This blog serves to offer insight and (hopefully) a bit of wisdom while we all cook together. You’ll find delightful weekday recipes (such as these Divine Italian Scrambled Eggs!) and a handful of growing-up lessons as I (try to) learn them. It’s time for a blog that is accessible, without quite as many paragraphs of backstory for a simple recipe, so buckle up and enjoy!
Life after Perfection
“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly” is something I read on Tumblr when the family computer was a desktop as big as my mom’s CD collection. I scoffed at it in my perfectionist naivety and continued scrolling, but it stuck in my mind for years. Every few months, it would pop back up and I would again scoff and say to myself, “Maybe for someone else, but not me.” Everything I did had to be top-of-the-class. Looking back now, I’m aware of how much that truly held me back, because since I was not doing things poorly, I wasn’t doing much growing.
Now, I tell myself “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly” several times a week whenever fear creeps up, whenever I worry about being “good enough” to reach a goal, write a post, go to the gym, brush my teeth, do the dishes… the thing about living as a recovering perfectionist is that its impulse never leaves you. This blog is part outlet, part coping mechanism as I try to grow beyond the need for control, for perfection. This recipe, believe it or not, is an extension of that. It’s a messy, rustic, throw-it-in-the-pan recipe that will never fail — or be perfect.
Today’s Breakfast
Divine Sun-dried Tomato Scrambled Eggs
Active Time: 3 minutes
Total Time: 7 minutes
Servings: 1
Ingredients
2 Eggs
One Spoonful of sun-dried tomatoes with the oil from the jar (secret weapon!)
Enough minced garlic to choke a vampire (about 1 clove in this case, it is breakfast after all)
A handful of spinach
Salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes (if feeling spicy)
Serve With (Optional)
Grilled sausages (pictured above with a store-bought chicken sausage (fabulous combo, btw)
Romano cheese
Feta cheese
I’m not going to list all the other cheeses but like I bet it would be good with most of them
Italian wine
Good bread
Directions
- Heat a pan to medium and add the sun-dried tomatoes with some oil from the jar. Let them start to sizzle for a minute or two, then add the minced garlic. Tear the spinach so that it blends better in the eggs. Big spinach seems to get in the way and is really gross in eggs.
- Once the spinach is cooked down, the garlic is fragrant, and everything in the pan is sizzling, add some salt and pepper of choice, then drop in your eggs. Don’t turn down the heat, but continue breaking up the eggs and stirring them to help them cook quickly and evenly. Once they’re all solid but still shiny, remove from heat, and finish with salt and pepper to taste. Serve along with whatever your heart desires and raise a glass of Italian wine to imperfect dishes packed with flavor
