You could cook eggs this way your whole life and be pretty satisfied, but you would notice one small annoyance one of the eggs almost always cracks upon being placed in the boiling water. This isnt usually a big deal, as I feed the wonky egg to my egg obsessed spaniel, but its not optimum I guess. If you wish to crack down on unwanted egg ruptures, I suggest you try steaming. In the Steamer. Steaming eggs can be done using a steamer basket and pot or an appliance with a steamer function such as the Instant Pot. In either case you will need Eggs. Enough water to come up about an inch in whatever vessel youre using. Lemon Pasta more. A pot for the stove or the liner for your steamer. A trivet or steamer basket. An ice bath. If youre steaming on the stove, fill a pot with about an inch of water, place a steamer basket or trivet down in there and bring it to a boil. Gently lower your eggs into the basket, cover, and let cook for 1. Remove from the basket and immediately place the eggs in an ice bath for at least 1. Peel as described above. If you are using an electric steamer, you may have to play around with timing a bit, depending on the model. For the Instant Pot however, you just need to add a cup of water to the insert, place the trivet down in there, and set the eggs on the trivet. Close the Instant Pot, set the release valve to sealing, and press the Steam button. Set the time for seven minutes using the and buttons, and check your Twitter or something. Once the timer has gone off, manually release the pressure by switching the release valve to venting, then remove the eggs from the pot and place them in an ice bath for at least fifteen minutes. Peel as described above. I have found that, though the stove top eggs are easy to peel, the steamed eggs peel even more easily, and have less dents and dimples than their stove top brethren. Dents and dimples arent the end of the world though. Im a pretty happy camper as long as I get to keep all of my white. Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding. There are two schools when comes to bread pudding the people who like it wet and those who like it just moist enough to give the ensemble an almost cake like texture. I personally fall in the later. Its what I strive for in bread puddinga custard base dessert that is held together with just enough binder to give it a silky center while leaving me with a crispy top for textural contrast. Boom. Nailed it with chocolate croissant bread pudding. It was exactly the bit of self indulgence I needed after a few weeks of crazy. Between multiple birthdays, a wedding anniversary, Little League playoffs, and a sick kid 6 days of no school I just wanted to whine and complainso I did. In between that I spooned my way through bites of this bread pudding for 3 square meals a day and traded in traditional wet shampoo for dry shampoo because who has time to do normal with all the planning, celebrating, carpooling and rotating out barf bowls. On a side note. I realize Im so late to the magic of dry shampoo, but OMG nothing beats washing 3 day old hair in the school parking lot before your kids music performance. True story of shameless self maintenance. But lets get back to the food because if you make this theres one secret ingredient that takes this from good to great almond paste not to be mixed up with marzipan. It adds a huge punch of flavor. So go out and get itdont skip it. Its also the magic to a few of the recipes featured in my book rolling out Sept. Printthis recipe. Yield Serves 8 1. Ingredients 1 cup granulated sugar. Confectioners sugar for dusting. Directions Preparation Heat oven to 3. F. Lightly butter a 9x. Place sugar, almond paste and butter in a blender or food processor and pulse until blended. Add in egg yolks, eggs, milk, cream, vanilla extract, salt, cinnamon and instant espresso pulse to blend. Place croissant pieces into preferred pans and sprinkle evenly with chocolate chips. Pour custard on top. Gently press down on croissant pieces to ensure even absorption. Bake until set but still soft and a knife inserted at the center comes out clean, about 3. Dust with confectioners sugar prior to serving. Serve warm or at room temperature. Croissant Pizza Bites© 2017