FoodiesTalk

My fellow Foodie's sister in law Maureen Toohey was kind enough to bring me a gift, black pepper from Trader Joe's in Cleveland. She had been telling me about this pepper for a long time and now I know why -- it's absolutely wonderful. Pepper? Just black pepper? Yes. I can't tell you why exactly but the taste is so outstanding (the bottle/grinder label says it comes from Malaysia) that once I tasted it, all I could think about was cooking dishes that used a lot of freshly ground pepper. I told Maureen about trying the pepper on my scrambled eggs and how it was so heavenly. She then asked me if I ever had "egg soup". I had no clue what she meant, but after she described it...soft boiled or poached eggs in a cup with bits of buttered toast and lots of salt, and black pepper, I tried it immediately. What pure comfort food--simple, basic, always have them in the house ingredients that made breakfast on the weekend very special. The first time I tried it with buttered toast bits, the second time with toasted English Muffin bits, and today--toasted "Everything" bagel bits. This was amazingly delicious, the combination of the soft, eggy liquid with lots of pepper and the seeds and flavoring of the bagel. Egg soup and black pepper, reading the paper, in my sweats--it doesn't get any better than that. Vicki