Sausage-poached eggs with your {bits & pieces}
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In haste I took some pictures of something I call sausage-poached eggs. Because I don’t like using more than one pan if I can help it, but sausage can tend to make eggs stick when you try to fry or scramble them up without washing out the pan first, I figured out this tasty way to be lazy!
After you make your sausage (patties or links, doesn’t matter) , take them out and add some water to your pan. Boil it up, scraping up all the little bits of sausage stuck to the pan with your metal spatula (the right one is hard to find; I recommend yard sales and thrift stores, because the old-fashioned flexible ones have been driven out of the market by the stupid plastic ones required by non-stick pans — I wrote about it all here).
Break your eggs into the sausagey water. The grease from the meat will keep the whites together nicely, which is always a problem with conventional poaching.
You could put a good number of eggs in there — I was doing three, but I could have done six. The fat also keeps them separate.
The water should be just simmering; cover and cook for 4 minutes.
Et voilá!
This way they are perfectly cooked* with a nice sausagey flavor, and only one pan for the whole operation!
*If I were to be self-critical, I would say that these could have used another 30 seconds and I could have gotten a little more light in the pic to bring it into better focus. But honestly, I just wanted you to know the method, and they were amazing and super duper tasty, so I will let it pass!
Next week I will not be posting here — I’ll be in Denver for the Rocky Mountain Catholic Home Educators’ Conference. I’ll be offering the keynote speech on Saturday morning and another talk later before lunch. Will I see you there?
On to our links!
Louisa May Alcott is a taste — the reader has to be ready to enter the idiom of flowery Victorian prose, so foreign to our ear at the moment. But if we can suspend our stark post-modern requirements, we may be edified. The Art of Beautification explores a theme dear to my heart in Alcott’s Jack and Jill.
Librarians Without Chests: A Response to the ALSC’s Denigration of Laura Ingalls Wilder — a text-based inquiry into Laura Ingalls Wilder’s supposed unacceptable views. Really worth a read, since the librarians’ objections are by no means unusual in our day and age. We seem to want not only that those who went before us be found perfectly politically correct; we can’t even allow them to explore them in their own way. Even when they reach thoughtful conclusions, we are not satisfied — yet I wonder how our own unexamined biases will stand the test of time.
Here in the US we are at least nominally able to try to help women going into abortion clinics and appeal to their escorts to give both mother and child a chance at life. There are definitely obstacles (especially here in Massachusetts where a de facto buffer zone, still in place despite a Supreme Court win, keep praying witnesses and sidewalk counselors at a frustrating distance). But we can do it — we can have pregnancy help centers, offer leaflets, and pray. Many babies are saved and many women are rescued from the pain of killing their own child. In the UK it’s not so. My friend Clare has asked that you read and share the story of Alina, a young Romanian woman who was helped by witnesses to keep her daughter and who seeks to challenge the new ruling against any — any! — effort to help women seeking abortions there. Here is the Twitter feed of the pro-life group there (with a little video from Clare). Clare writes:
The abortion lobby absolutely have us caught in a bind and they are crowing. American pro lifers have considerably more brio & confidence than we do and the US Christian culture has not collapsed as dramatically as it has here. We really need America right now to promote our appeal on the media. We need to find philanthropists here & abroad who are willing to donate to preserve the remnant of pro life activity in Europe and nurse it back to life. We need encouragement ( Alina particularly) and we need to know that we are not alone.
Meet “Founding Mother” Mary Katharine Goddard, First Female Postmaster in the U.S. and Printer of the Declaration of Independence.
A consoling piece for discouraged homeschoolers, with a must-read quote from the redoubtable Fr. Rutler.
The Hidden Symbolism of Women in 17th Century Dutch Art.
The experience recounted in this article about how classic cartoons contributed to cultural literacy is mine as well. Missing perhaps is the reality of the time, when the works referenced (in the article and in the cartoons) were all around. People listened to their records, which tended to be of great works of music and particularly opera and jazz; the radio was on more, and often, if it wasn’t music, it was classic stories you’d be hearing; the books on children’s shelves were almost exclusively old classics. That said, the cleverness of the animation captured interest and helped the child get from point A (not being aware of this adult world of culture) to point B (being aware! and loving it). It’s interesting that the generation that grew up on all that took it for granted, but failed to pass it on. Sad.
From the archives:
Cleaning your kitchen (one post in a series)
Strawberry rhubarb pie — I posted one I made on Instagram (not a great pic, sorry). Here is my method for what is truly the greatest summer pie of all time, sweet and tart, deep and bright red, flakey and buttery.
Read this, not that! Books for your voracious reader. (Too long, didn’t read: get the old books.)
Happy feast of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, a favorite of ours!
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