Eggs

Navigating Egg Labels with Your Farmer

Navigating Egg Labels with Your Farmer

Food labels can often be confusing or even misleading. Let’s break them down together.

When you see the label “free range”, what do you picture?

Chickens frolicking through green pasture all day long?! At least that’s what the picture on some egg cartons shows, but that may not be the reality.

There are so many options at the store: Free-range, Certified Humane, Cage-free, Omega-3 Enriched, Organic, Vegetarian Fed, etc.

It’s easy to get overwhelmed and just choose the first carton you find without a broken egg or the one with the prettiest picture.

Check out this blog post to learn what the labels actually mean.

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Farmhouse Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Farmhouse Chocolate Chip Cookies

There aren’t many things that I’ve made more of than homemade chocolate chip cookies. We made them a lot with my mom growing up. I make them every month or so and we always make about 6 batches right before Christmas to have on hand for Christmas parties.

Once we found out our butcher will render the fatback into lard for us, I knew I had to try it in baked goods! I’ve tried a few recipes where lard was the only fat I used in the cookies, but my absolute favorite is a mixture of both lard and butter. The lard adds moistness and chewiness while the butter adds that richness I love in a cookie.

Our Guide to the Perfect Quiche

Our Guide to the Perfect Quiche

One of my favorite thing about making a quiche is that you can keep it as simple or as fancy as you’d like. You can use what you have on hand or you can buy a few perfectly curated ingredients (or whatever is in season at the farmers market) depending on what you’re craving that week. I also love that you can make this and then eat off it for a few days and the flavors seem to mesh more and more each day, yum!

Check out our quiche must-haves and one of our family’s favorite recipes…

Dyeing Eggs: White vs. Brown

Dyeing Eggs: White vs. Brown

With Easter coming up, I thought I’d do a fun experiment to see the difference between dyed white eggs and brown eggs.

I honestly thought that you couldn’t dye brown eggs for the first several years we had the farm. Mason was still young enough that he wasn’t interested, however, even if he was, I was fully convinced that I needed to buy some white eggs from the store if I wanted the dye to work.

Boy, was I wrong!

I actually love how deep and rich brown eggs can be when they’re dyed and I’d love to bring you along for this fun learning experience.

No Hassle Hard Boiled Farm Fresh Eggs

No Hassle Hard Boiled Farm Fresh Eggs

You want to eat healthy and so you try to find quick & easy snacks that are not only good for you, but yummy too!

Hard boiled eggs are just that. Super packed with nutrients, an egg-cellent source of protein (see what I did there?!), and delicious with even just salt and pepper!

You can boil a dozen or two at the beginning of the week and have an easy pre-made snack for the whole week…or maybe just a couple days depending on how much you like hard boiled eggs :)

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