Veggie Eggs

Veggie Eggs

I have been trying to incoporate more vegetables in my meals, so when I fried some eggs a few days ago, I got all the vegetables I had and added them.  I didn't even think of adding it to the blog so I have no pictures of the process. The end result looked so good I just had to take a picture.

 
Ingredients:
4 Eggs
1 Onion
2 Tomatoes
1/4 Squash
5 cloves of Garlic
1 Green pepper
Cooking oil
Salt
Black pepper


Dice the vegetables into 1/2" cubes.

Crack the eggs into a small bowl and then transfer to a bigger bowl, one at a time. I learnt this the hard way.

One time I was about to fry some eggs and had cracked  5 of my six eggs all staright into my bowl and the six egg was bad, I had to throw out the whole mixture and then go out to buy some more eggs.

Heat a pan with 2 teaspoonfuls of oil. while the oil heats, add a pinch of salt and black pepper, and beat the eggs very well, till they are frothy. Rotate the pan to make sure the oil coats every part of it. Pour in the egg mixture and turn down the heat slightly. Flip the egg with a spatula when the underside begins to brown. Turn out onto a plate.

Add a teaspoon of oil to the still hot pan and toss in the vegetables. Stir-fry for a minute or two. Add a pinch of salt  and black pepper to taste.

Pour it out onto the eggs and enjoy!!!!



Potato Salad

This is one of the easiest salads to make, yet most people tend to shy away from it. Hopefully by showing how simple it is, I can get more people making and enjoying it.

Ingredients:
4 Medium Potatoes
4 Eggs
2 small spring onions
1 tablespoon Salad Cream
2 Tablespoons Mayonnaise
Salt
Black Pepper

Peel wash and cube the potatoes. I prefer half inch cubes, but you can make them a little bigger if you like. Some people like to boil the potatoes whole and then cut them into cubes. I find that this makes them too crumbly and in the end you have something close to mash potatoes, which is not how we want it turning out.

Place them in a pot and cover with a litre of water, add a teaspoonful of salt, cover and
bring to a boil. When the potatoes are cooked (spearing with a fork breaks it apart) drain and cool.

Very finely chop your spring onions. The green part adds a lovely colour to the finished salad.

Boil and shell the eggs.

Cut the eggs up into sizes tha roughly match the sizes of your potato cubes.

In a small bowl, mix the salad cream and mayonnaise ...

... and in a big bowl mix everything together. Do this gently so you don't mash them, but make sure everything is evenly coated. Sprinkle on a pinch of black pepper and you are set. You can eat it right away, but I would suggest you refrigerate it for about 2 hours.

Serve it with fried chicken and Jollof or plain rice.

Valentine Eggs

I usually don't make much of a fuss over Valentines day, so I woke up and went to make breakfast as usual. I got some eggs, sausage and tomatoes and got ready. I chopped 2 tomatoes half of one of those big chicken sausages that have come on the market recently. I added just salt and a dash of black pepper and beat my eggs. When the oil in the pan was hot and I poured in the eggs, it hit me. Instead of just throwing on the tomatoes and sausage like I had planned, why not try something? So I lowered the heat under the eggs and got creative. I arranged the tomatoes in a beautiful heart - if I say so myself - than filled the heart with sausage. I had some left over so I decided what the heck, and put the rest all around.

All was going just perfect until it was time to flip it. I flipped it and the blasted tomatoes and sausages moved. I hope and prayed that at least some had set well enough to maitain some semblance of a heart. When that side was done and I flipped it over again, I did some damage control by surgically removing ans reattaching some parts of my heart.
I went and presented my master piece to my husband and he looked at the eggs then looked back at me and said "what?". Just as I was about to scream, he burst out laughing. Whew!
Later in the day, we had a black out throughout most of Accra, so in the evening we went to this charming place at Tesano called "Rhythms" and had a wonderful evening. All in all, a lovely day.
How was your Valentines day?