People food for thought Part X; Eggs
Eggs are basic ingredients in many of your recipes from omelet to cakes, and many of you would have eggs as staple item in your fridge. We have eggs in our fridge all the time and we, including our stumpy little dog "Palette", enjoy the eggs on menu.
Our dog "Palette" adore eggs and, eggs are one of the food I feed her. She is on fresh food diet, a.k.a. raw diet, and she gets 2 eggs per week as side dish. Show her an egg, and you will get the biggest doggy smile on her face with wet nose.
I sometimes crack an egg into her doggy bowl,and sometimes just give the whole thing to her and let her figure out how to crack an egg and enjoy the egg. She is pretty good at cracking an egg gently.
She gently hold the egg and give some gentle pressure to it and make a small hole in the center of the egg;making it look like cradle, and lick the egg through the hole.
Lick,lick,lick.. Hmm.. Egg!
Mom,Can I have more,please??
Eggs are great protein source and, very nutritious food by itself. In fact, Eggs are one of the few sources you can get Vitamin D from.
Vitamin D helps the body to absorb calcium better and, good natural source other than eggs are fatty oily fish (such as sardine, mackerel, salmon), beef liver and sun light.
I think that eggs are simple ingredient,yet, it is mystical ingredients that makes us wonder so many things about them. How well do you know about eggs?
How to read the egg carton label..
When you go to grocery store to buy a carton of eggs, how do you pick the egg carton you would put into your shopping cart? Do you go by brand names? Do you go by how hens were raised;cage free etc? Do you go by sales?
I personally pick my favorite brand's Cage free Egg with the one that has more days till the imprinted "Best by date". My favorite brand is Eggland's Best. I have tasted other brand's eggs too, but I found their eggs are tastier and I always pick their eggs whether they were on sale or not.Maybe the fact that their hens do not get to eat processed feed is contributing to the taste of the egg?
When you go to egg section at the grocery store, you find that there are several egg size choices;Jumbo,Extra Large, Large,Medium etc.. but do you know how size of the Eggs are determined?
This is something I leaned new but, sizes are determined by total weight of the eggs in the carton, and not by the size of single egg. This is why, on occasion, you find one egg is a little bit smaller or larger than the other.
For example, Eggland's Best egg size are determined as "Jumbo" when the dozen eggs in a carton weigh more than 30 ounces.
To see the full chart that determine the size of egg for Eggland's Best egg, please click here .
Another thing you may want to check before buying a carton of egg is "Best by" date.
According to Eggland's Best website , if you purchased an egg carton imprinted with "Best by" date, you should consume them within 30 days from the date imprinted.
I happened to come across youtube video that explains well about egg carton label, and I thought I would share with you.
How to read the egg carton label..
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
Brown egg vs White eggs, are there any difference in nutrition?
In the past, I always thought that brown eggs were better than the white eggs, but turned out, shell colors are determined by breed of hens that lay the eggs.
Nutritionally, if hens that laid an brown egg and hens that laid white egg were fed the same diet, nutrient you will get from the eggs are the same.
So, this principal applies to another colored egg such as green eggs. It just that some breed of hens lay colored eggs.
One thing I leaned new through the next youtube video is that hens with white earlobes lay the white eggs. Did you know that?
Brown Leg horns chicken..
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More about type of chicken eggs..
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
Caged chicken vs Free Range chicken, how are they raised?
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
Now you know a little bit more about eggs. One thing that I learned from my mother to see if the egg is fresh or not is that, she said to crack an egg into a bowl and if you see the nice round, high height yoke in the center, it is fresh. If the yoke goes spread out and not round top with high height, it is a little old egg.
Lastly, I have found a youtube video of hen laying a colored egg. I personally have not seen a colored egg, but I like to see it,hold it,taste it someday..
Chicken laying green egg..
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
When I watched the video of green eggs, I remembered that the Emu lays a green egg and, I have heard it is sold with $29.99 per egg
One egg can serve many people. Emu egg has very dark green and very heavy egg.
Emu lays an egg..
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
Can you see how big the Emu egg is? Here is some Emu egg facts.
Emu egg facts..
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
If you live in NY, try and see if Whole Foods near you carry this huge Emu eggs. According to the article written by Linnea Covington at New York serious eats website, you can find the Emu egg and other exotic eggs at Whole Foods located on East Houston street.
