Peas and Eggs

Piselli e Uove

Mary Ann Esposito

Peas and eggs. What’s so special about that?

You’ll see.

Ingredients

3 tablespoons Filippo Berio olive oil
1/4 pound diced pancetta
2 cups fresh or frozen peas
Salt and pepper to taste
4 large eggs at room temperature
4 thick slices semolina or sourdough type bread

Directions

Heat the olive oil in an 8-inch nonstick skillet. Stir in the pancetta. Cook over low heat for 5 minutes until the pancetta renders its fat and begins to crisp. Add the peas, salt and pepper. Simmer uncovered for 2 minutes. With a wooden spoon, spread the peas evenly in the base of the skillet. Crack the eggs carefully over the top of the peas. Cover and cook over medium low heat for 4 to 6 minutes. The eggs should look poached with set center yolk and firm egg white.

Serve hot accompanied with the bread slices

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April 13, 2013 at 12:29am | Permalink

I ve been watching you show for years., and love all of your ideas. exept I dont understand why your show and some other cooking shows. dont wash there pasta. as all pasta bought in stores . all are dirty from all the sick customer that shop in stores. with diseases as well as the flu., as most customer touch the box putting it back on shelf. and are contaminating all we buy. and without washing pasta I others can get stomach virus. and I know that your in the cooking business. and I would like to see your show improve to my human standard. as I like to see you and other cooking shows, wash pasta and wash what we eat. . as our health are getting worse because of this unclean inviroment. and as we watch 100% of the time your show and shows on tv and the internet.. we are losing our human natural manners and of how I and other were raised to be clean in our kitchen, our food, our homes. and the disease and the contamination is in all we buy. because theses store and delivery truck are not taking responsibility for our health . million are dead and sick ,. because of what they watch on tv and comsume in there food. not knowing of what these grocery store are doing. and sick disease customer are touching vegetable and pastas , breads, our food., .,contaminating our food. as no one or the health department is doing anything about this serious problem. I love your show . but I would like to see your show improve in washing what we eat. as what I other watch effect the way I was raised. hope to hear from you soon.

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eunice caracaus

April 13, 2013 at 12:29am | Permalink

I ve been watching you show for years., and love all of your ideas. exept I dont understand why your show and some other cooking shows. dont wash there pasta. as all pasta bought in stores . all are dirty from all the sick customer that shop in stores. with diseases as well as the flu., as most customer touch the box putting it back on shelf. and are contaminating all we buy. and without washing pasta I others can get stomach virus. and I know that your in the cooking business. and I would like to see your show improve to my human standard. as I like to see you and other cooking shows, wash pasta and wash what we eat. . as our health are getting worse because of this unclean inviroment. and as we watch 100% of the time your show and shows on tv and the internet.. we are losing our human natural manners and of how I and other were raised to be clean in our kitchen, our food, our homes. and the disease and the contamination is in all we buy. because theses store and delivery truck are not taking responsibility for our health . million are dead and sick ,. because of what they watch on tv and comsume in there food. not knowing of what these grocery store are doing. and sick disease customer are touching vegetable and pastas , breads, our food., .,contaminating our food. as no one or the health department is doing anything about this serious problem. I love your show . but I would like to see your show improve in washing what we eat. as what I other watch effect the way I was raised. hope to hear from you soon.