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Cooks in My Life: Sam's Perfect Scrambled Eggs

7/2/2010

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For those of us who didn't go to culinary school, culinary knowledge is gleaned here and there: we skim recipes, watch chefs on TV, get tips from blogs (hopefully), and, more importantly, learn from the people around us. In this way, our culinary skills reflect our histories of love and loss, good times and dark times; the times we lived high on the hog, and the lean times.

For example, I rarely eat a grilled cheese sandwich without thinking of my mother (who made them for me on rainy days) or my first serious boyfriend, Mark, who was a master and taught me the tricks of the trade (good thing too, since we subsisted largely on cheese and starch in those days): butter the bread before you throw it in the pan, cook at medium heat, use plenty of cheese, turn down to low, and cover until the cheese melts. Home baked bread is Julie Daniel (who set a standard I have still not reached) and Mary Lou Goertzen (who took me under her wing and taught me how to bake bread when I was eight or nine). Eggs Benedict is my friend "princess" Abigail and my husband, to whom she passed her secrets. Stuffed jalapeños are Greta Dahling. And so on...

Food connects us to our past, to our heritage, to the people we love. And so, without further ado, a vital yet unsung culinary strategy from my friend Samuel Ferris Harmon, master of breakfast. I certainly never eat scrambled eggs without thinking of Sam, and here's why: he makes the brightest, fluffiest scrambled eggs you've ever seen. Sam taught me two key tricks years ago (make sure you whip the eggs thoroughly before throwing them in the pan and don't add anything because it tends to mess with the texture and color), but I asked him for additional details for this post.

Sam's Perfect Scrambled Eggs
(in Sam's words)
Step One:
Heat a non-stick pan to medium high heat (6 or 7).
Step Two:
Crack the eggs into a bowl and beat them with a fork or whisk briskly until they start bubbling.
Step Three:
Make sure that the pan is hot and put a generous amount of butter in the pan. Make sure to keep it moving and that the pan isn't so hot that the butter burns. Next, pour the eggs over the butter.
Step Four:
Gently fold the eggs with a spatula into the center of the pan until done.

When they are done is personal preference. I like them cooked all the way through, but some people like them a little bit runny. Don't use any salt until the eggs are served--I've found that putting salt in before you cook them tends to make them dry out.

11 Comments
Sam link
7/3/2010 08:35:06 pm

Also, one of my favorite variations is to cook about a cup of leftover rice in the pan just before you put the eggs in.
Left over brown rice is my favorite.
You only have to cook the rice long enough to heat it and than you just pour your eggs over it and cook as described above.
mmmmmmm... Is it breakfast time yet?

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Evan
7/6/2010 02:32:47 am

Made eggs for dinner last night and thought about how scrambled eggs were always a "mom's vs. dad's" affair growing up. Dad made them fluffier and in smaller bits, mom liked them harder in bigger chunks. Italians just eat cookies for breakfast and found the idea of breakfast eggs, and therefore me by association, revolting.

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felisa link
7/6/2010 03:00:42 am

I'm in the fluffy in big chunks camp.

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Sam link
4/7/2011 04:24:42 am

I just posted a blog of my own about my scrambled eggs.
You can find it here:
http://samuelferrisharmon.com/2011/04/07/breakfast-april/

It also includes a photo of my eggs with my favorite variation that I mentioned in the comment above.

Mmmmmmm... Breakfast!

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