Recipe Review: Salsa Poached Eggs

I love eggs. I especially love them poached. But let's be honest, plain poached eggs aren't nearly as exciting as Eggs Benedict (my most favorite of egg recipes) or poached eggs on some well buttered toast. There's also so many times that you can have scrambled eggs without cheese before you go insane.

That's why I was so excited to try this recipe: Salsa Poached Eggs. It comes from the blogger Beth M, who blogs at Budget Bytes. She has a large number of recipes for food that always looks good, but on a budget. This is actually the first recipe from her site that I have ever tried.

The ingredients are as follows:

olive oil
onion
garlic
fire roasted tomatoes
diced green chiles
tomato paste
salt
cumin
pepper
eggs
green onions (optional)

I had just about everything on had, but had to make a few substitutions. I did not have fire roasted tomatoes or diced green chiles in my pantry so I used plain canned tomatoes (I canned them myself) and fresh jalapeno peppers carefully diced with gloves on (boy do I have some stories!). While it didn't taste like salsa, it was still a really nice way to prepare eggs.

I will definitely make this recipe again. It was fairly simple, has a great presentation, and tasted really good. I also have a few ideas of how to make it better. When I try those out, I'll let you know. I'll also start taking pictures as a blog about food with only text could be rather boring.