The Front Porch Swing

[Triple Willow]

here is what I believe was in my  dog bowl

California tree frog.

http://www.californiaherps.com/frogs/pages/p.cadaverina.html


soo cute.

deb

If they would stay on the ground and didn't have those bionic suction cups for feet... I might like them. LOL

 

[Triple Willow]

When I checked this morning, there was only one egg in the nest so I didn't bother getting it. I figured I would go down at lunch and get them, but I didn't make it. This is what I found when I went down there a little bit ago! The girls decided to cram a dozen eggs into one nest! None of the other nests had any in them! Silly girls!

Perdy eggs! I talked to a good friend of mine today. He has some Black Copper Marans now and he knows somebody that has Easter Eggers so I plan on hatching out some of those eggs! Yeehaw I'll have "colors"!!! My crazy ladies have almost all been trying to use one nest too. They walk around and grumble waiting to get in. lol

 

[perchie.girl]

Its soo fun doing stuff like that with your kids. I had a vivarium in the house for my munchkin. Half land half water with an aquarium air operated pump to pump the water through a filter and over a little water fall. Tree branches and a few rocks to keep the gravel in place. That housed a little Leopard from the store, a few gold fish and a few Ghost shrimp. We fed him baby crickets...

It was an eighty gallon tank so it had had many different lives over the years. I finally set it on some serious supports of brcks and wood and wound up raising up Red Eared sliders.... Turtles are sooo interesting to watch... when I got them they were under the legal size to sell in a pet store they were from a breeder that happened to have them out in a tank during a garage sale. By the time I moved them out to the yard into a man made pond they had grown up from the size of a fifty cent piece to about the size of your hand with your fingers spread out.

I still have my biggest aquarium... a 110 I want to start raising up Tilapia in it. Something I CAN do without being there.... LOL.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

When I checked this morning, there was only one egg in the nest so I didn't bother getting it. I figured I would go down at lunch and get them, but I didn't make it. This is what I found when I went down there a little bit ago! The girls decided to cram a dozen eggs into one nest! None of the other nests had any in them! Silly girls!

Houston..... we have EGGSIES... woo hoo....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

It's starting ... the eggses.

Out of an extra dozen "regular" chicken eggs for lunch today I made a curried rice casserole with green peas, three kinds of cheese and tiny little rounds of deer pepperoni sticks the foreman gave us a while back and had been hanging out in the freezer. Garnished with Greek yogurt.

This afternoon I think I'll make a duck egg custard ...

Tomorrow morning I'll try a yummy sounding French toast casserole ... cheese and jam sandwiches in a greased dish, then pour the egg mixture over the top and let it rest, & bake. I have some yummy home-made rhubarb jams, one with blueberry, the other with strawberry ... I'll interview those to figure out which one to invite to the party. You're supposed to use cream cheese, but rather than buy that I think I'll use Cojita cheese I have on hand -- I think that will inspire more liberal jamage. I think I'll add some nuts to the top. Maybe serve that with maple syrup Greek yogurt? Maybe use the Delaware eggs for that?

I still haven't tried the 12 Egg Butter Cake ... somehow with only two people in the house that just doesn't seem wise.

Ooh todays menue sounds yummy....

I bet custard made with Duck eggs will Be Da Bomb. Ever tried Flan? I have always wanted to. You make caramel and coat the bottom of the custard dishes then you let it cool then you pour the egg custard over the top and cook the custard... When the custard is done it can be flipped over onto a plate the custard will have absorbed some of the carmel and the rest has become kind of watery and it flows down the custard.... YUMM....

Oooy can I come to your house for the french toast casserole? That also sounds good to do as a Monte Christo casserole.... Swiss Cheese and ham for the innards all the rest the same.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

The 12 egg cake involves:

1 lb butter, well creamed (salted is fine, it usually has fewer ingredients anyway)
4 Cups sugar, creamed again
12 eggs, added 1 at a time, continue creaming
4 Cups flour, mixed in
And flavoring (lemon, vanilla, almond, whateves)

There are various techniques for adding the flour, and some people add a nib of salt or baking powder/soda ... none of which I've tried. I like the simplicity of just the 4 basic ingredients plus vanilla bean or lemon zest. But I've never made this cake. I'm not feeling that suicidal.

Then it fills *2* ten inch tube/bundt pans! Greased, etc., don't overfill as it poofs while baking.