To read the full article written by Linnea Covington at NY serious eats website, please click here .
Our dog "Palette" adore eggs and, eggs are one of the food I feed her. She is on fresh food diet, a.k.a. raw diet, and she gets 2 eggs per week as side dish. Show her an egg, and you will get the biggest doggy smile on her face with wet nose.
I sometimes crack an egg into her doggy bowl,and sometimes just give the whole thing to her and let her figure out how to crack an egg and enjoy the egg. She is pretty good at cracking an egg gently.
She gently hold the egg and give some gentle pressure to it and make a small hole in the center of the egg;making it look like cradle, and lick the egg through the hole.
Lick,lick,lick.. Hmm.. Egg!
Mom,Can I have more,please??
Eggs are great protein source and, very nutritious food by itself. In fact, Eggs are one of the few sources you can get Vitamin D from.
Vitamin D helps the body to absorb calcium better and, good natural source other than eggs are fatty oily fish (such as sardine, mackerel, salmon), beef liver and sun light.
I think that eggs are simple ingredient,yet, it is mystical ingredients that makes us wonder so many things about them. How well do you know about eggs?
How to read the egg carton label..
When you go to grocery store to buy a carton of eggs, how do you pick the egg carton you would put into your shopping cart? Do you go by brand names? Do you go by how hens were raised;cage free etc? Do you go by sales?
I personally pick my favorite brand's Cage free Egg with the one that has more days till the imprinted "Best by date". My favorite brand is Eggland's Best. I have tasted other brand's eggs too, but I found their eggs are tastier and I always pick their eggs whether they were on sale or not.Maybe the fact that their hens do not get to eat processed feed is contributing to the taste of the egg?
When you go to egg section at the grocery store, you find that there are several egg size choices;Jumbo,Extra Large, Large,Medium etc.. but do you know how size of the Eggs are determined?
This is something I leaned new but, sizes are determined by total weight of the eggs in the carton, and not by the size of single egg. This is why, on occasion, you find one egg is a little bit smaller or larger than the other.
For example, Eggland's Best egg size are determined as "Jumbo" when the dozen eggs in a carton weigh more than 30 ounces.
To see the full chart that determine the size of egg for Eggland's Best egg, please click here .
Another thing you may want to check before buying a carton of egg is "Best by" date.
According to Eggland's Best website , if you purchased an egg carton imprinted with "Best by" date, you should consume them within 30 days from the date imprinted.
I happened to come across youtube video that explains well about egg carton label, and I thought I would share with you.
How to read the egg carton label..
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
Brown egg vs White eggs, are there any difference in nutrition?
In the past, I always thought that brown eggs were better than the white eggs, but turned out, shell colors are determined by breed of hens that lay the eggs.
Nutritionally, if hens that laid an brown egg and hens that laid white egg were fed the same diet, nutrient you will get from the eggs are the same.
So, this principal applies to another colored egg such as green eggs. It just that some breed of hens lay colored eggs.
One thing I leaned new through the next youtube video is that hens with white earlobes lay the white eggs. Did you know that?
Brown Leg horns chicken..
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
More about type of chicken eggs..
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
Caged chicken vs Free Range chicken, how are they raised?
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
Now you know a little bit more about eggs. One thing that I learned from my mother to see if the egg is fresh or not is that, she said to crack an egg into a bowl and if you see the nice round, high height yoke in the center, it is fresh. If the yoke goes spread out and not round top with high height, it is a little old egg.
Lastly, I have found a youtube video of hen laying a colored egg. I personally have not seen a colored egg, but I like to see it,hold it,taste it someday..
Chicken laying green egg..
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
When I watched the video of green eggs, I remembered that the Emu lays a green egg and, I have heard it is sold with $29.99 per egg
One egg can serve many people. Emu egg has very dark green and very heavy egg.Emu lays an egg..
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
Can you see how big the Emu egg is? Here is some Emu egg facts.
Emu egg facts..
If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
If you live in NY, try and see if Whole Foods near you carry this huge Emu eggs. According to the article written by Linnea Covington at New York serious eats website, you can find the Emu egg and other exotic eggs at Whole Foods located on East Houston street.
To read the full article written by Linnea Covington at NY serious eats website, please click here .
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