Put An Egg On It!

Full English – To Go!

2011-10-16T10:46:00.002+01:00

My new job sure knows how to put an egg on it:

Who ever heard of a takeaway fry-up?! Best thing ever. Actually, even better is that all that (plus coffee) is £2 on a Friday. Boom!

Straight from market

2011-08-07T13:47:00.002+01:00

Back when asparagus was in season...

Look at that yolk!!!

Double Niçoise

2011-07-13T22:46:00.003+01:00

Last night’s dinner:

Because I didn’t have enough eggs this weekend...

Egg on the Queen!

2011-07-03T11:12:00.004+01:00

Inspired by this genius:

The yolk never sets on the British Empire.

Chorizo scotch egg from Broadway Market, courtesy of Sam.

(Your puns most welcome in the comments.)

Omelet(te?)!

2011-06-12T14:33:00.003+01:00

I’ve started eating more omelets:

You can’t tell, but there is feta and fresh thyme in there. I’ve never really understood thyme before, but this made me an instant convert: lemony, fresh, delicious.

I actually ate this yesterday, right after buying everything (except the feta) from the market. So fresh, so good.

Eggtuna? Gesundheit!

2011-05-29T12:10:00.004+01:00

Tuna salad like my aunt used to make: tuna, mayonnaise, dijon mustard, chopped celery, salt & pepper. The mustard makes it. Tomato and spinach because that’s what we had lying around.

+ egg =

Apparently this was eaten in February. It was good!

Division of Labour

2011-05-19T21:37:00.003+01:00

“The wretchedness of the worker is in inverse proportion to the power and magnitude of his production.”

This worker must be feeling well wretched right about now. Behold these magnificent yolks!

So, so wretched.

Wretchedly delicious! Boom!

Pizza Egg? Try Harder!

2011-05-10T22:23:00.002+01:00

Can you believe I got served this in Italy? What am I, a stupid gringo tourist? Did you just sweep the floor and chuck it on my pizza? Do you know I’m an egg blogger?!?

Some sort of stir-fry...

2011-05-07T17:11:00.003+01:00

I’m discovering all kinds of eggs on my phone that I haven’t had time to post. No idea what these were, but the yolks look awesome.

Yeah!

Guest Egg: Fake Pizza!

2011-04-10T16:35:00.003+01:00

This is what the sender says:
“Egg on a homemade mini-pizza with a WWII U.S. Army fork ... Cilantro-tomato salad with excellent Lambic beer, basil-tomatina with edam as we did not have mozzarella, radiccio-red sweet pepper-apple, Monari Federroni balsamico” [sic]

And here is the pic:

Now, I don’t want to quibble, but that is not a pizza. If you ordered a pizza and someone served that to you, you would be within your rights to complain, or at least summon the chef for some clarification. That is an egg on toast with some strange (though admittedly exciting and probably very delicious) sides.

Still, I am very grateful for the submission, and I would be delighted to receive more “pizzas” like this one.

Guest Egg: Glen’s Goulash

2011-03-27T12:02:00.002+01:00

From the man who brought you these, comes this:

In his words: “Breakfast: leftover beef goulash on egg noodles. Egg. Soup on the side.”

Yes!

Send me your eggs!

Leftovereasy

2011-02-27T13:35:00.003Z

Leftovers? Put an egg on them!

Leftover mashed potatoes + free range deliciousness = amazing second breakfast after having to go into the office on a Sunday morning...

Farmers’ Eggs

2011-02-15T22:57:00.004Z

Straight home from the farmers’ market: sourdough, peppery greens, poachy eggs.

Poaching doesn’t get fresher than this! Unless you have a farm or your own chickens or something, obviously.

Hard-boiled

2011-02-09T23:07:00.003Z

Sunday lunchtime snack:

Tuna salad, baby spinach, tomato, toast.

Egg! I don’t know why we hard-boiled them, but we did. Delicious!

Egg friends? Friendly eggs!

