I wish I could tell you that I had good reasons for sharing this recipe today sincere ones. If I were a different kind of writer I’d dig deep into my past and make a few graphs about my late German grandfather who ate a soft-boiled egg for breakfast every morning for as long as my mother can remember. (And brisket for dinner too.) Maybe I’d tell you about the time in 2004 when I had the same desire for the perfect crouton perhaps even buttered toast fingers elevated to a previously unimaginable level of deliciousness but didn’t get around to it until this week.
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And while each story would be true in some way none of them is the actual truth which is that today we are talking about soft-boiled eggs because omg I found the cutest set of egg cups chicken egg cups! and I had to buy them. Yes shopping. I told you the story was best left to a more artistic writer. In order to buy them however I would have to use them and in order to use them it was time to consider the crouton and not just any crouton but the most delicious crouton I could think of. There is a generous amount of melted butter and a little Dijon mustard there is Gruyère and a tiny bit of Romano cheese whose tangy/nutty saltiness has been my fixation lately. There are also herbs and this entire concoction is literally caked onto fingers of sourdough bread and then roasted in the oven until golden fragrant and tantalizing.
Still I hope you can forgive my breakfast obsession. It’s what I do when the weather is warm and I’m craving something lighter but spring produce has yet to arrive. And as we all know eggs aren’t just a breakfast food and these croutons don’t have to be limited to breakfast. Diced they can transform even the saddest bag of creepy-fresh lettuce into something you’ll eagerly look forward to (although I’d probably swap out the smooth Dijon for chunky and add a crushed garlic clove for that). And if those little green spears are coming out of the earth I’d make this ribbon salad with a few of these on the side. They also make excellent rewards for kitchen helpers when you’re trampled on your own pile.
Egg cups: I found them here.
