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Sunday, July 18, 2010

First Clippings

The first clipping of herbs is the most exciting time of the gardening season for me.  First up this year is tarragon and Italian parsley...




What does a girl do when things are this fabulous?

She makes the most perfect gourmet scrambled eggs ever!


Makes one serving.

For this recipe, you will need to use a non-stick frying pan and a rubber or silicon spatula.

Ingredients:
cooking spray (I prefer Pam's extra virgin olive oil spray)
2 eggs
1/4 c fresh parsley, chopped
2 tsp. fresh tarragon, chopped
salt and pepper to taste

Method:
-chop herbs and set aside near the stove


-turn stove on to medium heat, spray the pan with cooking spray and put on stove
-all the the pan to heat up but do not let it start smoking
-in a bowl, whisk eggs
-slowly pour eggs into preheated pan
-swirl eggs to coat the bottom of the pan
-turn off the stove, yes turn it off because you will be using the residual heat from the element to complete the cooking process
-sprinkle herbs over eggs as well as salt and pepper
-using the spatula, scramble the eggs taking care to gently work the herbs into the eggs until they reach desired doneness

Note: you can also add a teaspoon of sour cream and a teaspoon of salsa to give the eggs a Tex Mex flavour


Nutritional information, which does not include the sour cream or salsa (click to view full size):