To all friends, family, readers, and loyal fans of Holy Poached Eggs, I hope your have an EGG-cellent Halloween. Be safe, be kind, and don’t sacrfice too many goats! 
Don’t forget tomorrow: it’s “Shop for Discounted Halloween Candy Day!”
Beaux
October, 2011
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
October 31, 2011 by The Yum Yum
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Delayed Post Today
October 29, 2011 by The Yum Yum
Everyone’s coming down with illness…aaaack. Pray for us…!
Beaux
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PB&J Adventures!
October 28, 2011 by The Yum Yum
So, a late-night craving has hit me twice this week, and both times I tried to satisfy said craving with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. As a child, I hated them, which I know I’ve probably written somewhere on this blog before. I seriously, seriously couldn’t stand peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
But as I’ve matured, I’ve become more open-minded (or I guess you could technically say more open-mouthed), and so I allow myself to eat things such as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I sneaked into the kitchen quieter than a mouse and began preparing the sandwich- much to my own personal happiness, we had all three ingredients.
Unfortunately, the jelly is in one of those “it comes out from the bottom” squeeze-bottles, and any contents of bottles like that refuse to come out after a certain point in time since so much air builds up towards the unoccupied part of the bottle. So I decided to take the smart route and unscrew the top- jelly is jelly, and it sticks together, so what could possibly go wrong?
Well, the jelly just sat there, staring at me when I opened it. Then I shook the bottle. And then…
…all the remaining jelly in the bottle glooped out together onto my sandwich.
And that was a LOT of jelly.
I couldn’t do anything but stare in horror at the big globby mess that mocked me. I thought I could avoid problems with this food, but nope, that wasn’t my fate.
But jelly is one of those things that, when broken part, doesn’t seem so powerful and massive and plentiful. I had actually put a great deal of peanut butter on the sandwich, and so once I smeared the jelly around all the sandwich, it didn’t look so terrible anymore. Then I wolfed down the best peanut butter and jelly sandwich I’ve ever had.
Basically, I can sum this up with saying that I have a love-hate relationship with food.
So the rest of you can go on with your bad selves and have an egg-cellent day!
Beaux
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The Continual Redemption of Corn
October 27, 2011 by The Yum Yum
Corn.
A vegetable with which I wasn’t friends for so many years, as everyone should well know by now.
Tonight, I took a can of cream of celery soup and a can of creamed corn, mixed them together, added hot sauce, chili powder, cumin, and garlic salt to the mixture, and just WOW! The soup is amazing and goes great over crackers. (I had to sneak the carbs in somehow.) But then, I like putting crackers in almost any kind of soup that I eat.
Last Saturday, my parents’ church had a fish fry, so we have plates of fried catfish sitting in the fridge. The fish itself is good, but the fried part, I’m afraid, is just disgusting. I’m so tired of fried food at this point that I can’t even believe it! So maybe there really is something to the idea of eating healthy food. Naturally, I’ll undo it when I go for ice cream or something later on. Fail.
Ramen has also met its last with me. I thought about making ramen tonight and then decided for a more creative route. Again, taking small risks is the best thing for me to do. I’m not one of those people who thinks that he can ride across the grand canyon on his motorcycle or something.
Also, please forgive me if any of my sentences don’t make sense; I’m in the process of learning several different langauges actively these days, and so sometimes when I return to English, my brain decides that it still wants to use the patterns of other languages and forget how to speak and write English correctly.
Yesterday, I tried to respond to Veggie Table’s comment about not liking pesto, but WordPress oddly wouldn’t let me. I wanted to tell her she could actually make her own pesto with different ingredients and call it “broosto” or something. Or she could try going through the pesto ingredients and discovering what exactly she doesn’t like about it. That would be fun, I think.
The truth is that basil is an overpowering herb in itself, and I can imagine that one can go wrong with basil faster than with most herbs. Yes, it complements Italian food extremely well- cheese and tomatoes are best friends with basil- but too much basil will overpower any other flavor around it. I do like the fresh taste of it, though. It’s like the bully cousin of mint or something.
Thinking about my wraps and soups makes me want to open up a restaurant that specializes in wraps and soups.
But I’d rather have a coffee house that specializes in wraps and soups.
And coffee, of course.
