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My mortal enemy

Eggs.  They are really good for you.  And I actually really like eating them. But oh about 14 years ago we had a tragic run that resulted in the most awful case of food poison I have ever been through.  It ruined an entire 4 day Thanksgiving holiday and scared me for the next 12.5 years.  I started eating eggs almost because I had to, I was cutting weight for a fight with my at the time boyfriend and decided I couldnt be that much of an asshole.  I started with egg whites and have pretty much stayed there until last December when I had this adventure with my dear friends.  I have loved the steak and eggs there ever since.  I actually joked to my best friend when we left there the other day that I would marry the man that cooked me steak and eggs like that at home.  Food does make me do crazy things.  I get on food kicks and there is something I cant get enough of. For the past couple months it was salami.  It was like the most wonderful combination of salt, protein and probably a little too much fat.  I just couldn't eat enough.  That has apparently passed and now Im on eggs.  I eat them for dinner, breakfast any day Im at home, actually just about any chance I get.  Except the only way I know how to cook them is scrambled.  Its been a work in progress but I have slowly worked past all the eggs being over hard, not because that was the way I wanted, just the way the ended up.  I would have rather had the gooey runny wonderfulness that I have on top of my steak.  Today was that day.  My little slice of heaven.  

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