EGGSPERIMENTING

Yo guys. I baked eggs this morning.

And last night when I was foodtube surfing, I found a video that taught how to poach an egg in the microwave.

So I tried it, and it was successful. It took me a few eggs before I finally got one that wasn't overcooked (my microwave is HEAPS old and has different settings).

SO YEAH. A poached egg in 45 seconds.

And my baked egg. With tomato and spinach- which was LOVELY because I cooked the tomato in a pan beforehand.


Just gonna record my ingreds/steps here, and if you guys want to try/give me tips, PLEASE!

Diced tomatoes- 4tbspn out of a can, or alternatively dice 2 fresh tomatoes (1cm by 1cm blocks, I like mushy to matters)

A handful of fresh spinach. I just gave these a rinse and a good scrunch. I'm not a fan of blanching veges actually.

Half a clove of garlic- very finely diced. I sharpened my knife just for this and Jamie oliver-ed the shit out of it. I HATE garlic pieces. Ughgh. But somehow it makes the food taste so good :'(


Turn the burner on. Add a teaspoon of oil onto you pan. Before you spread the oil, chuck on the garlic and let the flavour be infused into the oil. Don't let it brown too much.

Spread it around the pan, and add in your tomatoes. If your pan is SUPER hot, watch out for exploding bits flying out. Add in a light pinch of salt and sugar, a turn of pepper and a dash or two of Tabasco. If you're crazy adventurous like be, squeeze in a smidge (just a smidge) of BBQ sauce- it's my secret ingredient.

Stir stir stir! This should be cooking for like a minute and a half. Turn the burner off. And it's time to assemble.

Oil your oven-proof dish. Put in half of the tomato mix in your dish, chuck spinach on one side (the egg side), layer on the rest of the tomato, more spinach on the other side (top layer), and crack an egg on the tomato. I added a bit of olive oil into the spinach for good measure and baked it on 240 deg for about 10 minutes.

I'm really happy with how this turned out. But next time I'm gonna add some sun dried tomatoes, and feta or goat cheese. And omg if I have prosciutto. Or chorizo.

Zermagerd.

Thanks to circa, instagram, not quite nigella and tastemade (sorted team) for all the inspiration. This is the best breakfast I've had in a while.