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Thursday, January 12, 2006
 
Poached

For Christmas I asked for and received egg poachers. My folks got me one, my brother got me one, and my sister got me one. Two were of the 3-egg-teflon-cup variety, and the other was a microwave version. For some reason, cooking eggs in the microwave oven freaks me out (isn't that what happened with The Hulk?), so I gave that one to my sister. I gave one of the others to my brother, and kept one for myself - feeling, somehow, that I had been scammed.

I used the poachers for the second time this evening, and I feel like I got it right after being good, but sloppy and just not quite right the first time. Tonight it came out so well that the egg timer went off just as I was spreading the margarine on my toast. Perfect timing. Yet another little kitchen toy that I expect to get good use out of. I haven't even taken my new food processor that I also received for Christmas (yep: food processor, rotisserie, egg poachers, spatulas, basting brush, blender attachment - all for Christmas. Geez, think my family wants me to cook more?) out of the box yet, so there's still more cooking stories to come after a brief word from our sponsors.