This recipe is in honor of our seven lovely hens, who are now 1 1/2 years old and laying on the order of 3-5 beautiful eggs every day. Yesterday afternoon my 3-year-old grandson and I stopped at the coop to collect the day’s gifts, but two of the girls were in the middle of laying and so we left them to their business and turned around to instead go climbing on a big pile of logs. This morning my husband needed some eggs to bake oatmeal cookies, so he ran out to the coop and discovered 7 eggs! Continue reading
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YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Momofuku’s Soy-Sauce-Soaked Eggs
This recipe is in honor of our seventeen lovely new chicks, who arrived in November and moved out to the big-girl coop this past weekend to join the gold-laced Wyandottes who’ve been with us for about three years now. The little girls won’t be laying for a little while yet, but their pale pink combs are starting to color and fill out! Once they begin to lay, we’ll have dozens and dozens of eggs! Continue reading
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Scrambled Eggs and Broccoli
After the requisite amount of hemming and hawwing, I picked up a copy of Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything as a shower gift for our young cousin and his beaming Australian bride-to-be. When they opened it, he quipped “Well, we won’t be needing any other cookbooks.” True dat! Try this broccoli beauty for starters. Or dinner. Continue reading