Tonight's Dinner
One night all I had in the kitchen that was appetising was some smoked salmon, an avocado and some eggs, so I Googled to find out what I could do with those ingredients. This was the recipe I found:
Soft Scrambled Eggs with Smoked Salmon and Avocado
Ingredients:
8 eggs
3 Tbsp. heavy cream
2 Tbsp. unsalted butter
Freshly ground black pepper and sea salt
2 avocados, peeled and cut in slices
8 slices smoked salmon
Chopped chives (optional)
Preparation:
Crack the eggs into a bowl. Add the cream and whisk until the eggs look foamy and light.
Heat a 10-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat. Melt the butter until it foams; then turn the heat down to low and slowly pour in the eggs. Using a heat-resistant rubber spatula, slowly stir the eggs from the outside of the pan to the center. Once the eggs begin to set, stirring slowly will create large, cloudlike curds. This process takes about 10 minutes. It sounds easy, but perfect scrambled eggs that are soft and custardlike with no brown color are the sign of a really good cook. Season the eggs with a few cranks of black pepper and good salt, like fleur de sel. Serve with a few slices of avocado and smoked salmon, maybe a little chopped fresh chives.
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It’s more of a breakfast meal - but I’m not a morning person and really shouldn’t be around sharp knives and hot stoves when I’ve just woken up, so I usually have it as a light dinner. It’s very delicious. I don’t usually like scrambled eggs, grew up with the ‘stir the shit out of a couple of eggs, chuck them in a pan and stir until they are hard and crumbly’ method, and also had mass-produced powdered egg scrambled eggs at school camps and holiday camps. Gag.