A present for PEAS

Massive thanks to the folks over at the Happy Egg Co for their PEAS birthday present

Eggs for me. Box for kitty. 

A birthday summary

Here at PEAS we're delighted to share our 5th birthday week with Obama's re-election.We celebrated both events by eating poached eggs.

PEAS for peace

  

A pre-PEAS cocktail. Cocktail contains egg white.

You've been PEASed.

A message from the Patron on our 5th Birthday

From the patron:

Well, I am glad to hear you are marking this very special occasion.
Please give my best wishes to all the members of PEAS.
May your yolks remain intact during poaching.
Graham
PEAS Patron

A quick recap

PEAS members, we all have our good months and bad months and the last few months of poaching have been a struggle for me - wayward albumen, overcooked yolks, deflated confidence. But thanks to the support of my co-founders I never gave up. There's a message in there if you care to look.

Here's what perseverance brings:

Poached egg w/fish cake, carrot, coriander and chili salad and watercress pesto.  Impressive using up of ingredients in the fridge/freezer

PEAS w/meat and cheese. A classic combo.

 PEAS w/broadbean burgers and spicy tomato salsa

SEVADU - Spicy scrambled eggs. Recipe c/o Ottolenghi. 15 ingredients. A bit recipe heavy for brunch but tasty no less.

PEAS w/sweetcorn fritters. Poached the clingfilm way. Overly complicated.

Eggs out! Leon Poached egg pot to takeaway w/chorizo and gruyere.

 PEAS w/cardamon rice and yoghurt

An experiment in shape

 

Another Year Ova (Japanese calendar)

Here's a whistle-stop tour of recentish poached egg encounters, ranging from sublime to laughable. Let's start with the latter, an offering from a borderline penal-style cafe in Chicago, Ill (sic). Ominously circular, the white of an ailing eye and strangely sterile in taste. Parsley had the appearance of having dropped heavily from a great height.

Also Chicago, but more promising you'll agree. Colour of yolk quite cheering and an almost sourdough toast with which to celebrate. Things are looking up. Breakfast of the relatives of champions.

Back in the UKKU to quote a Beatle, and here dealt a triple-hander at Sam's in Chiswick, London. A fine kedgeree and decent eggs with the hoped-for 'pop' of yolk. A slight whiff of vinegar hung about but a more-than-decent feast for the innocent W4 ambler.

Here is the humble offering to a flu-ridden loved-one. Whilst languishing in bed, he was able to sit up and take a little nourishment and thus a fatality was avoided. Viva ova. These eggs were obviously made with the cheat's choice, silicon eggplants, as I call them, but actually they are officially poached egg makers. Though they are the devil's work for PEASer purists, they are handy and a bit fun.

OK, we move into a different league here as the portals of fine dining are entered. Whilst The Wolseley's poached eggs are not the best in the world (they are made with cling film and occasionally are served too late for the crucial 'pop') their kedgeree is undoubtedly the most delectable dish on Earth. This Earth. So the combo of poached egg and the divine kedgeree leaves not just this founder in PEAS heaven. Hence shaky camera work.

A poor photo, maybe it was hard to stay calm, but another Wolseley winner. This time poached egg with Hollandaise on a stand-out fishcake. This was a birthday treat that made the increasing number of years seem less terrible.

This triptych, possibly despite how it looks, actually depicts the best-yet poached eggs this founder has experienced. A breakfast for two hungry souls early one December morning. Where? Well, perhaps surprisingly, though I don't know why, Mexico, on the Baja Calfornia Sur peninsula. Eaten before it could be photographed was a mountain of fresh, local and partly un-nameable fruit. Hallelujah ye gods of feasting: please can I have some more one day?

Birthday PEAS - report 1

For my birthday this year I was the lucky recipient of 10 eggs. Below is the report on the consumption of the first four courtesy of my brother's chickens.
 

Three little eggs
Hatched on 15 June by Bird & Oates' Chicks, eaten on 19 June.

