Hi everyone, my name is Matt and I’m an egg-aholic. I have been trying to cut back, but it’s just too hard and this morning I had a hardcore relapse. I decided to write this post just minutes after I finished my breakfast so I can capture the emotion of my food high! I always have my eye on a ton of recipes that I want to make, but I just never make them. I am an ambitious lazy cook. I know it sounds like an oxymoron, but it’s true. I get excited to make all these cool things, but never do. This morning I decided to do something about it.
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| Picture by Holli Coats |
I made Eggs-in-a-hole. People, this has changed my life! I know it sounds crazy; it’s a fried egg in toast. First, let me just say it cooks in a tablespoon of butter. The bread was just toasting in all that butter, its edges getting crispy in that bubbling browning liquid gold. Our house still smells like it. The egg was sitting in the toasting bread and it looked like an eye pleading for its life, “Please don’t eat me!” I then put it on my plate. It looked like a work of art that I took from its black cast iron canvas. I took my fork and cut into it hearing the crunch of the crispy toast. The yolk poured out like yellow tears as if it were pleading one more time…but it was too late! Oh wow, ok, let’s just say I really enjoyed my breakfast.
This was super easy, only used three ingredients and took no more than 10 minutes. My wife was dead set on eating cinnamon toast. She wanted nothing else, until I made my egg-in-a-hole. I can’t stress enough how buttery and crispy the toast was. You’ll just have to try it.
Egg-in-a-hole
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| Picture by Holli Coats |
Ingredients
- 1 slice Of Your Favorite Kind Of Bread
- 1 Tablespoon Butter
- 1 whole Egg
- Salt To Taste
- Pepper To Taste
Preparation Instructions
With a biscuit cutter or the rim of a glass, press a hole in the center of the slice of bread.
Next, heat a skillet over medium-low heat and melt a Tablespoon of butter in it. When the butter is all spread out, place the piece of bread in the skillet and crack the egg straight into the center of hole.
Cook for at least 30 seconds or so before attempting to move the bread or things could get messy. Sprinkle the egg with salt and pepper to taste. After about a minute, flip it over with a spatula and salt and pepper the other side.
Now move the whole piece of toast around the skillet, soaking up all of the glorious butter. Let it cook until the yolk feels, to the touch, still soft without feeling over-jiggly. Here’s the key: golden brown toast, white (not brown/burned) whites, soft unbroken yolk.
