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Monday, November 5, 2012

How to poach an egg

a story of lust and murder... the culprit: SRC
This week was supposed to be my detox week. I was all prepared to eat only fruit and veggies and then to celebrate my good behavior with the amazing cheesecake that I saw on my assigned SRC blog, Cooking with Chopin. I've been eying this cake ever since our last month's reveal, planning to make it anyway. And then imagine my joy when I saw that Cooking with Chopin was my assignment this month!

And all of a sudden, I get a reminder email that our SRC reveal was supposed to be this Monday, right in the middle of my detox. What a blow.... The cheesecake would most certainly kill any chance of a diet. So I looked for other recipes, and found this super cute poached egg, one more obsession of mine. I know that egg is not a vegetable, not even a fruit, but how many temptations can one resist in one day? It would be a small sin compared to a cheesecake. And I love poached eggs over green salads, which are healthy, right?

So I made the poached egg, but it was sooo good over that salad, that I had to have another one. This time I had my egg on a bun... My diet was painfully and steadily dying, and I could not see it suffer so much, so I ate a chocolate truffle, and officially finished off the detox.

That's the sad story of my poor diet. And I hold SRC responsible, because how can one be on a diet, staring at all this delicious food? ... and because it's easier to blame someone else than to take the responsibility yourself ;-P

Source: Cooking with Chopin

Taste: 5 (out of 5)
Difficulty: 1 (out of 5)

Ingredients:
- 1 egg

Directions: 
1. Fill a large saucepan with 4 inches of water and bring to a simmer (when bubbles are breaking the surface every few seconds.
2. When water is barely simmering, break 1 egg into a small bowl. (You can break it directly into the water, but putting it in a small bowl first eliminates the possibility of getting shells in the water.)
3. Gently tip the bowl, sliding the egg into water.
4. Cook until whites are set but yolks are soft, 3 to 4 minutes. (Cook 5-6 minutes for a firmer yolk.)
5. Using a slotted spoon, transfer eggs to paper towels, and drain briefly.

For green salad I used:
Romaine lettuce, dill, green onions, cucumbers and walnuts, drizzled with lemon juice and walnut oil (can use olive oil too) and sprinkled with kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper. Then top it all with your egg. I poached the egg for 4 minutes for softer yolk.

Afterthoughts:
- I also fry sunny side up eggs, but poaching is a healthier alternative, and fishing out the egg is very cute.
- Just in case you don't know yet, SRC, or the Secret Recipe Club is a group of over a hundred food bloggers, who are assigned a "secret" blog each months. Then they choose a recipe from that blog, make it and post it on their own blog on a given reveal day. Then there is a big party, where you hop from one blog to another and check what everyone's been cooking. Lots of fun! And terrible for your diet ;-) I want to thank Amanda, Jane and April for making it all possible!




8 comments:

Angie's Recipes said...

What a delightful green salad! The egg is perfectly poached!~

Lesa @Edesias Notebook said...

The egg looks great, but now I bet you're wishing you had just made the cheesecake in the first place! Don't feel too bad about the diet; there's always January!

Delishhh said...

Sorry about your diet :) but poached eggs arey favorite!!!

Stephanie said...

Fun! I first made a poached egg not too many years ago, and find they are an easy basic to top off pretty much anything.

Lovely photo.

Lisa~~ said...

Sorry about your derailed detox but your egg sure looks worth it.

If you haven't already, I'd love for you to check out my SRC entry: Thai Peanut Noodles with Chicken.

Lisa~~

Trisha said...

I have always admired well poached eggs but have never tried to do it myself. I'm gonna have to atleast try it out soon. Love the idea of having it over a salad!

Kirstin said...

YUMMY! I made my first poached egg ever, about a month ago. it was so good.

denise @ singapore shiok said...

It's still ridiculously warm here, and that salad looks so lush, green and refreshing! Not an egg fan, but it does look wonderful atop your pretty salad! So, so sorry about your derailed diet *sigh* I know exactly how you feel...