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A business plan is a document to identify an opportunity, research why this opportunity is profitable and outline the steps needed to capitalize on the opportunity. The business plan can be a formal document or it can be written on the back of a napkin, but the mere act of writing the idea down forces you to get the idea out of your head and on paper to carefully consider each phase of your business.
When writing your carwash business plan, you need to keep in mind who your intended audience is and why you are writing the plan. Your bank will be less interested in exit strategy and return on investment than equity investors, who will want this critical information. Additionally, a plan written for internal use will be different than a plan written to seek financing as a bank is not necessarily interested in detailed operations of the business.
A good business plan consists of six key components:
Executive summary;
Business description;
Managers and employees;
Operations and location; and
Financial projections.
In addition to these sections, a business plan should also have a cover, title page and table of contents. Your business plan can be as long or as short as it needs to be, so long as it addresses the critical points. An average carwash business plan narrative should be 4-15 pages plus financials and appendix items.
Executive summary
The executive summary is the first section of the business plan, but it is the last to be written. It gives the reader a quick glance of what your business proposal is about and what you are asking for. This is critical as most readers will scan this section before deciding whether to read further.
The executive summary should be about one-half of a page in length and include what you would cover in an elevator pitch such as:
A condensed version of the business concept;
Your service proposition, emphasizing any unique features or benefits of your carwash;
The demographics of your market;
A list of the persons on your management team;
When the anticipated start date is;
Your equity position; and
The amount of money needed to start the project.
It is important that your executive summary is concise and to the point. You will go into more detail later in the business plan.
Business description
The purpose of the business description is to objectively describe the carwash business and its future potential. You are trying to paint a picture of the potential of your business along with the facts to support it. Try to inject energy and excitement to get the reader enthusiastic about the idea, without going overboard of course.
Be sure to include:
Your mission;
What the business does;
Description of the carwash services;
Carwash industry information;
How your business will be organized;
Status of the business (start-up, expansion or purchasing); and
Current and future goals.
Any facts or figures should be noted and sources included in the business plan. This information is important should you need to defend your data and assumptions.
After describing the business, it is time to describe any additional products or services your carwash is selling. Keep in mind that it is important to show how your services are better than the competition. If you don't have a good answer then you should rethink your strategy. What is it about your carwash that is going to get the customer to change doing business with the competition?
The first step in identifying your marketing strategy is to determine who your customers will be. Consider characteristics of your market, such as age, income, interests and/or geographic locations. Carwash customers come in all types; decide who you want your average customer to be and explain what you will do to make them your customers.
Next, you must consider your competition. Attempting to run a portion of your carwash business better than the competition may be difficult, so it is a good idea to focus on being different instead. Can you serve a particular market niche such as the elderly that isn't being looked at? Can you identify a unique marketing strategy or profit center combination that hasn't yet been introduced?
Even if your market area does not already have a carwash, you still have competition. The home washer is our industry's biggest threat. Make sure to include this in your business plan if there are no carwashes to research in your area.
Optimally you will want information on at least three but no more than five competitors. List information about what type of carwash the business is, how long it has been operational, its location, services, pricing, quality, etc. and compare your advantages and disadvantages.
With the above steps researched, the promotional strategy follows. The promotional strategy is where most entrepreneurs fail. Do not use a blanket statement like, "I am going to advertise in the newspaper, radio and/or television" without thinking through the process or the customer. The promotional strategy provides you a map of how you are going to reach your market in the most efficient manner possible. Advertising is expensive, use it wisely.
Sales projections
One of the more difficult areas of the business plan is coming up with sales projections. This number is probably going to be wrong and that's okay. What you want is a figure backed up with justifiable data. Just grabbing a number out of the air won't work. There are many sources to help come up with this number including:
Industry journals (PC&D publishes an annual benchmark survey for every segment of the industry);
Trade groups;
Carwashes in similar demographic areas;
Industry experts; and
Census data.
The effects of pricing play a large role on how your product is perceived in the marketplace. Price too low and your carwash may be perceived as cheap and unreliable. Price too high and you may discourage customers.
Here are a few things to keep in mind:
Make sure you can make a profit at whatever price you are selling at;
If you want to have lower costs and "get your foot in the door" it may be better to offer discounts or coupons initially until your business is better known;
Don't be afraid to charge more for your product or service than the competition if you have something of more value to offer.
