Eggs and Toast

[jpc8015]

My wife's all time comfort food is scrambled eggs and buttered toast. I am looking for variations on this as it can get a little boring for me. One thing I have done in the past is buttered toast with a sliced hard boiled egg on top.

Any ideas? I am not oposed to any method of cooking eggs or any additions to the eggs or toast (e.g. slice of cheese on the toast). Also, no form of bread is off the table.

[schrutefarms]

Soft scrambled eggs with cream cheese and cilantro-heavenly. Also, I know egg-in-a-hole has been mentioned, just wanted to say that I, too, love it! Pref with buttered sourdough. And be sure to fry the buttered cut out circle as well!

[Querencia]

Scotch Woodcock: Scrambled eggs on toast that has been spread with anchovy paste.

[IndyGirl87]

When I worked at a Turkish restaurant we made lots of egg dishes with pita bread.

Their method for cooking scrambled eggs was a bit of butter, crack the eggs, salt and pepper, and gently stir. Break the yolk at the last minute so it's a bit runny when you're finished.

Add these while cooking:
(1)Sautéed diced peppers and tomatoes
(2) Sujuk (halal meat found in middle eastern markets
-or-
(3) some plain old feta cheese!

Serve them with plenty of toasty pita, and you have three variations on fluffy scrambled eggs!

[happybaker]

Two suggestions.

If you are near a Vietnamese area, try an egg banh me. And then you can recreate it at home!

Freshly hard boiled eggs, sliced, still warm. Split a light french roll, spread it with mayo, sprinkle it with maggi if you can. Then top with the eggs, then pickled radishes and carrots, fresh cilantro, sliced jalapeño and the other half of the bread (also with a bit of mayo.) Light, bright, spicy and so comforting.

The next is courtesy of the late great Palate restaurant in our area. But I now know many have done versions as well.
Cook some asparagus (grill or microwave or saute.) Toss with butter, salt and pepper, lemon zest if you have it. Cook two eggs, sunny side up per person - the whites should be cooked, the yolk still runny. You could also do a soft boiled egg as well. Place the eggs over the cooked asparagus. Break the yolk to become a sauce and serve with lightly buttered toast. Cut, dip, mush, eat - it's very comforting but very adult as well.

[Ruthie789]

You could make the scrambled egg and put a sauce on top like what is put on Egg's benedict.

[sarahjay]

One of my comfort foods is creamed eggs on toast, which is simply hard cooked whites in a white sauce with grated hard cooked yolks on toast. I grew up eating this at Easter to use up colored eggs, but it's something I make year-round now.

[c oliver]

White sauce = béchamel sauce?

[sarahjay]

yes, but we weren't that fancy in my home growing up ;)

[c oliver]

Oh, in NO WAY was I being critical. Just wanted to make sure. BTW, it sounds great and I'm gonna make it.

[sarahjay]

I didn't think you were. And it IS great, hope you like it!

[John E.]

My mother really liked soft-cooked eggs, in the shell. (I can't call them soft boiled since they aren't really boiled, they should be simmered.)

I wish I had learned the following technique while my mother was still alive.

Take an egg and wrap it in a single layer of regular aluminum foil (not heavy duty). Put the foil covered egg into a large coffee mug and cover it with water. Put the mug into the microwave and cook on high for six minutes. Then run cool water over the unwrapped egg for about a minute before cutting the top off and putting it in an egg cup. We like to dunk toast 'soldiers' into the runny yolk while eating the egg with an appropriate sized (tiny) spoon. Of course the cooking time depends on the wattage of the microwave. Ours says it is 1,800 watts...wow, that thing is smokin'.

[LaLa]

I didn't know you could put aluminum foil in the microwave!

[jdub1371]

I like two eggs scrambled with cheddar and pepper jack cheese and some cooked spinach (broccoli is good too), piled on a piece of baguette that has been split, toasted, buttered and dusted with ground roasted cumin and cayenne. Hits the spot!

[klyeoh]

Fried duck's eggs, blanketing black and white pudding, on toast - from Delaunay Restaurant, London. Delish :-)

[hippioflov]

looks sooo yummy! A fox ate our duck. I miss her eggs, but I miss her company so much more.

[John E.]

"A fox ate our duck." That sounds like it came right out of Dr. Seuss. I'm sorry about your duck. Birds have a lot more personality than people assume. I had a pet pigeon when I was 13 and he (she?) was a great pet. This will sound harsh, but the mailman ran over my bird. (That was his name, 'Bird'.)

