Corned Beef Hash with Poached Eggs

As I have written, like Lent, Passover involves a restriction.  There are more technical food restrictions but the one most people try to uphold is restraining from eating bread.  The religious story is that the Israelites did not have time to let their bread rise before the left Egypt.  A more spiritual perspective on the bread restriction is that the bread represents are desire as humans to want physical things.  The restriction helps us let go of our desires for the physical, and therefore, connect to more spiritual realms.

 

Because of the no bread rule, we need to find alternative foods, especially at lunch time.  We eat a lot of grilled sandwiches in our household.    So at Passover time, we tend to eat a lot of breakfast foods for lunch and dinner.  My wife said she felt like corned beef.  My older son who is learning to cook wanted to try to make a poached egg.  Pretty classic combination, poached eggs on corned beef hash.

 

Recipe

Corned Beef Hash with Poached Eggs:

Ingredients:

 

• 4 lb corned beef (already pickled)
• 2 tbsp canola oil
• 3 baking potatoes
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp each salt, pepper and smoked paprika
• 1/2 tsp cayenne
• 1 tbsp vinegar