Management and employees
In this section, you describe who is going to manage the business on a daily basis as well as provide strategic direction (if these positions are separate). Each of these people needs to have a brief biography included as well as a resume in the appendix. Try to show how the experience and education of these people will be able to successfully execute the strategy in the business plan and succeed.
Many times the owner may not have the specific experience for this business, so it is very important to use the team's other professional experiences and explain how it will make for a successful operation.
Next, a brief explanation of the staff, including:
What positions need to be filled;
When they need to be filled (this is important in developing financial projections as you may have some employees come on after you start); and
How much they get paid (be sure to calculate payroll taxes as well, estimate 15 percent if not sure).
It is also recommended to add the professional and advisors to your business. These people include:
Board of directors;
Bankers; and
Operations and location
The operations and location section of the plan illustrates how you are going to make or acquire your product and information about your business location.
Explain how and where your products or services are made. A few points to include in your plan:
How does your carwash operate, what steps are in your service?
Who are your suppliers?
What are the terms and lead time for this product?
If you are in the classic "I can't get my location until I get a loan, so I can't finish my business plan" scenario, list what features you are looking at in a building along with average prices or rents and pad that number a little just in case.
A few things to add:
Traffic count;
Building description;
Specific reasons for this property;
Proximity to suppliers, roads;
Average utilities. Be sure to get the last 12 months from the electric company if the building had been occupied. This could be an expensive lesson from a dishonest landlord. If you are opening a new location, try to talk with other carwash operators in a non-competitive area to get an estimate;
Pictures of the proposed site;
Floor plan;
Purchase price or monthly rent/lease;
Include sales/rent/lease agreement in appendix; and
If building or renovating be sure to include quotes as this is an area frequently underestimated in costs.
Financial projections
Financial projections are placed at the end of your business plan, before the appendix. They are a very critical piece to the plan. The must-have financial statements are a cash flow statement, a profit and loss statement and a balance sheet. The information already provided in the narrative portion of the business plan must match the financial projections.
Most financial projections are three years in length. It is a good idea to include a notes and assumptions section to the financial projections page to help make sure all of your numbers come through and provide an itemized list to provide clarity for the reader.
Notes and assumptions to financial projections
Break out each loan (building, equipment, inventory);
Interest rate; and
Any monthly costs not discussed in business plan narrative;
Cost of goods/inventory;
Employee wages;
License and fees;
Professional fees;
Rent/property taxes;
Repairs and maintenance;
Telephone; and
Anything else that needs to be explained in the financials that is not in the narrative.
Startup expenses: These are all expenses you will incur prior to opening your carwash. It is recommended to have quotes available or in the appendix for the larger items. It is also recommended that you pad your numbers some as there will always be unexpected expenses that were not accounted for.
Sources and uses of funds: This section details how the loan money will be used (inventory, carwash equipment, repairs and improvements, working capital, etc) and who is providing it (bank, investor or owner). You will likely need to be injecting 20 percent of your own money and maybe more depending on the risk assessment of the business and your personal finances.
Cash flows: The cash-flow statement is one of the most important pieces of your business plan. It shows a schedule of the money coming into the business and expenses that need to be paid and whether you have enough cash to sustain the business gained during the warm month to cover the costs during the winter months.
Every part of your business plan is important, but none of it means a thing if you run out of cash. Should this number be negative, you either need to raise sales, reduce expenses or have more cash.
Your cash flow statement will typically be three years in length with the first year analyzing the monthly figures and later years by quarter.
Profit and loss: This statement, while similar to the cash flow statement but illustrated annually looks at the effects of non-cash charges such as depreciation and amortization to get an accounting overview of the operations of your business.
Balance sheet: The balance sheet is a summary of the value of all assets, liabilities and equity for an organization at the end of each year. A balance sheet is often described as a "snapshot" of a company's financial condition and will show the value of the business over time.
Personal financial statement: If you are looking at bank financing, every person who will have a 20 percent or more ownership position will need to provide a personal financial statement to show how effective they are at managing your money.
