Assemblage Cooking: Leftover Cornbread and Poached Eggs is definitely about happy leftovers. Last weekend we had some white bean, jerk turkey, leftover butternut squash chili. Which also meant we had leftover cornbread muffins. Then later this week I threw several dinner parties and just wasn’t up for cooking. It was time for some assemblage cooking. What’s easier than breakfast for dinner? Not much. And breakfast for dinner at our house almost always means poached eggs, because poached eggs are my favorite. Don’t get me wrong, I love eggs generally, but I’m really picky about them being overcooked. Something happens to the white… it changes the taste-? I just don’t like it when it’s overcooked and I swear it’s science, not me. It makes it impossible for me to eat fried or hard boiled eggs when at a restaurant. But poached, oh poached eggs… I can wax rhapsodical about poached eggs. If you find them intimidating, this weekend is the weekend to learn how to make poached eggs. And then you can just poach one and plop it down on salads and grains, turning leftovers into instant fancy meals whilly nilly à la Assemblage Cooking: Leftover Cornbread and Poached Eggs. Trust. … Continue reading →