Maybe it’s a better idea to open up a business that has fewer items on the menu that are more “exclusive” in nature. I mean, think about it- the Goldilocks principle should apply. Offer three kinds of wraps, three kinds of soups, three kinds of cakes, and six kinds of coffee with the choice of “small” and “large.” Then you charge a lot of money for the wraps and cakes, less for the soups, and even less for the coffee. This not only keeps you from having to do too much work with making wraps and cakes, it also guarantees that the wraps and cakes will be an excellent quality and encourages people to settle for coffee. This spinach tomato wrap? Oh, yes, it will be expensive, but it will be the BEST one you’ll ever eat. Ever. You will never be able to find another spinach tomato wrap that tastes as good as the one we make here.
Just some musings.
Have an egg-cellent day!
Beaux
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How to Make Pesto Like an Italian Grandmother
October 26, 2011 by The Yum Yum
I found this link while searching for information about pesto!
Just click anywhere here to visit the recipe link!
Now go have an egg-cellent day!
Beaux
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Skillful Means, Healthy Eating, and the Death of Goldilocks
October 25, 2011 by The Yum Yum
“Skillful Means” is a neat Buddhist idea about taking ordinary situations in life and using them to progress towards nirvana. So, today I’m going to talk about the “Skillful Means” of our oven having died.
The technicality here is that the oven hasn’t really ended forever; it’s only temporarily out of order until we can get a new heating element. That being said, the great thing is that it takes away the convenience of, say, making a pizza. An hour for the oven to heat up is just too long for us to wait, and so we’ll take a more practical route and opt for something else. A Totino’s pizza can be cooked in a microwave, but I warn you, that adventure doesn’t always turn out so nice. Better to use the oven.
My family has still not caught on to the idea of buying bread that isn’t sliced and slicing it themselves, but then the local grocery store doesn’t exactly supply the best-tasting Frenchbread, either, so I can absolve them of this culinary sin. The wraps are my perfect alternative to that, as they’re new, neat, and let’s face it, making a spinach-and-pesto sandwich doesn’t sound as appetizing as making a spinach-and-pesto wrap.
Which brings us to my latest obession: pesto.
Pesto is a combination of olive oil, herbs (mainly basil), pine nuts, garlic, and cheese. It’s typically green in color and has a distinctive flavor. Pesto can be eaten on top of pasta, many kinds of pasta come with a pesto sauce, and some pastas come stuffed with pesto. Pesto can also be used on wraps and on sandwiches as well. Remember, a carb is a carb, or something like that. The point is, pesto goes great with starch and also with other vegetables.
Pesto also gives food the “savory” flavor of which I so often speak. You can combine pesto and cream cheese on a wrap and have an unbeatable combination of flavors.
I think in our incredibly fast-paced society we encounter a kind of anti-Goldilocks syndrome. Either we’re bombarded with far, far too many choices in a situation where it really doesn’t matter so much, just so long as it works (for instance, picking a flavor of ice cream is ridiculous. Grocery shopping altogether is somewhat ridiculous, if you think about it) or we have almost no options (the current job market.) Where is the just-rightness of it all? I mean, what happened to offering choices A, B, and C? Is there something wrong with having only a few selections? Does everything have to always be a cracked-out buffet?
For instance, my favorite color is blue. But I wouldn’t want every item I owned, every dish, every book, to be blue. I might like to write a character in a book who has that kind of obsession- and in fact, I think I might- but I personally wouldn’t want to run around looking at blue all the time.
The same truly goes for things such as carbs. Yes, we all know I’m a carboholic and won’t let anyone forget it, but I wouldn’t want to always and only eat bread and pastas and never have vegetables, fruits, or cheese. That wouldn’t be fun. At all.
Anyway, the anti-Goldilocks syndrome came up last night when I started talking about potentially leaving Facebook to return to MySpace, just because MySpace, for all the trouble it was, had some really golden times on it, and Facebook has rapidly gone down the drain and upset me greatly. Someone suggested Google+, which I have, but the problem is that Google+ is still, well, pretty much ugly. Also, not a lot of people are there. It’s too plain. There’s no happy medium- either the websites are out to make themselves as cluttered as possible, or they’re atrocious.
