Egg-in-a-Hole

Ahhhh, Springtime! What better time than this to reevaluate your New Years Resolutions and fry up the most delicious and nutritious symbol of life and rebirth?  An Egg-in-a-Hole is an egg cooked in the middle of a piece of toast, and it makes a lot of practical sense. If you're going to have a fried egg, you're going to make toast, and you're going to try to eat them together. With one hand on the fork, and one hand on the toast, it's a balancing act. (Unless you eat your food in sections, which is the wrong way to eat.)  And so, along comes the Egg-in-a-Hole, the most properly proportioned breakfast there is.  My mom used to make me an EiaH when I was little, and I realized recently that I don't necessarily need to be a child or have a child to have this self-contained breakfast in my life.

The first step is to cut out the hole in your slice of bread.  I remember my mom doing this with the rim of a water glass, though personally I just use a knife.  Next you heat up the frying pan, hit it with your nonstick agent of choice, and lay down the toast-ring. Then crack an egg in the center. Give it a few, then flip.  PRO TIP:  Don't overdo it.  Keep the center soft.  That's really the point of having the toast there, for the yolk.  You can give the center a light tap with your finger while it's in the frying pan to see how it's doing.  Oh, and you can cook the little toast-center in the side of the pan to have some bonus toast.