Thursday, January 31, 2008

The Right Way to Make Scrambled Eggs


I have been cooking breakfast for "lo these many years" and it was just last year that I learned the right way to make scrambled eggs. It was Christmas morning, I think, I was getting ready to make the breakfast eggs and my daughter, who is all things Food Network, said, "dad, turn the heat down low and they'll taste better." I did and they did.

Add butter to a warm pan, let the butter bubbles burn off, then crack the eggs directly into the pan. Slowly cook and occasionally scramble. When they are done they will be moist, not a uniform color, meaning not perfectly scrambled. Turn the heat off just before they are done so that they will not over cook in the pan. Salt to taste while cooking. I don't add milk or water to my scrambled eggs. For a change I fry onions and chopped peppers, saute', add the eggs, slow cook and just before they are done add a few chopped tomatoes.

For the tastiest eggs, get home-grown or free range. When my daughter was young I had 6 or so chickens in our Fort Worth backyard and even though every so often I would find them grazing in the neighbor's front yard, it was worth it, the eggs were much more flavorful and colorful than store bought.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Coming Soon: The Cowtown Marathon


The Cowtown Marathon is great local event. It's a legitimate Boston Marathon qualifier and it's in Fort Worth.

If a marathon or half-marathon scares you off, try the 10k. If you can't run the 10k, walk it. Or the 5k. I promise you will enjoy being downtown with thousands of runners and spectators. Can't walk or run too far these days? The marathon is always looking for good volunteers.

February 23, 2008. Good Luck.

http://www.cowtownmarathon.org/

Hmmmm . . . .

Police: Drunk drove lawnmower to liquor store.
(in the snow)

Associated Press. ADRIAN, Mich. --

Authorities say a man ran through two bottles of wine, then cut through a snowstorm on his lawnmower, riding down the center of the street to reach the liquor store. Adrian police say they found 49-year-old Frank Kozumplik homeward bound on a John Deere tractor Saturday night, toting four bottles of wine in a paper bag. He told officers his wife had taken their car to work, and the mower was the only way he could reach the store two miles from his southern Michigan home.

Police told WLEN-FM Kozumplik's blood alcohol level was 2 1/2 times Michigan's legal limit of 0.08 percent. They arrested him on a drunken driving charge and confiscated the mower.

Kozumplik declined comment when reached at his home Monday night.