poached, not fried, with bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes and sourdough thanks!

[laylee]

There's a very amusing post about poached eggs over at melbournemaniac today. Apparently finding a decent poached egg is harder than one might imagine in a city renowned for its cafes and its love affair with the Big Breakfast. This then led to The Breakfast Blog, or one man's search for the perfect breakfast and his opinion thereof of various Melbourne eating establishment that claim to serve great eggs.

I am so easily amused.

In other news the weather has cooled down somewhat, however apparently its back to sweltering later in the week with the temperature expected to get to 40C and 41C on Thursday and Friday respectively. Guess I won't be riding my bike to work those days, will I?

The nephew has decided that he wants a fireman themed party for his upcoming 4th birthday and I have to make him a fire engine cake. Of course the fact that I made him a fire engine cake last year is immaterial, because when you're going on four and you're having a fireman-themed birthday party, you've got to have a fire engine cake as well!

Oh god, now all those breakfast reviews has made me hungry!

Comments

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

It's hard to make a perfect poached egg. You want the white cooked, and the yolk runny (or, well, I do), and just a few seconds too many can leave you with a solid-all-through egg, and then it does not oooooze out and saturate your toast mmmmmmm.

(I couldn't eat poached eggs at all as a kid, they made me sick, but I have got over that. Though I do have to use an egg poacher, I still can't deal if they're just dropped into boiling water.)

Why would you not want a fireman party and a fire engine cake if you are 4? Or 5 or 6 or 7, come to that.

Also: ♥. I said that before, but it bears repeating.

[laylee.livejournal.com]

My poached egg skillz are reasonable, but I still have a tendency to leave them for a minute which then means I end up with rocks instead of runny yellow goodness :~(

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

Woe unto the rock ...

... that sounded awfully biblical.

Three more sleeps till KITTENS!

[laylee.livejournal.com]

Hooray, kittenz!

I was looking at some cute bundles of fluff in the pet shop yesterday, but managed to abstain. Although I suppose a kitten would potentially relieve me of my other (unwlecome) house guest.

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

Don't you believe it. We had a mouse in London for months. Cats big, mouses tiny, can go where cats cannot.

[mergatrude.livejournal.com]

I swelter in sympathy, although not as badly as you! *kicks global warming in the head*

And a fireman cake? You are an excellent auntie!

[laylee.livejournal.com]

I just wish it would cool down enough at night to get a decent sleep. As it is I think I'm operating on about four hours per night. It's going to be very very lopsided fire engine cake if things don't change soon!

[mergatrude.livejournal.com]

Soooo hot. Another scorcher for you, huh? *fans you*

[laylee.livejournal.com]

Yep, second day in a row. Cool change tonight, though. It can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned!