More "Mastering the Art..."

Matt got me the 2-volume Julia Child set, and I am pleased to say he is now THE poached egg expert! His eggs are amazing. Even better, we made hollandaise sauce together last week and whoa butter! We can't have that too often! I wanted to eat it by the spoonful. Last night I tried another recipe from the book, Garlic Soup with Potatoes. You boil a whole head of garlic. Very enjoyable with swiss cheese and crusty bread. But, back to eggs, Jane is our real "gourmand" in this department. She makes scrambled eggs by herself nearly every morning. If Ann and I are eating them, too, I have her scramble three. She prefers to use butter rather than oil, and smears it delicately in the pan with a brush. We had eggs at a Bob Evans on our road trip home from Florida, and Jane's eggs are WAY better! This morning, she opened the new carton of eggs and exclaimed, "That's a lot of eggs, Mom!" She counted them. "There are 12!...That chicken laid a lot of eggs!"