Chew Your Own Adventure

For the past few weeks I’ve been eating the same breakfast every day: a simple egg white scramble. I like to mix things up a bit, but I can honestly say I’m not getting tired of it at all. Bonus: as far as I can tell it’s the healthiest thing ever.

Ingredients

• Your choice of peppers, diced. I go with red, green, poblano, sometimes jalapeño.
• diced onion
• a handful baby spinach leaves
• egg whites
• salt & pepper to taste
• Sriracha
• goat cheese crumbles

Instructions: it’s a scramble… scramble everything! Ok, ok sauté the peppers and onions in olive oil for about 5 minutes, seasoning with salt and pepper. Chop up the baby spinach leaves and add them, cooking for about 5 minutes or until they are wilted. Add as much egg whites as you like, I go with about 3 eggs worth of egg whites. Sprinkle with a few goat cheese crumbles and Sriracha (optional).

One thing about egg whites: if you buy them in a carton from the store, check their ingredients. You’d be surprised at some of the crazy stuff you’d see. Your egg whites ingredient list should read:

Enjoy!

Most likely if you search Google for a Phở recipe, you’ll come across this one from Allrecipes. I tried it recently and it was top notch, highly recommended!

One of the steps called for skimming the fat off the top of the broth about half-way through. I just wasn’t having any luck with this at all while the broth was still hot. I could see the oily fat, but extracting it was another matter. “Phở this”, I said and gave up.

Fortunately, I started simmering the broth pretty late and had to set it in the fridge over night to continue simmering the next day. Here’s what it looked like the next morning:

Perfect! The fat is easily extracted when it’s cold and the broth kept all its flavor.