Whether it's cherry tomatoes, crispy bacon, and hard-boiled eggs atop a cobb salad ... the base ingredient they all have in ...

Hard-boil the eggs for the salad. Bring a small saucepan of water to the boil, gently slide in the eggs, boil for 10 minutes (12 if they are very fresh), strain off the hot water and cover with ...

At its essence, the Cobb salad combines chicken, bacon, avocado, tomato, crumbled blue cheese (usually roquefort), onions and hard boiled eggs with lettuce dressed with a simple vinaigrette.