[hippioflov]

Shred lettuce on toast, top with chili, top with a hard fried egg, some cheese, and another piece of toast.

[ItalianNana]

My new favorite comfort food. Gordon Ramsey's sublime scrambled eggs. See on Utube! Delicious and decadent.

Oops, just read the other posts. Never mind...

[nadinep]

Poached eggs on top of a toasted English muffin with cream cheese. A touch healthier than eggs bennie.

[jpc8015]

This sounds good. I thinks I would mix some pesto into the cream cheese for a little extra flavor.

[emu48]

I like soft-cooked eggs ... three of them ... served with toast spread with butter and a little jam. Eggs cooked for exactly 4.5 minutes from starting to boil. After being doused with cold water and peeled, eggs go into a small bowl with lots of salt and coarse-ground black pepper, plus a little Tabasco or, if I have it, Peruvian aji amarillo chile paste from a jar. A little salt in the boiling water keeps eggs from cracking. My way of peeling a hot soft-cooked egg: Pour off the boiling water, fill pot of eggs with cold tap water. Take out each egg (now cool enough to handle) and gently tap on a hard surface to crack shell all over, then toss back into the cold water. Peel each one, under gently running tap, and drop into the serving bowl. The eggs will remain nicely warm for eating despite the cold-water treatment.

[John E.]

They will even peel easier if you steam the eggs instead of immersing them in the water.

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/777314

[juster]

Oh, this reminds me: poached eggs broken up and mixed into squares of toast in a nowl, with salt, lots of pepper, and a pretty good amount of cider vinegar. My dad's been making this for me since I was a kid. I'm guessing that I liked the little bit of vinegar flavor from the poaching water, so added more, which is better.

[Robin Joy]

For all things egg!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3gUds...

[klyeoh]

During a visit to Kelantan (north-east Malaysia) recently, we came across this breakfast dish: French toast, topped with a poached egg, and dotted with "kaya" (a Malay sweet egg-custard jam). It was *good*.

[david_ipse]

When you're beating eggs for scramble, mix in: some tomato sauce; pesto; herbs; scallions.

My fav. is to first saute some chopped onion in the pan, then add 1 tsp turmeric and mix, and then scramble the eggs in the pan, mixing with the onions.

Toast some chopped nuts in the pan and then add the eggs.

Make oeufs en cocotte. This is eggs baked in small ramekins (1-2 egg per ramekin) in a waterbath in the oven. You can add anything you want to the ramekins with the egg: peas, spinach, cream, cooked sausage, etc. Then you make "soldiers" (thin strips of bread) and use them as spoons to eat the softly set eggs.

[heathergcam]

I learned a great tip from an ex-boyfriend many years ago that combines the yolky evenness of scrambled eggs but the runniness of fried eggs:

Cook eggs over easy with butter and s&p, then put in a bowl and haphazardly chop it up with a fork (maybe a knife too). Put this on top of buttered toast and enjoy!

I often like to place a slice of havarti on top of the eggs after I flip them and put a lid on the pan to melt it for ~30 seconds or less. Then mash up the eggs and cheese together.

Eggs and toast is my favorite 5 minute dinner.

[c oliver]

Bob likes that first method when I undercook poached eggs :) Says he ate soft-boiled that way when he was a kid.

[c oliver]

A recent thread on things to do with avocadoes suggested putting an egg in the center of the avocado and baking at 400 for 10-20 minutes depending on how done you like your egg. I haven't tried this yet but intend to.

[eight_inch_pestle]

"One thing I have done in the past is buttered toast with a sliced hard boiled egg on top."

Better than that, to me, is a soft-boiled egg on toast. You want a yolk you can scoop and spread---goldenrod lava, not runny or chalky. Scoop it out, spread it over the buttered toast, then mince the white and sprinkle it on top with a little kosher or sea salt. Freshly ground black pepper optional. Great eats.

[4Snisl]

Close to midwesterner's reply.....but fried eggs in breadcrumbs is delicious. One of the first recipes I was compelled to try from the Zuni cookbook (yes, even before the infamous roasted chicken! :)

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/re...

[MidwesternerTT]

Toast IN eggs is good -- cube buttered bread and toast it a couple of minutes, stirring, in the skillet (i.e., make croutons), then add beaten egg & 1 tsp. parsley, stir until egg is cooked, top with grated parmesean cheese.

