Hard Boiled Eggs

With Easter around the corner, I thought I would share how I have made hard boiled eggs for years.  When I was a kid, I remember boiling the heck out of eggs, so that we could decorate them for the Easter Bunny.  I never liked eating them.  They were dry and kind of grey.  Yuck!  I didn’t realize there was actually a method to hard boiling the perfect egg!  At least, back then.  I decided that I didn’t like hard boiled eggs, until an ex-boyfriend of mine, well, he wasn’t an ex-boyfriend then, but now….you get the picture…gave me a signed copy of one of Ina Garten’s cookbooks.  I remember reading in her tips beneath another recipe, how to properly hard boil an egg!  I was curious, tried it, and have been making them this way ever since!  Here’s what happened…

Start by bringing the eggs to a boil in cold water.  You can boil as many eggs as you need.  I used two for this because it was for my breakfast!  Put enough water in the pot to cover the eggs. Once the water boils, shut off the element and leave the eggs in the water for 15 minutes.  Drain water and cool a few minutes or until you can handle them.

This is the result of rolling the egg around on a hard surface to help release the shell.  You will need to tap the shell twice before rolling to get the process started.

You can see from this picture that the shell itself came off in almost one piece.

Ta-dah!  No grey-ish yolk! Yay!

Enjoy!

(Source: https://www.barefootcontessa.com/recipes.aspx?RecipeID=322&S=0)

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