- do hope that people don't go for the dry, pale, powdery hard boiled things, rather than the lush, 'hard cooked' ones?
Especially if they are then to go into curry or similar.
yum!
whats the betting eggs will zoom up in price when this bird flu scare takes a-hold? ::)
hens anyone?
70% rise in Italy!!
tsk! ::)typical-
DONT PANIIIIC!!
i dunno-people ay? ;D
Just had omelette with home grown garlic and spring onions and a sprinkling of (Scottish) cheddar.
The eggs were free range organic and local. Peter said when he shopped in Tesco on Friday the free range egg stocks were very low.
Tim, i am just going to get my spoon and some bread and butter , those eggs look ready to eat Yummmmm!!. ;D
But NOT the top one, Mary - please??
she'll have to have the top one-i've 'baggsied' the bottom one!
oooh!
soldiers and salt.......
Noooo, kitty - too hard for soldiers. Even though still MOIST!!
The top one was meant to be the powdery one, but still had a bit of 'give' in the middle!
but i'd still want soldiers tim,(please)just they'd have to be toast ones...even tho theres no 'dippy'.....
you cant beat free range organic eggs!
Oh, alright!
And just to correct my '70% price rise' - that should have been 'fall in demand'.
I was given a goose egg last week, for some reason I couldn't bear the thought of eating it while it still resembled an egg! (silly I know), so I put it in a cake. Only crumbs remain. ;D ;D ;D
10 mins - just perfect!!
And soldiers? Enough room for the regiment!!
I shudder at the very thought. :-\
That second egg looks lovely.
I went to the reduced chilled shelf in tesco on Friday and there was loads of chicken products on it. From free range corn fed portions to whole stufed chickens. SO I got one stuffed with pork, sage and onion and with butter and herbs looks great. If i had more room in freezer would have bought more.
Mum works for M and S and she sayds they had loads of chicken left over at end of day.
Don't know why people overreact and panic this way.
cos they're daft as brushes thats why! ::)
demand is still high at Kitty Towers! ;D
Even if there is a spate of cases of bird flu it would not yet have entered the "food chain".
I wish I did like boiled/fried/poached eggs.......I think it's the texture of the white that puts me off-and that stringy bit from the white to the yolk.
Heaving now.! :P
Duck eggs are even nicer - denser & richer.
:-[ :-\ :-X
Emagggie, a goose egg's for you then - there's virtually no white in there. Probably very risky because you're not supposed to wash them first. But hey, keeps the antibodies up eh? ;D
Geoff.
I usually go for somewhere between Tim's two pictures. I can't stand runny yolk! Usually cook em for 7-8 minutes from boiling :)
My yolk's moist, not runny!!
A true hard 'cooked', not 'boiled', 7min egg.
hard cooked? boiled?? does no-one else ever 'coddle' eggs, these days?
Am I the lone voice in the wilderness? :'( ;)
Of course not!
But 'coddling', surely, is just slow cooking?. At a bare simmer? Like hard 'cooking' at 80-85C.
These days, some people haven't the time to bother?
always have coddled eggs at least once a week-preferably coddled duck-
and any egg so long as its organic and free range.
emaggie-you dont know what you're missing!
actually..i think i'm missing our bantys..hmm...do i want hens again?
;D
Oh I dooooooooooo :-X
I was fine till I was pregnant with child no.2 Eggs any way you like, but I haven't been able to face a white since.(she never has either, oddly enough).
Sad ain't it. :'(
there ye go!
case proved-its the second one wot did it for you!
i,on the other hand,have had but one sproggington ,found out what caused it and stopped immediately!
therefore-i still have the taste for the egg!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Much mirth here, Kitty. ;D ;D ;D ;
oooo, poached goose eggs are a sunday morning brekky for my darling Ava, and daughter number one, HIGHLY allergic to egg, even the scent starts a reaction, risks it all just to break the yolk for daddy.
Ducks eggs are devine - we pick goose and ducky eggs up at the farm shop, sometimes as they are coming in, still warm!!
I likes them raw, or like rubber! I likes eggs. ;D
This reminds me very much of my first foray into brassicas. I must have been about 9 or 10, and tried to grow cabbages. They all refused to heart up and in the end I was persuaded to get rid of them in the direction of one of Mum's work colleagues, who kept geese.
I got a huge goose egg back, labelled 'With love from Pickle the Goose' ;D ;D ;D ;D
It got turned into an omelette as neither parent knew how long to boil it!!!
moonbells (who suspects the cabbs weren't planted firmly enough, in hindsight!)