After the eggs are dyed and the baskets filled, many families are left with dozens of boiled eggs. Hard-boiled eggs are full of protein, vitamins, and minerals. Mixing boiled eggs into egg salad, slicing into potato salad, or eating whole for breakfast is fine but with an abundance, maybe you want to try something...
Read more →Can you spy the oddity in this picture? How about the chicken egg behind the bush?Which, upon looking closer, turned out to be a whole nest of eggs. It seems our chicken Austra has been laying for quite some time. We had our suspicions when her feathers grew back in completely and comb turned...
Read more →A food truck with a name dear to our chicken-loving hearts opened recently in close proximity to our house. Alex visited first, took pictures, and wrote this review: Clintonville is seeing an influx of food trucks recently. Despite the objections of various stick-in-the-mud types, the diversity is only growing. The Coop is the latest...
Read more →I like a good cooking challenge. When I heard about Saucy Mama’s Fabulous with Five contest for food bloggers, I had to give it a shot. The competition required creating a recipe with a Saucy Mama condiment and only five additional ingredients. Having an abundance of backyard chicken eggs, I devised a simple and...
Read more →The talented Catherine of Photo Kitchen came over last week to take photographs for Hounds in the Kitchen Egg Week. Today’s conclusion follows tutorials for blowing out eggs, making natural dyes, baking a dutch baby, and creating eggshell seedling cups. A year and a month after collecting our first pullet egg, we have learned...
Read more →The lovely Catherine of Photo Kitchen came over last week to take photographs for Hounds in the Kitchen Egg Week 2011. On Monday and Tuesday I shared how to blow out eggshells and decorate eggs with natural dyes. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s eggshell seedlings and Friday’s tips and tricks. Today I am sharing a...
Read more →The lovely Catherine of Photo Kitchen came over last week to take photographs. We ended up doing so many fun things with eggs, including decorating and eating them, that will be sharing them for the next five days during Hounds in the Kitchen Egg Week. Inspired by Vanessa Prentice‘s workshop at the Ohio Ecological...
Read more →Ingredients & Inspiration: Leaving on a 10 day vacation to Massachusetts on Thursday = Operation clean out the fridge We have half a head of cabbage, a head of lettuce, two boxes of spinach, three half gallons of milk, two bags of mozzarella cheese, a half dozen homemade buns, and most of a 32...
Read more →Our backyard chickens are surviving well through this winter’s ice, snow, and feather-burning bulbs. They look plump and healthy and even brave cold feet to come clean up around the base of our bird feeder when there’s no active participation. But they aren’t laying well. We are collecting an average of two eggs a...
Read more →Once I started keeping chickens in the backyard, I became the recipient of information relating to urban chickens through emails from friends and links on Facebook. These cartons are my first physical gift of chicken-related material and I LOVE them! My Aunt Liz, a seasoned flea market and thrift shopper, found them. My Uncle...
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