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Sunny Side Up

Eggs are like the perfect food.  They have a great balance of protein and fat.  And I couldn't eat them.  I would eat a boiled egg white but that's all I could handle.  I had food poisoning my first Thanksgiving home after starting college and the food of association was eggs.  In 1998.  So for the last 13 years I avoided eggs.  Id try them and my stomach would turn.  And brunch/ breakfast was getting really boring.  So many fun things done with eggs but I couldn't eat them.  And if your from New Mexico like me, you only eat eggs as a conduit to eating salsa or green chile (and yes that is the correct spelling).  Last winter, as I helped my then boyfriend prepare for his fight, the reality of eggs for breakfast became all to clear.  So I started with egg whites, adding bacon and adding cheese.  It worked out pretty well.  And then last weekend I went to Belga with two good friends.  And they raved about the steak and eggs.  Feeling a little brave, I looked over the menu description and then I saw it "sunny side up."  My worst enemy in egg form.  But I'm a firm believer of eating the item as the chef believes it should be prepared.  Onions. Celery. Or even eggs sunny side up.  So I ordered away.  Usually my pulse doesn't quicken from a fear of food, usually its excitement about food.  This would be that time.  But it was actually pretty amazing, even with the eggs sunny side up.

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