Breakfast of Champignons
Had some chanterelles waiting to be eaten, so I decided to make breakfast. Used all organic ingredients, save for the dill. Preperation time: 7 minutes. Verdict: tasty. The goods:
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 large red onion
- 1/2 clove garlic
- handful medium chanterelles
- pinch dillweed
- coarse sea salt
- pepper
- butter (or alternative)
Slice the garlic and onion into coarse pieces and chop the chanterelles into thirds. The mushrooms should be approximately 1/2 again as large as the pieces of onion, and the onion should be 1/2 again as large as the chopped garlic. Set aside.
Whisk 3 eggs with a splash of water, set aside.
On medium heat, melt butter in a large sautee pan. When it starts to make noise, throw in the vegetables. Wait about a minute, then shake the pan to evenly distribute the contents.
Add the whisked eggs to the mixture. Add pepper and salt. Sprinkle about half the pinch of dillweed over the eggs as they cook down. Reduce heat and fold or chop the eggs occasionally to introduce air and prevent them from burning.
Just as the last bit of liquid egg disappears, immediately remove from heat. Sprinkle remaining dill on plate and serve.
Comments
Looks so yummy, I wish I had that for breakfast today! Sure beats a granola bar. :(
So, wait, if the base unit is 1 chopped garlic bit (cgb) we've got:
Garlic at 1 cgb
Onion at 2 cgb
Mushroom at 4 cgb
?
Also, what is your opinion on water vs. milk for scrambled/aggitated eggs? I've always been a water man, but some people (mostly women; en garde!) say that milk is the only way to go. Opinion?
Being of the no-lait-s'il-vous-plait bent, I favor water. You may be right about the gender preference. My dad would always use water, and my mom would always use milk. I preferred water and a good whisking because it makes the eggs lighter. Then again, just introducing as much air into the eggs as possible is probably the cause, and not milk vs water. Honestly at the amounts used, it probably doesn't matter.
now I'm hungry. Thanks a lot.
+1 for milk because I am a girl.
Word.
I think Garth don't know "half again as big." That means 150%. So it's 1.00, 1.50, 2.25.
I say more muchrooms
Coming soon: The Breakbeat of Champagnes.
Did you know that you can pick chanterelles in marin? They grow big as plates (no kidding they are huge) all over the hills and since they don't look much like anything else, it would be hard to poison yourself. This article is about how to look for them, and though it's from Washington, the same advice applies to here: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/getaways/100997/fung09.html