Hard cooked eggs: I'm a bonehead and now have too many!
I just cooked up 8 eggs to color with my son for Easter. Out of force of habit, I immediately shook them in the pan when they were done and drained. So obviously these cracked cooked beauties can't be colored. And now I have to cook another 8 eggs to color. So, other than egg salad, potato salad, deviled eggs and just the hardcooked eggs on their own, any other ideas out there? Has anyone tried the chocolate chip cookies with hard cooked eggs? Thanks!
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dearrie at 7:40PM on 04/09/09
Soak them in tea. It makes a really cool looking egg because the tea will color the egg where the cracks are. And they taste good. It's a Chinese recipe.
Ribster at 8:44PM on 04/09/09
If you have ingredients, there are a lot of Asian dishes that involve hard boiled eggs (braised, mostly). My fav is soy-vinegar braised chicken wings with eggs.
hmw0029 at 8:45PM on 04/09/09
Scotch eggs!
sailordave at 9:02PM on 04/09/09
My mom always made creamed eggs on toast for Easter morning breakfast. It may sound weird to some but I actually love it! Just make a basic white sauce and then chop your hard boiled eggs and throw them in to warm and serve over buttered toast. I always loved doing this with the dyed eggs because the whites were sort of colored and it turned out kinda pretty instead of just boring old white! Planning on making them this Sunday but only for myself as my hubby is totally grossed out by the idea. His loss.
arm1970 at 9:08PM on 04/09/09
Potato salad. DH loves potato salad with lots of hard boiled eggs. And it goes well with ham sandwiches. :-)
dbcurrie at 9:09PM on 04/09/09
BTW, dhorst - how old is your son? AND...you can't possibly have that many kinds of mustard in your fridge! YOU SO CRAZY!!!! ; )
arm1970 at 9:22PM on 04/09/09
@arm1970--younger son is 10 going on 11. Older son is 14 going on 15 and just left today on a field trip to St. John Island in the Carribean. And, yeah, I do actually have all those mustards in the fridge.
dhorst at 10:02PM on 04/09/09
@dhorst - LOL - I'm sure you do! Just had to tease you about it. The reason I asked the ages was because I have egg molds (one is a bunny and one is a bear) and I make hard boiled eggs shaped like bunnies and bears.....for my husband! Practicing these quirky skills for when my 2 year old is old enough for her school lunches. You know how kids (and adults) are...if it looks good people are more likely to eat it!
arm1970 at 10:13PM on 04/09/09
I'm totally with @db on this. Potato salad. Or you could, with them in the shell, cook up some beets to get some nice red staining water and soak them in them. Yeah, yeah, I know they're still plain old HB eggs, but they're so purty.
chisai at 10:22PM on 04/09/09
I second the Chinese eggs. Also, it sounds weird, but if you happen to make pizza, chopped egg makes an awesome topping.
bialy at 11:53PM on 04/09/09
chop a bunch of mushrooms, saute them in olive oil, garlic, shallots, thyme, salt and pepper until very dark, then mix them with the chopped hard boiled eggs for a wonderful vegetarian chopped liver.
cybercita at 12:18AM on 04/10/09
I actually liked making cracked boiled eggs with dye, gave it a cool edge to it. But if not i, like egg salad so I would make a big batch and have that adding all sorts of yum like bacon, or ham. There is this other dish that I do not know what the name of it is, it is Russian and you make this bread typw dough and you have this filling that is hard boiled eggs, salmon, dill, pickles, rice and other things, it was ages since I made it. Stuff it inside of dough and bake it, serve hot or room temp. It was a hit.
pjracz10 at 2:27AM on 04/10/09
Here is a link to the chocolate chip cookie recipe with one hardboiled egg (I wouldn't add mustard, though ;)
http://www.cookiemadness.net/?p=2388
HeartofGlass at 5:20AM on 04/10/09
nobody's said curry? there are a ton of indian dishes that use hard boiled eggs.
aimingforzero at 8:45AM on 04/10/09
I like to add hard boiled eggs to baked ziti. It gives the dish a nice creaminess.
Martini Me at 9:56AM on 04/10/09
Don't forget deviled eggs. People LOVE them. Whenever I bring them anywhere, they disappear really quickly. You can modify them however you like by adding different things. One of my favorites is to add horseradish. *s*
catpoz at 11:10AM on 04/10/09
It's nice to slice them up and add to soup, especially chicken with noodles/rice/pastina.
