Eggs and Bananas

If you ever decide to make me breakfast in bed, you should know that my favorite thing is eggs over easy, with maybe some toast or, even better, some spicy black beans and a couple of warm corn tortillas. 

I have an egg almost every morning -- on top of my oatmeal or oat bran, or sometimes just alone.  The mornings when I don't have one are evened out by mornings like today, when I had two.  Despite cooking eggs a lot I still don't do it very well.  When I crack the egg into the pan the white spreads everywhere, and the resulting puddle hardens into a big floppy irregular shaped thing that I have a hard time getting on my spatula and turning over smoothly.  The flipping almost always gets me in trouble; I break the yolk or I can't get the whole thing over and it sort of collapses onto itself. 

This morning I cooked myself two eggs, over easy, and I sliced up a very ripe banana and fried that right beside the eggs.  Somehow I managed to flip both eggs over beautifully.  The bananas got warm and melty with soft edges and slightly brown surfaces.  Breakfast was a treat, one of the best I've had in a long time. 

Comments

[Lisbeth]

Hi! Longtime lurker here, but I just have to ask - what do you mean by having an egg over your oatmeal? Do you fry it and plop it on top? Or do you boil it and then cut in chunks and sprinkle on top? I have oatmeal every morning, and it might be fun to switch it up with a little egg!

[Michael]

Hey! do you still use your stayofexecution@gmail.com account?

[wab]

When eggs are really fresh the white should not spread all over. Do you keep them cold enough?

[Scheherazade]

Lisbeth: I put a buttery over easy egg right on top of my bowl of oatmeal or oat bran. Sometimes I put raisins in, too, or sometimes maple syrup. It's delicious. The yolk mixes in with the oats (and the syrup and butter, if I've put those in) and it is rich and yummy and full of good protein. It's great.

An old boyfriend used to make me pancakes with a fried egg on top. At the beginning that seemed strange to me but I grew to love it, and now I'm down with putting a fried egg on top of just about anything.

[Sean]

You might want to try first cracking the eggs in a bowl, and then just sliding them into the pan. They'll go in gently and won't spread as much.

As for the flipping, make sure to use enough butter or olive oil prior to cooking. Then flip at the moment the eggs set. It's requires a delicate balance, but then again, so does making really good scrambled eggs. But isn't it worth it?

[turboglacier]

If you like fried bananas, you should try my favorite breakfast: heat brown sugar in butter, then fry a sliced banana in the mix. Add a long splash of rum, then ignite. When the flames die, serve over ice cream, maybe with oatmeal. Hmm, I think there's a name for this...