So, hard boiled eggs are great. I like to make a ton of them, peel them and leave them in a tupperware in the fridge. Then, I just pluck one out, sprinkle on some Old Bay, eat it and repeat as necessary.
Well, I love it all except for the peeling part. Peeling hard boiled eggs sucks.
At least, it did until our friend science showed up. Science loves to party.
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As an added bonus, here’s my emergency egg salad recipe, containing only things I am likely to have in my fridge a full week after grocery shopping.
4 peeled, diced hard boiled eggs (Just pucker up and blow)
1/8 cup light mayonnaise (Make it yourself if you’re feeling ambitious)
1/8 cup dijon mustard (Trader Joe’s actually has a great dijon)
1½ teaspoons vinegar (I like using rice wine vinegar, but pick your poison)
2 teaspoons minced onion (I always seem to have onions left over)
Salt and pepper to taste (Buy a box of Morton’s kosher salt, it’s great)
Feel free to add diced celery, bell peppers, ground cayenne pepper, hot sauce, garlic powder, green onions or anything else you might have laying around. Replace the vinegar with a lemon if you have one… the key, of course, is eating it right out of the bowl or maybe with some toast you made from that bread in your freezer. Above all, no leaving the house for supplies.
michael, if you need help consuming said eggs, i think we should have some sort of bake-off/sale. you will probably nix this idea, and i will probably make brownies anyway.
July 8, 2008 at 2:08 pmtry butter instead of mayo. It tastes, well, like budda. C’mon, if you’re eating egg salad are you really that concerned about your cholesterol intake?
July 8, 2008 at 2:13 pmsteak-off before bake-off (it’s the new ‘bros before hos’)
and horseradish is good on anything (almost), just ask the japanese. ah-so.
*this was the politically incorrect post of the day
July 8, 2008 at 2:52 pmi feel like we could incorporate steak into baking. i think we should call it the steak-bake.
July 8, 2008 at 3:16 pmi’ll take your bake-off challenge.
guinness cupcakes with cream cheese frosting? check.
pineapple banana smoothie cupcakes with pineapple buttercream? check.
seriously. i even have the patented cupcake courier which holds 3 dozen cupcakes. i’m there.
July 8, 2008 at 3:20 pmMichael, we are awaiting your response.
Nicole, those all sound delicious, but a smoothie cupcake, i feel like this is a whole new territory. is this a cupcake we can drink or is this smoothie used in place of whatever liquids are needed?
also, i’m a much better brownie/pie baker.
July 8, 2008 at 4:03 pmI like the idea of horseradish — especially if you use the pink stuff to make a sort of radioactive purple egg salad.
As far as the steak off, make sure you both get the same cut and quality of meats… no fair putting a prime dry-aged ribeye up against some stepped-on Safeway top round.
Baking? Not my forte, but it sounds like you know your way around a muffin tin, Nicole.
July 8, 2008 at 4:38 pmOmaha for everyone! all the non-bakers can just enjoy our talent.
Michael, where are you?!
July 8, 2008 at 4:42 pmAmanda - you actually use a smoothie mix you make in a blender in place of the liquids and it was surprisingly easy to make/bake with. I’m moving into the brownie realm and cheesecakes as well.
I’m already working on putting together a cupcake tour of DC for BYT soon. Baby got cakes, plz.
July 8, 2008 at 5:14 pmP.S. I’m having Ray’s Hell Burgers tonight.
NOM NOM NOM NOM.
nicole, i have no idea who you are, but i’ve been thinking about this cupcake adventure, too. i think, if you’re willing we should do it together. no one will ever go to cake love with me.
and have you seen that cupcake place that’s opening up soon? i think it’s on 17th, or Connecticut.
also, in reference to egg salad. i cannot eat things that i can’t stand smelling and egg salad is one of those things. and potato salad. i’ve just recently come around to chicken salad, and that has to have fruit in it for me to like it.
July 8, 2008 at 5:55 pm@Amanda - Hello Cupcake! is that the one you’re talking about? Because I’m pretty much waiting for it to open so I can start my world, er…DC tour. But we can do it together.
Isn’t that cute? BYT bringing people together. As always - but this time over baked goods instead of shorts and booze.
July 9, 2008 at 8:50 am
Horseradish (either the creamy style or the real stuff, but the real stuff is better) is also good. Just a smidge.
I have about 5 dozen eggs left over from a brunch where 5 dozen were already consumed. I just don’t have enough tupperware. In fact I don’t think I have any.
July 8, 2008 at 1:33 pm