eggs and bacon, warm full pipe, my garden at twilight, cakes

[jazzfish]

Some years ago I learned of basted eggs, sort of halfway between fried and poached. The general idea is, you make a sunny-side-up fried egg, but put a little water in the skillet and put a lid on it, and it cooks itself in the steam. Result: over-medium eggs (per Lewis Grizzard, "the yolk doesn't run out. It oozes") with light and non-rubbery whites. Yum.

I mentioned this to Erin at one point. She said that she expected a basted egg to be one where you spoon liquid over it to infuse the flavour.

Turns out she was at least partly right. I went poking around this evening and the internet sez that you can baste eggs in water, as above, or in butter, where you fry them in butter and just keep spooning the boiling butter over them until the tops cook properly.

And, well. I had a skillet full of bacon grease left over from the weekend. Is there any actual reason you can't baste eggs in bacon grease instead of butter?

Reader, there is not. Yum.

"Always remember, Bilbo: when your heart wants lifting, think of pleasant things."

Comments

[reedrover]

Sounds delightful!

I'm assuming that the "garden at twilight" and "Cakes" are pleasant things? Your post ends with the Tolkien quote.

[jazzfish]

:)

It's specifically from the Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit. Gandalf says the "when your heart wants lifting" line to Bilbo in the middle of a downpour when he's miserable, and he starts saying to himself "eggs and bacon, warm full pipe" etc. Definitely pleasant things: I don't smoke or garden, but I can appreciate the sentiment.