Eggs on Top: Recipes Elevated by an Egg
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Publication Date: April 2014
Featured Recipe: Broccolini, Avocado, and Pistachio Salad with Silky Lemon Dressing and Parsleyed Eggs
12 Days of Christmas Cookbook Giveaways, 2014:
Day 6, Eggs on Top: Recipes Elevated by an Egg
This cooking primer covers the classic techniques for preparing the humble egg. From perfectly poached to softly scrambled, each method is clearly conveyed to ensure egg-cellent results. Using her skills as a cooking teacher, Andrea Slonecker suggests simple variations such as basting an egg with bacon drippings to add flavor or poaching eggs in wine. After mastering the techniques, the newly skilled cook can turn to more recipes that feature the egg in wonderful ways. With plenty of extra info on the anatomy of the egg, nutrition, safety issues, grades, and types (duck, quail, goose, and much more), Eggs on Top is the quintessential guide to cooking and enjoying one of the world’s perfect ingredients.
Cooks&Books&Recipes Editors {Dee}, on Eggs on Top:
The egg? I don’t think there’s any simpler food to keep on hand for quickly making into any type of meal: breakfast (crispy fried eggs), lunch (chunky egg salad sandwich), dinner (the always elegant omelette), or late-night meal (cheesy scrambled eggs). High in protein and low in calories, the egg is one of nature’s original health foods, even though it got a bad rap back in the 1970s. (Here’s more on egg whites vs. whole eggs.) Are raw eggs safe? What do egg grades mean? How do you know if an egg is fresh? Andrea Slonecker answers all your questions in this everything-you-need-to-know egg cookbook. Then she moves on to the main attraction of Eggs on Top: the recipes . . . Eggs Baked on Crisped Bread and Kale Salad; Stir-Fried Brussels Sprouts and Wok-Fried Eggs; Steak and Eggs Salad; Forest Floor Pizza; Nests of Carbonara; Quail Egg Crostini Three Ways. And more.
The Cookbook Basics:
Paperback (7.4 x 9.4 inches)
208 pages, color photos
About the author: Andrea Slonecker is a cookbook author, food stylist, teacher, and consultant. Her cooking is inspired by ingredients and people, places and times. She travels often to seek out foods with cultural significance, which fuels creativity in her cooking classes and books.
Cookbook Giveaway:
We’re giving away a copy of Eggs on Top to one lucky Cooks&Books&Recipes reader. Enter below.
{The other 12 Days of Christmas Cookbook Giveaways are listed here.}
Giveaway Notes:
There are six ways to enter the giveaway, but it’s not necessary to do all six entries. Choose whichever one(s) you like, and you’ll be entered in the giveaway. The winner, to be randomly selected and notified by e-mail, must claim the cookbook within 10 days. Giveaway ends on Monday, January 19.
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Eggs on Top
I love eggs and I would love to check this cookbook out!
Would love to own this cookbook!
Who doesnt like eggs hope to win
I would really like to have this cookbook. In the past I have had quite a few egg dishes, like quiches, souffles etc and I have always liked them so I would like to learn how make them myself!
I’m kind of obsessed with eggs right now. I always want them for dinner
With this cookbook, I might be able to get my kids to eat something other than just plain scrambled eggs!
I’m always looking for new ways to cook eggs. Fried and scrambled gets boring after awhile!
We’re big fans of the egg here!
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I do love eggs. I would love to win a copy of this book.
I love cooking with and eating eggs. Breakfast for dinner is my favorite :)
I love eggs!!!^_^
I’ve already pinned the featured recipe, Broccolini, Avocado, and Pistachio Salad with Silky Lemon Dressing and Parsleyed Eggs. It sounds delicious.
I love eggs and they go on sale pretty often, but I get tired of the same old thing. This cookbook would be wonderful and save me money!
Thanks for the giveaway! My IL’s have chickens & we usually have an over abundance of eggs, this would be useful :)
I’m looking for new ways to use eggs! Especially the yolks
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Thanks for a great giveaway!
The cover on this book is gorg! I love eggs especially when I can’t think of anything to make for dinner.
I really enjoy speciality cookbooks like this (and the bread one you are also giving away) that focus on one item and many recipies for it…. Eggs are much loved in my house so it would be awesome to have some new recipies to try especially since I now have chickens and will have fresh eggs on hand as soon as these girls start laying which should be anytime real soon….
I love eggs! Thanks for this awesome giveaway.
I eat eggs for breakfast daily. I like to make a large breakfast/brunch to get me through the day. I have noticed that eggs keep me satisfied more than any other food with good clean energy. I would love to try some fresh recipes.
We love eggs in my house, but they can get boring, this cookbook will give me some new ideas.
Why is it the humble egg isn’t always so humble? Not in my kitchen anyway. I would love to win your book so I could cook my husband eggs. I can cook many other things but eggs just humble me.
I love eggs so it will be fun to learn new ways to incorporate eggs into my meals!
What an interesting cookbook!
We cook a lot with eggs and we are always looking for new cookbooks!
I love eggs and always trying to find new ways to cook them or with them
My family eats a lot of eggs. This would be very nice for some new ideas.
This would be great to have! Thanks for the chance!
I eat eggs about five times a week, I love them-
i love eggs so i would love this cookbook
This cookbook sounds fabulous for egg lovers like me!
Looks like a nice cookbook.