Devil may care

Hey Heather! This one's for you:

Deviled Eggs

Any number of eggs; hard-boiled by covering in a saucepan with cold water, bringing it to a boil, then covering the pan and leaving it off the heat for 15 minutes. Run cold water over them until they're no longer hot and chill in the refrigerator until you're ready for them.
Mayonnaise
Mustard
Paprika

Peel the cold eggs, cut in half and scoop out the yolks. Mash them with mustard and enough mayo to hold them together. For three eggs, I used two spoonsful of mayo and one of mustard. (I also chopped up a handful of cold cooked shrimp that I had on hand and mixed that in, but I wouldn't bother with that unless you have shrimp you need to use up. It didn't add much flavor and the texture was a little weird.) Sprinkle with paprika.

I loved your idea of eating them with pickled vegetables. I still think that deviled eggs with a plate full of cold marinated veggies alongside would be an ideal summer supper, but I'm going out of town tomorrow and wanted to use up some stuff I had around instead of chopping and steaming and making vinaigrette, so I had a bowl of frozen peas instead. That's another quirk I could have put on my list from the other day: I love to eat frozen peas. While they're still frozen, that is. The clumps are best, but I'm not picky. I eat them with my fingers, of course, not a utensil. That would be weird. And it puts me in mind of one of the few poems I know by heart:

I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on my knife.

I'd always thought it was Ogden Nash, but a quick google shows that it's an anonymous contribution to the shockingly tiny canon of poems about peas.

And this was actually the first time in my whole life of frozen-frozen pea eating that I put them in a bowl. I usually just pick the clumps out as I'm adding them to macaroni and cheese or whatever. When I was a kid, my mom used to save the clumps for me when she'd cook peas for dinner, which is one of the warm and fuzzy things that make me happy I'm going to visit my parents this weekend, despite the military-invasion-level-planning I have to do to ensure that they both get equal time. It should be a good time. I'll get to eat at my brother's restaurant twice, get a pedicure, go hiking, visit a financial planner who has the super powers to corral all of my 401(k)s from old jobs under one umbrella (dreary, but important), go canoeing and to a German festival that has no online presence whatsoever. So I'll believe that one when I taste the wurst.

Have a great weekend!

Comments

[Juno]

I love deviled eggs more than I can tell you. I wonder how egg salad would be with mustard and paprika.
And I haven't eaten frozen peas for years, put it used to a treat my mother allowed us - to fish the frozen clumps out and munch away.

[Heather]

Oh oh! Yay yay yay! I feel extra special and extra loved. Especially since I was supposed to go to an event where one of my favorite people was bringing DEVILED EGGS! only it was all couples and I just couldn't bear the thought of going. No offense couples.

[carolyn]

haven't had deviled eggs in forever but excuse me while i go put some on to boil.... yum!

[carolyn]

no paprika in the house: will just have to do without!!!

like a year ago i threw out all spices that i knew were "old." great, so now suddenly i am missing tons of spices i would probably have always had around. i'm a freak.