Appendix items are various pieces of information that help make your case. Include details and studies used in your business plan; for example:
Quotes for items over $500;
Resumes of the management team;
Industry research;
Demographic data and trends;
Maps, floorplans or blueprints of location;
Leases and contracts; and
Letters of support.
There is a lot to creating your business plan but will definitely make your business stronger. While it may seem easier to have someone else write your plan, there is no substitute to writing it yourself. This is your business and by writing it yourself you will have a better understanding of your business and strategies for success.
Spencer Gregory is a consultant advising business owners on business planning and financing in the carwash industry. More information on starting a carwash business can be found at
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|My mom had given me her rue plant, I think she thought it was feverfew..and it turned out to be rue. Fast forward a few years and this stuff is TAKING OVER! LOL! Not that I care, herbs are the only thing around here that seem to do well, and it's herbs that I don't use or don't know how to use! I have a veritable field of applemint (I don't like the taste) too, as well as valerian.
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|Culinary Uses: Infuse the seed with lovage and mint to make a marinade for partridge. The leaves have a bitter taste but very small amounts can be added to cream cheese, egg and fish dishes. Mix with damson plums and wine for a delicious meat sauce. It goes well with acidic flavours and can be added to pickles. To reduce the bitterness, put a little into a boiling sauce for no more than one minute, then remove. In Italy, rue is used to counteract the 'heaviness' of sauces based on tomato and olive oil. Rue is often a component in the berbere spice mix from Ethiopia. Ethiopian cuisine also utilises rue berries in many sauces and stews.
Medicinal Uses: Rue was once an officially recognized treatment for hypertension, diabetes, and allergic reactions. Tea made from the leaves is used to treat nervous headache, griping stomach pains, dizziness, coughs, vertigo, palpitations, anxiety problems and high blood pressure. Use the tea as an eye wash for tired eyes and to wash wounds. the tea is also used to decrease the pain and inflammation of an earache. The juice or oil is placed in the ear to relieve earaches. The leaves are used in poultices and salves to relieve sciatica, gout and rheumatic pains. Traditionally used to bring on suppressed menses. A poultice of fresh leaves alleviates the pain of scorpion bites and jellyfish stings. A strong infusion made by pouring a little boiling water on dried or fresh rue leaves can be dabbed on insect bites to bring relief.
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|I grow Rue because it is beautiful to look at..The musty grey/green is beautiful next to its darker green and the shape of the leaf is unique...Martha/zucchini
|Daisy, thank you so much for all the information! Wow! I thought all it did was repel flies, ha ha! Now that I can eat it, that's even better! :) I have a stanley plum tree, I guess they could do in a pinch, ha ha! :)
Thank you for the great tips for rue. :)
|Does rue survive the winter in zone 6? I have been told by people who should know that it won't make it through the winter in Atlanta, and we're 7b. This is my first year with it, so I'd love to know about hardiness before I find out the hard way.
As for cooking -- Rue is definitely bitter, and a little goes a long way. Rue was popular in ancient Rome and medieval Europe, and if you are at all interested in food from those periods, rue is indispensible. I planted it this year specifically for use in Roman recipes.
My impression is that rue is an excellent background flavor. Used in small amounts, it rounds out the overall flavor of larger amounts of strongly flavored herbs like mint. It usually goes in at the end of cooking, like mint and other herbs that need to taste fresh in the dish.
I was interested to see that daisyduckworth mentions a mix of rue, lovage, and mint for partridge. That is a classic mix of herbs from ancient Rome -- along with plenty of black pepper -- and the combination goes as well with lentils as it does with meat. I planted lovage this year to go with the rue, but my lovage hasn't been nearly as impressive as my rue.
Cooking Apicius by Sally Grainger is the most up-to-date book on Roman food, if you're interested in that sort of thing.
|Be sure to pay attention to the "may cause skin irritation" part of daisyduckworth's answer! I barely brushed a rue plant with my arm, and ended up with very painful blisters! After researching, I found that it can hyper-sensitize the skin to the sun. So, I treated as for a burn (aloe, lavender oil, etc.) and it helped - but I had dark scars for quite a while.
