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Egg laying is tied to the age of the hen and hours of daylight. Typically, hens will stop laying in the fall to molt and then likely won’t start laying again until early spring as the days are too short for them to lay (they need 12 – 14 hours of daylight). In past years we’ve [...] The NY Times is part of my daily routine and I look forward to both the Home & Garden and Food & Wine section each week. This week though brought a great article in the Sunday magazine highlighting Soul Food Farm and the way their community came together to help them rebuild after a fire [...] After a while eggs from your hens stop being so special. At some point they’re eggs and you take them for granted – I find myself forgetting just how bad your average American egg is until confronted with one somewhere else. Not to say that we don’t appreciate our eggs, we do, we definitely do. [...] See that big 103 over there? [edit: you can't see the Seattle Times image anymore because they took it down, so I did too. Suffice it to say, it was 103F here on Wednesday] Yeah, it’s been a brutal return home from our week in Minnesota. We broke all kinds of records yesterday, and while [...] As a child my mom used to help us make Easter Egg trees around this time each year. First we’d go out to the pasture and cut dogwood branches that we set in plaster of paris to make the bare tree. We’d save our cracked, carefully halved egg shells for weeks so that we could [...] I had a fantastic time on my trip to Breckenridge – I got to ski with my mom and my little bro Danny and meet a whole group of fantastic women from Minnesota. The snow was great and the food was better, but still, there’s something to be said for comfort food when you get [...] Shell-less eggs are both fascinating and weirdly grotesque all at the same time. They’re so soft and fragile and almost alien like that I almost don’t like to handle them because I’m convinced they’re going to break and cover me in yolk. Did you know that the shell is the last part of the egg to [...] |
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