poached eggs

The only thing that should be keeping you from making "fancy breakfast" as opposed to regular this morning is not knowing how. And now we've fixed that. Dive into a little cooking project so you'll have full license to relax with one of our transitional early fall cocktails later (read: Seasonal Affective Disorder).

Sometimes in nature, the perfect sauce for a food is built right in. The oyster is served in its own briny juice, for instance, and the yolk of a poached egg makes everything it runs over just a little better. Hence, poached egg salad, or salade Lyonnaise.

Boiled eggs, be they hard or soft, make an excellent breakfast. Truth be told, I like soft-boiled for breakfast and hard-boiled for lunch. There's an enormous difference: one's for eating and one's for dipping.