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Mary Elizabeth Williams

Çılbır is a garlic lover's dream

Turkish eggs (Mary Elizabeth WIlliams)
In "Quick & Dirty," Salon Food's Mary Elizabeth Williams serves up simplified recipes and shortcuts for exhausted cooks just like you — because quick and dirty should still be delicious.

I can't figure out the oven thing here. I have tried. I have read the instructions, in confusingly translated English. I have pushed random buttons for days. But while staying temporarily in the Netherlands, I have so far had to accept my limitations and stick to stovetop dinners.

If I could never bake again, this would be a problem. But for a few weeks, I can comfortably subside on boiled things and sautéed things. And so came to pass that one recent evening, scrounging through my tiny refrigerator for dinner ideas, I decided it was time to face one of my biggest cooking fears — the poached egg.

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