Eggs in a Basket

Amber | Friday, March 20, 2020

this is so dumb that i'm writing this post but this is my favorite food and leah wrote about toads in a hole which I only knew as another name for eggs in a basket thanks to the American Girl Molly's Cookbook . I was obsessed with my Molly doll. Was I a WWII dad before History channel?

anyways this is what my mom made me when I was sick and what I made after a bad day (I specifically remember having them at like 10pm after particularly rough Wednesday night marching band practices). Here's a tattoo I have of it (with leah obv). I'm writing a lot because there's like so little to this lmao

method:

• get some bread. cut holes. (I use a biscuit cutter but a glass with some help from a knife works)
• melt butter in a big ol' pan (for 2). rub the bread and cut bits in it, flip it around, add more butter.
• my mom would just butter both sides with margerine before cutting it. do whatever you want.
• get that bread mostly toasted on both sides. egg cooks quick so you won't get muchmore browning. bring that heat down to like a 3.
• add butter to the holes and/or use cooking spray because your stove is cooked and the butter slides away
• crack an egg into each hole (or into a lil bowl to pour it in if you want to be extra sure to not crack yolks)
• salt and pepper your new pals
• put a lid on it. let cook for like a minute, idk. you want it set on the bottom
• flip these pals. don't break or overcook your yolks. you want set whites and runny yolks/over medium.
• you did it
• sometimes if the egg is a bit big, I'll prick the white with a fork and flip it back over again for a few seconds to get the white goo (fine, albumen) cooked

verdict: perfect food