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A WISE COOK knows the culinary power that lies in a box of eggs. A myriad of meals appropriate for morning, noon and night can be concocted from this one kitchen staple.
On those evenings when you find yourself in your kitchen feeling utterly uninspired and too exhausted to cope with fuss… put an egg on it.
Eggs are so gloriously versatile that they can be the starting point for anything from an American diner breakfast-for-dinner vibe to a more refined Japanese-inspired supper.
Try a soft yolk over home fries, or a crispy fried soy sauce egg on top of a veg-loaded rice bowl. Here are a couple of ultra-simple recipes to try when you’re short on time, ingredients and motivation.
Serves 2
Leave out the chorizo if you’re feeding vegetarians, and add a dash of your favourite hot sauce to bring a smoky spiciness to your supper.
Ingredients
Method
1. Heat about three tablespoons of oil in a large non-stick frying pan over a medium heat.
2. Add the peeled and cubed potato pieces to the oil. Let them fry over a medium heat for 15 minutes without moving them. It’s very tempting to move them around and check if they’re burning but leaving them to sizzle away will help them take on a lovely golden brown colour and crunch. You can keep an eye on them by turning over one of the potato cubes to make sure they’re not burning.
3. Give the potatoes a good shake in the pan and use a spatula to turn over all (or at least most) of the pieces so that you can get a nice even fry.
4. Add a little more oil if you think the pan is too dry, and fry for another fifteen minutes. You want the potatoes to be golden brown on the outside but soft and cooked through on the inside.
5. Once ready, season the potatoes generously with salt and pepper, and keep them warm.
6. In a second frying pan, heat a little bit of oil and add the chorizo pieces. Fry for about five minutes or until the chorizo is cooked. Remove with a slotted spoon and keep warm.
7. Crack your eggs into the same frying pan, letting them fry in the leftover chorizo oil. Fry until cooked to your liking.
8. Serve the fried eggs on top of the home fries. Add the cooked chorizo on top. Sprinkle with the crumbled feta and chopped parsley. Add a touch of salt and pepper if necessary and serve immediately.
Serves 2
I use basmati rice for this recipe but feel free to try any sticky rice you like, or sushi rice for a more traditionally Japanese grain. If using sushi rice, follow the packet instructions for the cooking method. For basmati, follow my method below.
Ingredients
Method
1. Place the rice into a saucepan. When boiling rice, you want double the amount of water than rice, so add two small coffee cups of water to the rice. Cover with a lid and bring to a gentle but steady boil. Allow to boil until the water has completely evaporated. This will take between ten and fifteen minutes. Turn off the heat and leave the lid on the rice until ready.
2. Meanwhile, heat the oil in a frying pan over a medium to high heat. Add the soy sauce, chilli flakes and thyme, and mix well with the oil. Add the mushrooms and fry for about ten minutes in the oil and soy sauce, until cooked.
3. As the mushrooms and rice are cooking away, boil some water in a small saucepan. Boil the tenderstem broccoli for three minutes and remove from the hot water. Place the them in a bowl of iced water so that they retain their lovely green colour.
4. Add the tenderstem broccoli and the garlic for the last two minutes of cooking the mushrooms, and then remove everything from the pan. Don’t clean the pan.
5. Add a little more oil to the same pan with the leftover soy sauce and crack the two eggs into the pan. Fry to your liking.
6. Divide the rice between two bowls. Top with the mushrooms, broccoli and a fried egg for each bowl. Finish with a sprinkling of finely chopped spring onion and a dollop of your favourite Sriracha-style hot sauce. Serve immediately.
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well as long as DOB doesn’t get it,
He may be a friend of DOB, some digging needs to be to be done on this,and not the water meter kind.
Guess who does all the UPC installations
Do you have Sky or UPC. Doesn’t make a difference actually becuase they work for both company’s along with the ESB. Does this mean now that you are going to cut off your electricity becuase of the dreaded Dennis O Briens company works for them.
What’s your point Henry? The man has got his fingers stuck in as many pies as possible. He was deemed corrupt by the Moriarty Tribunal. We are entitled to shout “Stop”.
If Liberty want to buy it, it has to be passed by the regulator but if DOB Wants to buy it, it doesn’t ??
Where does it say that it doesn’t have to be passed to the regulator if INM buys it? Surely that would be MORE likely to happen given INM already own such a large array of media outlets?
Where does it say it does have to be passed.
They bought Tv3 for 265m in 2006. 265 million. LoL.
upc has to have the worst customer service I have ever encountered. they might as well just call over and slap you in tbe face. between 9 and 1 and 1 a d 6 of course
I am sure Denis O’Brien will get first shout as is normal when doing business in Ireland.
Anyone but Dob
all assets should be seized from d o Brien, and he should be banned from this country.
Hope this is the case as DOB also has his eyes set on tv3 also reports are saying
It pays to read the whole article before commenting…
“Meanwhile, Independent News and Media (INM), in which billionaire Denis O’Brien is the biggest shareholder, has also been flagged as a possible TV3 buyer after the company said it planned to spend up to €100 million on acquisitions.
However the media company has since described the move as “highly unlikely” and added there hadn’t been any talks between INM and TV3′s owners.”
If INM have €100m to spend and TV3 was worth €265m in 2006, it seems unlikely they’d be able to afford it?
I can proudly say, I don’t watch anything on that awful channel. TV at its absolute worst.
It’s better than utv
Only slightly. Utv Ireland is terrible though.
Denis O Brien already has too much power
John Malone is as bad as DOB! Why the sudden interest in tv3 you may ask? It’s the only tv station that is not run with a hidden agenda and is not controlled by the powers to be! The main reason TV3 is wanted is because of Vincent Browne! He is outspoken has no axe to grind and puts irish politicians through their paces! The rest of the media are just a front for the government and the powers to be to tell the people only what they need to hear and hide the reality of what is really going on! As I said JM and DOB are of the same breed! Nuff said!!
surely DOB shouldn’t be allowed to acquire this … narrowing competition etc.
Did you read the article? INM are not looking to purchase tv3.
I hope Donald Trump buys it, fires Vincent brown an replaces him with a syndication of Glenn Beck’s show.
Vincent Browne is the single best thing about TV3. He’s rare in Irish journalism in that he treats politicians of all parties (and none) in the same manner.
trump tv. it will just be about barac obama and weather he is an american citizen. right wing news glenn beck the guy who tries to legitimise the war on Palestine. no thank you between thegun loving texas ranger and the zionist. jesus they would do your head in give me Vincent Brown any day of the week no hidden agenda.
Dreadful TV station. Either that or the programmes are not aimed at my geographic. Most people I know don’t watch TV anyway. They are all over the Internet. The television era is coming to an end. The golden age has been way behind us for some time now. All things must pass.
Sell it might get soaps in HD
That sentence makes no sense!
TV3? …is that still on – air? ?
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