Egg salad is boiled eggs, onions, parsley, carrot
and/or celery and pickles cut into small bits and mayo mixed with a teaspoon of
dry mustard and salt and pepper to taste served with lettuce on bread as a
sandwich.
To
boil eggs will a pot half full with cold water put it on the burner. Add eggs to fill the pot, put on a tight lid
and turn the burner on high. Once the
water is boiling turn it off, leaving the pot on the burner.
After about 3 minutes, carefully drain the hot
water from the pot. Put the pot in the
sink on the faucet to pour cold water on them to cool them down.
If the egg isn’t cooled fast enough the yolk
edge will darken, this does not however affect its edibility. Peel an egg by tapping the bottom and top to
crack the shell, peel and rinse.
Pickled Eggs
Usually, this time
of year, we have eaten all the dill pickles and pickled hot peppers. Since I use
excellent organic apple cider vinegar for these and hated to throw
it out when the pickles were gone. This vinegar is
excellent to add to soups and salads. But we really keep
the jars of vinegar in the fridge to pickle our eggs.
Bring the eggs to
the boil and cool. Peel the egg trying to keep the egg attractive with the yolk inside.
My eggs are so super
that the yolks are huge making this almost impossible. I am sure I could
pickle them, but they make the vinegar clouding and unappealing, so I make egg salad
with the duds.
Well enough bragging back to the pickled eggs. . .
Well enough bragging back to the pickled eggs. . .
Peel them and fill
the pickle jars with as many as you can, without packing them so tightly the vinegar
can't engulf all the eggs. We love the spicy
hot pepper eggs out of hand. The dill pickle eggs
are excellent in salads, especially potato salad. Could it be any simpler?
Never reuse the
vinegar after eggs!
It is unbelievably easy to raise chickens and
have fresh eggs everyday.
You could say if you had ten hens
you could expect five eggs per day. A red dot on the yolk is natural if you have a
rooster. A green tinge to the yolk is
also natural if the hens have eaten a lot of greens.
Washing eggs
destroys the natural bacteria boundary that makes eggs safe to eat and these
should be consumer right away. You can
tell how fresh a cooked egg is by the size of the air pocket space. The larger the space the older the egg and
the easier it is to peel. (So how old your store bought eggs are!)
Feed chickens a mixture of following in their feed dish: kitchen/garden scraps, wheat, oats, rolled corn, apple cider vinegar, yoghurt, molasses, kelp,
nettles, egg shells, oatmeal, dried peas, lentils, flaxseed, hemp seed,
brewer’s yeast, mustard seed, broccoli seed, radish seed, millet, sunflower
seeds, cooked egg, dill, chia seed, amaranth seed, kale, some weeds and most
weed seeds, green tea and sprouted grain.
They also like worms, bugs and fish.
Do not feed birds potato peelings, coffee, meat fat, rice and uncooked
egg shells from unknown source.
About these eggs: The smallest one is a large from the store, the medium one is an
average size for my girls, and the largest one turned out to be a triple yolker!
For more details on raising chickens on this blog
use the search engine at the right!
Peace
I've always wanted to try making pickled eggs. Thanks for the inspiration and directions :)
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a list of things to do with eggs. We always find that our eggs are quite a bit larger than the large eggs at the store too!
ReplyDeleteGlad to return the favor Mrs. Mac. Welcome Laura aren't "our eggs" the best! peace
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sorry I don't Jo - but the blogs on the left are all excellent for getting skills - i think you are the nearest to me geographically person to me - off to see your blog now, peace
ReplyDeletewe are probably only a few hours apart, is what i meant to say, most comments come from Americans - peace
ReplyDeleteActually I have blogged on how to boil an egg - to get it perfectly just hard but not too hard. http://caroleschatter.blogspot.co.nz/2011/12/how-to-boil-egg.html
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