I like scrambled eggs and fried eggs but i make omelets too. With omelets its just strait egg and i beat the white seperatly a bit before whisking in the yolks.
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I like scrambled eggs and fried eggs but i make omelets too. With omelets its just strait egg and i beat the white seperatly a bit before whisking in the yolks.
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Eggs are amazing, they're such a versatile food, you can use them in cooking and baking and add them to pretty much anything or just eat them by themselves, love em
I love having a fried egg on toast for breakfast, with frank's hot sauce, i just had dinner and writing about them is making me want one
I love having a fried egg on toast for breakfast, with frank's hot sauce, i just had dinner and writing about them is making me want one
I used to use a cake cutting ring for making poached eggs but it disappeared.
Can someone give me good tips and a total rundown on how to make poached eggs without one of these rings? Ive tried swirling water and adding vinegar but the egg always disperses....
Can someone give me good tips and a total rundown on how to make poached eggs without one of these rings? Ive tried swirling water and adding vinegar but the egg always disperses....
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buy a egg poaching pan
Dont have the water on a rumbling boil, just simmering as the high movment of the boiling water rips the egg apart. Also, dont bother with the swirling thing, it takes a while to actually get it on lock and its not really that good anyway.
Use really fresh eggs as older ones are runnier and dont stay intact very well either.
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Yeah, the swirling thing is counterproductive IME. No special equipment necessary, just make them in a regular saucepan.
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Ever since I've started eating eggs on a regular basis, I actually feel noticeably healthier. Energy levels are higher, mental functioning is better, etc.
Honestly caught me by surprise.
Honestly caught me by surprise.
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^ Funny you mention coconut oil. My old man swears by it and all it's health benefits. Uses it as a spread, cooking oil, soap, shampoo...... everything.
He's moved overseas so haven't seen him for abit, but whenever I visited I could smell coconut oil in the house.
I borrow a jumper and I end up smelling like coconut oil
He's moved overseas so haven't seen him for abit, but whenever I visited I could smell coconut oil in the house.
I borrow a jumper and I end up smelling like coconut oil
I have mastered the art of poaching eggs!!!
I am now obsessed with them
My boyfriend is greatly appreciative as well, seeing as he is a massive egg-o-phile and had never had poached eggs before because he didn't know how to do it. I made him poached eggs on toast every morning when he was home from his latest work trip
I am now obsessed with them
My boyfriend is greatly appreciative as well, seeing as he is a massive egg-o-phile and had never had poached eggs before because he didn't know how to do it. I made him poached eggs on toast every morning when he was home from his latest work trip
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^ Have you tried my scrambled egg wrap yet?
The tomato relish is the key, and they're so good for a meal on the go
The tomato relish is the key, and they're so good for a meal on the go
n3o, just dont ever go to iceland. doubt youd get past the smell 
im not one to eat things for taste, id eat the most foul and pungent thing conceivable if it were extremely nutritious. that being said, the most efficient way to consume eggs is entirely alone. im not going to go into detail as to the benefits of eating eggs raw as if one is not greatly informed as to one's source (as well as the purposes of knowing one's source), it can be quite dangerous. so if eggs are to be cooked, poaching is prolly the best way, as frying on extremely low heat would yield much better nutrition (boiling is just too damn hot).
the problem this presents is frying is usually done with some sort of fat or oil. fats and proteins do not play well in the guts, so use the absolute most minimal amount possible. the higher the amount present in the stomach with protein, the less protein will be absorbed (and thus left to putrefy, and thus add toxins to the bloodstream).
adding any sort of fruit (LIKE TOMATOES) to eggs will provide less of an acidic medium in the stomach with which to break down the proteins into an absorbable form, and lead to the above problem. eating eggs as a sandwich, or including any sort of bread like toast with them, will create competitive chemistry int he stomach, and neutralize the acidic medium for an alkaline digestive medium, leading to little-to-no protein absorption and one's whole meal putrefying. eggs and potatoes is quite possibly the worst two things one could mix together (besides steak and potatoes).
you shouldnt feel like you need to lay back and take a snooze after eating eggs, ever. you should feel like a mountain of kickass. animal proteins are a difficult thing to make the most of in the diet, and should be consumed sparingly (that is, if one lives for the health).
