Whether you call them soldiers or cigars, this is a slightly more fancy version of a classic, with lemony herbed chile butter slathered onto toast strips just before they take the plunge.
This cozy supper dish of soft-boiled eggs with toast fingers is elevated by slathering the bread with a spicy, lemony compound butter first. As a child, I grew up having Eggs and Cigars for dinner on the reg and assumed it was a classic, both in name and substance. It consisted of a perfectly cooked, soft boiled egg delicately sitting in an egg cup, and buttered brown bread, cut into strips we pretended were cigars for dipping in runny yolk, as if stubbing out a cigar in an ash tray.
You can make up the herbed chile butter ahead, so you have it on hand for quickly turning a humble egg and toast — or a sandwich of any kind — into something special. If you don’t have an egg cup, you can set the egg on a napkin ring, a shot glass or even a decorated cross section of an empty toilet paper roll — no need to be fussy.
Toast the bread until golden brown. Slather with the herbed chili butter before slicing into 1-inch wide strips. Set the egg in an egg cup and use a knife to whack the egg about a quarter of the way down to remove the top. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Serve immediately with the toast strips. Silicon Valley billionaires planning Solano County 'California Forever' utopia score big win in $510 million fight against farmers
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