Lazy #2

In my last post I mentioned how bored I’d gotten with the egg.  However, after a week off from eggs, I couldn’t resist buying a bag of them.  Here in Ukraine one buys a plastic bag with 10 eggs in it instead of a carton with 12.  They are almost always brown and still have chicken crap on them.  I like to get mine from the ladies at the market because each one of them sells eggs from a particular nearby village.  The name of the village is usually prominently displayed next to the price.  This allows the buyer to know what they are buying in a more intimate way and to figure out which villages produce the best eggs.  One of the things I love about eggs is the tens of thousands of things one can do with them.  In particular is one of my stand-by lazy dinners.  I guess it is a form of tortilla or frittata, but I can never flip the damn thing without it falling apart, so I tend to just finish it in the oven.

Lazy #1

I don’t understand people who can’t cook or who claim that they have no time or energy to make delicious meals. Making complex, labor-intensive dishes is a lot of fun, but I can’t find the motivation every day. So I, like most cooks, have a repertoire of things to make when I feel lazy. None of these are dishes that will shock or awe anybody, but lazy dishes often make for some great eating (and hopefully some decent photos). Everybody has a favorite lazy dinner: my mother likes to make clean-the-refrigerator stir-fry. Some people throw together macaroni and cheese, some make omelets, some just grilled cheese, but this time I made my go-to lazy dinner.