Other easy ideas (I'm an eggs-for-breakast fan)
rye toast
very small amount (1/2 - 1 tsp.) of grated onion
dried herb combo - tarragon, parsley, chives
dash of garlic salt
dash of dill weed

[mudcat]

Sunny side up or poached eggs atop buttered toast. Ham and cheese folded omelet. Shrimp, fish, crab or oysters with a thick bechamel in a folded omelet.

[jujuthomas]

poached on toast is my weekend go to breakfast.

[tim irvine]

Recently got some sandwich sized ciabatta rolls. They are full of holes like English muffins and beg to be toasted and heavily buttered. I'd like them done that way with scrambled eggs, which I do in a blender with a splash of cream and cook very slowly over low heat. I'd also like them topped with poached eggs and roasted peppers. I also like poached eggs on buttered anything with a little lemon. How about frittatas for comfort? You can put anything in or on them, even toast!

[MrsJonesey]

This Open-Face Bacon, Egg and Arugula sandwich is delicious. http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Open-Face-Bacon-and-Egg-Sandwiches-with-Arugula-237306

As is this Corsican Omelet: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/foo... It is good with parsley added to or instead of the mint and even without fresh herbs.

[GH1618]

My usual egg breakfast now is two fried eggs (over easy) on buttered whole wheat toast. I used to cook soft boiled eggs, because they seemed so much more delicate. Now that I have learned to fry eggs properly, they are just as good as soft boiled or poached, and easier. The key is very low heat.

[mudcat]

You folks have gotten me on an egg kick. I have always enjoyed eggs. There are so many things you can do with them. Unfortunately, owing to health reasons, I pretty much limit them to one day every week or two. A hunting or fishing camp breakfast is not camp breakfast without eggs. I will never forget a cousin of mine who won a $25,00 bet by consuming 35 fried eggs at one sitting. When we returned to camp after the morning hunt he fixed himself a double hard fried egg sandwich. This was years before the Cool Hand Luke movie.

[John E.]

Dang, I wish I read your post before breakfast. We had some leftover pork chile verde (green pork chile) and some asparagus in the refrigerator. I like to steam the asparagus, pour some green chile over it and top it with either fried or poached runny eggs. Toast is optional. A little sour cream on the chile is good too.

[jujuthomas]

that sounds great! I'll have to make some chili verde soon and try it with my poached eggs.

[thymetobake]

I love an english muffin, spread with a little jam, and topped with very soft boiled egg.

Also love a BLT with a fried egg. Guess that would make it a BELT.

[grayelf]

Add cheese and you have a BELTCH ; -)

[biggreenmatt]

Ahh, poached eggs on Vegemite toast. Veteran cure-all of a thousand hangovers.

Awesome.

[foodieX2]

I like toad-in-holes especially with really good thick cut bread. Use a fancy cookie cutter for fun presentation.

Hot hard cooked eggs, sprinkled with salt on buttered brioche is nice as is the same on buttered tortillas, topped with salsa

ham and egg "cups" , baked in the oven and served with hearty wheat toast

Dress up the usual egg sandwich by using things like linguica or chorizo, thick cut black forest ham, slices of steak. You could use biscuits, english muffins, bagels, thick cut sourdough or baguettes.

My husband loves microwave tex mex eggs. Put some salsa at the bottom of a ramekin, crack an egg or two on top, sprinkle with cheese and micro for anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes depending on yolk preference and micro strength. Great with buttered corn tortillas

Would breakfast burritos work for you? scrambled eggs, avocado, cheese, salsa, beans all wrapped in a flour tortilla

poached eggs on dark rye, even better with some brie and ham.

I like a simple fried egg with extra sharp cheddar and avocado on whole wheat.

of course there is always eggs benedict or florentine.

[jammy]

A simple change would be to make an omelette instead of scrambled eggs. Even unfilled, it's quite different.

[ipsedixit]

Also, no form of bread is off the table.
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How about scrambled eggs on brioche French toast?

[DonShirer]

Spread spicy refried beans over the toast, top with egg(s) & pepper, add salsa, cheese, shredded lettuce on the side if you wish.

[LaLa]

I also like the egg in a hole.....sometimes even usung sourdough bread!
For a shake up I like a flaky croissant instead of toast with my eggs sometimes.

