i wanna be Megan..... or NIgella....

When i was in high school (Turpin High School in Cincinnati, OH, go Spartans!), i had a classmate named Megan Kessler. Megan was (is! i looked her up on Facebook again today) everything that i wanted to be. She was beautiful with long curly thick honey colored hair. She had real Izod shirts and Pappagallo sweaters and skirts/pants. She was very smart (in all my college AP classes) and got good grades. She had Marcy Tailor as a best friend (also a smart chick with great clothes and social graces). She had lots of friend and was really popular with everyone.>>>>>>> And she had great, looping, graceful handwriting.>>>>>>> Those of you who know me best know that my handwriting is just abysmal.>>>>>>>>> As i couldn't do anything about my hair to make it fluffy and thick and curly like hers and didn't have the wardrobe that she did, i tried the only other thing that i could. I tried to write just like her.>>>>>>> When i couldn't make my handwriting like hers, i thought (i was silly even more so then...) that it must be the pens/pencils that she uses. I tried buying the same ones but couldn't find them. So....i "borrowed" one of her pens and never returned it. This didn't work. So, i took one of her pencils. Nope, that didn't work either. My handwriting stayed chickenscratch and my hair never stayed fluffy.>>>>>>> Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but i failed miserably.>>>>>>> She went on to college and med school and became an obstetrician with great success and admiration from all. She even did a rotation in her training at University Hospital of Cincinnati (and had my then-boyfriend/now husband as a supervising resident!) when i was working there as a nursing student. She didn't recognize me and i didn't push it. She married a physician and had two beatiful, successful children who have also gone on to finish college and to successful careers. She still has the fluffy honey colored hair but i cannot speak for the curly, graceful handwriting.>>>>>>> I am now no longer working in the medical field, staying at home in Costa Rica and being a "ama de casa" (housewife/home maker). I cannot be Nigella Lawson but in imitating her recipe, i can pretend, if only for a meal, to be the graceful, accomplished chef that she is. Now, you can too as i've included the recipe of hers that i made today. It was a success (yay, me!) and i didn't have to steal her pen and pencil to do it.>>>>>>> NIGELLA LAWSON JAMMY EGGS>>>>>>> Sometimes, it's the end of the shopping week and you don't have much in the fridge. Or it's the end of the week and you need some comfort food but don't want to work too hard to get it. And you cannot take another meal of take-away. Nor can you even think of going to the store for anything. Make this recipe, while wearing your comfy pjs, and be happy for your chance to be just a wee bit like Nigella.>>>>>>> 2T butter (or oil or not)...... 1-1/2-2 tomatoes....... 1-1/2 T tomato paste....... 1/2 t sugar....... 1/2 t salt....... 2 eggs, beaten....... (garlic butter)...... baguette....... cheese of choice (see note)....... chop the tomatoes to smallish pieces and put in saucepan with butter, cook over medium heat (i covered to speed the cooking process), add a bit of water if it starts to stick, saute until tomatoes start to break down, stirring now and then....... add tomato paste, salt/sugar and give it a good stir....... beat eggs again...... put sliced baguette in toaster and begin to brown....... meanwhile, dump the beaten eggs into the tomato melange and give it a good stir to combine, continue to stir as the egg cooks, stopping before it gets to the "doneness" that you desire as the eggs will continue to cook....... butter that toasted baguette with the garlic butter (or regular butter or none at all)....... top with all of the jammy eggs....... sprinkle feta (i did this) or fresh parmesan or mozzarella cheese on top....... you will have tomato paste left over. toss the rest of the can (covered in saran)in the freezer for the next time you need comfort Jammy Eggs (or in the fridge if you think that this might be sooner rather than later.... i won't judge)........ Hubster loved this and it could scarcely be easier. Now, if i could only get Megan Kessler's favorite recipe..... i may have to hit her up on Facebook! Stay tuned....!!!!