the more one indiscriminately doctors the food up, the less nutritious it generally becomes, and unfortunately, the more toxic. gotta love food like your partner, just fine without the makeup on. getting past this is exactly like getting past the need for yer blankie when you were 3 years old. one needs to choose between the comforts of the sensations on the tongue, or the condition of one's body (especially the condition of one's body many decades from now).
also, on the egg subject, take into consideration how that egg was produced. everything i state is assuming the eggs came from a cage free animal which ate a natural diet (that the animal evolved to eat), that was raised in humane ways. the closer one steps towards industrialized production of eggs (even the slightest), the less nutrition found in the egg, and the more elements from industrial production to biomagnify into the end product. grabbing the cheapest eggs on the shelf is like consuming all the worst elements for the body. cooking them can cause just the right chemistry for the creation of even more harmful toxins. eating them raw can be quite deadly, quite a gamble. theyre useless!
"You should watch yourself throughout your life, and notice what sort of meat and drink and what form of exercise suits your constitution, and you should regulate them in order to enjoy good health. For by such attention to yourself you can discover better than any doctor what suits your constitution."
"He who loves food the most requires sauce the least"
- both quotes by the military philosopher Xenophon. The latter is something I usually explain in detail to anyone struggling with sound dietary maintenance. The former is usually something I explain to people that are quite new to a philosophical approach to diet.
im not one to eat things for taste, id eat the most foul and pungent thing conceivable if it were extremely nutritious. that being said, the most efficient way to consume eggs is entirely alone. im not going to go into detail as to the benefits of eating eggs raw as if one is not greatly informed as to one's source (as well as the purposes of knowing one's source), it can be quite dangerous. so if eggs are to be cooked, poaching is prolly the best way, as frying on extremely low heat would yield much better nutrition (boiling is just too damn hot).
the problem this presents is frying is usually done with some sort of fat or oil. fats and proteins do not play well in the guts, so use the absolute most minimal amount possible. the higher the amount present in the stomach with protein, the less protein will be absorbed (and thus left to putrefy, and thus add toxins to the bloodstream).
adding any sort of fruit (LIKE TOMATOES) to eggs will provide less of an acidic medium in the stomach with which to break down the proteins into an absorbable form, and lead to the above problem. eating eggs as a sandwich, or including any sort of bread like toast with them, will create competitive chemistry int he stomach, and neutralize the acidic medium for an alkaline digestive medium, leading to little-to-no protein absorption and one's whole meal putrefying. eggs and potatoes is quite possibly the worst two things one could mix together (besides steak and potatoes).
you shouldnt feel like you need to lay back and take a snooze after eating eggs, ever. you should feel like a mountain of kickass. animal proteins are a difficult thing to make the most of in the diet, and should be consumed sparingly (that is, if one lives for the health).
the more one indiscriminately doctors the food up, the less nutritious it generally becomes, and unfortunately, the more toxic. gotta love food like your partner, just fine without the makeup on. getting past this is exactly like getting past the need for yer blankie when you were 3 years old. one needs to choose between the comforts of the sensations on the tongue, or the condition of one's body (especially the condition of one's body many decades from now).
also, on the egg subject, take into consideration how that egg was produced. everything i state is assuming the eggs came from a cage free animal which ate a natural diet (that the animal evolved to eat), that was raised in humane ways. the closer one steps towards industrialized production of eggs (even the slightest), the less nutrition found in the egg, and the more elements from industrial production to biomagnify into the end product. grabbing the cheapest eggs on the shelf is like consuming all the worst elements for the body. cooking them can cause just the right chemistry for the creation of even more harmful toxins. eating them raw can be quite deadly, quite a gamble. theyre useless!
"You should watch yourself throughout your life, and notice what sort of meat and drink and what form of exercise suits your constitution, and you should regulate them in order to enjoy good health. For by such attention to yourself you can discover better than any doctor what suits your constitution."
"He who loves food the most requires sauce the least"
- both quotes by the military philosopher Xenophon. The latter is something I usually explain in detail to anyone struggling with sound dietary maintenance. The former is usually something I explain to people that are quite new to a philosophical approach to diet.
