My Awesome Scrambled Eggs

[Danhalen]

Alright, so I was making breakfast this morning and I was feeling froggy. So I decided to make my scrambled eggs a little differently.

3 extra large eggs
3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons sour cream

Melt the butter on medium heat in a small frying pan then turn the burner to the lowest setting. Scramble your eggs and beat in the sour cream. You will not be able to perfectly blend the sour cream, but you will know when you are done mixing it with the eggs when the sour cream looks like little elongated bb's. Pour this onto the frying pan while still on the lowest setting. Immediately begin pushing the outer edges of the eggs toward the center. Once the eggs have a consistent wet grainy texture turn the heat back up to medium. Continue pushing the eggs toward the center of the pan until all excess moisture is gone.

Delicious, and I did it all on a goof.

[Goldie]

Sounds yummy and fattening. :D

I like to carmelize diced onions and pour the egg mixture over the top and begin scrambling.
If you are not counting calories, adding heavy cream makes the most excellent scrambled eggs.

I'll have to try the sour cream sometime. :)

[Alethias]

I start off by grating enough Tillamook Extra-sharp cheddar cheese to make the eggs yummy.

I put enough extra virgin olive oil(the mono-unsaturated fat is good for my hi blood pressure and tastes almost as good as butter), in a medium-sized skillet to coat the insides and turn it on medium heat. i break 2 large eggs into a bowl and add about a teaspoon or so milk, and beat them with a fork or whisk. I like them spicy, so add several dashes of El Yucateca hot sauce. and beat in thoroughly. I pour the eggs into the skillet and turn down the heat a bit to avoid burning them. I salt them, and let them set up. once they are set up fairly good, I sprinkle the cheese in, and anything else like maybe bacon bits if I have any left over or sausage, or ground beef, or hash browns or any little bits left over from an earlier meal that sound good. Then I carefully fold over the edges and flip the omelet and finish it on the other side. I sprinkle a little cheese on it and finish it with hot sauce to top it off. Then I eat and feel transported to a wonderful place.

I've also done the above, but instead of making an omelet just stirred the ingredients in with the scrambled eggs, and topped with cheese and the hot sauce. Very yummy either way.

[sidhe]

3 large eggs
1oz shredded sharp cheddar
Fresh pepper
Spike multipurpose seasoning
Butter/Olive oil
Sour cream
Hot sauce

Melt the butter/Heat the oil in a medium pan over medium low heat. Beat the hell out of the eggs until they're frothy adding pepper and Spike to taste. Drop the cheese in the pan and let it soften, pour the eggs on top and mix together. Mix continually with a fork or whisk. When the eggs start to set, crank the heat up to high, cook (while still continually mixing) until almost completely set, then remove from heat and plate. Allow to sit for about thirty seconds while residual heat finishes the cooking process and garnish with sour cream and hot sauce.

Serve with fresh-baked bread and uncured bacon. Enjoy fluffy scrambled eggs.

[DMB]

I like my scrambled eggs simple: just beaten eggs, seasoning and butter. And served before they get too dry.

[Goldie]

I like my scrambled eggs simple: just beaten eggs, seasoning and butter. And served before they get too dry.

I do as well. However, when camping, I do the onion thing and add cooked diced potatos and cooked sausage or bacon. All cooked in a huge cast iron skillet over an open fire.
I love cheese, but I save that for other things. I want to taste these ingredients and I think the cheese would put it over. We call them camp eggs. Those along with camp toast smeared with huckleberry jam make a great start to a day of rock climbing and body rafting! :D

[ofro]

Now that you mention camping, I strongly recommend Ziploc omelets, the boy scouts' favorite recipe.

You start with a Ziploc bag (that's a US brand; it is a plastic bag that you can open and close like a zipper), but it needs to be the heavy-duty freezer-type kind. Now you add 2 eggs and just about anything you like into the bag: shredded cheese, chopped onions, ham, mushrooms, green or red pepper, salt, black pepper, etc. Squeeze out all the air and close it. Put the bag into a large pot with boiling water and wait 3-4 minutes.

When you think the egg is done, you can test it by squeezing the bag, the contents should be soft or solid, depending on your preference. Take out the bag and empty the omelet onto a plate. If there are several people doing the same, it helps to label the bag with your name using a waterproof marker pen.

