Sunny Side-Up Eggs

Jim, my husband, formerly had a great appetite. After he got a third of the way through his chemo treatment for his lung cancer, it naturally started decreasing. He slowly started back to eating more normally when he caught an awful bacterial infection. He was hospitalized for 2 weeks and only remembers a few days of it.

After we got him back home, it was a struggle to get him to eat anything. He had no appetite. Nothing tasted right. Even foods that he’s always loved tasted funny to him. I did have pretty good luck getting him to eat breakfast. So we started having eggs for breakfast 97% of the time.

I started off scrambling the eggs out of sneakiness. Breakfast was the only meal I could get down him & he was woefully underweight. He would ask me for 2 eggs every morning so I would scramble them. I scrambled them because that way he couldn’t tell how many eggs he got. I took advantage of that to fix him 3 eggs every morning. During much of this time, he would only eat breakfast so it was vital to get quite a bit of nutrition into him.

Then came the morning he admitted he would rather have his eggs fried! Oh oh, I was in a mess. He still wasn’t eating that well but there was no way I could sneak 3 fried eggs on his plate and him not know it. I did the only thing I could think to do. I confessed. He looked at me like I was crazy, laughed & said “Then I guess I want 3 fried eggs. That’s been working good! Let’s not change it.” Sometimes you get off easy when you’ve been sneaky!

Freshly cracked egg is cooking in iron skillet. Notice the translucency of the while.

Sunny side-up egg is ready to be slipped on the plate. Notice how opague the egg white is.

Both of us like our eggs sunny side-up. There’s not an easier egg to fry than a sunny side-up egg. Heat your skillet up to a low-medium heat. I always use my medium sized iron skillet for eggs. Carefully tap the egg on the side of the skillet and when it cracks open, slip the egg into the melted butter. I find a teaspoonful of butter will cook 3-4 eggs in a well seasoned iron skillet so you’re not using much fat. Cook the egg over the low-medium heat until the whites are completely set & opaque. Slide the flexible pancake turner under the egg and carefully slip the egg onto the waiting plate.

Three sunny side-up eggs & ham

It only takes a couple of minutes per egg. In no time, you have a plateful of eggs. Add toast, biscuit or a bagel and you have a delicious breakfast. About half of the time, I’ll fix some kind of a meat but the rest of the time we just eat the eggs & bread. Occasionally, for a treat, I’ll cook some hashbrowns and add them to our plate. As you can see, it’s not at all time consuming to fix a solid breakfast.

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