All this to explain why this site has been so quiet as of late, save for Friday links, which are fun and everything, but this is a food blog, after all.

So after all these weeks of silence, I come back to you with scrambled eggs. I can almost hear the groans. Really, eggs? Could I have thought of anything less exciting and commonplace?

I didn’t have the slightest intention of talking to you about eggs, much less scrambled ones. To tell you the truth, I thought I hated scrambled eggs. Never a fan of mixing my yolks with my whites, I’m a soft-medium-hard-poached-sunny-side-up kind of a girl. Omelettes are just not my thing, sorry, unless they’re exclusively of the egg-white variety (and not for the health reasons). And scrambled eggs — just forget it. Or so I thought until my father-in-law made scrambled eggs for us when we were all on vacation in Vermont and I couldn’t stop talking about them for days.

I think that my initial reaction was so enthusiastic (I proclaimed them to be the best scrambled eggs I’ve ever eaten) that I might have scared my father-in-law a little. I was pretty vocal about it. And of course, I asked him to tell me his secret.

“My secret?” he asked, confused, “You just put the eggs in the pan and fold them over.”

“Okay,” I said, “so you beat them in the bowl, and…”

“No, not beat, whole eggs, go in the pan.”

What?

Apparently, my father-in-law’s amazing scrambled egg technique is to crack all the egg into a bowl, melt a little butter in the pan set over low heat, and then add unbeaten, whole eggs to the pan, and gently, tenderly, fold the eggs while they cook. They come out so delicate and fluffy, you won’t even believe it. And you’ll get beautiful, marbled streaks of the yolk and the white together, which looks (as well as tastes) amazing. And whenever the eggs start looking almost done (a little wobbly and still slightly liquidy), my father-in-law takes the pan off of heat, and divides the eggs among the plates where they finish cooking from trapped heat.

And so I thought that perhaps, this method is worth sharing, because it turned a scrambled egg hater into a lover. And incidentally, in case you were wondering, scrambled eggs are excellent on toast.

[I’ll post the “recipe” soon, but for now I wanted to give you the method here. I hope you try it, and I hope you love it as much as I do.]

[Also, holy crap, you can now pre-order the book I wrote with Marc Forgione – and it has a cover and everything! Now it’s beginning to feel real.]