How to Hard Boil an Egg…

Several years ago, a well known chef friend of mine was on a mission to cook an egg perfectly. Truth be told, at the time I didn’t get it. Here’s a internationally recognized chef focused on cooking…an egg. It seemed so simple. Ever since I was young, my mom fried, scrambled, boiled, or poached eggs almost daily. If she wasn’t cooking them individually, they were going into cookies, cakes, casseroles or any number of other types of dishes. Eggs were probably the first thing I ever even tried to cook because it seemed so simple. However, I learned I was wrong. Cooking an egg is harder than it looks and not everyone knows how to do it. I suppose all of those years watching my mom and grandma model the egg cooking process engrained it in the neuronal networks of my brain. So…here is hard boiling an egg in five steps.

Step 1…Get a fresh egg (or however many you want to boil).

Since there are only two of us and we are eating fewer eggs now-a-days, we usually buy a 1/2 dozen at a time so they stay fresher. There are few things nastier than cracking open an old, rotten egg. Yuck-ola!

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Weekend Grilling

Grilled Sausages and Peppers

Here’s a perfectly tasty lunch for a sunny, Saturday or Sunday afternoon in the backyard.  An added plus it that it’s easy to prep and cook.  Bonus feature: it’s also visually appealing on the table.  The following recipe is for two people.  However, it can easily be scaled up for bigger parties by simply adding the same amount for every two additional guests.

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