Work and eggs (uh...yeah)

[rebness]

So, five minutes after my tyrannical 'boss' left, I have been offered a promotion at work. Granted, said promotion only works out to €200 more a month, but it's pretty neat. Sad that it had to take me grumbling before it was offered. Even sadder that I'm attending an interview for another job soon. Oh, well!

It's a pity I really, really like my new boss. I had all these visions of telling Evil Boss where to shove it. Now that shall never come to pass. Instead, if I do get the job, I'll apologetically explain she's great, but... but... I'll get me coat. ;_;

In rad news, I poached an egg for the first time today without failing miserably. It was courtesy of this site, where the lulzy phlegm-like eggy failures pretty much match my earlier attempts. Then comes the neat clingfilm trick and internets, let me tell you: it works. Like whoah. Anyway, I am now perfect at (cheating at) poaching eggs; today's test run shall be tomorrow's duck egg-with-asparagus-and-parmesan crisp welcome back meal for my missing flatmate. I never thought I would love clingfilm so much. Yay!

Comments

[orwellian-trash.livejournal.com]

Erm... correct me if I'm wrong (and maybe I just don't understand the concept of poaching eggs) but if you're dropping the egg into boiling water then how is this different from, well, boiling it?

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Because you have divested it of its shell and therefore it is ten times more edgy!

[orwellian-trash.livejournal.com]

I read the word 'edgy' as 'eggy' there, and thought 'Well, fair enough?'

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I suppose one could describe it as more eggy, as it does tend to smell more...

See, boiled eggs are so safe and very Mark-from-Peep-Show. With a poached egg, you never know if it's suddenly going to invade the other half of the pan. Er, unless it's in a clingfilm bag.

[keep-warm.livejournal.com]

Just scramble the fucker!

[orwellian-trash.livejournal.com]

So, to use an analogy that Mark-from-Peep-Show would make, a poached egg is like Germany in the early 20th Century, but your clingfilm bag is the Versailles Treaty that limits its military power but causes unrest and pressure within meaning eventually the cling film might pop and you'll have The Third Reich all over your kitchen?

I think I'll stick to dippy soldiers.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

That is an excellent analogy. I suppose the asapargus spears are reminiscent of apartheid and the shock of parmesan shavings shall be akin to Gavrilo Princip setting off the European tinderbox.

Erm. Coco Pops, anyone?

[orwellian-trash.livejournal.com]

Milk, no sugar.

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

You talk about food so much and I love food. Let me know if you ever need a new flatmate : )

Yeah, usually jobs dont know what they got til its gone. My last job treated me like crap and had the nerve to be surprised when I said 'that's it, shove off'. They were even more surprised when most of the other staff was gone within six months of me. Yeah, I had a real Norma Rae moment.

[versailles-rose.livejournal.com]

With my luck, the cling wrap would either catch fire or explode.

I'll stick with my little egg poacher that sits in a frying pan. ^_^

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

Congrats on both counts. :P

I saw 'work and eggs' and thought 'hmm, which comm, cooking or clucky?'

[jaffacakequeen.livejournal.com]

only 200 euros? thats okay, of course you could be working 100 extra hours and then it wont be.

congratulations x

[pandorasblog]

Congrats. Having to grumble before it's offered - remind me to tell you about the nonsense the last couple of weeks Rem was at the call centre... ;)

b3ta.com rules.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

That clucky comm makes my ovaries ache!

I really should join cooking.

And thank'ees!

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I've already been trapped into working an extra two hours tomorrow, though this is because they're going to be firing a girl and so this is the price you pay for drama. But at least I can now afford an extra 200 bottles of wine a month! ;)

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Eeshk. It's annoying because you have to shout and fight a lot to get anywhere these days.

I love that site! I shocked Manuel by linking him to the Kitten Pictures video, though mercifully with the headphones plugged in.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I was convinced it was going to shrivel to nothing, but it worked! Yay!

If I could just figure out the Spanish for egg poacher, I'd get me one...

[rebness.livejournal.com]

We love our cooking here! Heehee!

This is what I mean. In this job, we have had a Mass Staff Exodus three times in two years... and nobody thought to question our awful management. Thankfully, the new manager is someone who had to fight her way up, so she seems more on our side.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Scrambled eggs are fail! (Or they are in my hands!)