[ninrn]

This is a bit far from the original, but maybe the Southwestern favorite, the breakfast burrito? Scrambled egg mixed with chopped potatoes, sauteed onions, scrambled egg, green chile and cheese, wrapped in a flour tortilla and the whole thing toasted or grilled. Also nice are eggs en cocotte. -- Butter little one or two-egg sized ramekins, gently break in an egg. Sprinkle with S&P, maybe some chives, even crumbled bacon. Pour a splash of cream, and top with some grated cheese if desired. Bake in a water bath until cooked, but yolks still runny. Sort of like a richer version of a poached egg, and nice to dip toast points into.

[blue room]

I agree with juster, mayonnaise instead of butter.

A few drops of tarragon vinegar in the scrambled -- oh! so good.

Very crispy/flavorful flatbread?

Curry powder in the scrambled eggs.

Toast soldiers! http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2012/0...

[Harters]

I think you will find it very hard to beat scrambled eggs on toast. Very hard, indeed. I would not mess with the basic concept but, for variety, might occasionally top the eggs with some fried sliced mushrooms.

[juster]

This is totally simple, but it's how I like mine, and is a big flavor and texture difference -- mayo instead of butter. You could use a a flavored mayo, too. Mayo is good on any breakfast sandwich, actually.

[laliz]

Use a wire whisk instead of fork to beat scrambled eggs; I learned that on Chow and it is a revelation.

good wheat toast topped w/avocado and then eggs, and then either taco sauce or salsa (I am a taco sauce addict)

[Niblet]

Salsa: I was going to say that too. I like the contrast of warm scrambled eggs and chilled salsa. Plus the spicy contrast. Sometimes a bit of sour cream if I'm in the mood.

I also like to add in some baby spinach.

[c oliver]

And I learned on CH to mix lightly with a fork and not a whisk :)

[grayelf]

The avocado and egg on toast thing rocks -- had it at Reveille in San Francisco last week and it is a keeper.

Scrambled eggs on a biscuit with a drizzle of hollandaise is a very, very good thing. And by biscuit I mean the southern US type biscuit, just to be clear.

[ipsedixit]

Mix in some Chinese pork floss into your eggs when you scramble them.

[hannaone]

Very quickly saute some chopped peppers (your choice), onion, and chopped garlic in a hot pan over high heat.
Eggs over easy (or medium,hard, scrambled,-your choice) on top of the toast, topped with the pepper mix. Side of bacon, sausage, or ham. Maybe a slice of cheese between the toast and egg.

[cleopatra999]

This recipe is from Giada.

toast french bread, brush on olive oil and rub a garlic clove over top. Spread with (preferrably) home made marinara sauce. Top with fried egg and shaved parm on top. It is a sandwich to die for!!

I also like avocado, tomato and egg.

[Crockett67]

Also would recommend peppers and eggs. But I start my onions way before my peppers or eggs so they are nice and caramelized. Butter a roll and toast the inside so the outside is still soft. Yum!

But don't forget the salt and pepper for the eggs as well.

[Philly Ray]

Have you tried making a hole in the middle of the bread and cracking the egg into the hole in the pan? You get a fried egg surrounded by the toast.

[HillJ]

I know that prep goes by a number of names! We enjoy a fried egg inside a bread slice as well. Recently we saw it prepared that way as french toast. Three steps to get there but it was amazing.

[Cynsa]

oh, yes! fried egg AND fried bread is heavenly — fry the bread in butter before adding the egg.
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Eggs-in-a...

[mudcat]

About once every two weeks or so.

[jbsiegel]

Take that and then add cheese and make it into a grilled cheese sandwich.

[Bacardi1]

That was one of my mom's most favorite breakfasts!

She called it "Toad In The Hole", which is more commonly used to describe an English dish of sausages in Yorkshire pudding. But some references also use it for the egg-in-fried-bread dish as well.

[Boston_Otter]

My dad always called that a 'frog in a hole'. These days I add a teeny bit of Marmite on the toast before cooking.

[jbsiegel]

It was always called a "one-eyed Pete" for us.

[hippioflov]

My son adores this. of course, in the summer it gets sprinkled with diced fresh tomatoes and a little shredded cheese - extra sharp cheddar or feta usually. I like mine with pickled hot peppers and cheese.