Glaze if all of the above somehow isn't enough. OK so I am assuming you dont do Baking powder or soda with this cake? and are dependant on the eggs to keep it fluffy?

The egg custard is a quantity of milk, heated but not boiled, mixed with a quantity of well beaten but not whipped egg, not as much sugar as you'd think, smidge of salt as always, baked in a hot-water bath until not quite set. I'll add vanilla bean while heating the milk. Nutmeg on top if you wish, or crunchy bakers sugar. Or both. I'll have to check an actual recipe for exact ratios, but big eggs always add chaos to measurements. As does my flakey oven. This is FABULOUS if you arrange peach halves in the baking dish before pouring in the eggs. You can do individual ramikins if you're fancy. And fancy cooks also like to strain it before pouring. Meh. Serve warm or chilled. So simple, so yum!
OK Now I want a duck.... um er ducks. I am really liking Runner ducks...

Couldnt figure out how to input each so did it in blue.... LOL

deb

 

[LindaB220]

The 12 egg cake involves:

1 lb butter, well creamed (salted is fine, it usually has fewer ingredients anyway)
4 Cups sugar, creamed again
12 eggs, added 1 at a time, continue creaming
4 Cups flour, mixed in
And flavoring (lemon, vanilla, almond, whateves)

There are various techniques for adding the flour, and some people add a nib of salt or baking powder/soda ... none of which I've tried. I like the simplicity of just the 4 basic ingredients plus vanilla bean or lemon zest. But I've never made this cake. I'm not feeling that suicidal.

Then it fills *2* ten inch tube/bundt pans! Greased, etc., don't overfill as it poofs while baking.

Glaze if all of the above somehow isn't enough.
The egg custard is a quantity of milk, heated but not boiled, mixed with a quantity of well beaten but not whipped egg, not as much sugar as you'd think, smidge of salt as always, baked in a hot-water bath until not quite set. I'll add vanilla bean while heating the milk. Nutmeg on top if you wish, or crunchy bakers sugar. Or both. I'll have to check an actual recipe for exact ratios, but big eggs always add chaos to measurements. As does my flakey oven. This is FABULOUS if you arrange peach halves in the baking dish before pouring in the eggs. You can do individual ramikins if you're fancy. And fancy cooks also like to strain it before pouring. Meh. Serve warm or chilled. So simple, so yum!

Yeah, you definitely need to get the recipe. This has my name all over it.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: I think furtive critters tend to evoke that gut response. I am that way about some spiders.... As long as they are running away I am ok.... but let them run toward me and the last thing they see is the bottom of my shoe. Though I have spent hours watching jumping spiders do their business.... they are sooo cute

in a spideery kind of way.

deb

 

[Searsmom]

The egg custard is a quantity of milk, heated but not boiled, mixed with a quantity of well beaten but not whipped egg, not as much sugar as you'd think, smidge of salt as always, baked in a hot-water bath until not quite set. I'll add vanilla bean while heating the milk. Nutmeg on top if you wish, or crunchy bakers sugar. Or both. I'll have to check an actual recipe for exact ratios, but big eggs always add chaos to measurements. As does my flakey oven. This is FABULOUS if you arrange peach halves in the baking dish before pouring in the eggs. You can do individual ramikins if you're fancy. And fancy cooks also like to strain it before pouring. Meh. Serve warm or chilled. So simple, so yum!

I wondered with duck eggs. I started using more egg yolks in ice cream than it calls for, I kept wondering if I just left it at the custard stage, would it be any good? So, I tried it and it was OK, but it needed something.

The cake sounds awesome, like the old fashioned pound cake - 1lb. of this and 1lb. of that ect.

 

[LindaB220]

Ooh todays menue sounds yummy....

I bet custard made with Duck eggs will Be Da Bomb. Ever tried Flan? I have always wanted to. You make caramel and coat the bottom of the custard dishes then you let it cool then you pour the egg custard over the top and cook the custard... When the custard is done it can be flipped over onto a plate the custard will have absorbed some of the carmel and the rest has become kind of watery and it flows down the custard.... YUMM....

Oooy can I come to your house for the french toast casserole? That also sounds good to do as a Monte Christo casserole.... Swiss Cheese and ham for the innards all the rest the same.

deb

Always wanted to make flan, but never seemed to have enough eggs. Heh, Heh.