In Celebrations of Eggs!

Posted on July 10, 2008
Filed Under food, glorious food!, life on the pickle farm |

Our chooks have started laying again!

I refuse to buy eggs. We have six perfectly good chooks - well ok the two new ones are a little young and are just getting started on the whole egg thing, but we have four perfectly good chooks which we feed and water and love, so the idea of actually paying money for eggs just doesn’t sit right for me. Add to the fact that even when you buy ‘free range’ eggs you can’t actually be certain how ‘free’ and happy the chooks really are, and well, I just prefer to eat our own eggs. For the last couple of months though, our chooks just haven’t been coming to the party. In fact we had no eggs at all for a long long time and while I tried very hard just not to cook anything that needed eggs I did cave in and bought a half dozen when I got desperate.

We’ve been heaping some love and attention on the old girls out the back. Giving them a bit of extra food since it is so cold and getting special pine needles for their hen house. We didn’t hold out much hope that the old girls would start laying again until spring, so we pinned our hope on the two new hens, Hattie and Beautiful.. even one egg every few days would be ok. To our surprise it was not the two young girls who got back on the lay but the four old Isa Browns - Corky, Parmy, Rosie and Little!

We are getting one or two eggs a day. Gorgeous brown speckled eggs with yolks so yellow they make whatever you cook with them seem a little warmer and more delicious. Now Beautiful is getting in on the act, laying her long slender cream coloured eggs (she is a long slender chook being an Ancona) making it three eggs a day every once in a while. Once again I have more than a dozen eggs sitting on my kitchen bench and a world of cooking has opened up for us!

To celebrate the return of the egg we had ‘three egg pancakes’ for breakfast!

Yes you read right, that is three eggs in the pancake mix. I know, I know.. three eggs is rather decadent and totally unnecessary, one is usually quite enough, but three eggs makes for the lightest fluffiest pancakes you have ever eaten. And we like our pancakes thin… so almost crepes but not quite. So so so good!

pancakes

And of course what do you do with three egg pancakes? You use your cooking cutters to cut our numbers and letters to feed to your baby brother of course!

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6 Responses to “In Celebrations of Eggs!”

Bettina on July 10th, 2008 11:53 pm

Yay for your chooks!!!

I still don’t have mine yet. Hopefully in spring. I hope.
Sharon on July 11th, 2008 12:42 am

Oh, I wish I could drop by YOUR house for breakfast — but Kansas, USA is a bit of a far commute, even for a 3-egg pancake like that! Perhaps you could drop one in the mail for me. ha! Have a great day. =)
Barbara on July 11th, 2008 8:08 am

Yummy! Egg Pancakes *drools*
How nice of your chooks to start early for you - the extra feed paid off LOL. I love fresh eggs and can feel the warmth from here :)
Alison (3xkewl) on July 11th, 2008 10:42 am

I am the same - I refuse to buy eggs and only eat the ones that come from our chooks :)
We also love making “egg paper” for breakfast and using the cookie cutters to spell out eating words.
Great minds, huh?

Glad you’ve got a supply of eggs again - Go old girls!
Kelsey on July 11th, 2008 11:36 am

Yumm that looks great!!
jenn on July 11th, 2008 5:50 pm

is it Zoe?