2011-01-20T22:50:00.004Z

Yes yes yes, friends, happy new year! It has been a most auspicious one so far, though not yet overflowing with eggs for me. However, for our good friends in Bristol, it has been positively eggstatic (eggtastic?). Look at this bounty:

So vibrant. So orange. So many! And here, an egg named after my very own self:

It is all a bit much for me. I must sit down, but since I am already sitting I must recline.

Fear not, this is not the end of PAEOI, nor is it the beginning. It is simply an interlude, while I gather the strength to post the rest of 2010’s glorious eggs and consult the stars to find what 2011 may bring. Hold tight! And in the meantime, put an egg on it!

Guest Egg! Spanish Egg!

2010-12-13T22:54:00.003Z

Oh, hi! Could I please have some egg with my egg? And maybe a sausage wrapped in a crepe on a piece of toast? With a mini egg on it?

Thanks!

So. Perfect.

Parsley! And a Different Plate!

2010-11-30T22:59:00.002Z

A Different Plate!

A Different Egg!

Parsley!

Do I lie?

PARSLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

Friendly Caullieggegg!

2010-11-26T19:36:00.004Z

Hello! Here is an egg from the past. Because really, how many eggs can I eat all the time? Many, is the answer. An uncountable many. And yet still sometimes I forget to photograph them, or maybe I remember, but then my camera has no more battery life, or maybe I am eating yet another fried egg on yet another pizza. (That is a lie – every time I eat an egg on a pizza I post it.)

Here is a purely gratuitous egg; the dish was exciting enough without it. But how much more exciting with! And so, friends, here is a cauliflower pasta egg:

Friends, this is what we call a soffritto:

Here are the tomatoes:

OMG! What has he done?!

Yes, a whole cauliflower! I cook it in the sauce! Then I break it in pieces and put it on the pasta:

And then, of course, the egg.

Stay tuned for parsley! And a different plate!

Couscous à gogo!

2010-11-05T21:42:00.002Z

Alas, the process shots are all out of focus, so just try to imagine what layering this up was like (fun is what!):

This poor egg looks so weird. Like a sad volcano.

Put an omelette in it!

2010-10-19T23:09:00.002+01:00

New levels of egg:

That is an omelette on top of a bowl of pasta. Serious.

Guest Egg: Prawn Cocktail Bagel!

2010-09-29T22:27:00.005+01:00

More guest egg deliciousness: ’70s flashback wizardry!

From Helena: “On Saturday we went to a café for lunch. I had the prawn cocktail bagel: prawns in Marie Rose sauce,* avocado, ground black pepper, and a sliced boiled egg. I’m not sure why they decided to include an egg, but it was delicious.”

Do they ever need a reason to include an egg?!?

Of course not!

Look at that! So weird, so good. If only it were deviled...

Thanks, Helena!

Send more eggs!

*aka, according to Wikipedia, ketchyo, maychup, or ketchanaise. ?!!

Guest Mexibreakfastegg!

2010-09-16T09:09:00.003+01:00

This looks so good! Courtesy of Dean Martin and his famous friend:

Check it out: restaurant food at home!

Thanks! Keep sending delicious eggs!

Midnight Snack

2010-08-25T20:56:00.005+01:00

When we got back to the flat around midnight after picking up my mom at Heathrow, I set out a cold spread of cheese and crackers and other snacks. But what did my mom want? An egg! And she doesn’t even know about this blog! So I willingly obliged.

Toast and Wensleydale with cranberries (so good!):

An amusingly weird bit of yolk:

“Can I have an egg on this?”:

YES!

Guest Egg: Veggie Fishy Poach Supreme!

2010-08-11T22:27:00.001+01:00

Or something. I didn’t recognize these pictures, then realized that this couldn’t have been something I ate because of the anchovies. I mean, I’ll eat them, but not by choice. Occasionally I’ll add them to pasta dishes, but really I’d rather go without them. However, this looks quite exciting, and if you like salty, sweaty fishes, I’m sure you’d love this:

It does look really good.

It’s just those fishes...

