A new way to have over easy eggs

[draggar]

Roosters? Laying?


Cockatrice alert!

Oops, I meant hens.

[PentUpRage]

I mince quite a bit of fresh garlic into my scrambled eggs. Pinch of salt and grind up fresh pepper and they are very tasty.
Extra good when combined with a freshly made toasted bagel.

[Jester]

I put salsa on top of my scrambled eggs...

I've been putting salsa on my eggs for years. Hell, I AM from Arizona, ya know.

What's funny is that out in Zona, there are many breakfast places that will actually put little jars of salsa out on the table with the salt and pepper--it's just another condiment.

Here in Florida, I occasionally get weird looks when I do this, but not that much, especially with the strong Spanish influence in this state, and the large number of people from everywhere else in Key West in particular.

I have, however, had amusing experienced in the Northeast, where on several occasions, servers have not only given me weird looks, but stared at me suspiciously, and actually repeated my request back to me to make sure they heard right....I actually wanted salsa? For my eggs? And that kind of annoyed me. Not the part where they were stunned by my dining habits, but the fact that they would question me about it. Look, if one of my customers asks for ketchup for their roasted chicken, drawn butter for their fries, or ranch dressing for their shrimp, I don't question them....I just bring the stuff. I may laugh at them back in the kitchen, but I still bring them their desired weirdness. (But I guess that is a bitch for another day.)

Ya know what else goes great with eggs, with or without salsa? Beer. Seriously. Beer and eggs rocks. And I don't mean cooking the eggs in or with beer. I mean drinking beer as your beverage with your breakfast. Yes, I am absolutely serious.

[EricKei]

Look, if one of my customers asks for ketchup for their roasted chicken, drawn butter for their fries, or ranch dressing for their shrimp, I don't question them....I just bring the stuff.

What, exactly, is "drawn butter" anyway? I've often heard the term, but I'm not quite clear on what it is.

Oh yes, eggs ^_^

I like to fry eggs in bacon grease with a touch of salt and pepper.

For scrambled, I usually use salt, pepper, ham/bacon pieces (not bacon bits, but real crumbled piggy), a dash of Worcestershire sauce, a tiny splash of cold milk, and a teaspoon of cold water right before tossing into a pre-heated pan. I had heard that adding the water makes it *less* likely to get runny, and it's been working so far. Couldn't tell you why, tho.

[MaggieTheCat]

What, exactly, is "drawn butter" anyway? I've often heard the term, but I'm not quite clear on what it is.

Melted butter, or sometimes clarified butter (clarified butter, for reference, is butter that's been melted and reduced, with the milk fats removed, so that the end product is just butter fat.) It depends on who you talk to. Most of the time when I've had it at restaurants, it's just melted butter. It's mostly served with white seafood like shrimp, lobster, crab, and haddock.