Tuesday, July 13, 2010

OLIVE EGGS

Fisherman and sailing boat

Do you think enough? Really think I mean, about yourself, others, where you are going, about prime numbers, the situation in Burma/Greenland, Nigeria, if ants have brains, what are the birds saying when they are twittering at dawn, how is it possible that a heavy jet plane can actually stay up there and things like that? About music, social relations and/or how do they do those things? I used to think once upon a time and then life's practicalities caught up with me and I apparently stopped because I am now realizing more and more how I miss it and how numb this lack of thinking is making me feel. No wonder it feels as if I never have any time over and as if time is speeding up like something supersonic if I take some of it and spend it on thinking because that acts like a wave breaker to me and it refreshes my mind. Do you have any thoughts about this? When did you really think last time? And do you have any good ways of getting some thinking done to share with us?

Olive Eggs

But sometimes it's good to have a recipe for something quick that you can do without much thinking or maybe I should put it like this, something you can do while you think about something else and then this is a perfect thing to do. I love hard-boiled eggs with fillings, it is a summer favourite and the good thing is that you don't need to have a lot of ingredients to make a tasty filled egg! These olive paste filled eggs are great examples of this, all you need is olive paste, bought or quickly made at home, and eggs.

Olive Eggs



OLIVE EGGS
10 eggs/20 egg-halves

10 eggs
150 g/ 5,3 oz black olives without stones
2-3 tsp anchovy paste or 2 anchovy fillets
2 sun-dried tomatoes (soak for 10 minutes in tepid water if they are not soft enough)
1-2 tblsp chopped fresh herbs, I often mix different ones like rosemary, thyme, sage, basil
extra-virgin olive oil

Boil the eggs until they are hard-boiled, the peel and divide them in two.

Put olives, anchovy paste, sun-dried tomatoes, fresh herbs and 1-2 tblsp olive oil in a food processor and blend until you have a smooth cream. If it is too firm, add olive oil until you have the consistency that you like.

Mash the hard-boiled egg yolks with about a tsp of olive paste, form a small ball and put in the hole of each egg white. Ready to serve.

Olive Eggs
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Posted by Ilva at Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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16 comments:

  1. Murasaki ShikbuJul 13, 2010 01:07 AM
    I have too much time to think about everything because I'm unemployed and have no income.  This is a nice recipe for me as I live in a country where olives and eggs are cheap!
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  2. Åh, jaa, det är precis de där sakerna jag också tänker på! Och mycket mycket mer. Men jag har väl, liksom föregående skrivare, för mycket tid att tänka så det går bara runt runt runt runt hela tiden. Och som min mamma i våras så myndigt och rekorderligt sa till mig "om du hade haft man och barn hade du inte haft tid att tänka på allt det" (och syftar då till problem med livet, pappa, arbetslösheten osv).
    Jag vet inte vilket som är bäst? Kanske man och barn är lösningen till ett lycklig liv, för tro mig hur mycket tid jag än har att tänka och göra saker för mig själv är det ett riktigt aber att ALLTID vara ensam om allting. Fast å andra sidan hatar jag att bli så upptagen av jobb (enda erfarenheten jag kan jämföra med) att jag inte hinner med att ta det lugnt och kontemplera över tillvaron.

    Ja du Ilva, balans i livet är väl något vi alla strävar efter. Vi vill ha så många delar som möjligt och vill väl helst inte välja bort något. Jag värdesätter min ensamhet oerhört mycket men den har också gjort mig skygg och osäker för div tillställningar. Jag kan lätt få panik (svårt att andas, tårar som rinner och helst vill jag bara sitta i ett hörn) om/när jag ska till andra eller gå ut på krogen t ex. Inte i minder eller vardagliga sammanhang utan mer om det är fest osv. Känner mig alltid som en utböling. nästan som att vi inte bor på samma planet ens...
    Men jag är nog en "tänkare" när allt kommer omkring. Det liksom går inte att komma ifrån. Mamma har berättat att när jag, redan när jag gick på förskolan, kom hem, satt på golvet i mitt rum en stund innan jag kom ut i köket och pratade med mamma. Det har liksom hängt med. Den där tiden att bara sitta ner och inte göra så mycket mer än bara stirra ut i luften, fundera och liksom ställa om huvudet från "borta" till "hemma". Samma mönster hänger fortfarande med mig :)

    Hoppas du hittar tid, Ilva. Tid för dig själv och dina egna tankar! Kanske nu när dina barn är lite äldre kan du hitta fler luckor i tillvaron som du kan lägga beslag på.

    :* /åsa
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  3. Go for a walk. Two years ago I agreed to 'Walk to Rivedell' metaphorically with an internet friend. That meant that I committed to walking 458 miles in about 10 months. I actually finished in 8. Most of the walking was done on local woodland trails, which were a wonderful spur to 'thinking'. One caveat: I had to leave my camera home as if I had it with me I got caught up in picture taking and not thinking.
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  4. Hi Ilva .. I think most of the time, I think when walking to work, or sat on a bus going to Oxford, or just doing household chores... and also think a lot when reading blogs. How wonderful peoples posts are, what it would be like.. etc etc, my husband says I think too much.  I even think at work !!
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  5. My mum used to stuff eggs with finely chopped shallot and curly parsley loosened with a little mayonnaise. It was great!
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  6. You hit the spike on the head there as we would say in Swedish :-[

    Bodil Jönsson had some (well ten, actually) interesting thoughts about this ten years ago. I'm rereading her book now in English and will read her new book this summer. It troubles me a lot that I spend so much time doing routine chores that I rarely have time to think even professionally when really my job is about thinking.

    Doing reasonably mindless things with your hands (or sometimes feet, ie walking) is key for stimulating thinking. Cooking is overall not that good because it's too irregular and demands too much mental attention. Knitting is fabulous.

    Travelling is also wonderful. I spent the best part of a day travelling to Helsinki a month ago, just after my 40th birthday. I thought and thought and wrote and wrote (long autoanalytical blog post I haven't yet actually posted) and thought and thought and wrote and wrote and it made me feel so well.

    Can't you take the train to Sweden next time?
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  7. This is lovely, Ilva.  I love this!  ;)
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  8. I have just taken up meditation, for my health and for my mind.
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  11. You always turn your food into gorgeous works of art
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  12. Ilva! You're a master with eggs.
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  13. I would like to exchange links with your site www.blogger.com
    Is this possible?
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  14. wow I have never tried eggs that way before! i will be saving this post for later!!!
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  15. Kristin @ http://delishliving.comAug 2, 2010 10:08 AM
    Wow, I have never even considered stuffing eggs like this before! It's a twist on devilled eggs... Will have to save this post for something special.
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  16. Jeanne @ CookSister!Aug 3, 2010 09:31 AM
    I find that, to REALLY think, you need to be alone- that's already a challenge!!  My best place to think is on a particular beach in South Africa where there is a rare shell that sometimes washes up (a kind of sand dollar).  Looking for it is like a kind of meditation and takes my mind off absolutley EVERYTHING and frees it up for proper thinking.  Whether or not I find a shell, I always come back totally refreshed, feeling as if I've solved the world's problems.  You are so right - we do far too little REAL thinking!!
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