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From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

Poached on diced, buttered toast.

From Required Eating

OpenTable: Now With User-Generated Reviews

If the rating option is only available after one has dined at the restaurant and the only time one can alter a rating is after dining at the restaurant again....I think it could be brilliant. We'd at least have pretty good assurance that the person rating the restaurant actually went to the restaurant first.

Downside is only those restaurants on OpenTable will be rated and there are many great spots not on the site.

From Required Eating

Don't Go To McDonalds When You're Hungry

You have McDonald's in your headline....but that's clearly a photo of an In-N-Out cheeseburger. Two Points: 1) you've conflated two things that shouldn't be and 2) you've created a craving for an In-N-Out burger. A photo of a McDonald's burger wouldn't have done any such thing.

From Talk

World Food Program Cried Poverty w/$1.22 Billion

There's no individual taking responsibility for the information presented or for having done any research. That reduces credibility in my mind. Further, either the "update" should have been included in the original piece or we should have been told that an attempt was made to verify/clarify the information or to ask questions of someone from the WFP.

The headline and the first two paragraphs show an editorial bent to the piece rather than a presenting information news piece.

From Talk

World Food Program Cried Poverty w/$1.22 Billion

That's a non-bylined Fox News story.

From Talk

What to do with beef chuck?

Does your husband like chili? Chuck is an often preferred cut of beef for chili.

From Talk

Trader Joe's Coffee

Properly ground, fresh opened beans; water at the right temperature and with a good extraction time.

From Required Eating

French Fry Holder For Your Car

Yes. Indeed. The french fry holder is what is wrong with America. This is the root of the downfall of civilization. Also eating in the car, totally demolishing the pillars of our society.

We also know that all people who eat fries or who eat in their car are fat. They are also beneath us and to be looked down upon.

From Talk

Rachal Ray's oval pan

The basic shape, I think, comes from smaller pans used for whole fish or sides of fish/large fillets of fish. One thought that occurred to me about the larger oval pan is that you could use the differing levels of heat to your advantage, sort of like a wok. That is, the parts off of the burner will have a lower temperature than the part right on the burner so you could, say, brown something and move it to a lower heat portion of the pan (like moving food up the side of a wok) add something else, then bring it all back together. The new electric ranges I'm shopping also have a combine-two-burners options which would put heat under the whole thing while taking up less horizontal room on the range top.

That said, I've seen her use the huge oval pan for pasta, which I don't get. And I'm not likely to get one myself.

From Talk

What did you have for dinner?

A whole mess of shrimp cocktail and a sort of bruschetta with whole wheat sourdough, tomatoes, fresh mozzarella and some basil.

Responses to Comments by ccbweb

From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

Hilary, You've got me pegged. I had my favorite all-time breakfast just before I sat down to catch up on "talk". You got it, hashbrowns with a sunny side up perched on top. Take a fork and masticate the egg and enjoy every mouthful as the yolk oozes through everything! The toast is optional; today I skipped it...

From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

Hard boiled egg whites. Don't eat the yellows!

From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

over medium between two slices of heavily buttered cinnamon raisin bread and a couple of strips of crisply cooked bacon. lots of hot sweet milky coffee to wash it down.

or shirred in salsa with a heavy gooey blanket of melted swiss cheese on top.

but i never, ever eat them that way anymore... now it's hard boiled, or scrambled in a tiny bit of olive oil and garlic with dry toast. accompanied by unsweetened tea with low fat milk.

dang.

sigh...

From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

I like eggs in omelets, scrambles, and souffles, and hard-boiled.

About 4 times a year I'll really want poached eggs, but the rest of the time the liquid yolk tastes too eggy (haha, no kidding!). It's just the usual sulfurous, metallic egg-taste that lets me know I'm eating something full of iron and vitamin A, but it's too strong if the yolk isn't set.

From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

not runny. that's my main criteria. the texture of wobbly egg whites makes me gag.

From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

eggs benedict is a favorite (especially at a diner in Pittsburgh that used thick slices of fresh Italian bread in lieu of english muffins). I try to eat a lot healthier than that on a daily basis though, so I save that for eating out.

My daily breakfast lately has been egg muffins - veggies and/or sausage + cheese in muffin pans, then scrambled eggs poured in each muffin tin cup and baked. The texture isn't the greatest, but I make a batch and eat off it all week - so far this is the best way for me to eat a healthy breakfast every single day.

Aside from that, I've gotten back into my omelet kick lately. I have a signature spicy omelet that my chef friend actually had a dream about, but my Pennsylvania upbringing left me unable to eat spicy foods. I usually just do whatever veggies I have in the fridge or go classic with ham and cheese.

Pretty much the only way I don't like eggs is scrambled wet or boiled/fried with a hard cooked yolk.

From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

It's all about egg salad in my world - a little mayo, a little Dijon mustard, a little paprika - yum!

From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

chinese steamed water egg! with soy sauce and maybe a little mai fun or dried shrimp, scallions.

From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

for chicken eggs: poached, over easy, sunny side up, runny scramble, raw on steak tartare

quail eggs: raw on uni sushi

Then of course there's caviar......

From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____