BLTegg?

2010-08-02T22:35:00.003+01:00

How did this never get done before?

Tasty, tasty bacons...

Wait, did it?

Did it?

No! Ha ha! So good!

In which I try to finish the leftover mayonnaise and learn to poach an egg.

2010-07-19T22:29:00.003+01:00

Don’t let the poached eggs on this blog fool you – I’ve never poached in my life. But faced with a bowl full of homemade mayonnaise, courtesy of Sammy B for our Quatorze de July steakathon (I wish there was a link to Knife ’n’ Spork for this, but I completely flaked on the photographs; instead, content yourselves with this!), I thought I should give it a shot:

Poaching.

Toasting.

And mayonnaise. Garlicky, mustardy mayonnaise. Kind of weird, kind of intense for breakfast, but whatever. Put an egg on it!

Glen Devils Again!

2010-07-05T09:36:00.001+01:00

Please please please look at this as big as your screen will let you:

Oh my.

Hopper Night vs Friday/Saturday Night

2010-06-18T00:52:00.003+01:00

Cryptic poster. What is this Hopper Night? I don’t know, but it looks delicious.

What do we have here? “Evenings”?

Thanks but no thanks. I’ll take Monday, Wednesday, or Sunday any day. Or night.

Egg on my Chicago

2010-06-09T21:11:00.003+01:00

What it says in the title. Who knew candy could be this much fun?

Close-up:

Three? Don’t mind if I do...

Egg cetera.*

*(Yes, I did just do that.)

Pizza Redux

2010-06-03T22:49:00.003+01:00

So yeah pizza is like always eggable. You’ll probably see this again and again here because I’ll never get it quite right.

There’s only really two shots, but I took them all, so here you go.

Pizza!

Traitorous Eggs:

2010-05-15T14:52:00.002+01:00

Oh Blue Legume you do a dirty Benedict...

Look at the color of that yolk! Red like a sunset...

So good, so lazy.

Some sort of breakfast

2010-04-24T12:05:00.003+01:00

Here is a thing I ate a while back. Probably on a Sunday morning. I just uploaded some pictures and found a bunch of eggs I didn’t recognize. Maybe I should take notes...

Wow, my camera tells me I took this picture on February 21. Sunday indeed. Exquisite poaching.

German Egg

2010-04-02T14:47:00.003+01:00

Hello. Here is a crappy cell-phone photo of a strange lunch. I shared a “taster” platter of Bavarian appetizers, which just turned out to be a bunch of different meat salads:

Hey, wow, look at that crazy coleslaw! Oh wait, that’s chopped up hot dog with mayonnaise. Hmmm.

Hey, check out that cabbage! Oh, I see. More meat in egg-sauce.

Etc.

Anyway, there was one thing on the menu that I absolutely had to go for:

They called it something like “giant meatballs with fried eggs,” which is basically what it was. I’m not sure what the difference between their giant meatballs and a hamburger is, but it was tasty and eggy. I washed it down with a liter of beer and then I had to go back to work. The end.

Send me your Easter eggs!

Tricky eggs

2010-03-21T15:10:00.003Z

This is a variation on chips and beans. I can’t remember when it was eaten, but I’m sure it was good. How could you go wrong, really?

The tricky bit, in case you’re wondering, is that I snuck in a rogue egg photo. Pretty tricky, eh? Yeah yeah yeah...

New Year’s Egg!

2010-03-04T23:07:00.003Z

Yes, very late. Sorry, sorry, sorry. This is what I ate on the first day of the year. For breakfast. Glory be! Lentils for luck, you see. Chorizo for flavor. Leftovers + egg = delicious breakfast!

Happy New Year!

Topical Egg? Eggtopic!

2010-02-17T22:36:00.005Z

No, it’s not the Olympics. Although if someone wants to put an egg on the Olympics and send the pictures to me, that would be amazing. It’s a pancake egg!* Why didn’t we think of this sooner?

I didn’t realize that there’d be eggs on it until the last second, so it’s a bit rushed. Though I’m a fool. Why would there not be eggs on this?

