Egg epode......

Some try to find

more outlandish ways

to put you on our dishes

But the secret here

is not so wild

But to listen to your wishes.

The best of you

came from green grass,

and woodland chooks who toiled

to find their food and freely laid....

Serve simply, some salt, just boiled.

Don't get me wrong I love all sorts of dishes involving eggs. I delight in a freshly made egg custard tart and scrambled eggs and lemon curd and eggs benedict and scotch eggs........I could go on......

However there is something very special about having just come back from egg hunting............

and yes hunting , as our chickens are their own mistresses, they go where they please and come calling for top up food as they feel inclined. I am constantly aiming to chicken proof my veggies and fruits and the cleaning up of chook poop from the house deck and pathway is now only augmented by the guinea fowl!

But they are happy chooks and healthy chooks - no drugs of any sort here. They get worms, like any normal animal, and they develop a load they can deal with, their extensive lifestyle contributing to their good health. If they do develop a fatally high worm load then............that's just what it is.....fatal.......but this is very rare because we have a low number of chickens for the land area.

..........as I was saying before I sidetracked............coming back from egg hunting, boiling up one or two eggs whilst I get a cup of English Breakfast tea on the go. Then sitting down to the simplest of pleasures which is a warm hard boiled egg dappled with sea salt.....the firm smooth white splitting to expose the creamy bright yellow treasure inside, our chickens' yolks will always be the tastiest and most vibrant yellow of all.....

They so deserve to be sat on this piece of Royal Crown Derby

I also adore soft boiled eggs, but as these MUST have toast soldiers with them to be dipped in until the yolk runs all over the cup and plate below....they aren't technically the most simple way of having the egg ;)