No. He just needed to alternate from cereal, pancakes and bagels with butter or cream cheese. He said he needed to start mixing things up and start making a well-balanced breakfast.
I think he really wants to be able to make himself scrambled eggs with bacon for breakfast and needed a little direction.
He has a meal plan, but since he has a little kitchen in his dorm room, he figured he can do for himself a little and start learning to put together little meals. For a while there, he was eating ramen noodles for dinner every day.
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-Smart man. Variety is the spice of life, especially when it comes to food.
I don't know how you taught him to scramble eggs, but my family insists that I fix the eggs when they are scrambled. My trick is the scramble them on really low heat and as soon as they are cooks and still very moist serve them. Another trick of mine is season them in the pan. I use kosher salt, fresh ground pepper and a light sprinkling of chervil. This is so crazy because normally I have no patience and scrambling eggs this way takes a really long time compared to the quick "down and dirty" scramble.
The way to cook bacon to perfection is to bake it in the oven. This also requires time. Set the oven to 400 degrees and preheat it. Lay out the bacon on a broiler pan so it can drain as it cooks. It takes about a half hour to cook. When it comes out it is evenly browned, very crispy and not the least bit greasy. I learned this method from a chain restaurant called Elmer's. Not that I ever worked there, but their bacon was always cooked to perfection, so I asked how they fixed it.
For a really healthy and relatively easy breakfast, make a frittata; eggs, cheese and a lot of vegetables and you have a real winner. You start it like an omelet and finish it in the oven. Left overs make a great and healthy sandwich too.
I could go on because breakfast is my favorite meal. There are so many wonderful ways to prepare eggs. Since you taught your nephew how to fix poached eggs, you could augment this by teaching him how to fix eggs Florentine which is basically, from the bottom up, toasted English muffin, sautéed fresh spinach, poached eggs, all topped with hollandaise sauce and sprinkled with a little cayenne pepper. This is a dish to die for, except it is healthy and won't kill you. Hollandaise sauce is a bit heavy on saturated fats, but hey, what is life and eating for, if not some enjoyment.
For the uninitiated, hollandaise sauce is made from egg yokes, butter, lemon juice and a little cayenne pepper. Many people are afraid of making egg thickened sauces because if you do it wrong you end up with scrambled eggs. However, if one follows the directions to a tee, they end up with a sauce that is magnificent. Oh and don't bother with the shit they call hollandaise sauce in restaurants. It is total crap compared to the real thing which is generally only found in very high end restaurants.
Sorry, I like to cook as if you couldn't tell.
