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In continuing our series of Toastess with the Mostest, I think it’s important to address the infamous hipster elephant in the room. The toast we all love to hate… *drumroll* …..THE AVOCADO TOAST!
Let’s not kid ourselves. Since the dawn of time, people have always eaten avocado on tortillas or bread wherever avocados are grown (like in Mexico and Australia). You probably just heard about it around 2012.
Why did it take until the early 2010s for most of us Americans to get so hyped on avo toast? NYC’s Cafe Gitane claims to have kicked it off first in NYC, and the dish became so popular that prominent food blogs started posting their recipe versions online (…which I guess I’m doing now…..so nothing’s changed too much here - and as my friend Jesse says, “Newsletters are the New Blog”).
From there, Gwyneth Paltrow included a recipe for it in her 2013 cookbook - and you know you how white women love Gwyneth, honestly I do too). From there, Instagram was really taking off so it further skyrocketed the Avocado Toast as the biggest food trend of our generation (and this is someone who personally witnessed the cupcake craze).
And now, avocado toast has gotten somewhat of a rep of being for hipsters.
Call me what you want, but the avocado toast is just plain delicious and I eat it as often as the avocados are ripe in my house. If you tuned into Sobremesa 17., I actually already featured one of my fav avocado toasts - the green good good.
There’s lots of ways to spin an avocado toast - just google “avocado toast recipe” for proof. But when I’m looking for a heartier toast to really fill me up and hit all my taste bud hot spots, I turn to an egg n’ avo toast. Because when it’s lunchtime and I’m hungry, I’m asking myself, “how can I make this more filling but also not have to try too hard?” And the solution is: put an egg on it.
Eggs can be so complicated. Sorry, eggs themselves are not actually complicated, people make them complicated! I’m looking at you, mom, every time you send your order for a “fried egg over medium but not too medium kinda like hard but not too hard” back to the kitchen because it wasn’t made correctly.
Do you want it scrambled? Hardboiled? Hardboiled for how long? Fried? Fried easy, medium, or hard? I find that that the easiest way to wade through the egg bullshit is the straight up fried egg over medium.
My foolproof method is to just toss a little butter in the pan, heat up at medium heat, crack your egg in, and then *insider tip* add a lil’ water in the pan around the eggs - this will keep the edges from burning up and stay nice and soft - then I like to break the yolk with my spatula. The egg is finished when it passes the “jiggle test.” I lightly jiggle the pan and consider the egg finished when the yolk is still yellow and a tiny bit jiggly but also not about to ooze egg juice everywhere. I then turn the egg halfway over on to itself to make a little egg sleeping bag (which will allow it to sit on my toast more compactly).
And in this instance of “throw an egg on it!” to the egg n’ avo toast, I also sprinkle a lil’ salt, pepper, olive oil, toasted sesame seeds, and hot sauce.
I got my bread this week from Winner in NYC. I’m a sucker for a sesame sourdough, and I feel that the sweet and nutty flavor of the sesame really balances the flavors of the avocado, egg, and hot sauce.
I love this toast because it’s fresh, easy, fills me up, and takes less than 10 mins. My usual requirements for breakfast / lunch food.
Egg n’ Avo Sesame Toast
Ingredients
Sesame sourdough toast
1/2 avocado
1 large organic egg
1/2 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon water
Salt + Pepper to taste
Toasted sesame seeds to taste
Ur fav hot sauce
Do it!
Slice your sourdough and toast her real nice.
Prep your avocado and scoop out of it’s shell.
Fry your egg: heat your pan to medium heat and melt your butter. When the butter starts to bubble, crack your egg into the pan. Add your water around the edges of the pan (don’t get in the egg itself!) This will keep the edges from burning and the outside nice and soft.With your spatula, lightly break the yolk. Cook for about 1 minute when edges start to look cook and it passes the “jiggle test:” lightly jiggle the pan and when the egg has a little jiggle to it but also isn’t sliding yolk all over the place, it’s ready! Tuck your egg over on to itself to make a little sleeping bag (this keeps it compact on the toast).
Smash your avocado on the toast.
Sprinkle salt and pepper to taste.
Add the egg.
Drizzle your favorite hot sauce.
Top with toasted sesame seeds.
enjoy with some sunshine
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Happy cooking. Love ya mucho,
Tessa