Here is the obligatory funny-second-angle shot:

It looks like some sort of sea creature. Like a sting ray. Sting ray egg!

*For non-UK readers, yesterday was pancake day (ie, Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras). In the US, you never need an excuse to eat breakfast for dinner. Though to be fair, you don’t really need one here, either.

Bubbly, Squeaky Eggs

2010-02-12T07:46:00.005Z

Eating out, as we’ve seen before, doesn’t mean you have to go without your eggs. I didn’t actually eat this all day breakfast bubble and squeak with bacon and fried egg(s), though I certainly was envious when it arrived presented like this:

Which leads me to another point (viz, the bit above, where I wasn’t sure whether or not to make “egg” plural). People reading this might (understandably) think I’m some sort of egg nut. Sure, I like eggs. I also like loads of other things. Maybe one day this blog will become “Put A Pasta On It!” and I will do things like the Spaghetti Sandwich and Hummus Pasta.* Anyway, the point is, I don’t know whether this is one egg with two yolks or two eggs forced to share a single, glorious whiteness. Nor do I care. Take another look:

It looks like a crab! A delicious, crabby, eggy, breakfasty dinner. So good!

*No, fear not, those are disgusting, and I will never do that.

“Deconstructed Poached Eggs with Exotic Mushrooms and Turkish Bread”

2010-01-26T22:11:00.005Z

Nick continues to rule. (Exhibit A, Exhibit B) Here he is getting post-structural on these eggs:

Eggporia.

Nick, you rule. If you have huevos like Nick, send them in!

Carnage! Carnegg?

2010-01-19T22:55:00.005Z

This one is really weird. It’s old, too, from the beginning of the whole “poach an egg on it” craze, which is now sweeping the nation. Or at least my kitchen, and Nick’s. It’s on a borrowed camera and so out of focus and freaky, but actually it was pretty tasty.

One blueberry muffin:

One poached egg:

Here’s where it gets really weird:

It’s like some sort of sick, three dimensional, eggy Rorschach test.

I don’t know, this one’s pretty weird. Good, but weird. Hm.

Guest Egg: Quail Duck Poachathon

2010-01-12T23:23:00.004Z

Leaving in a bit of a hurry, so no time to get images off my camera. Instead, I leave you with more goodness from Nick:

This is some primordial, plasmal sort of poaching. Who knows what creature could be born out of that pan, grow some gills and legs, and then start putting eggs on everything it eats, coming full circle in a cannibalistic egg freak-out...

Anyway.

It looks a bit like this on bread:

Yes! Keep them poaching, dude.

I hope to get some authentic egg-on-pizza shots while I’m away, but I’ll be sans camera, so it might be tricky. On the other hand, you could just send me your eggs to post. Send them! Don’t be shy...

Guest Eggs: So Many!

2010-01-06T21:55:00.004Z

From Nick in Herne Hill:

That is more eggs than I can count. [ed: six] In his words:
“half dozen quail eggs perched on a bed of tomato and wilted spinach”

That looks. So. Goood!

Check Nick out here and at John John Slave, and get ready for lots more of his eggs — he’s got the knack!

PS: Happy New Year! Sorry it’s been so long between posts, it should be more regular in 2010...

When you get something like this in the mail...

2009-12-19T12:01:00.004Z

You’ve just got to put an egg on it.

Fresh bagels, cream cheese, wild smoked Pacific salmon fillet, thinly sliced tomato, and red onion.

Poach an egg on it. But it’s still missing something.

The pepper really holds the whole thing together.

There are more poached eggs to share, but they’re currently trapped on a camera that I had to borrow for the occasion and now can’t access. As ever, send me your eggs!

Poach An Egg On It!

2009-12-05T12:25:00.003Z

It doesn’t always have to be fried...

More poaching on its way.

And as ever, please send me your eggs!

