Delicious in Dungeon #37: Soul Eggs Benedict

Ah, the indispensable egg. It's a lot like a human soul, is it?

When it breaks...... bad. When it hot... nice.

We're musing and we're making a variant of eggs benedict with harpy eggs. And barometz is included somehow. I'm not sure, that was both a plant and an imitation lamb. i thought it'd be cool to honour the imitation meat by adding some plant-based ham slices. Also looking at this now I realise I'd forgot the lemon juice. 

This is all terribly quick to prepare, so I'll start with just frying the asparagus, I trimmed the base and rinsed them and cooked them with a bit of butter.

For eggs benedict it's traditional to use english muffins, but this used some sort of funny shaped thick sourdough loaf, so I thought it might be cool and delicious to use some square ciabatta buns. I'm also just gonna lightly toast them, im a toast fiend.

I've never poached an egg before. It always seemed intimidating. I think I know what to do, you just sort of... drop the egg in boiling water but you have to keep it together by making a water vortex, or surely just using a big ladle?

Here we gooo

Ah shit crabs I fucked it up... i thought it looked done already so i tried putting it onto sandwich and it slid right off and it looks raw still at that. Oh well, sometimes with eggs and souls you get to scrape the obliterated remains off the floor and try again with a forbidden resurrection spell. 5 second rule and that.

I think i have something useable now. Next, half of the recipe is to make the hollandaise sauce from scratch too, but I didn't want to. It's hard enough to finish a jar of this stuff, let alone a homemade one with zero preservatives. So im just going with the jar. Also it said to add spices, so we're sprinkling on my go-to seasoning for eggs, japanese spice mix. Now we just add the asparagus and garnish: barometz fruit...?

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Umm wow tasty! I thought it would be offputtingly soggy with all that wet egg and sauce that I didn't know how to make drier... but the ciabatta was the perfect choice of bread, its very oily and drying. I think the eggs still might have been a bit rough and waterlogged though, the sandwich does a good job of hiding how unprofessional my poached egg really is. The vegetable sides were really fresh and full-flavoured.