The Cheese Egg

There are a few words I have spoken in my youth that I have come back to eat in my old (30 years old) age.
1. Running is dumb, Age 22. At age 25 I completed a marathon.
2. Buying a home is for people who give up on traveling, Age 23. At 29 I started house hunting because paying rent, especially exorberant (SP) amounts in order to live in a 'nice' place, is cutting into my travel funds.
3. Foodies are just old, fat people who are too lazy to leave their home, age 19. At age 26, I realized that no only am I a better cook than most chefs that hack away at a tomato (and call it salsa), but I have ideas on how food should look, too.

Plating is fun, whether it's adding a sprig of fresh basil on the side of the plate or buying a funky bowl to serve soup in. But can't we take it farther?

At a Serbian Christmas party that I recently attended, I was blown away by the amount of food they put out on the tables. There were trays and trays of hard boiled eggs, sliced in quarters, and slices of cheese. Cheese and hard boiled eggs.

"It's a shame that you couldn't combine the two...."

At first I thought of getting a huge block of cheese, and then carving a hole in the middle in order to insert the egg. "And then you cover the egg in some melted cheese, let it harden, and then you can slice it and have hard boiled egg wrapped in cheese."

I wasn't focusing on taste (do hard boiled eggs taste good with cheese? Or is it a hat attack waiting to happen?), but I was focusing on vision. I was seeing the cheese-egg combination on a plate, and then thinking, "if you take white mozza cheese as the egg white, and then sharp orange cheddar to be the yolk, you could make cheese look like a fried egg, sunny side up.

Or you can make a combination of mozza and cheddar cheese look like a hard-boiled egg. Wouldn't that be fun to slice up for your friends?

Now all I need to do is create a prototype of a cheese mold that will make my cheese look like eggs, and a market for cheese that looks like eggs, and I'll be rich...