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^ Hey rm-rf -- I've heard quite a bit of promotion for these various food-combining rules; and I've noticed that combining protein sources seems to create some indigestion, but otherwise I haven't been impressed by any subjective benefits. I eat eggs and rice, for instance. Starchy carbs and protein -- feels fine.
What's your personal experience with food combining? I like to get an empirical angle on this stuff -- agree heartily with the Xenophon.
What's your personal experience with food combining? I like to get an empirical angle on this stuff -- agree heartily with the Xenophon.
everything feels fine when you live in a fog all the time. stop making bad food combinations for 12 weeks, and then go make one. youll feel like shit. if i ate turkey and mashed potatoes right now, id probably get sick as fuck.
i also ate turkey and mashed potatoes for about 22 years straight and "felt fine." ive also seen morbidly obese people waddle down the street in apparent agony who say they "feel fine" and dont need to change.
my personal experience is, once my teacher introduced me to the science of food combining, and i tried it for 2 weeks, i never looked back. i havent felt tired after eating in over a year. my energy levels are more like they were when i was 20 than when i was 25, and i shit like a swiss train every morning. my sex drive doesnt appear to go away ever, and i can usually work for 9 hours and still have plenty of energy to fight my classmates and train for hours into the evening. sure, ill eat things like hamburgers or pizza maybe 2-3 times a year, and thats only with digestive enzyme pills designed for bad combos (which arent that good for you either). i used to refer to myself as a grandmaster sandwich craftsman. ill likely never eat a sandwich again, as i now always find myself saying "mother nature never made a sandwich."
also my peers who live this lifestyle would state the same. i cant really tell people enough, dietary discipline just makes everything in life awesome. i feel inclined to speak up when someone in my office says things like "oh man, im sooooo tired" at 3pm, but i never wanna be seen as an evangelist. so i just spout it all out online here lol.
a good way to relate this to fellow bluelighters would be: treat it like drugs. if youre afraid to just toss aside a whole lifetime of adapting to a certain cuisine, think of it like dope or coke or something. you can get away with a little indulgence here or there now and then, but if you introduce that stuff to your life every day, youre gonna pay big time in the long run.
i also ate turkey and mashed potatoes for about 22 years straight and "felt fine." ive also seen morbidly obese people waddle down the street in apparent agony who say they "feel fine" and dont need to change.
my personal experience is, once my teacher introduced me to the science of food combining, and i tried it for 2 weeks, i never looked back. i havent felt tired after eating in over a year. my energy levels are more like they were when i was 20 than when i was 25, and i shit like a swiss train every morning. my sex drive doesnt appear to go away ever, and i can usually work for 9 hours and still have plenty of energy to fight my classmates and train for hours into the evening. sure, ill eat things like hamburgers or pizza maybe 2-3 times a year, and thats only with digestive enzyme pills designed for bad combos (which arent that good for you either). i used to refer to myself as a grandmaster sandwich craftsman. ill likely never eat a sandwich again, as i now always find myself saying "mother nature never made a sandwich."
also my peers who live this lifestyle would state the same. i cant really tell people enough, dietary discipline just makes everything in life awesome. i feel inclined to speak up when someone in my office says things like "oh man, im sooooo tired" at 3pm, but i never wanna be seen as an evangelist. so i just spout it all out online here lol.
a good way to relate this to fellow bluelighters would be: treat it like drugs. if youre afraid to just toss aside a whole lifetime of adapting to a certain cuisine, think of it like dope or coke or something. you can get away with a little indulgence here or there now and then, but if you introduce that stuff to your life every day, youre gonna pay big time in the long run.
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yesterday made a cracker of an omelette using some left over leek, some tomato chopped up, cheddar cheese, mozzarella, spring onion, some paprika, some dried chillis and 4 eggs it was lovely.
eggs are so versatile, made a lovely cheese, leek and broccoli quiche at teh weekend there to take with us on a day trip, quick and easy is one of the best things about eggs
eggs are so versatile, made a lovely cheese, leek and broccoli quiche at teh weekend there to take with us on a day trip, quick and easy is one of the best things about eggs