talking about eggs - Perfect Breakfast part two....

[5129frederick]

"Versatile as an egg" goes the saying, and they're right.  On the earlier thread we were all discussing how we liked our eggs, but that only scratched the surface of it, so let's expand on it a little bit.  What else can we do with an egg?

We can: swallow them raw - my late father swallowed two raw eggs every morning for breakfast from the age of sixteen, and he passed away just three weeks short of his ninetieth birthday: again, use them raw as a base for peppermint creams: use them raw as a base for an eggflip with brandy and sugar added:  again using them raw, make up the base of an advocat adding a drop of lemonade to turn it into a snowball.  Make egg mayonnaise or salad cream. Can't think of anything else offhand, so now we'll start cooking it.  We can: softly boil it, hard boil it fry it, scramble it: turn it into an omelet with limitless fillings: soulfe it to turn it into a cream omelet: pickle it: curry it: break it in with yellow rice: make egg foo yong: break it into a tin of spaghetti or baked beans in tomato sauce where it will automatically cook in the sauce - break it in and stir continuously until the spaghetti is thick as porridge - VERY filling.  Make an egg custard with it - ideal for somebody not well.  Then of course are the cakes and pancakes with endless recipes.  Egg are even more versatile, it seems, than milk!

Have I missed out on any?  Over to you: 

[ilove2patch]

Those Dark Brown ones look amazing.

[m25jet]

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@5129frederick wrote:

"Versatile as an egg" goes the saying, and they're right.  On the earlier thread we were all discussing how we liked our eggs, but that only scratched the surface of it, so let's expand on it a little bit.  What else can we do with an egg?

We can: swallow them raw - my late father swallowed two raw eggs every morning for breakfast from the age of sixteen, and he passed away just three weeks short of his ninetieth birthday: again, use them raw as a base for peppermint creams: use them raw as a base for an eggflip with brandy and sugar added:  again using them raw, make up the base of an advocat adding a drop of lemonade to turn it into a snowball.  Make egg mayonnaise or salad cream. Can't think of anything else offhand, so now we'll start cooking it.  We can: softly boil it, hard boil it fry it, scramble it: turn it into an omelet with limitless fillings: soulfe it to turn it into a cream omelet: pickle it: curry it: break it in with yellow rice: make egg foo yong: break it into a tin of spaghetti or baked beans in tomato sauce where it will automatically cook in the sauce - break it in and stir continuously until the spaghetti is thick as porridge - VERY filling.  Make an egg custard with it - ideal for somebody not well.  Then of course are the cakes and pancakes with endless recipes.  Egg are even more versatile, it seems, than milk!

Have I missed out on any?  Over to you: 

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Scotch eggs...

[saasher2012]

Yummy!

[captainbovine]

Oh I love a scotch egg, home made ones not the plastic ones you get. Have you had the ones with the sausage meat and black pudding ?..... cor.....

[chickengrandma-2008]

My mum would drink a beaten raw egg in a drop of milk  if she had an upset stomach!  That's enough to give you a bad tummy I would think!! 

My hubby would live on eggs, cooked any way you can think of!  You'd think he'd get sick of the site of them wouldn't you.  Collecting them, cleaning them, boxing them, selling them......  hundreds a day, 365 days a year!!

[saasher2012]

Ooh yes! I'm not supposed to but once a month I have a day of eating things I'm not supposed to eat except sweet things.lol.

[rose2008-2008]

that just reminded me i LOVE Scotch Eggs their my Favourite and Marks and Spencer do ones that are two in apack which you heat and they melt in the middle. Only as a treat though as their expensive. Ohhhhhhhhh im hungry for one now!!!.

[ilove2patch]

How does the egg melt in the middle Rose? I have always eaten scotch eggs cold.

[rose2008-2008]

I dont know how. I think it must have a runnier middle to start with. Im not sure how they make them but they really are Delicious!!!!. If i remember their Gastropub ones!!!!!!. The yolk is really yellow and it cooks to perfection.

[twishy123]

Oooooh that sounds appetising....

undercooked sausage meat encasing a semi-raw,partially cooked egg....

you might as well lick a chicken's bum and get your salmonella fresh and cheaper...

                    MMMMMMMM yum yum...

[rose2008-2008]

I never said undercooked Sausage Meat???. LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL,. Ohhh GAWD!!!!> FUNNY.

[ilove2patch]

Does anyone else heat up scotch eggs?

[rose2008-2008]

I have never known a Scotch egg to be heated really but these ones i am talking about you HEAT THEM UP LOL!!!!!!!!!!. LOOOOL.

[cookiecookuk]

yes i heat my scotch eggs up i cut in half take out egg and nuke the sausage meat til its warm .also when i make them at work the kitchen assistant and me always have half of one each while they are still hot.

i have no idea what rose is on about but egg in scotch egg should never be runny?????????

[calibra101]

I have seen them cooked from scratch on Masterchef  and when cut in half the yolk is runny and they have been praised for it. I like scotch eggs cold though.

[chickengrandma-2008]

You get runny scotch eggs in lots of places but I don't like scotch eggs full stop!!  

[cookiecookuk]

i love home made ones but i do not think i would like them.they look under cooked.

[ilove2patch]

http://www.marksandspencer.com/4-runny-scotch-eggs/p/p60045662

[twishy123]

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@rose2008-2008 wrote:

I never said undercooked Sausage Meat???. LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL,. Ohhh GAWD!!!!> FUNNY.

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Are you okay Rose? I hope all that laughing didn't make you cough too much...if I laugh that much it makes me choke and cough and snot comes down me nose....

It's a poached egg wrapped in sausage meat......that means the egg must have been lightly cooked then wrapped in raw sausage meat,crumbed and packed ready to cook at home...

or

the egg has been lightly cooked then wrapped in sausage meat,crumbed and partially cooked and then packed for you to finish cooking at home...

or

it's all been partially cooked together and then you finish it off at home....

or

it's been laid by the very rare Scotch Egg bird genetically cloned by M&S...shhhhhhhh

Which ever way you look at it, the scotch egg needs cooking/warming when you get it home...therefore it's not fully cooked so there is the potential for undercooked sausage meat...

snotty,runny scotch egg anyone?....

[ilove2patch]

I will pass thanks although they look nice on the M&S link.