Hallelujah – I get to go back to work on Thursday. My boss told me to stay home Wednesday, and I thought that I’d get to be all noble and show up anyway, but my immune system had other plans. It wasn’t until around 4:00 that I started to have energy. Thank you, restorative soup. (It was ‘restorative’ in that it had ‘heat applied’.)
I was all slept out but still lacking energy, so the only thing I accomplished was getting my gross bedding into the washing machine and then flopping on the sofa while listening to EVERYBODY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD PROCESS THEIR LEAVES. Honestly, you’d thing that a wet winter storm were coming. (It is.).
There were leaf blowers, mowers, um, I guess those are the only two tools there are, but there were several people using them throughout the day. It really interfered with my staring at the ceiling time. Anyway, I was rolling my eyes when I heard the last one start up….. and it was my Yard Boy.
Hooray!
That’s entirely enough about me. Now I need some advice: What’s a foolproof hard-boiled egg method? I’m looking for easy-to-peel tips.
Brad says
It seems like I heard somewhere that eggs peeled more easily if they were older when you boiled them. Or was it fresher?
I’m also remembering something I saw in the “As Seen on TV” store where you put raw eggs into little containers and boil them, then they just pop right out. I wonder if there is a home version of that.
Lauren's dad says
By peeling them, they lose their crunch!
My mother said to run cold water over them right after pouring off the hot. Sometimes that didn’t work.
CousinRachel says
Three thoughts: 1)glad you are feeling better, 2)there is a third tool for leaf clean up -- power washer! and 3)it isn’t fool proof, but if you peel the egg under a small stream of water it usually peels more easily. (And I mean from your sink, not a trickling stream through the woods.) Then I just dab the egg on a paper towel to dry it off.
Peggy says
http://www.familyfreshmeals.com/2012/11/how-to-make-perfect-hard-boiled-eggs-in-the-oven.html
I’ve heard this really works from some gals here at work. I would test it first.
Deborah says
I start the eggs in a pot of cold water. Then bring it up to a boil, covered. Then take it off the heat and let it rest, covered for 10 minutes. Then cool and peel.
It always boils them nicely, but doesn’t guarantee a good peel.