Grateful egg

2009-11-28T22:02:00.003Z

Thanksgiving is my all-time favorite holiday. Dinner was late this year, but it was triumphant. This is what I ate for breakfast this morning:

Stuffing, sweet potato mash, mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts, roast parsnips, and broccoli to start.

Topped with cold turkey and cranberry sauce.

Alternate view.

Topped with an egg.

Oh man, this is heavenly. Beats the pants off full English any day.

Dip or salad? Part I

2009-11-19T13:32:00.003Z

You may recall that 34 eggs were used in the process of making Julie’s birthday feast. Fifteen were deviled – many of the rest made their way into this bucket. But was it a dip or a salad? We don’t know. All I know is that I’ve never before had a “salad” that tasted like a Big Mac.

Dip or salad? Part II

2009-11-19T13:11:00.004Z

The lettuce acts as sneaky camouflage. Also involved: bacon, mayonnaise, sugar. This blog is not intended to be a gross-out blog. I leave that to sites like this. But sometimes eggs get put in things and I eat them and I have to share it. Thank you, Glen. I think.

Teaser eggs

2009-11-15T21:44:00.004Z

Just to give you a taste of what’s been going on these past few days:

Fifteen deviled eggs makes 30 halves. Another 19 eggs were used in the course of Julie’s birthday feast.

Polenta Egg

2009-11-01T12:17:00.002Z

Never had this before: grilled polenta with a kind of ratatouille and steamed broccoli.

I love the way the broccoli looks.

And the rest of it. Mmm!

Yep, it’s an egg.

A kind of a coy egg. But at least it’s not weird.

Apologies for the delays in posting recently. I have some more lined up for the moment, but do please continue to send any of your eggs in.

Weird Eggs

2009-10-18T01:02:00.005+01:00

This is some rice and leftover veg, elevated into a dinner by the addition of some fried eggs.

Already they look a bit freaky in the pan:

This one cabbage fed us for 3 meals: [Fact]

The eggs look like they are crying:

These are some weird eggs if you start looking too closely. Anyway, they were pretty good. But weird. Elephant Man eggs.

Guest Egg: Scott and Lucy Do It Again!

2009-10-06T22:53:00.004+01:00

They demonstrate fine technique with their olive oil drizzle:

Though they break with tradition in adding tomatoes after the egg:

Yet mavericks that they are, they don’t fail to add a lovely close-up:

Check out those excellent plates. Thank you Scott & Lucy!

PS: BONUS EGG! Part 2 of The Smith’s breakfast eggstravaganza. [OK, one more crappy pun and this blog will self-destruct...]

Man, I miss New York sometimes...

Guest Egg: Surprise Nutrition

2009-09-28T20:22:00.004+01:00

What is going on here? Pesto and ice cream? Guacamole and ... ice cream? No!

“NYC 2008 x2 [part 1]: Fine breakfast eggs at The Smith, in the East Village. 3 poached eggs on potato waffles w/ spinach sauce. WOWZER!”

This is taking it to another level. Courtesy of Scott and Lucy. Thank you! More to come from them soon...

GUEST EGG: Danish Gravy Egg!

2009-09-19T11:11:00.004+01:00

Danish egg madness:

And under:

Truly a people after my own heart. From Sam:

“Snuggled beneath the egg is a substantial meat brick LITERALLY SLATHERED IN GRAVY!!!!! The dish was accompanied by a smart salad of cucumbers served by means of a tiny, two tined fork. There was fine Danish beer too. But butter my bacon and call me Odin if the egg wasn't the star of the show.”

Thank you Sam, and Happy Birthday!

Pheasant Egg? Egg Pheasant!

2009-09-14T21:43:00.005+01:00

Fresh shot pheasant.

Then Sam went and put an egg on it.

I have the best friends in all the world.

Special thanks to Charli for providing the fresh farm egg (and pheasant) and everyone else for waiting so long to eat dinner.

GUEST EGG: EGGUACAMOLE!

2009-09-08T15:51:00.004+01:00

Man, my family is sick. They didn't even know about this blog and look what they did to the guacamole! From now on, I'll never make another guacamole without egg surprise in it.

