Eggs: Top 10 Egg Recipes

This recipe has been my mother's favorite souffle since I first made it for her. As it cooks the flavor of the tomato mixture suffuses up through the eggs and at the end you have a wonderful, built-in sauce for the souffle. Instead of 1-cup ramekins, I susually make this souffle in a 1 quart souffle dish. This is because there isn't room in the ramekins for both the sauce and the souffle.

This breakfast casserole features the major breakfast food groups - eggs, sausage, and potatoes. With some coffee and juice to wash it down, you're ready to take on King Kong. Nevertheless my standard breakfast is a few cups of coffee, some yogurt or a banana, and a couple of cigarettes (although if I have to go somewhere in the morning I like getting a sausage biscuit at Burger King) so I make this for supper more often than breakfast. But whenever you make it, it's a great, easy, and inexpensive meal.

Deviled eggs are a popular component of cookouts and picnics - not to mention being a great snack at any time of year. They can be made a day or two in advance, are perfect for eating with your fingers, and are almost universally loved. The addition of tuna to these eggs may strike you as bizarre, but I first had them as a tapas in Spain and fell in love with them. I recommend using tuna packed in olive oil (it tastes better) and do look for the smoked Spanish paprika.

I'm positive these egg cups are an old idea, but, in fact, I've never seen a recipe for them. I started making them during a brief period of breakfast eating - I could make half a dozen at a time and then heat one each morning in the microwave for the next five days. But they also have a certain visual appeal and so I tried serving them at a brunch - huge success.

Meringues are a sort of cookie made from whipped eg whites. They're light, airy and delicious. They're also a great way of using up leftoever egg whites. This recipe is flavored with espresso powder and pine nuts and I developed it specifically to accompany my Chocolate/Espresso Pots de Creme. Although 50 seems like a lot of cookies to make for two people, they're 80 percent air and so neither filling nor fattening, so feel free to splurge.

The proper name for a Spanish omelet is tortilla patatas meaning "potato pancake." According to my Spanish friends it should contain nothing but potatoes, eggs, and seasoning. these omelets are often featured in tapas bars and served at room temperature. But I prefer to gussy it up and eat it hot.

I fell in love with Pasta Carbonara when I was in college and waiting tables at a restaurant. I got the recipe from the chef and it became a regular in my repetoire. Then on a visit to Italy several years ago I had the real thing (no cream in it, and only egg yolks). Wow! This recipe is much truer to the traditional dish. I have, however, kept the scallions from that long-ago restaurant recipe, as well as the black pepper.