Trying to be like the original example of a homesteading woman:
"She's up before dawn, preparing breakfast for her family, and organizing her day. She looks over a field and buys it, then, with money she's put aside, plants a garden." Proverbs 31:15-16 (The Message)
Our 24 hens are laying 23 eggs a day. I'm giving away some, selling some, cooking some. When the eggs get more uniform in size, we're putting up a "Fresh Eggs for Sale" sign out by the road.
Now the problem...although the eggs are magnificent in flavor, I'm running out of ideas to cook them. We're really fond of quiche, omelets, egg salad...but there has to be more ways (i.e. other ingredients) to spice up table-time with egg based concoctions.
I'd like to put a small booklet together to give to family, friends, and regular egg customers. If you have recipes that your family loves, please send them to me. These are the categories I'm looking for:
Appetizers
Breakfasts (make ahead as well as make right now)
Casseroles
Main Dishes
Desserts (simple and fancy)
Thank you in advance for all the help. If you send a recipe you don't mind me reprinting I'll put your blog link and name with it if you like (or you tell me how you want credit for the contribution). I'll also make the booklet available for a pdf download here when it's complete.
One of the things I do with my extra eggs is put them in a large gallon jar and pickle them. You can get many great easy recipes on the net. .......good luck........Kitty
As a kid I loved to boil eggs and make a simple egg salad. Cut up boiled eggs, mayo, little mustard, chopped sweet pickles, salt and pepper. Mix together and enjoy. Very simple and very good.
Of course there's quiche and omelettes. Egg drop soup, deviled eggs, egg salad sandwiches, potato salad, pancakes (I use four when I make a batch), kropsua (Finnish oven pancake), my daughter uses eggs for a facial mask, and I have a recipe for homemade mac and cheese that uses quite a few eggs, but of course I can't find it right now. Here's the recipe for Kropsua. We top it with blueberry or rasberry sauce. Most people use some kind of jam.
Kropsua-
4 eggs
2 cups flour
1/2 cup butter
4 cups milk
1 t. salt
heat over to 400 degrees. Divide butter into pans. I use two 9x13 cake pans. Put into hot oven. Mix the rest of the ingredients with a mixer until well blended. Take pans out of oven and pour half of the batter into each sizzling hot pan. Bake for up to 40 minutes. It usually doesn't take quite that long.
What a blessing to have so many eggs. Your chickens could teach mine a thing or two.
From Glory Farm,
Rhonda
Untitled Comment - 02:20, Monday, January 14, 2008
One of the things I do with my extra eggs is put them in a large gallon jar and pickle them. You can get many great easy recipes on the net. .......good luck........KittyPosted by Kitty