The Age-old Question

No, not "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" but "How do you like to eat your eggs?"

Can you tell I have a big fat nothing in my head to write about today? Yes. Which is why, of course, I put the onus on you to talk to me in the comments. And today, you're going to tell me about your egg preferences.

Because we know how to have a good time! With ovum.

Okay, so. As to MY egg requirements? WELL. I'm so glad you asked. Because I didn't used to like eggs. I didn't eat them. Or, when I did, they had to be scrambled and covered in a lot of ketchup. So they wouldn't taste like, uh, eggs. But slowly, over the years with A., who is an egg eater, I started to like having eggs for breakfast. And occasionally dinner. I even got to the point where I would eat them in non-scrambled form. Except I still require there be no runny yolk, ever, anywhere on my egg GROSS.

Which means that I now eat my eggs scrambled, hard-boiled (but only fresh--cold hard-boiled eggs make me gag), or fried with the yolk purposely broken and cooked all the way through. I know. I'm a rebel.

Incidentally, I still like to have some other flavoring with my eggs. I don't really like them plain. My current favorite for scrambled eggs is feta, dill, and chives. With fried eggs, I like to either cook a fresh tomato along with the egg (not that I have HAD a fresh tomato since last year, but soon!) or dump a heap of salsa on top.

I should also mention that after eating my own chickens' eggs, I have an aversion to store eggs and their pale, anemic yolks. But that has nothing to do with how I cook them.

And now, please entertain me with your thoughts on eggs. Scrambled, fried, poached (fancy-pants), hard-boiled, or too disgusting to be eaten in any form whatsoever except baked in a cake?

Update: After writing this, I went out to the garden to harvest my daily five pounds of cucumbers and decided to check on the progress of the first ripening tomato. It was ripe. And I ate it. And it was glorious.