If you are now singing, “But! – it’s poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me” (Doo doo doo doo deweee! ), then I know that you are my kind of person, or at least my age.
Annnnnyway, I am getting all scientific around here. I decided that I would keep track of my chickens’ egg laying habits, in order to answer that burning question–”How many eggs do you get?”. Needless to say, no one is really asking for a week-by-week break down, and yet, isn’t this interesting? And what exactly is going on Wednesdays?
For the month of March, our chickens laid 131 eggs. That is 29 eggs a week. Now I am wondering, where have they all gone? We do eat a lot of eggs around here, and what with baking (Brad does that!), and the kids liking hard-boiled eggs, I suppose it is possible that we go through that many. More likely is that we gave some away here and there and I just can’t quite remember it. Anyway, many are the eggs in our household, and this being despite the rainy weather and despite my leaving the chickens in a lot lately.
The girls know that there is a lot of good stuff to eat out in the yard, so they tend to cluster near the door whenever they see someone approach.
If you too have a lot of eggs, here is what you do with them—make a puffed oven pancake. You can easily find the recipe on-line. There are a million variations, but the basic ingredients are eggs, milk, flour and butter plus a cast iron skillet. I don’t believe in using sugar, dividing eggs or doing anything fancy. Those basic ingredients make the most awesome breakfast. I don’t think you can go wrong.
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You don’t believe in sugar, or just not in puffed oven pancakes?
Wow, keeping track of eggs and making glaze samples, you really *are* getting all scientific and anally organized! {grin}
And how many people did you feed with those pancakes? That looks like a LOT!
April 3rd, 2010
Okay Cameron-of-many-questions! So I don’t believe in adding sugar to something that will most likely have sugar added to it later, for example french toast when you will put syrup on it anyway. I also reduce sugar in most recipes because I think that Americans get accustomed to sugar and then want more, whereas if we start reducing sugar in everything, the things we like will be sweet enough. I feel the same way about salt.
Those pancakes fed my whole family and my sister Kirstin and her whole family, plus maybe my parents—- so 11 people, which is fairly common for us to have for breakfast from time to time! I LOVE breakfast! Love it!
April 3rd, 2010
My anus is very organized too.
April 3rd, 2010
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April 5th, 2010
I always forget *not* to follow the recipe, as far as sugar goes. Thanks for the reminder, Ingrid! And I just made a puff pancake for dinner last Thursday. (Couldn’t think of anything else to make…)
This also reminds me, I was up in Portland a couple of weekends ago, helping Siarra move some boxes back to Eugene. We ended up talking to a woman (who is actually a prof. of math & computer science at UW, but grew up in the restaurant business) who does a lot of cooking for the ashram, and had a very similar conversation about sugar reduction. She recommended cutting sugar down to 1/2 or 2/3rds of what the recipe calls for, if sugar is desired.
April 12th, 2010
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