The foods that save me: poached eggs
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Sometimes when I’m busy, preoccupied and tired, my menu planning knowledge completely escapes me. While I may spend my days helping clients with this very problem and despite my years of experience, I just can’t work out what to eat.
I know I want something balanced and nourishing. I know I want vegetables and I need some protein. But my fuzzy brain can’t put those requirements together, to make a meal.
It’s then that poached eggs save me.
They turn a plate of steamed vegetables into a meal. They oomph up a bowl of vegetable soup. They add nutritional complexity to rice and vegies. They can be added to a salad to make it feel more like dinner.
Poached eggs are my back-up, instant meal ingredient. They add protein and lots of minerals. They’re quick to make and you don’t need any fancy ingredients – just a couple of eggs and some water from the tap.
How to make poached eggs
Confession time: up until two years ago I avoided making poached eggs.
I loved eating them. So I used to nag Richard to make them, or I’d order them when we had breakfast out. But I couldn’t cook them at home. I tried a few times, looked up different methods, but it was always a disaster.
Then I read Molly’s simple and reassuring instructions over at Orangette. And it’s been a revelation – I can now make poached eggs.
So I do. Especially when I’m super-busy. And now poached eggs are the fourth food in my list of nutritional saviours.
What’s this all about?
This is the first in a series of posts about the foods which save me when I’m super-busy. It’s a companion piece to my post on how I make it easy to eat well.
25 March, 2008
Comments
Oh, yes.
I love poached eggs! Not at breakfast, oddly, but at any other time of the day? Lovely.
It’s funny that feeling when you know you have the basis of 101 meals in the cupboards, but can’t for the life of you think what to make…
I forced myself to learn how to make poached eggs about a year ago too. Not really sure what all the fuss was about on my part – s’really easy when you know how! And such an easy way to jazz up an otherwise plain meal. I’ve recently taught my other half how to poach eggs as he loves fried eggs for breakfast and now he makes them all the time too.
I just poached eggs for dinner using the Orangette guide and it was a success! I had it with some asparagus, crumbled fetta and a green side salad with carrots/tomato with a tahini lemon juice olive oil water dressing. Deliiiiggghhhtttfffffuuuuul!
Your link to the poached egg recipe seems to be broken – I’m really looking forward to reading it!
Elizabeth, thanks for letting me know – I’ve fixed that now. And Sue – you’re dinner sounds delicious, just my kind of food!
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