comfort food for a sick day

i woke up this morning with a sore throat that i caught from mr. happy stuff.  he was sick last week and i was silly enough to kiss him (how could i resist?) and now i’m paying the price.  cough, cough, sneeze, wheeze, sniffle.  today was my day off, so no temptation to work through it, but i did have to go to class this evening.  i needed sustenance before class, so i decided to cook up three hard-boiled eggs.  first, i took these three eggs (look at the array of colors!  thanks, farmer jacob!) and put them on to boil.

this is my egg-boiling pan.  “hmmm…” you say, “that doesn’t look like a pan, that looks like a measuring cup!”

and you’d be right.  a 2-cup measure, in fact.  but this is a special measuring cup.  it used to belong to my great aunt bess and she always used it to boil eggs (and make us jell-o ‘tea’, but that’s another post….) so it lives in my drawer now and comes out on the rare occasions that i hard-boil eggs and reminds me of her each time i do it.

while i’m waiting for the water to boil (‘watched-pot’ and all) i go outside to check the mail and get another shot of my pretty little white flower:

look at that raindrop!  (or is it melted snow?  yep. we had snow today.  another good reason to stay home!)  let’s check the eggs:

getting warm and bubbly!

now it’s boiling so hard it’s blurry!

and now i’m running late for class (sigh) so i skip the crucial step to sick-day hard-boiled egg goodness–the face.  see, when i was a kid, we called them “humpty dumpty eggs” and always drew a face on the egg and then recited the nursery rhyme with the egg sitting on the edge of the table, and (at the correct moment) “falling” off the edge and onto the floor where the shell-cracking began.  so, i crack the faceless eggs one at a time:

(apparently no time to correctly focus the camera either!), peel them and add them to my bowl:

then, add a pat of butter (or olive oil spread, in my case) and a sprinkling of salt:

(why does that look like ice cream to me?)  mash it all together:

and gobble it up!

(no time for toast!)  yum.