[HillJ]

soft boiled eggs with toasted rye is big time comfort food around here.

we also do this from time to time:
take a muffin tin and fill the cavity with ripped bread and then crack an egg over it, s&p and a hit of chopped herbs. bake in the oven @ 350 until the egg is done to your liking. pop out your egg cup and enjoy.

[jpc8015]

I love the muffin tin idea.

[HillJ]

so many add in ideas too. bits of bacon, cheese, roasted vegetables cut up small. but even plain is really satisfying.

[HillJ]

jpc, we had fresh eggs cracked and cooked into a pan of spicy tomato sauce served on Asiago toast tonight for dinner with a quick green salad.

would make for a hearty breakfast too.

[mudcat]

I sometimes poach eggs in my pasta sauce and serve over the pasta. My Grandmother would take the immature eggs from a freshly dressed hen and do the same thing.

[HillJ]

Oh that sounds really good! I've never done a poached egg that way.

[MidwesternerTT]

Havarti cheese on top of the muffin cup of the baked egg is a great combo.

[Uncle Bob]

English muffin, Canadian bacon, poached egg. ~~~ Or numerous variations.

[roxlet]

Did you ever cook the eggs super, super slowly? They become almost like a custard that way, and are really delicious with buttered toast. Also, mixing herbs in with the eggs is another way to vary them. Chives are really delicious, and fresh tarragon is lovely too.

[Puffin3]

That's the way I cook eggs. If the protein strands in any food are heated above 212 F they basically turn into rubber bands. Experiment with say some beaten eggs. Put half in a pan and cook as usual. Put the other half in a pan on VERY low heat and stir as usual. The difference in texture AND flavor is amazing. The SLOOOOOOW cooked eggs actually end up tasting like eggs assuming they are farm eggs.
G Ramsey cooks scrambled eggs on Youtube. Notice he stirs all the time. He plates the eggs as soon as they are barely cooked which means the eggs didn't overcook.

[c oliver]

I can't believe I actually found this article that pretty much disproves the idea that one egg tastes better than another:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/08/wh...

[jpc8015]

Interesting article. I travel through the Amsterdam airport about four times a year on business. When I am there I always stop at the same restaurant and get the same breakfast. It is basically three slices of deli bread each topped with a thin slice of gouda cheese, a thin slice of ham and a beatiful fried egg. The eggs always have a beautiful bright orange yolk and I have often commented on how delicious they taste.

[Boston_Otter]

Kenji's Cook's Illustrated-style taste tests sometimes have the same results as his former employer's do... the results of a lab test aren't always the same as every day, real-world flavors. The first time I had eggs from a local Araucana hen, I couldn't believe how EGGY they tasted, how intensely flavored they were.

[c oliver]

For the first time, I recently bought a dozen eggs laid by local, "pastured" chickens. They poached great, they fried up GREAT, the whites were wonderfully firm and the yolks stood at attention. But honestly I could taste no difference in the eggs themselves. I'm going to continue to buy them for all sorts of reasons but not because of any perceived taste difference. YMMV.

[c oliver]

Here's one of several threads about this technique. Karl S seemed to get the convo started. I really like them this way but Bob really doesn't.

[Robin Joy]

Super, super slow can be achieved scrambling them in a bowl over simmering water. You'll see it done six minutes into this video from the great Roux brothers, who have held 3 Michelin stars for over 30 years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3gUds...

[grayelf]

Mum made them that way in a double boiler when we were growing up -- it was the only way I'd touch eggs for decades. We still call them coddled eggs. Great with a little sharp cheddar grated and stirred in near the end of cooking.

[ursy_ten]

A little truffle salt goes wonderfully with eggs.

Some fresh chopped chives on top of a dollop of creme fraiche?

A sprinkle of nutritional yeast?

A dash of walnut oil?

Or, perhaps serendipitously, I came across this recipe just last night.
It's an egg cooked *inside* a tortilla. Intriguing!
http://food52.com/recipes/492-hidden-...

[Georgia Strait]

i may be enthused to try that one day - fascinating

ps - did you see the chickpea soup on that same website - that looks good too - and contains egg.
http://food52.com/blog/6441-heidi-swa...

[ursy_ten]

Oh, that does look wonderful. Lucky for me, we're going into soup season right now!

Food52 is such a great site, it's one of my favourites.

[calliope_nh]

I like two slices of toast. One with jam, the other buttered with an egg over easy on top. The egg gets cut and eaten with the toast it is on.