Eggs McLuhan

 So here’s a unique way to make eggs and,it is a very popular dish at the Free Range Chicken Egg ranch. This dish will take a little extra time since you have to message the egg whites, but the end result is fluffy and delicious. McLuhanize this soufflé  by adding bits of ham, cheese, herbs or even veggies. As Marshall McLuhan reportedly said one morning, We'll souffle' our eggs and thereafter our eggs will souffle' us.

 

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch round baking dish.

• Separate the eggs by placing the whites in a separate bowl from the yolks. Whisk the egg whites with a mixer on high speed until soft peaks form (pictured) and set aside.
• Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Once the foam has subsided, whisk in the whole-wheat flour (this is called making a “roux”). Keep whisking until the mixture begins to brown then turn the heat down to low and slowly add the milk while still whisking constantly so lumps do not form. Turn it back up to medium and continue whisking until the milk mixture begins to thicken, about 5 minutes.
• Remove the pan from the heat and add 1/8 teaspoon salt and a pinch of pepper. Quickly whisk the egg yolks into the milk mixture without allowing them to cook.
• Pour the milk/yolk mixture into the fluffy egg whites and using a rubber spatula carefully fold the two together without crushing the air out of the egg whites. Also add and mix in filling (like ham and/or cheese) if desired. Do not overmix.
• Scoop the mixture into the prepared baking dish and bake until lightly brown on top, about 20 – 25 minutes. Serve immediately (otherwise the soufflé will “fall”).

These condiments message well on Eggs McLuhan:

1. The medium is the message.
2. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.
3. The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
4. There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
5. Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
6. Art is anything you can get away with.
7. Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
8. There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
9. Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
10. Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
11. We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
12. Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room.