Voila, and no messy frying pan to clean up.

The perfect breakfast when you are camping (whether you are a boy scout or not).

[DMB]

Now that you mention camping, I strongly recommend Ziploc omelets, the boy scouts' favorite recipe.

You start with a Ziploc bag (that's a US brand; it is a plastic bag that you can open and close like a zipper), but it needs to be the heavy-duty freezer-type kind. Now you add 2 eggs and just about anything you like into the bag: shredded cheese, chopped onions, ham, mushrooms, green or red pepper, salt, black pepper, etc. Squeeze out all the air and close it. Put the bag into a large pot with boiling water and wait 3-4 minutes.

When you think the egg is done, you can test it by squeezing the bag, the contents should be soft or solid, depending on your preference. Take out the bag and empty the omelet onto a plate. If there are several people doing the same, it helps to label the bag with your name using a waterproof marker pen.

Voila, and no messy frying pan to clean up.

The perfect breakfast when you are camping (whether you are a boy scout or not).
The lazy cook could probably do something similar in a toaster with toastabags (http://shop.toastabags.com/epages/es109145.sf). (Very useful for students -- do the toast in one slot and the baked beans in a toastabag in the other slot.)

[His Noodly Appendage]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU_B3QNu_Ks

What, no youtube?

[Goldie]

Now that you mention camping, I strongly recommend Ziploc omelets, the boy scouts' favorite recipe.

You start with a Ziploc bag (that's a US brand; it is a plastic bag that you can open and close like a zipper), but it needs to be the heavy-duty freezer-type kind. Now you add 2 eggs and just about anything you like into the bag: shredded cheese, chopped onions, ham, mushrooms, green or red pepper, salt, black pepper, etc. Squeeze out all the air and close it. Put the bag into a large pot with boiling water and wait 3-4 minutes.

When you think the egg is done, you can test it by squeezing the bag, the contents should be soft or solid, depending on your preference. Take out the bag and empty the omelet onto a plate. If there are several people doing the same, it helps to label the bag with your name using a waterproof marker pen.

Voila, and no messy frying pan to clean up.

The perfect breakfast when you are camping (whether you are a boy scout or not).


Very cool ideas you are giving me for pack trips!

Actually...I like using the cast iron pan and allowing a few ashes to fly into the mix. ;) Besides... a cast iron pan cleans easily with some sand at the side of the river...then you can watch the crawdads go nuts over the bits and pieces removed from the pan and into the water. :)

[ofro]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU_B3QNu_Ks

What, no youtube?

Good luck finding the bread he used in the US. Even our German Bakery doesn't have such a hearty and firm-crusted bread.

[Moriah Conquering Wind]

We do a few Tbs of milk and a handful of shredded cheddar in ours typically, cooking them in residual bacon grease after pouring off the excess, a dash of black pepper. Yum!

[ofro]

We do a few Tbs of milk and a handful of shredded cheddar in ours typically, cooking them in residual bacon grease after pouring off the excess, a dash of black pepper. Yum!

Ah, "dirty" eggs; just don't pour off to much of the grease!

[DMB]

Good luck finding the bread he used in the US. Even our German Bakery doesn't have such a hearty and firm-crusted bread.

Back in the 1970s I made a work trip of several weeks to the States and took my parents-in-law for their first ever visit. My father-in-law hated the bread, and so I had to go out and find flour and yeast and make some every day. I suppose you could do that too.

[ofro]

Back in the 1970s I made a work trip of several weeks to the States and took my parents-in-law for their first ever visit. My father-in-law hated the bread, and so I had to go out and find flour and yeast and make some every day. I suppose you could do that too.

I am afraid it's not the same. You can find reasonable whole-wheat bread, or bake some yourself, but it's just not the real thing. I tried to make break containing rye, not just wheat. It's an incredible mess because the dough is extremely sticky. In one attempt I tried to make a crust with steam, by pouring water on a hot sheet in the oven, and in the process blew out the gas flame.

Our bakery is making a decent rye bread, just not the rich flavorful Schwarzbrot with a thick crust that was shown in the video. I am always looking forward to my trips to Germany and Austria.

[DMB]

Do you use improver (ascorbic acid)? That can help.

[ofro]

Do you use improver (ascorbic acid)? That can help.

Never heard of that. I'll check it out. Thanks.