If you want to learn to cook, scrambled eggs are the perfect recipe to start with. They are absolutely delicious, they are simple enough that anyone can give them a shot, but complex enough to allow for interesting experimentation, all while teaching you a couple of key cooking skills. This is a recipe that my mom first taught me when I first started to learn to cook.

Supplies

This recipe serves 1

3 eggs
2 tbsp. Butter
2 tbsp. Cream
2 slices of Bread
Salt and pepper to taste
5 Cherry Tomatoes
handful of cilantro

Step 1: Toast the Bread

Start off with toasting the bread, either put it in the toaster or in a pan. Cook till a desired level of crispiness is achieved.

Step 2: Add Some Veggies

Cut up the tomatoes and cilantro. Put the cilantro aside for now In a pan add any cooking oil of you choice and add the tomatoes. Cook for 1 min. You don't have to add these specific veggies, try experimenting, throw in some mushrooms, broccoli, peas or carrots, whatever you like.

Step 3: Cook the Eggs

This is probably the hardest step. First add the butter to a thick bottomed pan, followed by two of the three eggs. Turn on the gas to a medium flame and stir vigorously. As the egg cooks, it will start to stick to the bottom of the pan, as soon you see this happen scrape the egg off the bottom of the pan, make sure the bottom of the pan is always egg free. If it starts cooking too fast for you to scrape off the egg, either lower the flame or temporarily take the pan off the flame until you catch up. Try to break up any large clumps of egg. It is important to note that as the eggs will be cold to begin with (since they were in the fridge) it will seem like nothing is happening in the start, do not take your eyes off the eggs, once they get hotter they will start cooking really fast. Now this is the magical part, once the eggs are fully cooked and no liquid egg remains, put the last egg into the pan, stir and cook for about 20 seconds. You want to just barely cook the last egg. This leaves us with a creamy, soft and decedent scrambled egg. If you don't like runny yokes don't add the final egg and stop cooking the first two eggs when you reach an extremely thick custard like consistency.

Step 4: Finishing Steps

Now just add 2 tbsp. of cream to the eggs along with some salt and pepper. Always start with a little salt and pepper, taste it, see if you like it and add more if needed. This way you can learn not only how to taste but you will soon develop an instinct as to how much salt and pepper to put in.

Step 5: Plate Up

Put the eggs, tomatoes, cilantro and bread together. I recommend not putting the egg directly on the toast as no one likes soggy toast.

Step 6: Experiment!

Change it up, try experimenting. Try adding goat cheese instead of cream, change the portion size, try eating it with garlic bread instead of regular toast, try out different vegetables, throw in some chives if you like, be creative with your plating, the sky is the limit.

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