I'm not usually that sensitive to plants - don't even get poison ivy - so, do be careful!
|The "skin irritation" seems to be a problem for some people, but I have never noticed it. I even went out on a sunny day and rubbed my arms all over the leaves just to see what happened -- all in the name of science!! Nothing happened. Maybe it's my skin type, maybe it was the youth of the plant -- I don't know. But except for my one experiment, I am typically careful to harvest in the shade, just in case.
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|mikael3, yes. Rue will survive zone 6. It survives here in Western NY State with no winter protection. If it can survive here, I'm sure it can over winter in Atlanta!!
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Thank you for the warning, although I know I've handled it before and didn't get any reactions from it. One time I did mash some leaves on me (I thought they were poison ivy and they were!)...wow it looked like I had leprosy on my hand, ha ha! Now I definitely know what poison ivy looks like, hee hee! :)
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VA Loan Fee Facts
When a veteran or current military member wants to apply for a VA home loan, the applicant must budget for fees and charges associated with the VA insured home loan. Lenders are given a list of VA-approved fees and charges, plus a list of fees the borrower is not permitted to pay.
Borrowers should be prepared to pay for or finance (when permitted) such fees and charges, and know which fees must be paid up front, which can be financed, and what they aren't expected to pay. There's also a legal requirement for the borrower to be informed of all fees that are considered non-refundable should the buyer change his or her mind and cancel the loan.
VA Loan Fee Fact–The lender may pass along the costs of a VA appraiser and VA compliance inspectors to the buyer. The veteran is also responsible for paying for a second appraisal in cases where the borrower wants a reconsideration of the fair market value of the property.
VA Loan Fee Fact–the borrower must not pay for any appraisal requested by the lender or seller for reconsideration of value, and the borrower must not be charged for appraisals requested by third parties.
VA Loan Fee Fact–the borrower can be charged for recording fees, credit reports and evaluation fees in the case of automated underwriting. The veteran must not be charged for legal fees associated with the lender's own business dealings associated with the loan with the exception of title preparation fees.
VA Loan Fee Fact–the borrower is allowed to pay taxes, assessments, and similar items for the current year chargeable to the borrower and the initial deposit for the tax and insurance account. The VA loan applicant is also allowed to pay for hazard insurance and flood insurance where required. In the case of flood zone determination, the borrower must only be charged the actual amount for the determination service, and only if that determination is made by a third party guaranteeing accuracy. Borrower must not be charged for a flood zone determination made by a lender. The borrower also cannot be charged if such a determination is made by a VA appraiser.
VA Loan Fee Fact–a borrower seeking a VA condo loan can pay for surveys required by the lender or the applicant, but for condo loans such charges must have prior VA approval.
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Mitt Romney has some preparing to do if he is going to put President Obama in his place. The challenger will have to endure insufferable smugness as he is berated for having the audacity to have made money, but hopefully, Romney can ask some of the tough questions that the media simply won't. This debate will serve as a platform for Romney to finally define his stances. But more importantly than that, it will serve as an opportunity to force Obama to defend his presidency.
So, I submit to you, the top zingers and questions submitted on Twitter for Obama:
#RomneyDebateLines Mr. President, I understand you want fewer rich people. I, myself, want fewer poor people.
— Ole Miss Rebel (@dchrebel) September 29, 2012
#RomneyDebateLines Your entire Middle Eastern policy collapsed under the weight of a YouTube video?
— Milton Wolf (@miltonwolfmd) September 29, 2012
Yes, Mr President, I have some wealthy friends, but do I have any terrorist friends? #RomneyDebateLines
— Justin G. (@theGrudgeRetort) September 29, 2012
#RomneyDebateLines Barack, is there any chance that your son could have looked like Brian Terry?
— WV Cherokee (@WVCherokee68) September 29, 2012
#RomneyDebateLines I thought your best speech to date was with #Eastwood at the RNC.
— DaveO (@dotto22) September 29, 2012
Maybe Ambassador Stevens should've called Bibi Netanyahu to ask for protection. Bibi knows what a red line is. #RomneyDebateLines
— WilliamCope (@InManibusDei) September 29, 2012
#RomneyDebateLines: If you are re-elected, just think of the mess you will inherit this time!
— Janie Johnson (@jjauthor) October 1, 2012
#RomneyDebatelines Do you think Muslims should stop clinging to their guns and religion?
