In our BuzzFeed Breakfast series, we invite a chef to hang out and cook stuff at 10 a.m. Then we show you how to recreate what he or she did.
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When I asked chef Hugh Acheson if this recipe had a backstory, he laughed at me and said, "Hell no. Food's not that complicated."
Maybe it's this mentality that allows the chef to to run four very successful restaurants in his home state of Georgia, appear as an occasional judge or contestant on Top Chef, travel the country to promote his newest cookbook The Broad Fork and be super chill, charming, and kind.
That idea that food should be simple is important to Acheson, and he emphatically believes that cooking should be taught as a basic life skill.
"I'm working on this big re-do of home economics in the state of Georgia," Acheson said. The program will focus on teaching middle school students things like sewing (which, Acheson said, he's actually very good at) and how to prepare simple foods from scratch. "One of the core things is teaching kids how to poach an egg," he said, which is a simple thing that nobody can seem to get quite right.
You'll notice that the basic steps of this recipe — blanch a green vegetable, roast meat, toast bread, toss a simple salad, poach an egg — are precisely the "not-that-complicated" skills that Acheson is trying to teach.
Here is everything you will need to cook this breakfast:
Sherry vinegar, olive oil, eggs, fava beans in the pod, a good loaf of bread, parsley, pancetta, distilled white vinegar, and sea salt.
Fava beans can be intimidating, but here's what chef says about buying them: "You want them pretty small. As things get larger, they get really starchy. If they’re massive and yellowing, they’re old and overgrown."
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Start by filling a large saucepan 3/4 of the way with water, then season the water with 1-2 tablespoons of salt and bring it to a boil over high heat.
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