Friday, November 27, 2020

Simple Salad by @MaddieDayAuthor

MADDIE: It's the day after Thanksgiving, and I suppose I should post some brilliant new way to use leftover turkey. But I'm still recovering from hand surgery, and need to keep things simple. A light lunch sounds good too, after all the eating yesterday. 

So I bring you my simple salad. It features a poached egg, which I love on a salad. By the time you cut it up and mix it in with the other ingredients and the olive oil, it becomes part of the dressing. I give you a quick and easy way to poach it, too.



Maddie's Simple Salad

Serves one.

Ingredients:

Salt and pepper not shown (and ignore garlic and soy sauce behind).

1 raw egg

Baby lettuce

Goat gouda

Baguette slices

Olive oil

Salt

Black pepper

Note: Exact amounts are up to you, and obviously add additional ingredients if you want or use a different dressing.

Instructions:

Drizzle olive oil on a few slices of bread and toast in a toaster oven.


Put a little olive oil in the bottom of a small bowl and rub it all around the inside (I rub the rest into my hand – a great skin treatment!). 


Break the egg carefully into the bowl. 



Place in microwave, cover loosely, and cook for forty seconds (your time might vary depending on your appliance).

Cut a bit of cheese into bite-sized pieces.


Spread the lettuce on a plate and add the cheese. Slide the poached egg on top. Sprinkle with olive oil, coarse salt, and freshly ground pepper. (Option: add a splash of vinegar or lemon juice.) Enjoy with the toasts.


Readers: What's your favorite salad?

My most recent book is Candy Slain Murder, the eighth Country Store mystery. You guessed it, the story takes place at Christmas. As with all my books written as Maddie Day, you'll find easy recipes in the back.



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Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning and bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writes award-winning short crime fiction. She lives with her beau north of Boston, where she’s currently working on her next mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.

5 comments:

  1. What a clever way to cook the egg. I have to test it out.

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  2. Thank you for the easiest possible way to poach an egg, Edith! I'm going to try this tonight with a salad already made.

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  3. Poached eggs are my favorite way to eat them! Thank you for the quick/easy way to prepare. I hope your hand heals quickly.

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