Green eggs and ham is a legend of the children's book world, but I must say that this is the first time I've seen a genuine attempt at producing it. This photo is from a flickr set by user michales and is accompanied by instructions detailing how to recreate the dish in your own home. The ham is painted with food coloring, but there is a trick o getting the egg just right. The egg white has to be separated from the yolk and scrambled with food coloring. The yolk is then (gently!) added back to the white when it is poured into the pan.
The only way in which these eggs differ from the literary eggs is that Dr Seuss imagined his to have green yolks, not whites. But I think that neither Sam-I-am nor any little Seuss fan would have a problem eating these eggs - here, there or anywhere!
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12-29-2006 @ 7:16PM
Jed Sorokin-Altmann said...
At Dartmout College's Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, Green Eggs and Ham are served to 90% of the incoming freshmen thanks to the Dartmouth Outing Club's First Year Trips. They don't make green ham, because they found nobody eats it, but they do make green eggs.
http://superchefblog.com/interim/2006/12/green-eggs-and-ham-cookbook.html
Dartmouth was Theodore Geisel's alma mater (Geisel=Seuss) and we are quite proud to claim him as ours.
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12-29-2006 @ 7:19PM
Jed Sorokin-Altmann said...
Eep.
Dartmouth College that is.
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12-29-2006 @ 7:31PM
Kate said...
Food oddities, yes. Food porn ... no.
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12-29-2006 @ 7:50PM
Elizabeth said...
A friend figured out that if you add grape jelly to eggs, they turn green. This discovery can be credited/blamed to many late nights at Denny's.
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12-29-2006 @ 8:43PM
FoodieBride said...
I don't see enough heavy cream in the recipe to be classified as food porn (or any at all).
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12-31-2006 @ 1:22PM
RT said...
Orange, a breakfast spot in Chicago (and my favorite breakfast place period) has a dish called green eggs and ham dish. It's eggs with pesto and mozzarella (the green eggs) and pancetta (the ham) . Great stuff. Everything else on the menu is amazing, too. Definitely try their chai french toast if you have the chance.
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12-31-2006 @ 1:25PM
Susan said...
New Scientist magazine had a whole discussion among readers regarding dyeing egg whites green using red cabbage juice. It is a type of litmus test and reacts this way to the alkaline egg.
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12-31-2006 @ 1:26PM
shadrach said...
as far as porn is concerned, this food porn is somewhere between midgets and over 60s.
Somehow food that looks like it's been fished out of a trashcan after a month doesn't appeal to me.
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12-31-2006 @ 1:26PM
Angela Pitt said...
I'll pass!!!
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