Farm fresh eggs

[lizflowers42]

I challenge every one of of you to purchase farm fresh eggs sometime if you have never tried them. You will love how orange the egg yolk is in comparison to grocery store eggs! I used to be able to buy them from a co-worker who has a farm, but when the weather got cold her hens stopped laying (she thinks they are getting old), so I was left seeking out a new egg dealer. I've resorted to buying them from the store because of this. So when my MIL showed up last weekend with 4 dozen farm fresh eggs, I was in heaven! But...it's just 2 of us...and that's a lot of eggs.

What are some of your favorite ways to dress up the incredible, edible, egg?

 

[Genny]

I love farm fresh eggs!!
We get them from our neighbors in trade for soap.
With 7 of us in our house, we go through at least a dozen a week, if not more.

 

[houseofwool]

I love spaghetti carbonara!

 

[lsg]

We have farm fresh eggs from our hens and farm fresh milk from our Jersey and Dexter cows. Nothing can beat them. You can put them in puddings, desserts, use them for baking, in casseroles, deviled eggs and egg soap.

 

[Pepsi Girl]

Love the but not the chickens! So I get them from a friend. My husband is forever bugging me to get chickens. Not going to happen.

 

[Genny]

Love the but not the chickens!

Okay, is this supposed to say, "Love them but not the chickens" or is it, "Love the butt not the chickens"?

 

[christinak]

My girls started laying again since the sun's been shining...I have SOOOOO many eggs.

 

[Badger]

I actually just went to a pot luck dinner and brought two pans of kugel in which I used a dozen eggs (I don't have farm fresh eggs, but I do buy cage free). My kugel was cinnamon apple and went over very well

 

[AngelMomma]

I was wondering if anyone around here had chickens. We have kept them for their eggs for about 8+yrs now. LOVE the eggs of all colors. We had 13 old hens going into winter until a coon got into them a couple nights in a row. Down to 8 until this am. My youngest and I went to the feed store and picked some up them morning. They are so stinkin CUTE!!! I especially like Americanas from chick to adulthood and love their green eggs. This time we got some Bantam Silkies and Cochins to try out. I am sure they are going to be fun too. We always have plenty of eggs to share in the summer time too.

 

[AngelMomma]

Oh, and egg salad, tuna salad with eggs, cheesecake, omelet, bread, pudding, boiled, deviled etc.

A trick I learned for boiling these hard shelled home grown eggs so that they will peel super easy. Hold the egg in your left hand with the fat end up. Use a paring knife with a sharp point and tap gently on the top end of the egg, making a tiny pin hole. Boil as usual. It makes the peeling so much easier.

 

[Badger]

Ah, they are adorable chicks! One of my sisters has some chickens and her husband makes chicken coops as a side job.

 

[AngelMomma]

And BREAD pudding! YuMmY! That uses plenty of eggs, cream and sugar. All my favorites

 

[christinak]

Chickens are wonderful, wonderful pets. They are cute, VERY entertaining, and eat THOUSANDS of bugs everyday. My husband complained about the poop when they come on the porch so I left them in their runs for a week and in that short time, he noticed tons of bugs in the house! He said "let them out...." and in days the bugs were gone again. I adore my girls, they are loving and really contribute to the family.

 

[twinmom]

Lizflowers42 Thanks for the challenge. We will never buy store bought eggs again!!! After having our own flock for 6 years now we see the difference in vitamins in the yolk. Now if I only had a milk cow like lsg!!! A friend has a mini jersey and that milk is just amazing. What we put in our bodies from store bought processed food and produce shipped hundreds of miles picked upripe is truly sickening. Of course that rant is for another time! Support your local growers and producers- it's good for everyone!

 

[lizflowers42]

I'm so envious of your chickens lsg and Angelmomma! Thanks for the suggestions. One more question for you two especially since you have lots of eggs on hand What would you say the in the fridge shelf life of the eggs are if they haven't been washed? (someone once told me if they were washed they don't last as long...never really understood if that was true!)
I always wash my eggs before putting them in the refrigerator. I think the danger of contaminants is worse than the danger of shortened shelf life in unwashed eggs. Cold storage eggs from the store are kept stored for much longer than my farm eggs.

 

[AngelMomma]

I have heard the same thing, that there is a natural coating on the eggs that can be washed away, shortening the shelf life. I wash all eggs that go into my fridge. I keep eggs at least a couple of months. I read somewhere that you can do a 'test' to see how old an egg is by putting it into a container of water. If it floats then its bad. But I'm not really sure how accurate that is because really all its testing is how much air has gotten into the shell. The shell is naturally porus and air will seep in over time. Not much help here really because we just wing it. I do rotate though to make sure we don't miss a carton in the back or something like that.

 

[AngelMomma]

And I wash them because, after all, they do come out of the chickens butt! HAHA! :crazy:

 

[Cherry Bomb]

I love deviled eggs and the older the eggs are when you boil them, the easier they peel. We had farm fresh eggs growing up (oh the stories of the chicken coop and clipping their wings) and I had a pet chicken named Henrietta. She was awesome and loved to be held when she roosted for the night. But as the story goes....a coyote got her. that was a sad morning. On a happier note....I also challenge you to bake with fresh goose eggs if you can find them. You will be amazamed in the quality of your baked goods when you replace regular eggs with goose eggs. They are larger in size so I'd do one goose egg to two eggs. Play around and see how you like them!

 

[marghewitt]

Um.... Hello..... Quiche! They freeze well after baking them.

 

[ruby61]

I have had chickens just for 6 years, funny how chickens and soap go together. I give my friend eggs and chicks in the spring and she gives me goats milk for the soap. I would rather have my own goats but dh won't cross that the line between me raising the horses/chickens and ducks and oh yeah I breed blood hounds.