Egg Roast Recipe from My Favorite Cookbook
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Nags of For the Cook in Me blog is hosting a fun event this month – Show Me Your Cookbooks! You don’t even have to cook anything for it, just take a picture of yourself with your favorite cookbook and send it to Nags.
I decided to stay home this Saturday as I’ve been partying pretty hard past three nights. Since there was nothing good on TV and Siv was off to play cricket, I was pretty bored around here. The easiest way to entertain myself was to turn to my obsession, food blogging of course. Since I was in no mood to cook, this event seemed like the perfect time pass for the day.
With nobody in the house to take my picture holding my favorite cookbook – yeah yeah, I know how to use the self timer thingy in the camera, the real reason is I didn’t really want to go through the trouble of making me look presentable to the world right then- I decided to go with just taking a pic of my favorite cookbook sans my beautiful face. Of course Nags had mentioned that “ if you are really shy you can send a pic of your fave cook book, but taken by you, please!” . So, I am going to pretend that I am really shy.
I just counted my cookbooks, and I have 32 totally, at least that’s all I could find… There must be a few hidden in some shelf somewhere! Anyway, I have no idea if that is too much or too less. I have used a few quite extensively, and some of these I have never even looked through all the pages.. Some are just plain old paperbacks with just recipes, no pictures. Some are hardbound, glossy with some beautiful food porn. But out of all these, my favorite is a Kerala cookbook called Flavours of the Spice Coast by Mrs. K.M.Mathew.
Now, Nags also wants me to write, Why I like this book in one sentence.
I like this book because all the dishes in this book taste exactly like the way my mom makes those!
Yes, it is true! The recipes in this book are not the fancy dishes that you would only find in restaurants. Mrs. K.M. Mathew is one of the pioneer women journalists in India, she is the founder editor of the popular Malayalam magazine for women called Vanitha and has written 23 cookbooks! Many malayali women attribute their culinary skills to this amazing lady! Her recipes are not low fat or low calorie or anything like that. These are just regular Kerala dishes in all their glory! My mom doesn’t own any of her cookbooks, but whenever I get a recipe from her, I compare it to Mrs. Mathew’s version, and these are almost always the same!
My sister gave me this book a few years ago, and I loved it because of all the pictures. It truly is a visual delight, I had never seen Kerala dishes photographed so well before! Mind you, this was before the food blogging days, so Indian food porn was not as abundant as it is now.
Here is an Amazon link, it is listed for about $60, but there must be a cheaper version available somewhere. I think it was about Rs.1200/- (~$25) when my sister bought it. http://www.amazon.com/Flavours-Spice-Coast-K-M-Mathew/dp/0143029002/ref=sr_1_1/002-4233436-5953623?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179715042&sr=8-1
I know, I don’t have to cook for this event, but I had a picture of this egg roast in my drafts, which is a recipe from this book. And if I combine it with this event, I don’t even need to type the recipe…
Here is my version. I added more onions than the recipe asked for (about a cup of sliced onions). I also put a few gashes on the boiled eggs and added these to the pan and cooked along with the gravy to get the spices into the egg. The recipe calls for halving the eggs, but from the picture in the book it looks like they did the same thing.
This egg roast goes great with Dosa, a typical breakfast combination back home.
I’ve tried most of the non-vegetarian recipes from this book, but here are the ones I’ve blogged here:
- Lamb Chops
- Semiya Payasam
- Prawn Fry
- Yam – Drumstick Curry (not from this book, but another Mrs. K.M.Mathew recipe)
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sweetheart, its the local african food i was talking about on jugalbandi’s postcard… (upma kinda thing made with cornmeal… its bland and goes well with curries)
I must have this book! Thanks for sharing it with us, Sig.
Hey from a quick glance at that list, I see a pattern: party, party, party (lol) – they are among the most attractive foods.
Hi Sig, I made this Egg Roast for dinner last night, and it turned out just fabulous. So simple, but what a keeper of a recipe, thanks.
i do hv a few cookbooks, just not THAT many
though in librabries & bookstores that is the first section i go to 
Ohh that egg roast picture is making me drool…I can just feel the taste from here.
. And I hardly have 10 
(.
So many cookbooks Sig? I need to show this post to my hubby. Everytime I buy a new cookbook, he says I already have so many to have a mini library of my own
ooh, the egg roast looks yummy… and like your new profile picture – makes me want to update mine – preferably minus the kitty:-)
hm… didn’t know about this event- thanks for sharing… and it has inspired me to gather my cookbooks and post soon… except, i have just a handful of books as I borrow from library a lot, but D has a good collection and what’s his is mine anyway, right ?!
the egg roast looks absolutely desirable….thinking how it would taste with dosas
Rachna, thanks
I should’ve guessed
Cyn,
you caught me… I always used to panick before I have to throw a party and go buy a cookbook for that… not anymore though 
evolvingtastes, wow, that was fast…
glad to know you liked it, thanks for the feedback.. and welcome to my blog… 
Richa oops, I misread your comment, I thought you said you don’t have any cookbooks…
SORRY… 
… so, wheres your post?
Shilpa, lol, yeah tell him for a foodie, 10 is too low a number
…
Sheela, I love that picture of yours… but yeah, post a pic where we can actually see your face
… can’t wait to see your cookbook collection
Bhags, it goes great with dosa, and with appams too…
Lovely egg roast with pile of ur favo books, nice idea of taking photo too..Man you have a huge collection! I feel tiny
I MUST get this cookbook. I can taste those eggs right through the screen!
Hmm… that’s a lot of cookbooks! You ought to write one too now
For some reason, my wife’s been experimenting with a lot of egg-based recipes recently. She’s making some kinda new thing tomorrow with stuffed egg covered with minced lamb. That should be fun!
Padma,
thanks… u think thats too many?
Jaden, thanks
Shantanu, wow minced lamb and eggs, that sounds delicious… you should post the recipe
That book looks divine, as does your egg roast. And I love that you have atleast as many cookbooks as I do!
i don’t how the original Mrs KM Mathew’s receipe can “to serve 4 ” people with 3 egges in the receipe
go figure
You are too good. Very well written. Keep it up.
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Hey Sig,
Thanks a lot for sharing this recipe. It came out real well! We had it with appam
~Preethi
Heylo Sig,
I have been a recent visitor of your blog. Very nice presentation!! Kudos!! I did try this…it tasted really good…Thank you so much and let the new ones keep coming in!! Wishing you and your family a great year ahead!
Hi Rohini, thanks for your kind words! I am glad you liked this recipe… Wish you and yours a happy 2009! Hope to see you around more!
-Sig
hi Sig…tried out this recipe…it was a gr8 success…..just loved it
Thanks for the feedback Cinzy, glad you loved the recipe! Thanks to Mrs.K.M.Mathew!
gee and I thought my collection was embarassing……my husband keeps wondering why I keep investing in these books when I dont cook that much………
Wow, the cooking way of this dish is great, I’ll try it later and I hope it tastes delicious. Just one suggestion: If you add some cooking pictures it will be easier to follow!
Your egg curry photos are amazing. If you want to try another recipe of egg curry, please try Egg Curry
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