Eggs in Hades

This is a simple recipe that will awaken the taste buds of anyone. Serve with good bread, toasted or with just butter.

Ingredients:

6 eggs
2 cloves minced garlic
2  16 ounce jars chunky salsa (mild or hot)
1  14.5 ounce can tomato sauce
1 or 2 hot chili peppers (jalapenos, serranos, or cayennes, if using hot salsa, skip this unless you like    food hot as... ah... Hades)
2 teaspoons oregano
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
parsley or basil leaves for garnish

In a skillet, heat the oil over medium low heat and saute the garlic and chili peppers (if using) for a couple of minutes. Add the salsa, tomato sauce, oregano, salt and black pepper, mix well. Heat sauce until it lightly bubbles, then add each egg separately, leaving some space between the eggs. You can cover the pan and let cook for a few minutes until the whites are firmly set, or you can cover the pan briefly, until the whites are set, but still not completely cooked, then complete their cooking with the pan uncovered. I first tried covering a smaller skillet, using just 2 eggs in sauce. Interestingly, one yolk ended up almost completely cooked, while the other was runny, which is the way I wanted both, so I next covered the skillet briefly, then left it open to finish cooking the egg whites. This gave me the runny yolks I wanted. Sprinkle on some parsley or basil before serving.  

WORD HISTORY:
Hades-This word for "the infernal regions, the place of torment for those who have lived wicked lives," goes back to the Indo European negating suffix, "n," which was rendered in Greek as "á/áv" (related to Germanic "un-"), and to Indo European "weid/uyd," which had the notion "to see;" thus also, "to know how to go, how to proceed." "Hades" is distantly related to English "wit" (both noun and verb), to "wise" (noun, verb and adjective forms, although the verb form is not as common anymore, except in "wise up"), and to "wisdom," all of these words from the Germanic roots of English, and to "advice" and to "advise," both Latin-derived words borrowed by English via French. The main Indo European form gave transliterated Ancient Greek "eídesthai," which meant, "to be seen," and with the negative prefix, as 'a' + 'idein'= "unseen, invisible." Together this gave Ancient Greek a couple of forms, depending upon dialect, one being the transliterated "Haídes," meaning, "place unseen;" thus, "the underworld;" thus, "place for the dead." The place name was also applied to the Greek god of the dead. English borrowed the word from Greek, circa 1600.