Pinterest Pick #4 The Avocado Egg!

THIS PIN!!!! OMG.... Let me explain! So I saw this and was looking forward to actually trying this out as my first recipe Pinterest Pick. I didn't have to buy or cook with anything that I wasn't familiar with,  this little lovely snack looked delicious, and based on the directions the recipe SEEMED easy enough, right?




So before I get into my cooking experience this evening, let me start by saying I am NOOOO Julia Child or Rachel Ray! Shoot,  I am more like one of the kid cooks on Rachel Ray's new Kid Cooking Competition... lol! I think I am a good cook when it comes to things I enjoy eating and can follow a recipe pretty well (Unless, I have to BAKE, Lord help us all if I had to bake something :/ )

Anyways, I headed to the Grocery Store, picked out the perfect avocados, grabbed some eggs, and then hurried home to get to my anticipated Pinterest Pick.  As I prepped, I pulled out the instructions one last time which read as follows:

         One of the healthiest and yummiest breakfast/snacks ever!! High in protein and healthy fats.              SO good for you! And delicious Ingredients: Whole avocado Eggs Cayenne pepper (or any                spice of your choice) Cheese (optional) Remove the stone from an avocado. Scoop out a little            more avocado to increase the size of the stone's crater. Crack an egg into the crater. Sprinkle            with Cayenne pepper (cheese too if you desire). Bake in the oven at 180 degrees until egg is              cooked to the level you like.

So, this is what I began to do... I started by cutting my beautiful avocados right up the center, digging out the stone (Which I always called a seed! I think it is a seed and the writer of the recipe was just trying to be BOUGIE!!!), and also digging out a bit more from the avocado to increase the crater's size. I was following the recipe perfectly, or so I thought. I lined my avocados on an oven sheet and pulled out my eggs. In my mind i would crack this egg into the crater and it would sit perfectly... NOT THE CASE! lol I was actually naive enough to think that would happen! Now let me paint the picture of what really happened. Crack, I break my egg, and begin to pull apart the shell carefully so that none of the shell pieces fall into the center of the avocado with the egg. PLOP, in goes the egg into the crater, and TIP goes the ENTIRE AVOCADO, spilling out my entire egg onto the cookie sheet. Um, it should have occurred to me that the weight of the egg would roll the ROUND, avocado onto it's side. It didn't not occur to me honestly, until it happened and I wanted to smack myself on the forehead and let out a loud, DUH! I should have stopped when that happened but, I was bound and determined to make this happen. I came up with a great idea, which should have been written into the recipe to begin with, might I add, to slice off part of the round bottom, to make myself a flat platform so to speak. So I did this, everything looked good, we were back in business.

Now that I had fixed the "Round Bottom Problem" and clean up my mess, I was ready to try to crack my egg into the crater again. Crack! Plop! In went my egg directly into the crater of the avocado. This time I did it! My crater could have been dug out more because about a fourth of my egg spilled out over the side, but for the most part, it worked. Honestly, I may have tried over and over until I got it perfect, but I was out of avocado and almost out of eggs at this point. I repeated this action three more times to complete my four avocado halves. Each with excess spillage of egg, but at this point nothing would deter me from my task. Not even the fact, that in my head I envisioned this process running like a show on the Food Network. Let's say it was a perfect cooking show tutorial version of me completing this task playing in my head, of course until I actually started doing it. Turn's out they can only make cooking look easy on TV. The truth is... ITS HARD!
I was done with that stage! Now on the the seasoning. PHEW! IF only this whole process could've been that easy, just a little sprinkle sprinkle and all the prep was done, the nightmare was over! Into the oven it went!

I waited and waited, 15 minutes at first , then another 15 minutes. I kept checking and checking but my egg was not cooking! I should have know cooking something at 180 degrees with no specific time limit meant, THIS WILL TAKE ALL NIGHT!  So I admit, I got a bit impatient and turned the oven up to 325. That worked like a charm my eggs were cooked in no time and I was able have a finished, and surprisingly edible result.

Forgive the plate display, I am a firm believer that no person should ever do dishes, so I only use paper and styrofoam products!  This is what I ended up with once everything was finished.  It tasted Ok, I was a bit disappointed though. Not as mind blowingly good as I thought it would be. Just tasted like and egg inside of an avocado with lots of pepper on it! Let's just say the mediocre taste was a direct result of my mediocre cooking skills. You all should try it on your own to see if it comes out any better :)

Can I just say that I won't be covering a cooking pin for a while, I need to recover from this somewhat epic fail!

Well that is that for tonight!

Love and Avocados, no Love and Hotdogs!!!! (Cuz that is what I should've spent my time cooking, I know how to make Hotdogs! ) ~ Bee

P.s. This post was way longer than I anticipated, and it's late, so I am not proofing this right now! Hopefully you won't mind it for now...lol