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["Some preliminary notes:
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- You will need a small dish and a a spoon.
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- You will also need a sharp knife, a small tea spoon and a plastic straw.
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- You are going to sculpt an eye out of your ingredients.
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- DID YOU KNOW...? the German word ""Ei"" -pronounced ""eye""- means ""egg"")
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- Good luck...
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-INSTRUCTIONS FOR ONE SERVING:", "Boil the quail egg for 5 minutes.", "With the help of the plastic straw, use a sharp knife to cut some circular portions out of the pumpernickel slice. Cut out as many pumpernickel circles as needed to fill the inner void of the 1/2 olive completely with pumpernickel.", "Peel the hard-boiled quail egg and bring it to a lying position (on its side) on top of a cutting board.
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Your goal now is to cut out a lateral slice or ""cap"" of approximately 25% of the thickness of the egg. (This slice or ""cap"" is of no use for purposes of this dish.)", "Through the resulting opening, take out very carefully all of the egg yolk, using the knife and the small tea spoon.", "Now insert the pumpernickel-filled 1/2 olive in place of the extracted egg yolk. Yours is the choice regarding which end of the pumpernickel-filled 1/2 olive will face outwards (the flat endor the rounded end)... But, by all means, the three round(-ish) cuts (the cut in the egg white, the cut in the olive and the cut around the pumpernickel) should be aligned all visibly and concentrically.", "What you got now should resemble a human(?) eye.", "Mash the egg yolk with some olive oil and sweet Pimenton (or sweet paprika) powder and some sea salt to your liking.
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Put this mixture on a spoon", "Place the arranged egg on top of the egg yolk mixture on the spoon.", "Place the loaded spoon on a small dish, in order to keep it from falling/spilling.", "Draw a quick ""Zorro"" mark over the ""eye"" with balsamico vinegar (to simbolize some eyelashes).", "Cover your work with a lettuce leaf", "Now, please... don't forget the previously discussed serving ritual.", "Enjoy shared tears of enlightenment, as lettuce veils fall from everyone's eyes!"]