— Tim DeFelice (@Timd1992) October 1, 2012
#RomneyDebateLines You told Russia on TV that you would have more flexibility after the election. How many countries did you tell in private
— Clayton A. (@PipeVeteran) October 1, 2012
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…and you Mr. President, are no Allen West.#RomneyDebateLines
— SpreadButter (@SpreadButter) October 1, 2012
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- In last week's Extreme Movers Message, I highlighted the extreme strength that the energy sector was expressing as oil approaches the century mark and the Dow nears new all-time highs.
Followers of my writings know that I have been turning considerably more negative on markets since last week, as our Accelerated Time and Capital models used for managing our mutual fund and separate accounts got highly defensive. Intermarket trends have deteriorated, and it appears ever more likely that we are entering a corrective period.
On CNBC, I argued that the catalyst may indeed by oil itself.Not much has changed as to leaders this week, but some interesting declines are worth noting. Every week I run a screen on the over 1,000 ETFs/ETNs I track to identify those areas of the investable landscape exhibiting extreme price behavior relative to their own respective 20-day moving averages. The idea is to see if there is a message happening beneath the surface of the market by looking at the opposite ends of winners and losers spectrum over a rolling one-month period. Take a look below for the latest results. The Extreme Winners remain largely in the energy space. Oil equipment and services (represented by iShares Dow US Oil Equipment and Services (IEZ) and Market Vectors Oil US Services (OIH) continue to get a strong bid as oil (USO) itself advances. The broad sector as well through the SPDR Energy Select Sector Fund ETF (XLE) also shows up on the list, which is a curious thing given the large-cap nature of the fund. Vietnam's vertical ascent (VNM) is probably nearing a massively overbought level, which could be an interesting counter-trend trade should the correction I believe is likely begin to take hold in earnest. The most different of areas here appears to be the Broker-Deals Index Fund (IAI), which is likely reacting to hopes for the "Great Re-Allocation" out of bonds and into stocks, causing a pickup in transactions and trading. What is more notable is what appears on the Extreme Losers side of the equation, with Gold Miners (GDX), Silver Miners (SIL) and Metals and Mining (XME) very badly in the red.
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Sal Island, Cape Verde ? December 3, 2011: Keeping a close eye on Secrets (the secondary contest site) this morning, contest directors selected Ponta Preta as the most suitable location to commence the Ponta Preta Kite Surf Pro. Indeed, the world-famous break proved to be the best choice, although the inconsistent conditions left the contest largely in standby mode.
The competition got underway, however most of the day consisted of waiting for wind and/or waves to improve while many riders surfed the break during the downtime. Mid-day, Bastien Bollard (FRA/Underground) and Paulino Pereira (POR) faced the reigning Kite Surfing World Champion, Guilly Brandao (BRA), in Men's Heat 1.
Scoring a 7.33 for his best wave and a 13.5 heat score, Brandao delivered the day's top performance including a nice cover-up.
Men's heat 2 was completed, but later withdrawn as agreed upon by riders and contest directors due to the inconsistent conditions. It will be re-run following men's heat 8 when conditions permit.
As four o'clock approached, organizers postponed until tomorrow, as conditions never improved quite enough. Competitors then returned to their all-inclusive accommodations at the nearby Villaggi Bravo while the KSP staff headed back to the beautiful Melia Tortuga Beach hotel, just a short walk from Ponta Preta.
Tomorrow morning, event directors will re-assess conditions, making the first call at 8 a.m. via the live webstream (broadcasting on www.kspworldtour.com/live). The earliest possible start will be at 9 a.m. If you miss any of the action, it will all be archived heat by heat for your on-demand viewing pleasure.