So sometimes, I appreciate having limitations, and sometimes, I find them ridiculous. Either way, the oven going out has at least indirectly led to my eating healthier food.
I also proved once again that context is important. The carrots and green beans in onion soup actually made a fantastic vegetable soup, especially when I added crackers. YES, SHUT YOUR MOUTH, I KNOW! Add that to the yummy food Jim made the other night, and everything’s just healthy, healthy, healthy!
Who knew being healthy could be so much fun? So many people make it out to be this horrible, terrible, awful Lenten-esque fast- and it’s not! It’s just the bit of know-how. Vegetarianism does not have to be “Here’s a raw beet straight out the ground, eat up, y’all.”
Have an egg-cellent day!
Beaux
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The Soup I Made Tonight
October 24, 2011 by The Yum Yum
What you need:
a carrot
a stalk of celery
a can of green beans
onion soup mix
cumin
What you do:
Chop the vegetable and heat them all in the onion soup mix. You can substitute celery seed for the celery. I actually used all canned vegetables, and this, to date, is one of the healthiest meals I’ve made. It’s very colorful and nutritious.
Sorry for the short blog entries lately. I’ll get my cooking gear back on soon. I’ll tell everyone about the adventure at Chris and Jim’s house last night and my latest discovery, which was something Jim made almost spur-of-themoment, along with more adventures in wraps which will never, ever end.
Have an egg-cellent day!
Beaux
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Pesto Bites RULE!
October 23, 2011 by The Yum Yum
Just sayin’.
I need to get cream cheese, green onions, and more pesto within the next 24 hours.
Wraps are definitely my thing.
Personally, I like to think of them as “Western-style sushi” when I began slicing them.
Wraps are my answer to all things carboholic. The gist here is that carbohydrates are severaly reduced when you use wraps- you get plenty of them, but not as much as when eating bread. So there we go!
I may be MIA for a few days. Forgive me if I am. Good things are happening. Well, sort of.
Beaux
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The Spooktacular Event at Kelly’s House Tonight Plus Last Night’s Gefilte Fish
October 22, 2011 by The Yum Yum
Well, somehow I’ve been coerced to dress up for the Halloween party tonight. I’m also curious as to why we’re doing the party a week early, but I won’t analyze that too much and plan to just enjoy myself.
I’m not really one for dressing up for Halloween. In fact, I actually think of buying Halloween costumes the same way I think of buying a wedding dress- something one stresses over way too much only to have the costume to wear a total one time, then never use it again. Except in this case, the wedding repeats on a yearly basis, which doesn’t make much sense to me.
I actually do like Halloween; I’ve had better Halloweens, on average, than Christmases or Thanksgiving. (Or birthdays, ugh.) The one detriment of Halloween is the lack of actual food, since most food comes down to various snacks and sweets. Even the pumpkins don’t really get used for food until Thanksgiving and Christmas!
In other news, as I posted yesterday, I finally got gefilte fish, and let me tell you something, Sister Christian, I ate the entire jar- broth and all- by myself. Gefilte fish isn’t something that’s necessarily popular with the other folks, and in that, I can immediately claim “more for me.” In fact, I don’t want other people to like gefilte fish as much as I, because then I might have to share, and then I would have to do battle and remove the person from this mortal coil.
Let me tell you, the fish was delicious. Absolutely delicious. I poured the broth and the fish into a saucepan and added minced garlic. Earle and Swifti were shocked by how much garlic I added, but as I put it, there’s no such thing as “too much” garlic. Ever.
The wraps we made were also great- Publix had tomato flavored wraps and garlic pesto wraps on sale for half the price of the smaller, thicker spinach wraps, so we went with the former instead of the latter. Earle got some sliced moo cow- I mean, roast beef- and asiago cheese, and then we proceeded to make the wraps at his house. Toothpicks help if your wrap isn’t tight enough; I tend to enjoy splitting the wrap right down the center so that one has two pieces. They’re much better that way, in my opinion.
I made my own wrap which featured pesto sauce, tomatoes, spinach, and asiago cheese. No moo cow for Beaux, please!
What’s everyone going to do for Halloween?
Have an egg-cellent day!
Beaux
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I GOT GEFILTE FISH!!!
October 21, 2011 by The Yum Yum
Just sayin’.
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