Curried Egg Salad Delight
Oh, this was delicious it got two thumbs up from us all. I am trying to work on using up more and more eggs and this recipe was perfect for using up tons, while at the same time being extremely scrumptious.
I tend to just dump stuff into my recipes and it is hard for me to remember that if I want to put it up here I need to measure things out. Yes, I am the "handful of this" and "this much of that" type.
For this recipe I followed two recipes I searched for: how to make perfect hardboiled eggs and Curried Egg Salad. However I never follow a recipe right, and I made some amendments.
Curried Egg Salad Delight (for egg salad sandwiches)
15 hardboiled eggs
1 Tablespoon curry powder (add more to taste)
salt to taste
pepper to taste
1 cup plain organic yogurt (more if it seems dry)
small jar of bread and butter pickles (I used some of our homemade ones)
one red onion chopped
handful of minced chives
So for the updo, you boil the eggs (with this recipe) and then peel when they are done. Dump all of the ingredients in together as you stir be sure to get the eggs all good and chunked. Don't get them too mushy- a good egg salad needs that texture.
When I made this I used well over 20 eggs. I mean we have tons of them anyway so why not? Now they are all cooked up into something that we can just eat quick and it is very good too. I am not huge mayo lover, and with all the eggs it seems like over- kill. I wondered if the yogurt would give it a strange flavor but I can't taste it at all.
Be sure and let me know how yours turns out!
them chickens!
My chickens, I like them but they are silly-heads! Yep. If you ask me about chickens now I can be honest and not in some sort of delirium about their good qualities ignoring the bad. It really is an amazing thing to have chickens in the backyard. I enjoy their bountiful oval blessings (aka: eggs) but there is another type of bountiful blessing that I don't enjoy. The size of their poo! Yes, seriously. Their poo is about the size of a ping pong ball and sometimes the size of an egg. Yep, that is big.
I am now a bit calloused to it, but not enough to want them wandering my yard. They just make too much mess when I don't give them the boundaries of a chicken tractor. Plus instead of rooting when it gets dark, they come over and peer through the sliding doors at me and my family as if to say, "we'd like to come in, now!". J thought letting them in was a great idea, but then I went on to explain the situation to him: You see if they do come in they would poo all over your toys, I don't think any of us would like that. NO! he yelled.
So, then because they don't roost when they are supposed to, I have been having to heard them like a madwoman after dark to get them back to where they should be. They have to roost (that is when they go in and sleep on a post or pole all together) if they don't they are prey to raccoons and who knows what else that comes out at night.
Anyway, long story short...my chickens will be let out every once in a while, but almost always they will now stay in their chicken tractors. Seriously! Unless someone wants to come clean up some chicken poo!
Do you have a chicken question?? Ask me!
I heart my griddle
I use this griddle almost daily, it works perfectly for eggs, for pancakes, grilled cheese, anything like that. I love it because I can cook all of our food at the same time, or at most in two batches (with pancakes more). I have the kind of griddle that you just put on two of your burners and griddle away!
A couple of days ago I made these eggs. O loves the yokes runny in the middle, as do I. J likes them completely solid. I cook them on both sides and just cook mine and O's on a higher heat and take them off sooner. J's stay on a cooler spot on the griddle for much longer.
tortilla española
We ate this growing up in Spain a lot, it is a main staple for sure, eaten in a sandwich, or as a tapa. It is not quiche but more of a thick omelet, a very yummy one too! Now that I have eggs, eggs, EGGS...I make it for dinner probably 2 a week :) We love it. Enjoy.
* 2 Tbs. olive oil approx.
*minced garlic
*1/4-1/2 onion
*salt and pepper to taste
*two medium potatoes
*10-14 eggs (depending on size of eggs)
Add olive oil, minced garlic, onion, salt and pepper a 9 inch saute pan. Saute for 2 minutes while chopping up the potato (as you can see I didn't peel mine but any good spaniard woman would. I NEVER peel potatoes though. You can peel them if you'd like to). Add in potato and saute until it is fully cooked and tender.
While that is cooking crack open eggs into a container and mix well. Take saute pan off the burner and pour contents into a medium bowl, add in eggs and stir gently. Place empty pan back on burner on medium heat for a second and then pour the contents of the bowl into the pan.
The first side should cook for about 5 minutes. While it is cooking be sure that it isn't sticking by going around the edges with a wooden spoon/spachula. Now for the tricky flip. If you are unsure head to the sink to flip. Place a plate (the lighter the better), it must be larger than your saute pan, on the top of the pan facing the inside. With one hand holding the handle of the pan, and the other on top of the plate, flip quickly. Now place the pan back on the burner, and the tortilla should be golden brown sitting on the plate. Scoot the tortilla back into the pan (raw side to the bottom of the pan) to cook second side. The second side should take about 3 minutes. A little less if you like it runny, a little more if you like yours cooked well throughout.
We love dipping tortilla in any sauces we have, right now we are using fajita sauce because we are trying to use it up...but my favourite is the staple ketchup. YUM! If you try it let me know, and shoot me a comment if you have any questions.
¡Que disfrute! (enjoy)
them bungaree chickens!!
For those of you who are more interested in chickens, here is some information on what we did...the process, the building, the obtaining of the birds and their care. Don't let anyone fool you, this is a messy job and when the honeymoon phase wears off the chore aspect really kicks in. Still there is something about doing it yourself, using your backyard (or front yard) to raise food for your family.
I am not the conspiracy type, but still....why are we becoming a society of "I have no idea where it comes from and don't care" when it is what we eat!! goodness.
Here is our chicken saga from the beginning:
*the dream of simplification
*checking out different designs for chicken tractors
and the different breeds of chickens
*chicken tractor construction begins!
*obtaining our local birds (partridge rocks)
*chicken tractor complete!!!
*getting and falling in love with our day old chicks
*day trip to get some EE pullets (easter eggers: the ones that lay green, pink and blue)
*our day olds getting bigger
*partridge rocks named!
*moving babies outside into the grass
*the death of a chicken
*our first egg!!!!!!
*chicken pictures: New Hampshire Reds and EEs or Amerucanas
*soaking in the sun
*STAR, my favourite chicken
*Amerucanas FINALLY laying at 31 weeks!! (blue and green eggs!!!)
*chickens and snow
*TONS of eggs!!! (help!?)
when is enough too much?
We are now getting around 10 a day!! Seriously crazy chickens. I may have to start selling them soon, or giving them away. For now I am holding onto them since for so long we were begging the chickens to lay and...well...nothing. Now even though we are in full fledged production mode I am hoarding. Silly.
green and blue eggs
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