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Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.Sarah Vowell
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Contemporary Las Vegas is astonishing. At night, it is a brilliant cluster of jewels of all shapes, sizes, and colors, glowing in the middle of a vast, black velvet canopy. By day, it is also an amazing sight, almost like a mirage. There is nothing but desert and rugged mountains all around, and then--in the middle of it all--one of the largest and fastest growing cities in the United States ... truly an enigma.THOMAS TAJ AINLAY
Las Vegas is perhaps the most color-blind, class-free place in America. As long as your cash or credit line holds out, no one gives a damn about your race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, address, family lineage, voter registration or even your criminal arrest record. Money is the great leveler.MARC COOPER
Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. Make the bastard chase you. He will follow.Johnny Depp
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In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.Steven Wright
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Las Vegas marks itself out by nothingness. All the negative descriptions that can generally be used in labelling a city apply to it, for its absence of consistency actually makes its existence doubtful: no man's land, waste ground, non-place, ghost town, urban simulacrum, nowhere city, etc. For us it is Zeropolis, the non-city which is the very first city, just as zero is the very first number. The nothing that counts, the nothingness of neonBRUCE BEGOUT
Today, we must look to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada as a metaphor of our national character and aspiration, its symbol a thirty-foot high cardboard picture of a slot machine and a chorus girl. For Las Vegas is a city entirely devoted to the idea of entertainment, and as such proclaims the spirit of a culture in which all public discourse increasingly takes the form of entertainment. Our politics, our religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice.NEIL POSTMAN
The secret affinity between gambling and the desert . . . Gambling itself is a desert form, inhuman, uncultured, initiatory, a challenge to the natural economy of value, a crazed activity on the fringes of exchange. But it also has a strict limit and stops abruptly; its boundaries are exact, its passion knows no confusion. Neither the desert nor gambling are open areas; their spaces are finite and concentric, increasing in intensity toward the interior, toward a central point, be it the spirit of gambling or the heart of the desert a privileged, immemorial space, where things lose their shadow, where money loses its value, and where the extreme rarity of traces of what signals to us there leads men to seek the instantaneity of wealth.Jean Baudrillard


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An Easy Egg Recipe And My Inner Domestic Goddess
Hello Breakfast-Lover and welcome to my Italian Eggs recipe. For this recipe Eggs are simmered in a hearty tomato sauce before being drizzled with olive oil, spattered with parsley and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. Super easy. Super delicious. Click here to jump down to the recipe now or read on to find out about my inner domestic goddess.
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Do you have an inner Domestic Goddess? You know the one: That lady inside of you whose smile beams brightest when all the laundry's done, the house is tidy and dinner's ready on time?
My inner Domestic Goddess rarely flashes a smile my way. I just don't have it together enough most of the time.
But there was that one morning…
My in-laws were visiting from the UK and old friends of theirs happened to be in town. We decided at the last minute to have everyone over for breakfast.
I woke up early and jumped into the shower thinking about what I could make. I remembered hearing Nigella Lawsom (inner AND outer Domestic Goddess extraordinaire) talking on The Splendid Table about her Eggs in Purgatory recipe.
Eggs cooked in a hearty tomato sauce? That sounded simple and charming. My inner Domestic Goddess nodded with approval.
"Let's do that," she whispered. And I think she took over from there.
I had two big ziplocks of tomato sauce full of Italian sausage, roasted peppers and sweet Vidalia onions in the freezer. I popped them into the microwave to defrost before blow-drying my hair.
As everyone sipped coffee I divided the sauce into two big skillets, turned on the heat and got some garlic bread warming in the oven. I looked around the kitchen. Everything was tidy and under control. She nudged me towards our guests. I sat and drank coffee. I laughed. I talked. I bounced my toddler on my knee. My goddess smiled at me.
When I heard the pans burbling I went back to the kitchen, turned down the heat and cracked in some eggs. My father-in-law and his buddy came around and asked questions, "You're cooking the eggs in there? Will they turn red? Will they sink? How will we get them out?"
I wasn't worried by their questions; she was in control here and it would all work out.
I covered the pans so that the eggs could set and I put out bowls of strawberries (washed but greens still attached), whole tangerines and a jug of orange juice. Then I sliced the bread and took the pans off the heat. I drizzled olive oil and grated Parmesan. Then I used kitchen shears to snip snap parsley leaves over it all.
I carried the skillets to the table and everyone ooooooed, including me.
It was delicious. And simple. And I was relaxed. And my inner Domestic Goddess clapped and cheered. And oh how I basked in her praise!
This is the easy egg recipe that I developed after that perfect morning.
It doesn't require leftover frozen tomato sauce but if you have some, use it. Just make sure that it's hearty and full of bits and pieces since the pieces act as a mold for your eggs (you'll see what I mean in the recipe below). Fill your skillet with no more than an inch of the sauce. Proceed as described below.
