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Recipe: Fried Eggs and Collard Greens Over Polenta

Please forgive the messy plate. We had to pry this out of someone's hands at brunch to take a quick picture......

Food Science: Why Eggs "Rise" in the Oven

We were trying out a new bread pudding recipe this weekend, and had a shock when halfway through cooking, the custard base puffed up around the bread parts - almost like a soufflé! We hadn't b...

Weekend Project: Make a Soufflé!

Anyone planning on making a soufflé for your honey on Valentine's Day? Sweet or savory, a warm and pillowy soufflé definitely makes an impression! We also think they're a lot less fussy th...

Do You Think Omega-3 Eggs Taste Fishy?

Maybe it's just me (I'm not even lumping other Kitchn editors into this one), but I think omega-3-enhanced eggs taste fishy when cooked. There are some reasons why this could be the case, and I'm wond...

Good Question: What To Do With Frozen Eggs?

Just like excess produce, meat bought in bulk, and your leftover soup, extra eggs can also be frozen and used in later recipes! Reader Allison asks: What can I do with an egg that's been frozen? I wa...

Do You Ever Use Egg "Products"?

We've never actually cooked with egg products or liquid eggs like EggBeaters, preferring to stick with whole eggs that we can crack ourselves. But every once in a while we come across a recipe that ca...

Recipe Recommendation: Pipérade

A pipérade is a Basque dish made with tomatoes, peppers, Bayonne ham, and piment d'espelette. It's often served over scrambled eggs, though some recipe variations call for poaching the eggs ri...

Eggs Benedict and Beyond

Over the weekend, I visited Portland, Oregon. One morning at a local brunch place, I ordered an Eggs Benedict-type dish, but instead of Canadian bacon, it had smoked salmon. It was delicious, and I ...

Recipe Review: Zucchini-Potato Frittata

Last week we highlighted Andrea Chesman's fabulous book Serving Up the Harvest, a down-to-earth and accessible guide to vegetables and recipes for each season. We love her style of cooking and we're e...

Look! Ostrich Eggs on the Table

Take a look at what we just spotted in an Apartment Therapy house tour......

Easy Weekend Breakfast: Corn and Eggs

There are so many things you can do with summer corn, but if you haven't thought about eating it for breakfast, let us persuade you... ...

Weekend Cooking: What's Your Favorite Breakfast Sandwich?

When we're cooking breakfast for two or more, we turn to crowd-pleasing egg dishes like casseroles, stratas and breakfast pizza. But when it's just us, and we're craving something hearty and simple, n...

Finding Cheap Food in San Francisco

Lately, consumers have been concerned about rising food prices, and with good reason. However, it's not hopeless; good bargains are to be found! We've been paying attention to what things are costin...

Inspiration: The Breakfast Manifesto

As we've told you before, we're always looking for breakfast inspiration, and ways to make the most perfunctory meal of the day more interesting. That's why we were thrilled to get New York Magazine'...

Recipe: Egg, Arugula, and Herb Tartine

A tartine is really just a fancy name for an open-faced sandwich. It sounds so much more elegant than sandwich, doesn't it? It seems fitting for this impromptu lunch we had this week. We were pressed ...

Weeknight Supper: Salmon Scrambled Eggs and Toast

We were truly inspired by Dana's post on Sunday about choices, constraints, and wild salmon. It made us think about leftover salmon and making good choices with our leftovers in general. ...

Poached Eggs the Easy Way: Calphalon Egg Poacher

Straight Up: Raw Egg Whites in Cocktails (and Ramos Gin Fizzes) Are Back!

Raw egg whites. They're not just for your breakfast glass of Tiger's Milk anymore. With the recent revival of certain pre-Prohibition cocktails, they've been finding their way back into some spectacul...

Look! Local Ostrich and Emu Eggs at Whole Foods

We don't visit the local Whole Foods very often, and we hadn't inspected their loose selection of local eggs very closely. So we were in for a shock when we wandered over last night and realized that ...

Passover Cooking: Huevos Haminados

These might look like Easter eggs, but actually they're a traditional treat for Passover. We asked NYC caterer and culinary consultant Sierra Spingarn to share the family recipe for Huevos Haminados. ...

Skeptical Shopper: Born Free Hard Boiled Peeled Eggs

Our first reaction to seeing this bag of ready-to-eat, hard-boiled eggs in the grocery store was along the lines of, "That's ridiculous." In fact, that's exactly what our husband said when we put them...

Tip: Perfect Hard-Boiled Eggs

Don't you just hate when this happens? You're hard-boiling eggs to make deviled eggs, and when you peel them, you discover the yolks have clung to one side of the egg, leaving holes. Or, you peel th...

Kitchen Tip: Testing Eggs For Freshness

Even though the "Use By" date on the side of the egg carton says they've expired, sometimes eggs stay fresher past that date. How can you tell their freshness level without cracking them? We have a ...

Eggs, Eggs, and More Eggs: Best Egg Recipes and Products

So, there's a lot of egg on the web right now. It's a post-Easter bandwagon and we have no problem jumping right on. We love eggs and we are in love with egg cups, egg poachers, and eggs on toast and ...