Cooking; under 90 seconds, no vinegar, a little swirl, small saucepan
Taste; very mild, delicious.
Pop; eaten quickly to ensure uniform perfection










- toast, wiped with garlic. A little bit of thyme olive oil, lightly grilled tomatoes. 3 poached eggs. I was a bit hungover, this hit the spot.

One big egg
Hatched on 16 June by Bird & Oates' Chicks, eaten on 24 June

Cooking; approx 2 minutes, a little rice wine vinegar, bigger saucepan (than the three little eggs), swirl made with a whisk (because the eggs are fresh, the white forms around the yellow really well)
Taste; quite mild, big yolk though to aid operation muffin mop-up
Pop; perfect, white just cooked slightly under-done.

- english muffin w/wilted spinach, cooked in garlic, lemon & parmesan, poached egg topped with hollandaise sauce accompanied with coffee from my new stovetop coffee maker. Sunday mornings don't get better than this.

Deep Fried & Breaded !

steal or borrow buy or beg

willingly give arm or leg

square a hole and round a peg

for a deep fried soft poached egg

Available at the Black Dog Pub - Vauxhall Walk

(Poem by Tim Casswell)

Following The Dorchester, the very next day in fact, Tim Casswell takes guest blogger Jess Harvey and me for *deep fried* breaded poached eggs at the Black Dog.  

NB: The Black Dog eggs had very little pop, but nevertheless a whole new world has opened up...

Breaded Poached Egg at The Dorchester

At the Royal Philharmonic Awards, The Dorchester comes up trumps and serves a *breaded* poached egg on a leek & crème fraîche tart as the veg' option. Cape Farewell & Eden miss out on an award, Mitsuko Uchida wins the Gold Medal, but I feel the evening's triumph is delivered right to my table place. The glory!

Draw Something PEASY

Animated PEAS on a mobile device

Petit Pois

Member #001

Happy Easter PEASERS

We celebrated with a holy trinity of PEAS;
- potato rosti, mushroom & spinach goo and PEAS (Good Friday)
- fishcakes, cavier, artichoke & coriander dressing and PEAS (Saturday)
- Potato hash, chorizo, chili and PEAS (Easter Sunday)

We even poached duck eggs, "subtle" was the adjective that best described the flavour. A success.

Guesstimating (or goosetimating) from guest poacher Jess

A strong recommendation to all yolk lovers - a goose egg's yolk:white ratio is way better (than chicken eggs)

Chicken egg yolk:white is roughly 1:2

Whereas

Goose egg yolk:white is more like 2:1

Plus the yolk is much thicker and tastes a lot richer.



Enjoyed on a wedge of tiger bread spread with butter & marmite, and a few slices of Asda's finest double Gloucester with dried onion & chive cheese.



Yum scrum



With thanks to Olivia & Mike for a quick ratio recap!

DIY PEAS

Well done to IKEA on their progressive PEAS propagation

PEAS Founders' Portrait

Noach, Bird, Long
March 2012

The National Egg Coordination Committee

Further documentation from the India PEAS trip. PEAS is proud to support the National Egg Co-ordination Committee "the tastiest multi-vitamin capsule in the world"





Kitty approves

A motivational message to PEAS

To the stalwart members of PEAS,

Congratulations on eating and appreciating the delicacy, aroma and beautiful appearance of so many poached eggs over a period of four years.
May you continue to consume many more and persuade countless others to join you.

With best wishes,
Graham
Patron!

Top flight, ***** poaching by Lucy Conway, from the Isle of Eigg.

The Hon. Lucy Conway (Left), Hon. Jo Royle (Right)

Both recruited for advisory board

Indian PEAS diary

went to India, ate eggs, came home.

Eggs in Jodhpur

The Patron enjoys a soft boiled egg in view of Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur. (Sadly, no poached eggs available at the Haveli Pal.)

Guest Poacher #1

"Pre-cracked eggs ready for fast delivery into boiling water to maximise spinning water"
Jess Harvey



PEAS looks forward to more guest poachers over the next year.