Oprah and Hard Boiled Eggs

I tape the Oprah Winfrey show every day and save the ones where I think the topics sound interesting. And the during Christmas break or the summer, when there isn't any decent TV, I watch them.

I'm currently on an episode from last October with Dr. Oz where he is describing his anti-aging plan. I haven't gone to her website yet to take the online test to validate that I'm probaby doing 99 out of 100 things wrong. Regardless, he mentions that India has the lowest rate of Alzheimer's in the world and that's it's related to the spice Cumin. And then he showed some deviled eggs because Cumin is a common ingrediant in deviled eggs.

(Yeah, I know, this doesn't seem like it's going anywhere and it's really not but if you're reading my blog you're probably a little bit bored anyways so work with me!)

Then I'm like "Mmmm...hard boiled eggs sound good". I promptly turn off Oprah and go downstairs to see if we have any eggs and we do.

If you know me, you know I don't really cook. Not really, not without explicitly following a recipe and destroying the kitchen. I can make a kick-butt grilled cheese and boil hot dogs with the best but that's about where it ends.

I decided to Google "How to boil an egg". I just found out I have been boiling eggs wrong my entire life. I actually read three different posts about hard boiling eggs and they were all the same.

I always boiled the water, threw the eggs in the boiling water, waiting 10 minutes and started opening up eggs every couple minutes until I was satisfied they would all probably be done. Yeah, so if I threw in a dozen eggs I normally only got 9-10 that were usable because I had cracked open 2-3 as testers.

Here's the post I followed: http://www.wikihow.com/Hard-Boil-an-Egg.

I used this posting cause it had pictures although I probably didn't really need them. Or the video. Trust me, I wasn't sad enough that I had to watch the video. The pictures sufficed.

And now I have 8 hard-boiled eggs to make deviled eggs tonight. I'm off now to Google a good deviled egg recipe. Maybe there will be pictures and a video. Tee hee...

Update: I didn't find any recipes that used cumin in deviled eggs. Hmm... Oh well. I made them and they turned out okay although Paige turned her nose up at "the yellow stuff". One day I'll tell her what's in hot dogs. Ha Ha!