Sunday, June 27, 2010

Monday Mosaic: Egg-siting Mosaics!

The incredible edible egg...

Joining Mary from The Little Red House for another Mosaic Monday!  Stop by the Little Red House to see lots of fantastic Mosaics every week!


We like plain basic egg salad, no add-ins, no pickles, no olives, no paprika, no anything! Just eggs, Hellman's mayo and some salt and pepper!  but I do occasionally add sauteed mushrooms and caramelized onions to basic egg salad. and it's fantastic! I just didn't do it this time. This time is plain. On a mini pita. For lunch. Took less than fifteen minutes! Only one out of eight eggs was a lousy peel! and if you notice in the mosaic, no green ring around the yolk? Tried something new I had heard awhile back online somewhere. You bring the water to a rolling boil with the eggs in the pot, turn off the heat but leave the eggs on the burner, covered for 11 minutes. Fully cooked and no ring! I still need to work on peeling though!




Basic Egg Salad
Printable Recipe

8 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and chopped
salt and pepper, to taste
1/4 cup Hellman's mayonnaise (more or less depending how much you like mayo!)

In a medium bowl mix all ingredients. Add any optional ingredients you want... celery, dry mustard, dill, olives, relish, whatever you like, until well blended. Cover and chill.

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What do you call a chicken that crosses the road, rolls in the
dirt, crosses the road, and rolls in the dirt again?
A dirty double-crossing chicken!

 and last but not least...

What do you get when you cross a chicken with a bell?
An alarm cluck

32 comments:

  1. I love egg salad!!! Fun and different mosaic. Mine will be up later today.

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  2. Are you using 'old' eggs? Some people say that's the secret to easy peeling. I use old and somewhat-new. They both peel pretty easily. I cheat and use an egg cooker. It steams 'em.

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  3. I love egg salad made the same way. Just plain taste great to me. Thanks for the cooking tip.

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  4. Oh yum! I love egg salad. I may have to try the onions and mushrooms. I can imagine its good and rich. If I was good, I would make some of this up and have it for lunch this week..but will I???? lol maybe?

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  5. One of my favorites and the only sandwich I enjoy on plain white bread!

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  6. Hello Carol,
    We love our eggs around here. Some egg salad would be a treat right now. Hellman's is the best and we call it Best Foods on the West coast :0)

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  7. Ha! That troublesome egg looks familiar. But I do love hard-boiled eggs.

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  8. Great mosaics. Egg Salad is a favorite!

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  9. That's exactly how I like my egg salad! Happy Monday! Cute idea for a mosaic, too!

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  10. That's the way we llikke it !!! KISS.

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  11. One of my favourite sandwiches is egg salad. I have always cooked my eggs that way but I cannot remember who told me to do it that way. Glad it worked for you.

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  12. I love egg salad too! One trick I have learned from my Ms Picky is to add a little vinegar in the boiling water, so it won;t crack and for easy peel!

    Thanks for the tip on mushrooms and caramelized onions!

    You have always the best recipes to share.

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  13. LOVE egg salad. Just went to a restaurant where a dab of horseradish was added... mmmm. I love the mosaic. The joke... well, the yokes on you!

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  14. Wonderful mosaics, and I love your jokes, too. :)

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  15. I'm clucking, Carol....lol! Egg salad is comfort food to me! Wonderful mosaics.

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  16. I love a good egg salad - really like egg and olive. I can't eat it often due to the cholesterol.
    Have a great week.

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  17. Egg salad sandwiches are my favorite! Now I want one.

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  18. I'm with you on the egg salad, I like it pretty basic, I need some onion though. Thanks!

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  19. I love egg salad, too. Your recipe for hard-cooked eggs calls for a little shorter time with no heat. I'm going to try it to see if it solves the green ring problem that a longer time creates. Your hard-cooked eggs are beautiful! (Ok - I know I'm a dork when I say that).

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  20. Hmm, egg salad sandwich is a comfort food, isn't it? I love it plain or with a bit of onion.
    Good mosaic!

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  21. Thank you for this post! My egg salad never turns out good like yours. So I will try your method next time.

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  22. yumm! egg salad.. my kids fave.. very comfort food.

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  23. I am an egg fanatic, anytime of the day, be it sunny side up, scrambled, boiled, curried etc , cant ssay no to eggs :)

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  24. I cook and my eggs the same way and they always come out perfectly. The ones that are hard to peel are the freshest! We use Hellman's up north but Duke's down south.

    Great mosaics.

    Carol

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  25. Love this.
    Happy MM.
    Have a wonderful week!
    " Regina "

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  26. We always make egg salad at the beach for some strange reason. I put crumbled bacon in mine! Great mosaic and I love the picture of the egg---sometimes I just can't get it right!! SO frustrating! I've heard if the eggs are really fresh, it makes them harder to peel. That's my story and I'm sticking to it :)

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  27. Love your joke! Your egg salad looks yummy.

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  28. I love your blog! I'm going to put it in my favorites list! And eggs...I had one for lunch! This sounds yummy! ♥

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  29. Love egg salad. Your mosaics are making me hungry.
    Karen

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  30. My kind of egg salad...simple is best!

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  31. I loved the partially peeled egg and chicken joke! I have found one method that works for easy peeling and that's to plunge the just-boiled eggs into an ice-water bath. Try it and report back :)

    I love egg salad!

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