Eggs in Nest

Monday July 21

We began reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle at Vaden and Ginger's, a book that is rapidly becoming the bible of the Cincinnati Locavores, not without reason. The recipes are reproduced at the website.
All in an attractive pdf format. They call it "Eggs in a Nest." The "a" seems to have gotten lost in our idiolect.

To the instructions, we would only add that with chard, it's best to treat the celery-like stems and spinach-like leaves separately. The eggs were the lovely Mennonite ones (actually the farmers were Mennonite; the chickens seemed agnostic, though with a preference for Hindus, Buddhists, or Pythagoreans) and they came out with perfect marigold-yellow-half-liquid-half-solid yolks. The tomatoes were some ones we had dried in the smoker and frozen. We didn't bother with rice, especially not brown rice, which we personally think turns any dish into Lent.
There's a lot of iron in both the chard and in the eggs, so wine pairing is a sommelier's nightmare. We recommend cheap.