As mouse has mentioned in a post on planning (here), it's really important to try a recipe a few times before you do it for friends, family or more important people. For years now mouse has been completely obsessed with poached eggs. Many times she's tried...even using one of those little inserting things in a pan (they got stuck) so mouse decided to teach herself to poach eggs in a pan of simmering water.
So mouse watched several YouTube videos on the subject. The water was simmering vinegar was added...the water swirled...egg gently added...
And mouse watched in complete horror as it dissolved in the water! Around a dozen eggs later mouse has four perfectly cooked poached eggs. Daddy, well aware of mouse's experimenting arrived home at the appointed time, and mouse served him two of the eggs over a hash made from left-over corned beef snd potatoes.
Suspiciously Daddy eyed the plate, complimenting mouse on its appearance then broke the yoke...it was truly a thing of beauty seeing it. The whites were fluffy, the yoke not terribly runny...we'll say runny in a good way.
Daddy smiled at mouse, asking if she followed a recipe for the hash...yep she had...and the eggs too she beamed proudly..
"Tell me mouse are the eggs supposed to be cold?" Daddy asked, with a cockeyed grin.
Not missing a beat, mouse replied, "As a matter of fact they are."
Later after a little more reasearch, mouse learned to keep the poached eggs warmed in a water bath.
The brunch went well tho, when mouse tried it out for friends a few weeks later.
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