Eggs...

Yesterday I was very busy cooking! The first week of 52 weeks of cooking is Eggs! Since our hens have just started laying this is a very important protien for us. Since Wayne is allergic to eggs it is an area I don't often explore either. Our hens have been giving us beautiful eggs and we need to use them. The pickled egg recipe is definately going to help us keep eggs longer. How can you not get excited about eggs when you have this to work with?

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Corned beef and egg burgers

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CORNED BEEF AND EGG BURGERS Read more about it at Cooks.com - Recipe - Corned Beef And Egg Burgers Content Copyright © 2011 Cooks.com - All rights reserved.

1 large egg
1/4 can corned beef
3 or 4 Ritz crackers, crumbled very fine
pepper to taste (do not use salt...the corned beef will make this salty enough)

In small bowl, beat egg, adding pepper, as in making scrambled egg. Do not add milk. Then using a fork, mash into the egg the 1/4 can of corned beef until the mixture is a smooth, even consistency through-out. Then add the Ritz cracker crumbs, and stir further until all ingredients are thoroughly mixed, and mixture will hold a peak when lifted. This mixture will produce 2 patties, and the recipe can easily be doubled, tripled, or whatever. Spoon equal amounts of mix into a skillet, and fry on medium heat until golden brown on each side. Dress the burgers with your favorite condiments.

I was not impressed with this recipe. The canned corned beef was $5 a can and we just didn't like it that much. DH though it was too eggs even though I cut back on the eggs. Tyler said it went down like a burger and oddly enough Scarlett ate and ate and ate the burger. Go figure. Any way it is simple enough that I can recreate it from my head if we ever need to eat a can of corned beef. The store had three brands and we used the most expensive in this recipe (Libby) The other cans I bought are a different brand, so that may make a difference. Since we didn't like this we probabkly won't try the loaf in my idea area. As far as food storage we would rather buy three cans of chicken or a can of beef in gravy for the same price or cheaper.

Egg Nog the recipe on my ideas is a raw recipe and I went with a cook egg nog from my Better Homes and gardens cook Book.

Over cooked Egg Nog.
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Second try
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Egg Nog

6 beaten eggs
2 cups milk
1/3 cup sugar
2 to 4 tbs rum
2 to 4 tbs bourbon1
tsp vanilla
1 cup whipping cream
2 tbs nutmeg

In a large heavy saucepan mix eggs milk and sugar. Cook and stir (watch carefully) over medium heat til mixture coats a metal spoon. Remove from heat. Cool quickly in a ice water bath. Stir while cooling. Stir in rum, bourbon, vanilla, Chill 4 to 24 hours. Before serviving whip cream and fold into egg nog. Sprinkle with nutmeg.

Eggs Pickled with Dill

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PICKLED DILL EGGS

12 hard-cooked eggs, shelled
1 medium onion, sliced thin
3 /4 cup water 1 cup sugar
1 1/ 4 cup vinegar
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon dill weed
1 /4 teaspoon garlic powder or 1 clove garlic, halved
1 /2 teaspoon mustard seed

Pack eggs and onion in 1-quart or larger jar. Bring other ingredients to a boil. Then simmer 5-7 minutes. Pour over eggs. Chill 3 days before serving. Eggs will be yellow.

Creamy Poached eggs.

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This is from better homes and gardens new cook book. Can you believe I never poached an egg and it was incredibly easy! This recipe was yummy and we are definately going to try it again.

2 english muffins or bagel
3/4 cup shredded american cheese
3 oz cream cheese with chives
1/2 c milk
4 eggs

Toast muffins or bagels. In a medium skillet combine cheeses and milk. Cook and stir over medium heat until cheeses melt. Break an egg into a cup, slide egg into mixture. repeat with remaining eggs. Cover cook over medium low for 3 to 5 min. Top muffin or bagel with egg. Stir cheese mix with wisk and spoon over eggs.

Mama Bear Porridge

So on our quest to feed ourselves and our kids Porridge I came across a cool sounding recipe for oatmeal. I was intrigued buy the fact that the finishing touch on it was stirring in eggs. Since our hens are giving us up to 3 eggs a day I need a good way of incorporating those treasures into our diet and really an oatmeal dish with a kick of protein just sounded very healthy to feed my babies, assuming of course that they will eat the food. So i made the recipe and oddly enough it was more of a porridge texture than any dish I can done so far as they we more mush textured. However my fatal flaw was the very thing that attracted me to this dish, the eggs. My husband is allergic to eggs which is why I have issues incorporating them into our food. He can eat eggs that are cooked into food but avoids custards and things that are very eggs. He did not have a reaction to this dish (I only used 2 eggs) but the whole idea of there being an egg in his porridge made the the porridge unpalatable to him. Of course Scarlett and Beau being who they are... the only one who ate any porridge was me. But alas I already eat oatmeal and would probably eat it plain if need be. So there I was with a whole pot of porridge. Seriously we live in a time of plenty and most food is just thrown away. But what of that wasn't the case? Plus my kids didn't eat any. So I tried to get creative. So I added some baking powder to the porridge and enough flour to make the pottage the same consistency as a stiff cookie. I think if I were British the word might be scone? Then I tossed the mess onto a cookie sheet for 15 minutes until the oat cakes were just starting to brown. Voila from their noses being turned up at porridge to them happily eating oat cake cookies. I guess in the end it doesn't really matter how the food is cooked just as long as some of it ends up in the babies.

Ingredients 3 cups water 1 cup powdered milk 1 1/2 cups rolled oats 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 cup raisins 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 3 eggs 4 teaspoons butter 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons honey

Directions In a large saucepan, bring the water to a boil. Combine the powdered milk, oats and cinnamon; quickly stir into the boiling water. Return the mixture to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes, or until the mixture is the desired thickness. Remove from heat and mix in the raisins and vanilla. Beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each. The hot porridge will cook the eggs completely. Divide the porridge between 4 bowls. Top each one with a teaspoon of butter, 1/4 cup of milk , and drizzle with honey.

The worlds worst blogger

Well I might be the worlds worst blogger ever, but I am back again. So what are we up to? I am no longer pregnant, I have a 6 week old daughter and the other kids have grown six months older. i am still a scrapbooker but I haven't scrapped much.

My new big things is trying out new recipes for the end of the world as we know it. Today in a high hopes of training my one and three year old children to eat Oatmeal we tried Chocolate Banana Oatmeal. If bananas, a heap of chocolate and an indecent amount of brown sugar connot convince these boogers to eat Oatmeal they are going to starve to deal if we ever run out of chicken nuggets and cherrios.

The recipe is either from Allrecipes.com or cooks.com but I did take some liberities with it. So first you make up the oatmeal for four. We busted open some Scottish cut oats new experience even for us adults too. The recipe has you pour in 1/2 cup brown sugar, a mashed banana and 1/4 cop chocolate chips. Next time i make it I am making it with half the brown sugar, I am going to have baby food banana's availible from if I don't have fresh and for fun we used a Hershey Bar in the oatmeal today. It was to try to make Scarlett more excited to try oatmeal. She ate a little, Beau even less, but Wayne and I enjoyed our breakfast!

So our next end of the world meal is Rabbit! I have never cooked or eaten rabbit, not even when we were raising rabbits! A family friend gave us some rabbit so we are jumping off the deepend with some marinated rabbit stew. The poor little bunny is stewing my my oven as I type, I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow, or in a few months...