I’m not that great of a cook, but I like food.
Gabe does most of the quality cooking in this joint, but I try to do at least half of the cooking.
This is why I was on the internet trying to figure out how to hard boil an egg.
I mean, yes, I know you boil eggs in a pan with water in it on the stove, but I was looking for cooking times. Hard boiled eggs always trip me up.
I went to my handy dandy search engine and I searched for “perfect hard boiled egg”.
And you want to hear something crazy? I chose the third entry because it looked the most promising and it just so happens that I personally knew the person who wrote the article.
I don’t mean that I met her at a book signing or we were introduced once at a cocktail party. I mean she used to be my boss.
I just took 40 minutes finding a picture of us together from BlogHer ’07 and it turns out I look like a crazy person with balloon head and so I won’t post it, but thanks to the glory that is Flickr (and the genius of Isabel via twitter):
Picture Courtesy Mom2Summit flickr pool
We are the two in the middle. I am the pasty one. She is the one with the pretty hair.
My whole point is that what are the odds that I find a random recipe on the internet and it turns out to be written by someone I actually know? Maybe this web isn’t so wide after all.
And also, thanks, Stefania. My eggs were perfect.
Stefania is awesome!
That is almost spooky!
I hope that she told you eggs must never be boiled–they are hard-cooked eggs.
Back to my cooking throne now.
Another way to come to this realization is to have a relative find your blog. A relative who you may or may not have said something nice or not-so-nice about. Small world indeed!
I can’t hard boil an egg right to save my life. Even with directions, I always screw it up.
That’s so cool. So is there a major secret to eggs? I just do it for 10 mins, but somehow I always screw it up. Share the knowledge lady!
I don’t know how to cook eggs at all. God bless the internets!
Don’t feel bad about looking up how to hard-boil an egg. My Harvard-educated colleague asked me how to “open” and hard-boiled egg.
Her technique is my favored one. I’m a decent cook but since I don’t often boil eggs I always have to look it up.