learning to cook while we have the time

Now that we are home bound, it’s a great opportunity to learn to become the best cook or the best baker we can. Our families all need comfort food right now and home is the best place to get it!

Go ahead and try this–eggs are inexpensive and this is a satisfying comfort dish! Your family will thank you for your effort!

Hard boiling eggs is never a fun chore because it boils over and is a stinky job. What if you could hard-cook eggs instead? Well, you can in Lifetime. Here is how:

Start with a paper towel drenched in water. Place eggs in pan in one layer. An 11″ skillet will hold about a dozen and a half eggs.

Cook on medium heat until pan “puffs” some steam and turn burner down to low and time 14 minutes.

Remove eggs and place immediately in cold ice water. The paper towel will remove very easily from bottom of pan.

Now start to put together the roux for the white sauce. What is roux, you say? The easiest way to make a white sauce for this meal and alot of others. Melt 1/4 stick of butter on medium in a small pan. Add 1/8 C white flour and stir until it becomes a ball of doughy looking yellow. Add 2 C milk and stir constantly until it thickens the way you want it.

I’ve just separated the yolks –which I grated– from the whites of the egg, put them in separate dishes and then added the whites into the smooth roux.