Egg Mayo
By: Sarah
Published: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 5:02am

Ingredients




2 fresh eggs
1 heaped dessert spoon of mayonnaise
2 teaspoons lumpfish roe (or caviar if you want to push the boat out)
2 sprigs of dill
toast to serve

Preparation

1 Place the eggs in a pan and cover completely with cold water. Heat over a high heat until boiling then reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. 2 Cool in cold water, then slice off the top of the egg, being careful not to break the shell. 3 Scoop out the egg, mash with a fork and mix with the mayonnaise. 4 Fill the empty shell with the egg mixture and top with a tsp of lumpfish roe and a sprig of dill. 5 Cut out rounds of toast using a pastry cutter, making a smaller hole in the centre for the egg to sit in.

About


I think I may have found a little studio to rent in Paris - "little" being the operative word - in the 8th arrondissement, on the same Metro line as Le Cordon Bleu. At the moment it's a toss-up between this apartment or sharing with a French artist and his 10-year old twins. I have this whimsical notion of lolling around an artist's studio in Monmartre wearing flouncy skirts and discussing existentialism whilst sucking on a Gauloises - but the bohemian won't allow me to have guests and since most of my family and quite a few friends are lining up to come and visit, I'm going to have to pass on the boho lifestyle.
Every Sunday we get a dozen eggs from Roquin, usually still warm and flecked with little bits of straw and other detritus. I could quite happily eat an egg, in some form, every day and egg mayo is one of our favourites. I like to add some snipped chives or spring onions or serve it in the shell with a sprig of dill and some lumpfish roe.