Where does the time go? My good intentions simply cannot cope with the power of procrastination and melt away when exposed to reality – as effective as the proverbial chocolate teapot.
Big news of the day is that after due legal process in the USA, despite the courts being stuffed with presidential nominees, the Epstein Files were published. And all the useful bits had been redacted. Words like mockery and farce come to mind.
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That’s my concession to the serious news in the outside world. Future readers take note – I do realise there is other news about, I just don’t bother with it. Our big news is the hard-boiled eggs disaster. We boiled 16 eggs to make pickled eggs (two jars of six, plus four as back-ups. It was a bit last minute because I’d been putting it off, and when we started on the eggs they peeled badly and were unusable.
Older eggs are supposed to peel better than fresh eggs but these were old, and they peeeled badly. It may be that they were too old, as I haven’t been baking much recently.
We just had an egg mayonnaise sandwich for lunch and I am thinking about what to do with the others. You can keep them in the fridge for a week, but that still means eating a lot of hard-boiled eggs over the next seven days. Eggs, I like. But I like them scrambled or in an omelette, or, as often happens, a cross between the two. I really don’t relish the idea of a relentless succession of eggs that are all cooked the same way.
At the moment we don’t have any suitable fish, so it looks like we might be having vegetarian kedgeree, egg salad and more sandwiches in the run up to Christmas.
We normally have snacks on Christmas Eve to get us in the holiday mood. Could it be sandwiches?
(I suggested hard-boiled egg quiche but Julia vetoed the idea.)
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Photos are all badly lit examples of how to eat eggs. 🙂
I don’t like mayonnaise (texture) yet my favourite sandwich is egg mayonnaise. Go figure
It’s one of those things without a rational explanation. I love eggs in many forms – as long as they are firm. Give me an egg with a runny yolk and I feel nauseous. But give me a raw egg and a bet and I will happily swill them down. Humans are strange.
This list from Wikipedia seems to be a goldmine of egg dishes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_egg_dishes
That is an impressive list, though I’m not sure I’d want to eat my way through it. 🙂
You are obviously in the midst of an eggsistential crisis. It’s a pity about the fish because a smoked haddock kedgeree with chopped eggs is delicious. I would willingly eat that for several days in a row.
Have you been watching panto already? 🙂 It is a fine pun in the long tradition of such things at Christmas. I used to have things like smoked haddock quite regularly but prices went up, I economised and fish pie faded from memory. I must try again in 2026. Meanwhile, I managed to salvage some eggs in a fit state to pickle so a couple more sandwiches or a salad should see the rest off.
It is true that the price of fish has become alarming, but I only buy fish once a month, so I grin and bear it.
I think I must start to buy proper fish more regularly again and make fish pie. I like fish pie.