Kerosena at 11:28AM on 04/10/09
braciole
mepolo at 11:53AM on 04/10/09
Chop the eggs and use to top a salad of lettuce, cabbage, bean sprouts and whatever else tickles your Asian-ish fancy. Drizzle warm peanut dressing over salad.
Lorenzo at 12:00PM on 04/10/09
warm spinach salad with bacon, slice or crumble the eggs on top. Yum.
CATERPILLARGIRL at 1:26PM on 04/10/09
BELT Sandwich. I had one in Seattle and my mouth found it charming. BLT with sliced hard boiled egg. Although diced into the mayo might be easier to eat. It's wonderful!
xxuviolkd at 3:52PM on 04/10/09
I second making egg curry.
bmcbrides at 4:49PM on 04/10/09
Are you having ham for Easter? If so, you could make an egg and parsley sauce to have with it. It sounds very similar to the recipe that @arm1970 suggested, only with the addition of a good amount of finely chopped parsley in white sauce with lots chopped hard boiled eggs. My Mom always made this to serve warm with baked ham - another British tradition, but truly delicious and different.
bareneed at 5:42PM on 04/10/09
omg yes, Scotch Eggs.
Peony at 5:43PM on 04/10/09
Dice 'em up (or be proper and push 'em through a sieve) and put 'em on top of asparagus.
cyberroo at 6:04PM on 04/10/09
Wow, lots of eggscellent ideas guys! Thanks. Now I'm going to have to figure out which to try first.
dhorst at 6:48PM on 04/10/09
@dhorst-please don't adulterate another pizza with...eggs! ;-(
dmcavanagh at 8:01PM on 04/10/09
This is similar to a few previous suggestions, but this is true white bread: mix ground or chopped bologna in with chopped eggs and white sauce. Then serve over saltines. Exquisite!
brookes at 10:48PM on 04/10/09
I found this recipe for Norwegian Sugar Cookies that looks good:
http://www.examiner.com/x-3349-Denver-Cooking-Examiner~y2009m4d7-Easter-cookies-Hardboiled-egg-leftovers
chefbuttercup at 3:45AM on 04/11/09
deviled eggs or egg salad. I keep it classic!
dharmon at 5:20AM on 04/11/09
...or...and I'm going to gross a lot of people out on this one, I'm a hot sauce lover, so I cut peeled eggs in half, pull out the yolk, fill it with Tabasco or something similar, and shoot it! Good protein AND wakes you up in the morning!
dharmon at 5:22AM on 04/11/09
@dharmon - My hubby eats hard boiled eggs without the yolks every morning for breakfast and he tops them w/ S&P and Tabasco!
arm1970 at 7:20AM on 04/11/09
I know you said, 'other than egg salad' but I've made this three times since discovering it on SeriousEats, (of all places).
Asparagus Egg Salad
I even got a great photo the second time I made it.
geekyguy at 12:51PM on 04/11/09
@arm1970 - awesome! I thought I was the only one who did egg shooters! They're great before a workout! I usually keep a dozen, shell on in the fridge! :)
dharmon at 1:46PM on 04/11/09
Here's a recipe for Norwegian Butter Cookies. These are absolutely delicious and melt in your mouth.
Cream thoroughly
1/2 cup butter
Add
2 hard-cooked egg yolks, pressed through a sieve or mashed fine via fork
Beat in
1/4 cup sugar
Add
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon lemon or vanilla extract
Mix well, Shape and bake (best if put through a cookie press)
Makes about 40 cookies
duncan1205 at 2:51PM on 04/11/09
OOPS!! Forgot to say Bake at 375 for 10 minutes.
duncan1205 at 2:52PM on 04/11/09
Ha! I feel your pain. We're studying egg cookery at school (I'm a culinary school student) right now, so I've got all these eggs left after practicing.
Only, some of mine are over easy, some over hard, some soft boiled, some in ... well, my problem is a bit more complicated than yours!
Breakfast ... my place anyone?!
Cheers.
CulinaryStudent at 3:21PM on 04/11/09
A lot of good suggestions. The white sauce with egg and parsley for your ham sounds great. Yum.
Just don't feed the eggs to your dogs. Believe me, you will be very very sorry.
TwoBarkingDogs at 11:06AM on 04/12/09
My dog loves eggs, I made her 2 scrambled with a piece of rye toast for breakfast today, her Easter treat.
dmcavanagh at 11:45AM on 04/12/09