I'm Back!!!

Ok I know it's been forever since I posted last but it's been a little crazy around here with weddings(mine upcoming and my sister's this past October), babies being born (not from me, I'm an aunt again!), sadly a funeral, and I've moved.
But I'm back. And I'm putting in a good effort again to keep up with keeping you in the know about all my food and food related adventures both in the kitchen and in restaurants.

Today I'd like to talk about a very simple often overlooked food item. The incredible edible egg! I love eggs. Frankly I eat one every day with my breakfast (I know I'm boring right? But it work time wise and that's what matters). Even though I eat the same thing every week day for breakfast I still love it!
Turkey bacon (I'll explain later), one English muffin, and one egg.

I fry the turkey bacon and the egg in one pan so to do that I need the perfect egg ring and I had one for quite a while. But it recently kicked the bucket and I'm on the hunt for a new one.

My original egg ring was actually not an egg ring at all. It was a cookie cutter with a rubber ring around the top so it was easy to handle and pull off the pan when the egg was done.

I bought one with a wooden handle like this.

I found 2 major flaws. One: the handle sticks up all over the place and I can't get a lid down on the pan (which I find is essential to cook the top of the egg properly, thanks McDonald's for that little trick). Two: do you see how they fabricated the metal part? There is a huge seam where the handle attaches. Do you know what uncooked egg does when it finds a seam? It runs right through it. Meaning that your perfectly English muffin shaped egg starts looking like an amoeba, and no one likes to eat amoebas for breakfast, they're just not very filling.

Today I saw one at Bed Bath and Beyond that was really cute however pretty impractical for my uses. This little guy

My only concern is that it's made of silicon and it's not dishwasher safe. I have a thing about silicon cookware. I know it's perfectly fine and a ton of people use it every day but I really like working with metals. But the bigger issue for me is not being able to throw it in the dishwasher. I'm way too busy to be worrying about my egg ring in the dishwasher.

I may resort to a metal biscuit cutter, although they usually have the handle over the center, and that's where i pour the egg.

So I'm still on the hunt. I'll let you know if I find anything.

Oh I almost forgot! If you're using non-stick pans (which why are you using non-stick pans to begin with, use butter or Pam, but I digress) be very very careful about using metal utensils, including egg rings. You will scratch the surface and instead of non-stick you'll have all-stick.

My note on turkey bacon: The only reason I use turkey bacon over normal pork bacon is that it doesn't spit hot bacon grease at me while I'm in my nice dress clothes for work. I suppose I could make up a whole batch in the oven and heat it up every day but that takes planning and I'm not quite there yet (although maybe I'll try it next week and let you know how it goes).

One more note to my loving and patient fiance: I promise to start cooking again once things settle down again! And now we are cooking with gas! Yay heat control! Now I just need to relearn how to use it.