At the Abastos market, she led me through an area the size of a football field that held nothing but bread — including pan de yema (egg-yolk bread), a family favorite, which Abigail, slipping out of her Spanish, refers to as challah.
The quality of ingredients is excellent: dark yolks, chewy bread and fresh greenery.
When rounded out by pickled red cabbage and mustard, apple purée, smoked egg yolk, and grilled bread, the flavors achieve a rare pentagonal balance.
Serves 2 1 tsp English mustard powder 3 tbsp stout 30g butter Worcestershire sauce, to taste 175g lancashire cheese, grated 2 egg yolks 2 slices bread 1. Mix the mustard powder with a little stout in the bottom of a small pan to make a paste, then stir in the rest of the stout and add the butter and about 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce – you can always add more later if you like.
Many people dip this bread into the yolk.
"I don't know," she said, mixing ground chuck, bread crumbs and egg yolk with her bare hands, "I'll have to ask your father".
4. Beat the egg yolk into the apples then spoon into the bread lines cases, top with the remaining circles of bread, press down firmly.
Servers provide bread for scooping up the yolk mixture, and the overall experience was one of a deliciously unceremonious breakfast nudging up against a more refined dinner.
The "panko egg" was an improbably delicate version of a Scotch egg, with a perfect sunny yolk and tender white encased in crisp bread crumbs, set on greens next to rather flavorless chunks of poached lobster ($29).
4 When the egg is cooked to your liking, serve with a sprinkling of parsley and spring onion and some crusty bread to dip in the yolk and mop all of that lovely sauce up.
We ravaged a plate of tender ravioli stuffed with celery root, sprinkled with truffle shavings served on top of a perfectly poached egg yolk, mopping up with freshly baked French bread.
