Getting lucky with my egg

Remember my post on poaching eggs?

I just poached another egg to go with leftover salmon and broccoli (baked for lunch). I also toasted a slice of bread, the heel of a home-made loaf, to go with it. (I recently learned that the end slices of a loaf of bread is called the “heel”. There are other ways to call it, but “heel” seems to be the most common term.) When I slice my bread, the last slice tends to be rather thick, because it gets harder to slice when the remaining bread is thin. It doesn’t work very well for breakfast because even if I toast and butter it, the ratio of bread to butter is too high. (Does that make sense? :P ) So this was a good way to use it.

Anyway, I buttered the toast before putting the poached egg on it. Because when I checked online for what people eat with their poached eggs on toast (popular answers are avocado, tomato, and bacon, none of which I had handy), most people say that the poached egg should be placed on buttered toast.

This time, my egg looks nice except for that little yellowish knob on top. I suspect that there was a tiny break in the yolk...but the yolk seeping out must have cooked immediately and sealed the hole up again. Lucky me! I also forgot to add vinegar to the water before plopping my egg in (add horrified scream emoji here), but luckily my egg still held together quite well. I think that it’s because it was an egg which I had placed in the fridge immediately upon buying it, so it still held its freshness. Some egg white still got lost, and it looks a little more than what I lost in my last few poached egg trials, so I really should remember the vinegar next time!

As for why the egg is not placed on the centre of the toast, it was to cover the unbrowned parts of the bread. Besides being thicker, the last slice of my bread also tends to be uneven (for the same reason mentioned above, that it’s harder to slice), so when toasting it on the pan, the parts touching the pan got browned but not the others.

Anyway this is the full dish, together with the leftovers. The combination of colours is not bad, so it looks better if we don't look too closely... :P

The salmon was a little dry, so I drizzled olive oil and sprinkled some parsley on it. It was still a bit dry with that...but eaten with the liquidy egg and buttery toast, I guess it was fine.