Soft Boiled Eggs

I will eat breakfast foods at any time of the day.  Cereal, bagels, quiche, waffles...for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or midnight snack.  They are always delicious.  I find that this is true for pizza as well, but I may have less people agree with me on that one.

I've decided recently that I like eating soft-boiled eggs and toast.  This may be aided by the fact that apparently in England they cut the toast into strips and refer to this meal as "eggs and soldiers"...which I find adorable.  As far as I know, eggs are nutritious, inexpensive, and a good source of protein so I am trying to eat them a little more often.

Since my first attempt at soft-boiled eggs was a bit of a fail:

Instructions

1. Fill a pot with water so that (when the eggs are added) there is at least a 1/2 inch of water above the eggs
2. Bring the water to a simmer
3. Using a cooking spoon, lower the eggs into the water and continue to simmer for 1 minute
4. Cover the pot, remove from the heat, and let it sit for approximately 6 minutes

At this point, you can run the pot under cold water and take out your soft-boiled eggs.  Some fancy people have egg cups so that they can simply cut off the top of the egg and eat it with a spoon.  I am not one of those people.  An uninformed person may try to peal the soft-boiled egg.  I tried this, it doesn't work well.  What does work?  Amazingly, if you smack the egg with a knife,  you can then break it in half and scoop the soft-boiled egg halves into a bowl.