- a 28 ounce can of petite dice tomatoes
- salt
- pepper
- ⅛ tsp red pepper flakes
- ½ tsp dried oregano
- 4 large eggs
- 1 tsp olive oil
- ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley (or basil)
- Pour the can of tomatoes with their juice into a large skillet. Add ½ teaspoon of salt, ¼ teaspoon of coarse black pepper, the red pepper flakes and the oregano. Warm it over medium-high heat until it starts burbling. Reduce the heat to low and simmer the sauce for 5 minutes.Taste. Add more salt if needed.
- Use the back of a spoon to nudge some tomatoes apart. Carefully crack an egg into the liquid where the tomatoes used to be. Make space for another egg and then crack it in. Repeat with the remaining eggs. The eggs should not be submerged but should be nestled among the tomatoes.
- Increase the heat to medium-low and cover the skillet. Cook for 7-10 minutes, until the whites have solidified but the yolks are still runny. Note that with my stove and my skillet I have to turn the pan periodically so that the eggs heat evenly and cook in the same amount of time. You may need to do the same.
- When the eggs are cooked to the desired doneness, drizzle each egg with ¼ teaspoon of the olive oil, top with a small pinch of coarse black pepper and one quarter of the Parmesan cheese. Sprinkle the parsley over top of everything. Use a big serving spoon to scoop the eggs along with sauce onto plates. Make sure there's something toast or bread-like around to dip into the eggs and soak up the sauce. Eat. Smile. Be happy.
This recipe was originally part of Brunch Week 2013, when a group of bloggers got together to all share their favorite brunch recipes on their. Here are links to brunch recipes from some of the other brunch weekers shared.
Brunch Beverage Recipes
Irish Cream Coffee by Sweet Remedy
{Grown-Up} Lemonade by {i love} my disorganized live
Brunch Egg Recipes
An Easy Italian Egg Recipe by Cook the Story
Asparagus Tomato Frittata by Big Bear's Wife
Sausage and Egg Muffins by Small Wallet Big Appetite
Mennonite Gold Hash & Eggs by The Vintage Cook
Brie and Herb Omelette by Noshing With The Nolands
Hangover Breakfast Burrito by Cooking In Stilettos
Brunch Recipes for Breads, Grains, Cereals and Pancake-Type Yums
Almond Croissants by Love and Confections
Granola Pancakes by Jane's Adventures in Dinner
Blueberry Scones with Lemon Glaze by Katie's Cucina
Strawberry Scones by Real Housemoms
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Marcona Almond and Duck Fat Brittle by Vanilla Lemonade
Kiwi and Rose Cream Trifle by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
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In the Megillah, a Jewish woman named Esther becomes queen of the kingdom of Persia. Once in the palace, she keeps her religion a secret, at the advice of her uncle, Mordecai. Meanwhile, the evil counselor Haman, angered by Mordecai's refusal to bow to him, secures the king's permission to execute a plot to kill all the Jews of the empire. With extraordinary courage and ingenuity, Esther convinces the king to save the Jews, bringing about an astonishing turn of events.
Purim is a community holiday of joyful celebration. The centerpiece of Purim is the communal reading of the Megillah on the evening and morning of the holiday, where the narrative of Purim comes to life. This is a raucous affair, with boisterous costumes, along with whoops, hollers, and graggers (noisemakers) to drown out the evil Haman's name each time it is read.
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The traditions of Purim include "…feasting and gladness, and time for sending gifts to one another and presents to the poor." (Esther9:22) The sending of gifts is a popular tradition called mishloach manot.These baskets of at least two kinds of fruits, nuts, and Purim pastries, particularly the three cornered hamantaschen (shaped so because they resemble Haman's hat) are sent to friends and family. Fill your Hadassah mishloach manot basket and enable the world to feast on the extraordinary work of Hadassah.
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During Purim, we offer Matanot la-Evyonim (gifts to the needy) as tzedakah to enhance quality of life. Through Hadassah you can fulfill the tradition of Matanot la-Evyomin by continuing to support the extraordinary work of Hadassah and by promoting Hadassah's life changing work to your friends, family and local community.
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