Day Two Hundred Twenty-Six: Poached Egg Virgin

The other day someone asked me the trick to poaching eggs and I was a little embarrassed...and it's not because I don't know the trick.  Here's the thing:

I've never poached an egg before.

Determined to rectify the situation, I ran home and found Martha's recipe for Easy Poached Eggs.  This recipe is basically Poached Eggs for Dummies.

After putting the eggs in simmering water and allowing to cook, I was pretty sure I needed some remedial help.  My eggs looked like this:

(There are two eggs hidden under that froth somewhere.)

But when I removed them with a slotted spoon, they looked like this:

I'm pretty sure I'm a poached egg savant or something.