coffee on, see what you’ve got in the fridge and the pantry and get going. Most of the time, I improvise with what I have…

  • Breakfast Crêpes with Eggs, Bacon and Cheese

    Breakfast Crêpes with Eggs, Bacon and Cheese

    Our first weekend in the new apartment and it was my mission to make breakfast. I’d carried a box of foodstuffs from our old refrigerator to the new refrigerator so as not to waste anything and that box contained perishables like eggs, bacon, butter and milk. In my pantry, I had flour, sugar and salt.…

  • The Salty Turnip and Egg at Ruen Pair

    The Salty Turnip and Egg at Ruen Pair

    Jon Shook, of L.A.’s Animal and Son of a Gun, once told L.A. Weekly his favorite places to eat in L.A. One of them is one of my favorite places to eat in L.A., Ruen Pair, where I almost always get the same thing: the Prik King (see #9 on the list of my favorite…

  • Eggs Adam Roberts in Homemade Corn Tortillas

    Eggs Adam Roberts in Homemade Corn Tortillas

    Here’s a mashup of two posts that I’m mighty proud of: my signature legacy breakfast dish that’s sweeping the nation, Eggs Adam Roberts, and my post about how easy it is to make corn tortillas at home. Combine these two things and you have a breakfast that’s off the charts delicious. If you keep your…

  • Scrambled Eggs with Gruyère, Fried Pita with Olive Tapenade & Tomato Salad

    Scrambled Eggs with Gruyère, Fried Pita with Olive Tapenade & Tomato Salad

    The three elements that made this breakfast come together the way that it did were leftover pita (from the night I made chicken and hummus), leftover olive tapenade (from the night I made 4-hour lamb; the recipe’s in that post), and leftover Gruyere (from that cauliflower gratin). The breakthrough moment was when I decided to…

  • Breakfast For Company at a Moment’s Notice

    Breakfast For Company at a Moment’s Notice

    We had plans to eat Sunday brunch with Rebecca Lando of Working Class Foodies last week only we were a bit under-the-weather (um, hungover). Instead of canceling, I had an idea: what if I just invite Rebecca over at 11:45? This was at 10:30. So I had an hour and fifteen minutes to cook up…