What's weirdest is that I didn't even notice these pieces of egg until we'd eaten most of it, so apologies for the picture of a near-empty bowl. (My stepmom made the guacamole - and the bowl it's served in. Check out those fish!)

Also, I'm connecting on a borrowed computer via a dial-up connection, so more egg madness might have to wait until I am back from holiday on Sunday. In the meantime, please keep sending me your eggs!

GUEST EGG: Yet more noodles...

2009-09-01T07:54:00.004+01:00

More noodles, courtesy of Ashley and Joe. This is pretty fantastic. They seem to have taken their photographs in a mirror to preserve anonymity – either that or the slides are backwards. However, they did seem to want us to know that they are fellow Morrisons shoppers. [PS: I just discovered this on the Morrisons website. I wonder if I could convince them to stamp putaneggonit.blogspot.com instead of wheresmyeggfrom.com...]

Ashley and Joe included the all-important process shot, as well as the extreme egg close-up.

Look at that perfect yolk! Surely this is the best Pot Noodle ever.

Thank you Ashley and Joe! Everyone else, keep the eggs coming...

More noodles

2009-08-29T08:45:00.003+01:00

Yeah, I make a lot of noodles. It's quick and easy and feels healthy. And a treat to put an egg on.

NB: Don't forget to send me your eggs!

Prawns, beets, quinoa, feta, mushrooms, what? Egg?

2009-08-21T21:43:00.005+01:00

Glen made a crazy thing. And I was very grateful. He even fried an egg for it.

You can barely even see the egg on here!

There we go. What beautiful light. What a beautiful meal!

PS: How stoked am I that I’ve figured out how to make these pictures bigger?
(Very, very stoked.)

Send me your eggs!

2009-08-17T22:21:00.002+01:00

While I am enjoying this blog a great deal, I cannot quite keep up with the egg consumption required, especially as I prefer to eat two eggs with each meal that I photograph rather than just one. I’m doing my best to post regularly, but if you’ve got some photos of eggs on (or in) your food, please feel free to send them along. Thanks!

GUEST EGG: PARIS EGG!

2009-08-12T21:37:00.003+01:00

Egg salad? Salad Egg!
Putting an egg in it is also an excellent way to go about egging your food. This place does the gnarliest salads. After lunch here, you are pretty much done for the day. Drink half a liter of rosé, skip the end of the Tour de France, and call it a day. Or go eat a huge steak here and then ride Vélib around Montparnasse all night.

Lazy Dinner ...

2009-08-09T10:37:00.001+01:00

Proving, once again, that a meal is infinitely better with the addition of an egg. Or two.

[PS: If you saw this on UNTIMELY, my apologies. I'm a fool!]

Another classic.

2009-08-04T23:07:00.005+01:00

I love this one so much. Even though I made such a crappy pizza—I forgot loads of ingredients—it was still good, and the egg was delicious.
PS – This is just about the quickest turnaround ever. I ate this last night.

Ploughman’s?

2009-07-30T21:10:00.005+01:00

I don’t even know anymore.

It looks kind of crazy with a flash.

Ahh, back to normal!

GUEST EGG: Deviled Egg

2009-07-29T07:58:00.003+01:00

Occasionally I will feature eggs that are not fried:

Although this should probably be here.

Lentil Egg? Egg Lentil?

2009-07-22T19:14:00.004+01:00

Lentils.
Egg lentils!
Yeah, it’s the same dish, but slightly different angle. I love it.

Egg on Egg!

2009-07-17T19:19:00.004+01:00

I’ve wanted to do this for a long time.

Yeah!

So good.

The First One:

2009-07-14T21:39:00.003+01:00

I think this was when I first started taking pictures of eggs on my food rather than just thinking about taking pictures of eggs on my food.

A Sunday morning treat.

Splatter!

2009-07-11T10:57:00.003+01:00

A classic:

2009-07-09T20:14:00.004+01:00

Good ...
Better ...

Best.