Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Eggs For Dinner

On a stormy cold winter evening after a long day at work and a longer drive home, perhaps the top choices of possible dinners all come from that much loved category: comfort food!
Comfort food is synonymous with coziness and that general feeling of warmth and inner satisfaction, but to me it is also synonymous with too much kitchen work. Too much peeling, chopping, dicing slicing, baking, boiling, oven time and worst of all too much tasting, supposedly to root out any spice deficiency but in reality the need to taste is simply a compulsion born of impatience and being too hungry to wait for the thing to be ready. You may entertain thoughts of crock potting but that does nothing to alleviate the necessity of rinsing, slicing, dicing and the like and besides, there are only so many soupy dinners one can handle.
I decided to have eggs for dinner, along with bacon, cherry tomatoes, cheese and rye toast. I cook my eggs in a small casserole pot which takes about a minute as does the toast, cheese and veg slicing and voila! In under 5 minutes my own personal favourite comforting meal is ready to be eaten, no tasting needed until it is full on assembled. Once plated, a pinch of salt and pepper and I'm good to dine.

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