Lazy Eggs

January 27, 2023

Today is as good a day as any to extoll the culinary virtues of lazy eggs. There can be days when nothing comes to mind to cook for dinner. Then I miraculously remember lazy eggs, and head straight off to the Whole Earth Center to buy beets with the greens still on. Cut the leaves off with their stems, rinse well, dice up the stems, dice up some onion, and get them sauteing together. The beet stems turn the onions a really nice color. Meanwhile dice up the greens, and add them when the onions and stems are soft. Add some salt, pepper, and a bit of nutmeg. After the stirred-in greens have been in there a few minutes, break four or so eggs over top to nestle here and there on the greens. Cover and turn heat to low. When the yolks are half-hardened, it's time to chow down. With only three ingredients, lazy eggs taste way better than they have any right to. And you still have the beets to turn into raw beet salad. It's laziness made delicious.