- My mother hated egg whites. Scrambled eggs had to be perfectly blended. I think of her every time I scramble eggs.
- On the rare occasions that we’d have breakfast out and we’d order fried eggs, she’d take my yolks and I’d take her whites.
- I’m told she made a great lemon meringue pie, but I have no memories of her making it.
- Until quite recently, Baguette ate a lot of scrambled eggs. I would fix one for her each morning and take it to school. Last week, though, her teacher told me that she’d been throwing them away because Baguette wasn’t eating them.
- After 2015, no California hens can be kept in battery cages; Prop 2, which voters approved and Governor Schwarznegger signed, requires that the animals have enough room to stretch their wings and turn around.
- I only buy eggs from California.
- Mr. Sandwich and I like the idea of having a backyard coop, and Los Angeles allows that, but we’re not sure that our back yard is set up to let us have a coop the required distance from other structures and still have a back yard.
- The farmers market sells eggs from a farm 1-1/2 miles away. They cost twice as much as the most humane eggs I can find at the store, but it’s hard to get more local than that.
The store egg yolks seem to break much more easily. The local egg yolk didn’t break at all. That’s store yolk you see there.
When I was a kid, I only ate the whites. I didn’t want any yellow on my egg. With my twins, one eats only whites and the other eats only yokes–it works out perfectly!
People are often aghast when I tell them the approach we took to fried eggs, but I was okay with it. I mean, I liked the yolks fine, but it wasn’t a big deal to me. Now, though, I want both yolk and white.
Well if that isn’t a solid argument for farm fresh local eggs, I don’t know what is. I’m sold!
And now I want poached eggs…
I haven’t learned how to make those yet–at least, not using the swirling water method.
My go-to comfort food, from when I was little right up to now – soft boiled eggs on ripped up buttered bread. Love the local yolk analysis!
I keep trying to make soft boiled eggs, and they keep winding up hard-cooked–which I also like, but is not what i’m trying to do. What’s your method?
I under cook hard boiled eggs.
I can’t find the right point! They always wind up hard-cooked. And I really want the whites to be cooked.
I hate egg yolks but love the whites. This makes my dogs happy. We have lots of farms in PA, so getting local eggs isn’t hard and not insanely expensive especially now that it is farmers’ market weather.
We have lots of farmers’ markets, but few truly local farms. On a couple of occasions, friends with chickens (oh, there’s a title) have given us some of their excess. That’s a lovely gift we don’t take for granted! And who knows, maybe some day we’ll get our own.
And clearly you and my mom would have been natural brunch partners.