Sunday, March 21, 2021

Egg Dishes

My wife was looking up fun things to do with eggs fried in a piece of bread with a hole in it.  She chose one with a heart cut in.  Fun little decorative touch.

On the same page is "Greek Cowboy Hash and Eggs."  I think that is worth staring at and contemplating for a few moments. AFAIK, there have never been any Greek Cowboys.  Maybe Alexander trained some and used them, but those would be Macedonians, right?  Do I want to know how in the world this dish came into existence?  A few unlikely but possible scenarios of guys named Papadopoulos in Wyoming or Illyrian pastoralists occur to me. 

Well, in for a penny, in for a pound.  Let's go look.  It also has sweet potato and avocado, cumin and coriander. The last of those does seem to have been grown in Greece for a long time, but it was grown all the way to India, so that seems a bit tenuous to call it "Greek."  I don't find the mystery explained by the other three at all.  They make it worse.  Ah, farther down I see both feta cheese and chipotle as ingredients. So it is "Greek, Cowboy" or "Greek/Cowboy" Hash and Eggs.  I actually don't disapprove of that naming, now that I look at it.  It's Hash and Eggs, but you want to show how this is different. The avocado and sweet potato might be accurate descriptors, but no one is clicking that link. Greek Cowboy is clickbait, as I have just inadvertently proven.

We used to have Welsh Rarebit when I was a boy, which was just Olde English cheese from a little jar, heated and poured over Saltines with a sprinkling of that archetypal Welsh spice, paprika. Chinese Pie is from the Canadian railroad. Russian Dressing is from New Hampshire. I think I approve of this Greek Cowboy designation.  Good move.

12 comments:

james said...

The first thing I thought of was Buffalo Bill: "Buffalo Bill had met some Italian butteri (a less-well-known sort of Italian equivalent of cowboys) and said his men were more skilled at roping calves and performing other similar actions. A group of Buffalo Bill's men challenged nine butteri, led by Augusto Imperiali [it], at Prati di Castello neighbourhood in Rome. The butteri easily won the competition."

Don't ask why Buffalo Bill came up at dinner the other night; I don't remember.

Assistant Village Idiot said...

Argentinian gauchos would also figure into this conversation.

Texan99 said...

We're fond of corned beef hash and eggs, just ordinary canned hash. It's basically hash browns with a salty meat, what's not to like? Toast is optional but appreciated. I think I would enjoy a hash with avocados and sweet potatoes, if only because I enjoy nearly any dish with avocados and sweet potatoes. For that matter I like eggs nearly any way they can be cooked.

Allrecipes.com claims that the only "Greek" thing about Greek Cowboy hash is the sprinkled feta cheese, which also sounds good. The Allrecipes.com version is meatless, was yours?

Grim said...

“Hawaiian pizza,” the one with the pineapple that everyone on the Internet was talking about a while back, is apparently really from Canada. That explains why it also comes with Canadian bacon.

Mike Guenther said...

I was a waiter at a pizza restaurant in Atlanta for a spell. They had 31 different toppings, including Shrimp, Pineapple and tomatoes. Cheddar cheese, anchovies and bacon among them.

My favorite was a sauce I made myself by adding a generous amount of A-1 to the regular pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese and double bacon topped with cheddar cheese and tomatoes.

Grim said...

Savage Pizza?

David Foster said...

There may or may not have been Greek cowboys, but there are soon going to be Israeli cowboys:

https://www.longhornproject.org/project/overview/

stevo said...

Our chickens are giving us 7 eggs a day. I am becoming an omelette expert out of sheer necessity.

RichardJohnson said...

My basic meal is scrambled eggs with onion[s] and cabbage. Add the eggs after cabbage and onions are cooked. Add other stuff to taste, like cheese or ham, and herbs/spices/garlic/hot peppers or sauce. Meal in a frying pan.

Savage pizza sounds tasty. I like bacon, but hardly ever purchase it.

Mike Guenther said...

Pizza By Candlelight, right across the street from Agnes Scott Women's College. It's no longer there. A dress shop took over the corner spot.

The bar at the end of the building was still there, having expanded to take over the space once occupied by Bush's Cabinet Shop, where I also worked for a short period of time. Also worked at the college, too, back in the early 80's.

Grim said...

Oh, that’s Decatur. I have some friends there. Savage is in Little Five Points.

Grim said...

Oh, that’s Decatur. I have some friends there. Savage is in Little Five Points.