The Front Porch Swing

[perchie.girl]

Happy Resurrection Day!!!

Happy Passover!!!

Thank you Easter Bunny Bwak Bwak....

Havin Ham crazy beans tater salad Deviled eggsies and steamed green beanies and strawberry short cake. And The Easter Bunny brought us a Big Basket of stuff.

deb

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Easter Eggs. Here are some of the more special eggs I've been getting recently. I've been getting some tiny eggs and some flat eggs. The tiniest of these eggs is 13 grams. The flat egg must have a thin membrane and a thin shell to flatten out like that. I've tried to get a decent photo of the egg from both the wide side and the this side. You can see how the shell is virtually missing from the middle of the flat side. The green egg is just there for comparison. It is a normal-ish size. (63 grams, I think).

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Thank you Easter Bunny Bwak Bwak....

Havin Ham crazy beans tater salad Deviled eggsies and steamed green beanies and strawberry short cake. And The Easter Bunny brought us a Big Basket of stuff.

deb

The birds are getting a big bucket of scrambled eggs today to celebrate Easter. I had an overload of orphan eggs in the fridge and on the counter -- I'd been hoarding them as I was going to use them to feed the babies (no babies have hatched

). Orphan eggs are ones with cracks or even more broken open or are too small or too odd to sell. So I consolidated the more broken ones into an egg scramble for the birds, and sorted the others into Chicken and Duck baskets.

Later I think I'm going to make another custard. That will be my Easter basket.

If someone made me a deviled egg, I'd eat it.

 

[BCMaraniac]

The birds are getting a big bucket of scrambled eggs today to celebrate Easter. I had an overload of orphan eggs in the fridge and on the counter -- I'd been hoarding them as I was going to use them to feed the babies (no babies have hatched

). Orphan eggs are ones with cracks or even more broken open or are too small or too odd to sell. So I consolidated the more broken ones into an egg scramble for the birds, and sorted the others into Chicken and Duck baskets.

Later I think I'm going to make another custard. That will be my Easter basket.

If someone made me a deviled egg, I'd eat it.

I made some deviled eggs....I hope you enjoy them.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: I made 18 eggs for 36 halvies..... Of course some disappeared during manufacturing.

Mine are a really simple recipe.... Yolks Mayo yellow mustard (not very much) rice wine vinegar Salt and black pepper. After the eggs are assembled I sprinkle with smoked paprika.... I make them very lightly salted because some here tend to be heavy on the salt shaker at the dinner table....

You know when I first started cooking here for Grandma and my son they raved at how good the food was. Grandma never really learned how to cook.... She did learn how to make a few things decently. But mine was better she asked me why I used Chicken stock instead of water making roasts.... Or was amazed that I salted peppered and put granulated garlic on the meat then SEARED it till it was brown on all sides before adding the braising liquid. Its amazing how much better meat tastes with just three simple ingredients added.

I am not a trained cook myself.... I certainly didnt learn it from mom.... But I pay attention to what tastes good for me.


So the salt shaker is rarely "automatically" used at dinner now... Cept on eggs, scallions, radishes.... and of all things Salad.... and fruit.

deb

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I made 18 eggs  for 36 halvies.....  Of course some disappeared during manufacturing.

Mine are a really simple recipe....  Yolks Mayo yellow mustard (not very much) rice wine vinegar  Salt and black pepper.  After the eggs are assembled I sprinkle with smoked paprika....  I make them very lightly salted  because some here tend to be heavy on the salt shaker at the dinner table....  

You know when I first started cooking here for Grandma and my son they raved at how good the food was.  Grandma never really learned how to cook....  She did learn how to make a few things decently.  But mine was better she asked me why I used Chicken stock instead of water making roasts....  Or was amazed that I salted peppered and put granulated garlic on the meat then SEARED it till it was brown on all sides before adding the braising liquid.  Its amazing how much better meat tastes with just three simple ingredients added.

I am not a trained cook myself.... I certainly didnt learn it from mom....  But I pay attention to what tastes good for me.


So the salt shaker is rarely "automatically" used at dinner now...  Cept on eggs, scallions, radishes....  and of all things Salad....  and fruit.

deb

I think I'm similar. I pay more attention to tastes and techniques than recipes. That way I don't always have to shop special for each dish, I can work with what I've got. Not much tastes better than just meat + heat, so knowing how to do that ... with salt & pepper and maybe one other flavor ... that's hard to beat. I like flame grilled meat best. Smoked sea salt is awesome for flame grilling.

I love salt and vinegar on salad. I'm supposed to eat a lot of salt, but prefer to have grains of it melt on my tongue instead of tasting something already very salty. I like different kinds of sea salt. I add salt after tasting a little of the food so I get the real flavor first.

I am not really a cook. But I like to eat healthy, interesting food. My nephew once said "you cook like your're going to eat the food." He used to send me his wish list before holidays. He really liked my duck. I think in his house there used to be some kind of moral victory in not eating much and not enjoying food, and I think their food reflected that ... at the time, much of the food in his house was cooked to discourage eating. We always had to eat before going over there. It's funny because my nephew's mother is actually a much better cook than I am. Later she started cooking to eat & enjoy, and now she blows me away.

 

[heartsizedfarm]

DH (now I know what that means I can use it in a sentence) is the cook in the family. I was a vegetarian when he married me 32 years ago, so if he wanted meat at dinner he learned to cook it himself. Now he makes the most tender steaks, perfectly breaded and fried fish, seared but still pink lamb chops, really spicy chicken curry, and I make salads! Needless to say I'm not a vegetarian anymore. And even I can roast a decent chicken (butter butter and more butter) and make a really good autumn root veg and beef stew with dumplings. Anybody can cook I think if they use what's local natural and seasonal and treat it with respect, not boil it to mush or fry it to leather!

 

[Triple Willow]

Does anybody have a good cure for those little ants that invade your kitchen? They found mine this morning.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Sorry. I can't resist another photo. I was watching Chicken TV while I washed eggs and Dad took out the Easter Treats. Dad is the treat man, so the flock LURVES him. They haven't gotten scrambled eggs in a while. He was mobbed until I ran out with the phone to take a photo.

 

[perchie.girl]

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Check out http://nourishedkitchen.com/ I was researching Paleo and found this and I am dying to try some of the recipes here.

I too like the mouth feel of salt crystals.... On certain things.

deb