Eggs are such a versatile food. Nutritious, easy to cook and inexpensive to acquire. You could easily have your own supply simply by building your own chicken coop, and keeping a few hens. In some recipes such as cakes and pastries, eggs are absolutely essential.
Did you have soft boiled eggs for breakfast as a child? Breakfast is not the same without eggs. Eggs really are healthy cooking for kids. A more sophisticated (and modern) dish is scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. Very easy to prepare and impressive to serve to guests. It doesn’t need great knowledge to get it right, yet is one of the simplest dishes to create – serve with toast and champagne if you are really pushing the boat out. For simpler tastes, Orange Juice or coffe works just as well.
For lunch or brunch, soufflés and omelettes are great. Not as easy to master but with care and attention can give impressive results and many changes can be made with the use of various fillings – Many different tastes can be achieved with various cheeses and cold meats Shellfish, vegetables and ham are a few options you could try.
For a quick tasty meal why not try a Spanish omelette. It doesn’t have to be light and fluffy and is much easier to make. It’s very simple to make. Break some eggs into a bowl and whisk until they are well mixed. Cut some left over vegetables into small pieces and gently fry in a little low fat cooking oil for a few minutes (not much oil, you only want to stop it sticking), then gently stir in the eggs. Now let it cook until the eggs are cooked all through. Cut into as many pieces as you want and serve. Delicious.
Try using boiled eggs as finger bites at parties. Boil your eggs until they are hard boiled. Take the shells off of them and cut them in half lengthways. Scoop out the yolks and put them in a bowl. Set the whites aside for now to be used later. Now add flavours to the yolks. There are a number of ingredients you can use depending on your taste and your pocket. You could try mayonnaise (or salad cream). Cream cheese. Small pieces of ham. A little garlic butter. But only use one flavour in each egg. Mash your egg yolk with your flavour of choice, then spoon it back into the egg white halfs. Serve on a bed of lettuce with a garnish of parsley. These can be used as an entree for a main meal, simply serve them with salad.